Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-09-24
John w. Redmond.

To those who are belittling John w.
Redmond because he aspires to a
position on the supreme court bench it
may be we'll to say he is a self-made
man. He has made himself what he
is; he was not ''born with a silver
spoon in his mouth" Born of hum
BILE parents he has worked himself up
to an honored position at the bar.
That he is rated among the brightest
LAWYERS in the state and has built up
large clientele by his own ability is
sufficient evidence of his qualifications
for the position to which he aspires
It is the self-made man that the plain
common people admire.-Hyde Park
News and Citizen.
How Public Service Lawyers Try to
Juggle Courts.
We expressed the opinion recently
that if the public service corporations
would let the heads of their various
departments deal with the public on
broad business principles and in a spirit
of mutual fair play. instead of con-
stantly keeping high-priced lawyers as
their fgureheads both in the legisla-
ture and out Of it, to help keep them
in trouble, they would avoid much of
the antagonism that is continually
being aroused.
We have been confirmed in that
opinion by what has been going on
under the surface in connection with
the filing of the coming vacancy in
the supreme court of Vermont, growing
out of the resignation Of Chief Jusice
John w. Rowell.
Even before Judge Rowell's resigna-
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wheels had been set in motion to
| of one of the attorneys of great cor.
poration. For the practised eye it was
easy to see how ''Bunty Pulled the
Strings" Here and here a petition
would be started by unconscious aids
occasionally recognized newspaper
organ spoke out, with letters of ap
proval written by men so high that thu
public would be startled if they coule
read the list.
One of the chief claims was tina
precedent and seniority should no
count at this time on account of the
age of those who would be elevated by
the operation of the rule of genera
promotion. and that younger ant
more vigorous man should be put OF
the supreme bench, including tn
discarding of every one of the superio
judges, who might be promoted to tn
higher court.
Then something happened, which
might not have had chance to happe1
if Vermont had a governor who coult
not see through the whole situation
or. seeing, had less backbone.
Apparently convinced that the gam
had failed, and that the executive
would insist on experience as one o
the essential qualifications of judg
of the supreme bench, to say nothin,
of the invisible influences being exert
ed, some of the very emissaries VIII
had been arguing in favor of thei
man against seniority and promotion
turned to and began to try to undo tn
work they had so effectually accom-
plished by showing why preceden
should not be followed.
In at least one county we know o
the very man who was behind thu
starting of petition for the eleva
ton of brother corporation attorne,
to the supreme bench at one swoop
became panic stricken, and started
movement for meeting of the bar il
favor of the promotion of the senio
Judge to the chief justiceship and o
the senior superior Judge to the su
preme bench, and he argued just a
hard for as he had before argue
against such promotion.
All this would be amusing to tn
point of absurdity. were the question
involved less intimately connecte
with the integrity of our courts, tn
carrying out of the spirit of our law
and the success and perpetuity of sci
rule by the people.-Burlington Ere
Press.