American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-08-20
Will He Remove Justice Stewart?

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ss %a"S@ '9 bench 'i i%msSiats f1'a afssr 'G the SoVs%es sa's election S%' and y would
S$SS Of at least a sSo- Se sSf ter% nSp before then the public could select a success
his is own ' successor S@s for the tn vacancy he s' would ais leave in The Fifth District -
being dissSsseS; and the question .i IS asa Ike h snS as s. yet unanswered
Two years ago; the people renoT mil s, and elected Judge s. Stewart sE%
art; but the e'I people 10 Of f the state felt 1T that there a a debt due this old
felt that it a only fair to him that he b permitted to die in the har-
The Governor was cognizant of Judge Stewards physical condition
TO weeks before nominations or the the primary were closed n he could
lect a successor, had he wished to deal honorabiy with the voters Of the
will Ths E is sta sS%e 70 question ,%s R.T IS to whether ~Dn or the the od friends 6r OF 1ue o1sTn6 stoTd %t
Governor Tpo5s H I" know I'm rpr5n q R Ss !" t selfish slsd D0ahif fSat game ~Ss0 this N,
tI Johs governor NJ. Hs Gmss' as such ad " the ssm Rog o end Of a o STlDs to t@ eim behind aS w msl
Those who have read the Recorder will believe that it is sincere in
stTong ana and eoass SSas' Just is 0 aSd Of fa ine he rs'f has ssT %ade . a iG nofoD Ser reeold on
s ne h Ss6rst b Ss %s Dr rss sSDFS Time R eqGS of I Ss said Or t% Gt any %ycs st1 fOa ys0Ta9
it is more convinced with the passing Of every year.
it. is the E, supreme Up sSso1 hSnornand not the JOB itself { Igdgs Budss, IN he
I Il is is an n honor or that SS ordinarily Hns he he could ! and 1Ss should III I asesp Srn' D''e~s ''"'''
at f % HU%'s S a to- eun Sivogcd politician ta oours fr mai aM Who d signed Don the nm nd
Pn n%ss w IcSs%es he npOmi wouI Eo trade he s oT promise Oseo % t t5s smdcgud 10 Ozone Os
t tot m th parh ne mis sSPP red . bis a friends %an wGG aSpP f%o the To H aSH so d sGOO a r'Du-
o. s hS would % ra Sae the 5~dg fpsa SSdss Of a c @ssu nqR0F of tSe m sRts above 30 suspicion %no n
man nn%r SSre governor yoSa r. whom "mn they oS al not n endorse lori as as citiasnsI 10 the sOned'
r ris the sincere ere , respect lin in which a good man. is held leaving a black
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He would throw down Justice Stewart, one of the best junsts the
state has known, a la whose integrity has never been questioned tho
his physical self is under a sad cloud, a mar elected OF the same ticket
as the governor himself and with a far larger vote, a mai elected by the
people; and in the trade, he would demand that the pound of hesh-he
vote-be delivered to him before he paid a cent of the price agreed upon
under his own terms of the great temptation He would not trust the
court that he tempted-he would not risk a conflict with possibly many
other promises-he would not balk at a long, sckening train of almost
similar court trades that would forever damn the courts of Idaho-he
would ct scruple at leaving these men whom he might by specious ar
gument tempt beyond their ability to bear, stained and backened by a
corrupt trade-but he would hold the courts IS trading stock for his own
gubernatorial aspirations. Even the prospect that the amendment will
carry this fall adding two judges to the supreme court, is clever bait for
a core of lawyers-ten fol every chance!
Is that what the state of Idaho wants Of a governor? Is that the
business mans Administrations"
The friends of Judge. Bulge do not believe that he would be a party
to my such hearless agreement to sandbag a helpless old mn who by
the fortunes of politics was two years ago preferred above Judge Bulge
himself; and % creep into the supreme court at the indstence of a cum
ming politician who might fairly overwhelm him with argument and a-
ulation to break down his fine ideal of honor and justice. These friends
of Judge Bulge, o Of them, might Loyalty follow him into eve this
shameful agreement But he could never again have the clean record
that has made him what he is. Friends and enemies would regret to SCI
any clean mn degraded by such a trade. 1t would kill Judge Bulge
politically and judcialy; it would put him into the down-ando out class
after the paluy two years of his appointment-and then he would 20
home, to try, vainly, to live down the stigma Of a shameful trade.
The Recorder does not believe that he will accept: that he ever
would have considered such a deal-especialy after he thought twice
about what 1t meant But the Governor must have that Southeast vote
and neither the honor of Judge Bulge or of the courts, or humanity
for helpless Judge Stewart no any other consideration, would prevent
from making the effort to capture it through the peoples loves.
THE RlCHFIELD RECORDER.