The New York herald., 1921-07-24
Twelve Judges to Be Elected.

Twelve Judges to Be Elected.
Although neither a Governor nor
any of the high administrative OFF,
GERS Of New York State Is to be
elected this fall, the election in No
vember will be exceptionally impor-
tant by reason of the fact that twelve
new judges of our higher courts are
then to be chosen, namely, one AS
sociate Judge Of the Court of Ap-
peals and eleven Justices Of the Su.
preme Court. The Judge of the Court
of Appeals is voted for by the elec-
tors of the entire State; the Supreme
Court Justices by the electors of the
respective judicial districts in which
vacancies occur this year.
The vacancy in the Court of Ap-
peals is due to the recent lamented
death Of Judge EMORY A. CHASE Of
Catskill, one of the most honored, in
dustrious and capable members of
that tribunal. In speculating upon
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to be Republican, the names most
frequently mentioned among men-
bers of the bar are Judge A. V. s..
CocHRANE of Hudson, who has been
a Justice of the Supreme Court in the
Albany district since 1901 and is now
sitting in the Appellate Division in
that department, and Judge WILLIAM
S. ANDREWS Of Syracuse, a son Of the
late Chief Judge ANDREWS, who has
also been a Supreme Court Justice
for twenty years and is now sitting
in the Court Of Appeals under a
temporary designation by the Gov
ernor. Either Of these men would
make a strong candidate of the high
est character.
Among the eleven Supreme Court
Justices whose places are to be filed
this year are some of the ablest mem
bers of that court, and it will be diff
cult to find successors equal to them
in learning and ability. In the Sec
ond Judicial District, which comprises
Long Island and Staten Island with
headquarters in Brooklyn, the bench
loses ALMET F. JENKs, who recently
resigned his office as Presiding JUS
tice of the Appellate Division to re-
sumo the practice Of law, and HAR-
PRINCETON PUTNAM, who reaches the
constitutional age limit this year.
Both have been model judges who
cannot easily be replaced. There will
doubtless be an effort to nominate a
member of the Richmond county bar,
as Staten Island is now unrepre.
sented on the bench of the Supreme
Court.
/ In the Third Department JOHN M.
KELLOGG, the Presiding Justice of the
Appellate Division, sitting at AL
bany, retires by reason Of age, as also
does Justice WILLIAM p. RUDD, who
was well known as a leader Of the
bar before his accession to the bench
4 in 1910. Both these judges are favor
ably known as eminently sound and
sane lawyers of the conservative type
which the community cannot well af-
ford to have eliminated from our
courts.
In the western part of the State
the Supreme Court loses JOHN s.
LAMBERT Of Fredonia, who has been
a Justice of the Supreme Court in the
Eighth Judicial District for thirty
years and was previously for six
years County Judge Of Chautauqua
county, and CHARLES B. WHEELER OF
Buffalo, the scholarly nephew Of the
late GEORGE BARKER, who was one OF
the most distinguished lawyers Of his
day in western New York.
The members of the legal profes
sion, who will greatly influence the
action of the judicial conventions
/ which are to choose candidates tc
, succeed such men as we have men
toned, owe a duty to the public to
exercise the utmost care in further
ing the selection of nominees equal
in character and ability to the judges
who are relinquishing Office this year