Year: 1865

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neutral, and the balance of the time as nea
nothing as paper ever gets to be-" and al


because we support Hon. W. Fl. Green for


judicial position. We have before inquired O


the Union the propriety Of associating polite


in the contest for the Judgeship? and instance


what its own candidate, Col Dougherty, ,sait


in condemnation of such association. Surely th


most obtuse Hoosier in or out of Indiana, on tn


editorial tripod or in States prison, Republican


or Democrat, would, if he but expressed th


promptings Of his unprejudiced judgment, ad
init that it is not only injudicious to presen


any particular political faith to candidate, as


sine qua non for his preferment to the Bench


but absolutely wrong, if not criminal Do no


Republicans occasionally appear in the Crcui


Court of this District as plaintiffs or defend
tants, or would not the partizan friends Of tn


Union as freely and confidently submit thei1
claims for justice in such court, to all uprigh


Democrat as to a member of their own politi
cal party?


The .lsasen man processes an inability tt
discern why politics should not enter into
contest for a purely judicial Office as well as in
one purely political. We believe that botn
political parties have adopted the Jacksoniar
motto: ITO the victors belong the spoils u
Upon the same principle, if insisted upon why
not force the Judge upon the Bench tc adopt
as his maxim, 8. to my political friends belong
the verdicts.' - 1t is expected of Judge when
he dons the ermine of his Office to eschew pol.
itics and divest himself of all political preju-
dice; but we ask how in the name of
common sense can such expectations
be substantially predcated when candidates are
met at every step by politicians who entirely
ignore the questions of fitness and qualifca-
tion, and indulge only in references to their
pa:tizan status, thus forcing such candidates
either to meet their enemies with their own
weapons or retire from the field of contest :?
The Union man, if his heart is not filled with
acrimony toward all political opponents, viii
inwardly endorse our position. We believe
him 10 be an honest, innocent, doughty sort of a
gentleman, with intellect sufficient to realize
right from wrong, but so confding and unsus-
pecting in his nature that political friends can
easily induce him to require at the hands of an
applicant for judgeship, professorship or
clergyman confession of political faith. His
political hackers could influence him to agree
that Democrats who appear in. Court sh ould be
sent forth with political brands upon their brows
children should be taught politics with al
zebra, and his political opponents should not
receive absolution for their sins. Those who
are not tied to the car of party insist upon the
contrary, that politics should not be allowed to
flow out of their legitimate channel, and on no
condition be permitted to enter our courts of
justice nor churches, and we belong to the lat
ter school. , .e
The Union man says nothing in his last pa
per about Mr.. Green being an Attorney for the
Illinois Central Railroad Company He has
evidently appreciated the force of our rejoinder
to his argument viz: that the publication of
such fact was but an advertisement of Mr.. G's
acknowledged ability, and secondly that his
= Z iS, ,s,ch as to repel the idea that
after he had registered his oath as Judge, ne'
would while upon the bench, throw the weight
of his influence in favor of the interests of said
corporation, and against justice and equity.
We therefore freely commend his discretion in
this respect.


We have not up to this time said anything de-
rogatory to the character Of Col Dougherty as
a gentleman, nor as a lawyer. Neither do we
intend so doing. We are quite willing to ad-
nit the claims presented by his friends in his
behalf Nor are we deferred by reason of the
invulnerable record of the gentleman, as we
believe, were we to dive down into political
waters we could bring up something which
would not flatter either his pride or that of his
friends. Pure indeed is the, man who has
been so long in political life as either Mr.. Green
or Mr.. Dougherty against whom some disagree
able if not apparently dishonorable facts cannot
be adduced. But il. is not our province so to do
Our journal is not the representative of party
but of the best interests of the people, and we
leave the task Of personal defamation to
those to whom the dishonorable duty le-
Ultimately ;. belongs. When we intro
duced the name of Mr.. Green as candi-
date for the .position Of successor to judge
Mulkey, Col Dougherty had not been named
| nor thought of by any one in that connection
and it was out ofno special regard for Mr.. G
( personally that induced US to point him out a:
1 an available candidate and competent person
but because we. in common with nearly all ou
/ citizens, considered him gentleman upor
whom the judicial ermine could creditably be
attached. Let both men be judged by the peo
pie as to their qualifications, and we will res
content with the verdict rendered.


TENNESSEE ITEMs.--From the Clarksville
Tenn, Journal we gather the following items
A movement is on foot for the building of tn


upper Red river bridge. A Nashville ant


Cincinnati Packet Company has been formed


There is to be shortly at Clarksville, larg


Government, sale of valuable property, compre


hending animals wagons, fuel, lumber, &e


The editor has been presented with some spe


cimen -'.taters" (sweet, averaging seven and


half pounds each. The Russellvile Herald
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