The Springdale news., 1914-02-06

tr0l his existence and establish his ideals He said that judgesA.p Was one of the most sacred ethical emploYments that mankind is call q upon to fill; that justice is the rule of action, and that justice is impos- sible when the mind of the judge ls inflamed by prejudices and preferenc es. He said that the temperame Tt of Judge Kirby was non judicial, that he was a partisan by nature, that he believed in reNardin2 un= duly those who had served him, and in punishing unduly those who had failed or refused to do so. lie said that in becoming a candidate for political office on the basis of the campaign he is now carrying on that Il was his duty to conform to precedents and quit the bench.
 He said that when Alton B. Park CT was nominated for president he surrendered judicial position that paid him many thousands of dollars a year, that when Chief Justice Jones of south Carolina recently took d notion that he wanted to be go1er= nor that ha resigned his position, aud that when the present governor Of Louisiana became eandidats Tor governor he promptly left the bench. and that when Judge Ramsey of IeN as Was induced 10 become q candi date for governor OH the prohibition ticket he promptly left the bench. and that there afe probably no ln- stances where the contrary course has been adopted. senator said that he had heard it said that can dldate Kirby had precedent in the action of Judge Wood when he be- came candidate against Gov. Dav- is for governor There are many circumstances about that particular case that distinguish 1t from this Oll; for instance, 1t is said by Judge Wood Is friends that had he resigned his place upon the EC / it Wodld have been filled by ths very man he was trying to def al. Nc matter what has been done by JHdee Wood, or Judge Stone, or Judge Steele, that does not justify Judge "Brass" in his present frantic at tempt to convince himself that he IS candidate for the United states ; cnate Tire senator sad that he did not intend to convey the meaning that Judge Kirby. absence from the bench interferred with the dehbera- tions of that court. for he felt sure a better measure of justice Was be- ing met out to itigants than would b. the case if he were there. He said that the loss to the state oi salary was no loss at all when com. pared to the incidental good that &as resulting thGretrom, but said that the real evil of the situation was that he would go back 10 that bench With his mind poisoned with pr Ju- dice against those who must repHdi- ate him because they do not Ind It consistent with their ideas of pro priety To indorse his presf nt cru sade
 The senator said that he might be admonished that in speaking ot the judge Ill this way he would sub ject himself to punishment by the judge for contempt. He said that the Judge was so small part of the court that anything said about hlm could not b. deemed reference to the court. although he recalled q story he had heard when he Was a boy in Mississippi It vas said that one one occasion q justice 0t the peace had been exceedingly off nslN z to a juror who was called to serve in his court; that the justice reside d some distance from the place at which the court was held, and on his way home he met the juror Who gave him notice that he intended to give him thrashing; thereupon the just ice jerked off his hat and announc- ed that court was open. The irate juror said that he could not play such trick as that on him, and thereby escaped punishment for con tempt when the justice replied that his court was always an object of contempt The senator said that if # the practice carried on by Judge Kirby was to be the standard of Ju dicial propriety and decorum that this condition might obtain in Arkan sas before long.
 Kirby and Confederates
 That Candidate Kirby poses as the friend and champion of the common people, and that he is always seek ing to protect and advance their in terests and increase their rule and power; that his hypocrisy in this connection is exposed when an in- vestigation is made of his official record as a legislator in dealing with the old Confederate soldier; that during the session of 1899 Can didate Kirby, then representative from Miller County, when a final vote was taken on bill having for it's laudable purpose an extnesion of the scope of the privileges anG rights entitling Confederate soldiers and their widows to pension as