The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-08-14

unrighteous verdict that by popular
subscription several thousand dollars
were raised for the engineer.
At the next meeting OF the Demo-
cratic State Convention the rail DAD
lobby and other corporation age is
were present and secured the defeat
for denomination of the one honest
judge who had voted to sustain the
jury verdict in favor of the engineer
and they renominated the four judi
cial sneaks who had been their serv-
ants. The people of the different
States are intelligent enough to know
of the unworthiness of many judges
and they are everywhere expressing
their opinions of the same.
1t is therefore useless for Judge
Speer to express his indignation that
the judo airy is not respected as he
thinks it should be.
The people with big P) are the
sOvereigns in this country. Commit
tees of Congress have investigated
charges of alleged corruption in the
administration of Presidents Buch-
anan, Grant, Johnson, Hayes and
Mckinley. I am glad to say that
nothing was developed casting a
cloud on the personal or official in
tegrity of either of these Presidents
But Presidents appoint federal judges
and the Senate Of the United States
has to confirm them without which
their appointment by the President
would be void, and while the people
through their Congress investigate
the creators of federal judges they
will sustain Woodrow Wilson in in.
Vestigating the creatures whether
Judge Speer likes it or not. Right
now committees of the two houses
Of Congress, at the instigation of
President Wilson, are investigating
Congress itself. There is no reason
why any judge, federal or State
should object to having his court in
vestigated if its record is clean.
One of the chief reasons for popu-
lar satisfaction with many judges
of State courts, in many States, is
the belief that they stand in with or
are partial to certain lawyers or law
firms and that litigant, no matter
what the merits of his case, has no
show Of success unless he employees a
lawyer who is in the favor of the
judge. The result is that many of
the best lawyers all over the country
are at great disadvantage.
If the judiciary of the country
expect to be respected and honored
by the people they must hold the
scales OF justice even between man
and man irrespective of the wealth,
social position or influence of the
litigants in their courts and they
must not "stand in with or have
favorites among attorneys.
The greatest blessing any people
can have is fearless, impartial and
honest judiciary. And the greatest
curse which can come to any people
is judo larry not Of this class.
Eighteen or twenty years ago the
leading statesmen of both parties,
Senators Thurman, Harris, Morgan,
Vance and Vest of the Democratic
party and Hoar, Reed and Lodge of
the Republican party were all bitter
ly opposed to the election of u. S.
Senators by popular vote and they
gave, L think, convincing reasons
against it, but today we have
the 18th amendment to the Consti-
tuition. The sentiment in favor of
the recall OF State judges has already
been adopted by many States and is
now ten times as popular as was that
of electing y. S. Senators by popular
vote twenty years ago. I predict
that in less than ten years it will be
adopted by every State in the Union.