South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-05
THAT IuDGSHlP MIDDLE.

VIII somebody please explain. We have here a
story that Judge Herbert D. Warner has resigned from
the city bench effective oct L. and diff
ference of legal opinion whether Mayor Keller or
Gov RaIston the power iii the vacancy.
Mayor Keller appears to have appointed w. e Mil
Ter Judge Warner and Mr.. Miller has &C
cepted ard notified the governor that if the latter
claims right appointment wishes appoint
someone other than the Keller appointee such APP
pontee wants file a brief"
Now it is asserted by Judge Warner that rather than
permit the appointment go democrat by suber-
material order he will continue to hold his job until
January 1. until after election in the hope
P. Goodrich, republican, will be the next
governor. and thus the appointment for repub-
ucan via Goodrich
Politics is indeed entering keenly into this police
court job and the consequent muddle is indeed. per-
picking A number of questions suggested:
Has Judge Warner resigned hasn't he:
Did he resign to take effect Oct 1st?
2.-If he resigned. who to- and to whom
should he resign has his resignation been
accepted by the proper authority?
3-If his resignation has been accepted how
does Mr.. Warner .xpect o continue hold the
office after oct 1s the date that his resigna-
acceptance becomes affective?
Isn't he after acceptance of his resignation
literally OF a job the moment des-
ignated in such resignation and acceptance?
Can an acceptance of a resignation be with
drawn?
Gan there be a vacancy without accept
ance and il there is no vacancy by pro-
cess isn't Mayor Keller showing considerable
anxiety. political haste and lack of administra-
tive acumen, in so hurriedly appointing
Miller fill a vacancy which has yet
been created?
5-Isnt Mr. Miller exhibiting a consider
able itching for office in his hurried accept
ance of an appointment to something that
does not exist? What phase of his appoint
sment ne ask permission of the governor
to 'brief'-the vacancy the mayors power
to fill it in advance of its existence?
This repubco-citizenistc rush for the sw, reminds
us a o swine which kept back the farm
sometime in the eighties There was squeak to the
hog-pen those porkers full fort
night off. Everytme the door opened and the squeak
sounded. forthwith there rush for the trough
the gully the orchard the clover pasture
other hog-patch. always laned the pen the pig
yard
The hog-entrances to the pen were by way of two
swing doors, hinged at the top and under which the
swine pushed their way They we're about three feet
wide and tall enough for the other accommodations
self-closng by the law of gravauon-so to let in
the hogs and kept out the hens
Now you imagine fifty hogs hear
ing squeak realizing that it meant some slop or
some soft and all of them trying through
those doors at packing themselves in like
South repubHco-citizenistic police
court judgship-and none of them getting anywhere
but squeak until you had around and pried
them out well. YOU perhaps understand rea-
sons for asking the above more less pertinent-or
impertnent-qu questions?
II is like Of trying weed those swine of
one of their swng-door stampedes What kind of a
muddle have troughenthusiasts gotten thmselves
into. anyway?
Do they know? We don't.