Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-05-31
NOMINATION OF JUDGES

The plan to nominate judges by po-
litical committees is being fought bit
terly by lawyers.
Power of nomination for Office
should not rest with any body or com.
mittee," said John M. Cameron, librar.
ian Of the Chicago Bar association in
voicing opposition to the Buck bills
now pending In the upper house of the
Illinois legislature. bills which tend to
revise the present election laws. II
do not think the Buck plan is a good
one. II would not tend in any way to
improve the judiciary, but would leave
the power Of the bench to few boss.
es."
The bills have been reported from
the state judiciary committee Of the
senate and are awaiting action by the
upper branch of the general assembly.
One OF the bills seeks to put the ju.
dietary in politics, according to some
experts, placing the nomination OF
judges at the mercy of ward and pre-.
cinct committeeman. The county con.
vention, under the Buck bills relating
to judges, would have authority to sc.
lect delegates to the state, judicial and
district conventions to nominate candi-
dates for circuit court branches In ju.
dicial districts composed Of one county
and candidates for judges OF the Su.
perior Court Of Cook County.
Charles s. Cutting, chairman OF the
Bar associations committee on the ju.
dietary, said that politics should be
eliminated in every way possible from
the election OF judges.
II am strongly in favor of nonparti.
san election Of Judges" he said. 'It
has always been the case in my ex.
perience that Judge has had to ally
himself with some political party. The
fruther we can get away from that the
better of we will be. l am opposed
to a primary system Of electing
judges and think that we should, as
far as possible, eliminate politics from
the bench"
Levy Mayer expressed himself as ut.
terly opposed to the present primary
| laws.
my convictions are strong on the
subject" he said. 81 have not read
the Buck bills, but II they do not con,
form to my ideas, am against them
l am utterly opposed to the present
in so far as it affects judicial nomina'
lions. am against the primary fol-
judges. am also against the partisan
party label for judges. To make II
necessary that candidate for a Judge
ship shall first run at primary of his
uarty, and, II he gets the nomination
go before the people again at the reg
ular election, Is an utterly bad sys
TEN. Self.respecting lawyers, who are
able and ambitious, are, as q rule. un
willing and unable to make two cam
paigns. The result OF the primary
system In my opinion has stunteG
rather than increased the caliber Of
the bench. Candidates for Judges
should be selected by petition, signed
by, say, s per cent of the voters. Il
we must have convention let the con
vention have the right also to nomi
nate the judges.
I'm this way we should have petit
ton as well as convention candidates
But, by all means, cut out the prlmar,
in judicial elections.
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to March 8, 1919, showed that 1t ha,
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complaints. The number of com
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although covering five years, due I,
the fact that SO many skilled employee
were called in the draft,
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and patriotic American. citizen. H
has been a hard worker for the Lii
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