The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-01-28
BAR ASSOCIATION
SYSTEMATICALLY IS
SEEN BY c. 0. P.
Republican Lawyers Fear
Democrats In Plan To Get
Out Steam Rollers.
SELECTION OF JUDGE
PLANNED FOR TODAY
Common Pleas Vacancy Threa-
tens to Force Showdown On
Political Issue.

On the heels of an announcement
that the Cape County Bar Association
will meet at the court house at 100
o'clock this afternoon to select a sue
cessor to the late Judge Robert G.
Ranney Republican members Of the
association yesterday voiced the Opin-
ion that the Democrats in the Organi-
cation are trying to work a flimfan,
game and control the election under
the cloak of a non-partisan scheme.
The county bar association, which IS
supposed to be non-pOlitical in charac-
tor, stands two to one for the Demo
Gratis. To draw political lines within
the Organization, at once places a we'll
Died s,eam roller in the harris Of Ire
Democrats, and the Republicans see
tue CCgs of that machine being put ir
skap', they say.
The announced intention OF the ufi-
c.rs Of the association is 20 sew n
one man to receive the bars indOrse-
no.: for the judgeship. liz Demo
Eats are wiIline to let tho bar s.l'Ia
tic question of candidacy. declared
James Z. Kinder, Democrat, tounts
Chairman, last night.
The Republicans are charging that
this generous impulse of the Demo-
Gratis is inspired by the fact that the
county is Republican. A Republican
member of the bar last night stated
that he would be in favor of the party
kicking over the traces.
The political line up of the bar asso-
citation follows:
Democrats-Lafe Caruthers, Ange-
10 Dempsey, T. d. Hines, Albert Sprad-
ling, J. A Banks, Senator +. B. Oliver,
r. +. Oliver, Jr., Allen H. Oliver, A
P. Stewart, Russell Dearmont, Senator
Thomas +. Lane, H. F. Alexander, Ed
ward l.. Drum, Judge Frank Kelly, Lee
l.. Bowman, =. c. Fardesty, Julian G.
Miller, Z. IDEAL. Robert H. Whitelaw,
and Mai Gibonev Houck. total, 20.
RcpubIicans-Judge Nose Whybark.
Judge Edward ID. Hays, Judge B. F.
Davis, David b. Hays, J. II. Doris,
John Snider, Judge Wilson Cramer, J.
Henry Caruthers, Capt. Wilson Bain
and City Counselor O. A. Knehans. to-
tai, 10.
The officers Of the association arc as
follows: Senator Lane, Dem.) Dres'-
dent; r. B. Oliver. Jr., Dem0 vice
president; Russell Dearmont. DEM
secretary; and B. c. Hardesty, DEM
treasurer.
The Republicans assert that they 10
not intend to allow the Democratic
bar association talk schooI-rOOm stuff
about taking the iudgeshipout of poll
ties" and then slipping over 4 Demo-
cratic Endorsement, TO be automatically
concurred in by both County Commit
tees.
The Democratic Committee already
has checked the nomination up to the
lawyers organization through the
statement of Chairman Kinder.
A Republican member of the bar
declared also that his party does not
purpose to allow a Democratic bar
association dictate who will be the
Republican to succeed Judge Ranney
under nOn-partisan scheme.
They ought to recognize that to in
dorse a Democrat in a Republican
County such as this, will not remove
chances of a contest, and in contest
we can beat their Democrat" the at
torney argued. Consequently, the
party will object to a bevy of Demo-
Gratis lawyers debating who shall be
4 Republican candidate, if the ind
Orsement is to be given to our party
man"
Another feature of the proposed ac-
ion of the association, as it was un-
lerstOOd by Republicans yesterday
vas the binding effect of the indorse-
nent of one member upon all other
members to refrain from a race out
side the pale of the bar associations |
recognition. The minority members |
If the association say they will balk
1t that.
''If this bar association is going to
,e allowed to dictate in this manner
Who shall succeed on the Common
Pleas bench, l am disposed to think
hat it will be creating a precedent
hat will not stop at a continuation
f the practice in the fall, and may
pread to the Circuit Court and other
that are put up for cleo
ion," one Republican remarked.
There's a shenanigan in it some
vhere," one lawyer said.
Senator Lane, who is president of
he bar association, is an avowed can