Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-07-15

peared in the political arena after a
long absence We do not believe that
the affable jurist has made known his
personal political bias since he was
first nominated for the bench by the
Republicans away back in the long
ago.
Since that time his utterances in
public have been mainly confined to
Chautauqua addresses delivered dur
ing the very lengthy judicial summer
vacation-which the members of the
overwOrked bench take annually for
two or three months under full pay
Judge Kavanagh has also made semi
public addresses at banquets given
by lawyers and some other profession
al foreigners But the admission was
by ticket.
~GA
The temperance of Judge Kavanagh
as a partisan Republican was staged
in the election of a successor to Will
liam R. Parker the Republican clerk
of the Criminal Court, whose regret
table sudden death occurred last
week. The rules of the court required
the immediate election of clerk and
the Democrats who have been very
kind to the Republicans in court mat
ters. asked for the place for Demo
crat.
Judge Kavanagh who has been elect
ed time and again by Democratic
votes, opposed this and was quoted
largely by the daily papers as being
opposed to giving the Democrats this
position.
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Fortunately for the Coalition Cause
the majority of the Republican judges
felt that many of them would not be
drawing $4,000 a year if it were not
for Democratic generosity and John
p Gibbons, the Democratic candidate
who received the largest vote at the
primary, was chosen by an overwhelm-
ing ballot.
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The Eagle has no fault to find with
Judge Kavanagh for exercising his
right to vote as a Republican. 1t
rather admires him for it. The putrid
Grover Cleveland reminiscence known
as Civil Service Reform" has dry rot
ted the Democratic party and de-
stroyed it's viriIity
~GA.
Let's have some good old fashioned
politics on the bench itself. We be-
lieve that all judges should be chos-
en- by the people. At present they
are chosen by the Daily News and
the Tribune, aided by four Democrats
and three Republican Bosses
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Every political party should be
Obliged to nominate separate candi-
dates for the judiciary. Then the
voter could take his choice. He could
favor the man he wanted and reject
the man he did not want.
AS it is we have a bench that is
as far from the people as it is pos
sible for a bench to be. 1t would be
far better to have the judges appoint
ed by one man for a period than to
have them given life positions be-
cause of the moral cowardice of the
public.
Judge Kavanagh started one queer
sort of a movement when he kicked
the Coalition bucket without spilling
the milk. There is not a judge on
the bench who does not owe his place
there to some politician or set of poll
ticians. How soon some of them for
get this fact
We have known men on the bench
who sat around Democratic headquar
ters and smoked everybody else's ci
gars for years until they finally were
slated for a judgeship.
Aae
And we have known these same
men when the Democratic party
asked them to remember it substan
TALLY to reply that they always re
membered it in their prayers, bu
their high position forbade them t.
do anything for Democrats-tha
would be showing partisanship.
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