The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-10-04

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- fhis is the last term tneC 4 VIII
IL Ia here. Judge Scales will con-
l ns,s fhis term, but there viii probably
ill., ~ more Jury cases probably not
80 than one. He may call jury
n one case.
ave been holding court In this coun-
= and feel In quitting this part OF
~ district, that hardly ought to do
= without expressing TO the jury, the
that are here Of the citizens of |
~ ssno county. that no county has ever
. p...en me more pleasure to hold court /
thau this county. Your citizenship /
= n high class here, and it has always
,,sn Measure to me to hold court In |
gSsho county, because / felt that every |
.s~,n when / left here that had done I
ssss,rstantial Justice between the 1iti- |
ssnfs and that we had arrived at sub |
Genital Justice in the cases that had |
saon tried. OF course, there are al |
~svs controversies between counsel, |
- the bar here deserves the conf |
dence of the people. The bar Of this |
comfy now is upon a high standing !
nsbare Is no member of this bar but |
rhat can be trusted to be honest, and
trusted by litigants to do the best
they can for them.
sThere will always be litigation. 1t
4 the history of the world. People
mist have some place to have these
matters adjusted. If people would adj
inst their own differences they could
nrobably do it If they would be fair
about it, they probably could do better
fhan the courts can do, but when they
come before the jury of their own
citizens and submit their matters to
them. they are satisfied. 1t settles
their difficulties, and that is the main
object of courts of justice, to settle
these difficulties, even though some of
them may be small; it settles them
and then people go on about their
business
.sThis county is large county and
II has been sometimes a good deal of
trouble to get cases to trial. may
have to come back here and try two
or three cases but whether may live
great number of years or just few,
the recollections of holding court in
Idaho county will be some of the most
pleasant recollections of my life.
3 aSome of you now can remember
when I held court over at Mount. Ida
no. Conveniences were bad but still
that was q pleasure to me, because
help the court to do the right thing. The
great bulk Of the citizenship has al
WAYS been behind the court. And /
bespeak for Judge Scales the earnest
support of the citizenship in his efforts
to enforce the law. There is no ques-
ton about his integrity. You have
known him well enough to know there
Is no question about his ability, and
have no doubt that when he retires
from the bench he will retire with the
same feelings that you have for him
now, an honest and able man. But
any court needs the support Of the
citizenship. 1t needs the support in
this way, that IL 1t is endeavoring to
uphold and enforce the laws, both
criminal and civil, it can't do 1t with
out the support of the citizens.
"The time was in this county when
1t was very hard to enforce the Grim
inal laws. We had some trouble over
at Mount Idaho in getting juries to
agree sometimes. There were two
classes Of cases, the homicide cases
and OF course cattle-stealing or live
stock stealing, which was most pre-
valent And / announced from the
bench that l was going to try to stop
this class of crimes as far as possible
and minimize them, and / announced
to all juries that this class of crime
was too prevalent in the county. Your
large stock interests made it necessary
that you have a strict enforcement of
the criminal laws up here, and the
sparsely settled conditions of the coun-
try for some reason caused a great
many homicides. The juries took hold
Of the matter in support of the court
and began to convict these men, and
the stock interests organized, and such
an organization as that is always a
good thing, not only to protect the
stock but it gets the citizens talking
about UNFOLDING and enforcing other
laws; and without this support of the
citizens / feel that my efforts would
not have been as successful as they
were. | had the sympathy of the
people, and l know enough about your
new judge to know that he is going to
feel the same way. He is going to
try to enforce strictly the criminal
laws
The courts are impressed with the
necessity of being honest at all times
they can't be honest in ninety-nine
cases and dishonest in another They
must be honest with themselves, and
they must do what they think is right
and what they think the law and the
evidence warrants regardless of whom
Is In the case. They can't be shaky
about these questions; they must be
honest at all times.
Judge Scales has been practfcine
law so long that he is impressed with
these facts. He is an ideal man In
my Judgment for this position, and
believe that things will run along IL
This county with very little friction
me people of this county / want t.
say deserve praise for the way they
nave upheld the court in the past IL
trying toe nf0rce the laws, and they
nave the best wishes of this court
MY district is now small, but / an
getting to where l don't want large
district. can't do what used to
! haven't held court for eight years
~ night. used to come up here, some
q You men now on the jury have prob
AMY been here when ran court a