The Campaign Text Book of the Democratic Party for the Presidential Election of 1892 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...result would be a lois of the confidence of the people. When the petition for supervision in any city, county or Congressional District is sent to the chief supervisor, it is his duty, in due time, to notify the judge of the United States Circuit Court, for whose judicial district he hasbeen previously appointed by that Court; the Court shall meet within a specified time and appoint supervisors for each precinct included in the territory inwhich supervision is petitioned for. These supervisors shall be appointed from lists presented to the judge by the chief supervisor. As a result, a great Republican machine would be created. The judges of the United States Circuit Courts are nearly all Republican; the chief supervisors already appointed by these are, and those to be appointed would be, Republicans. These Republican chief supervisors would recommend and these Republican judges would appoint only so many Democratic supervisors as the law requires--one out of every three. There would, therefore, be on each Board of Supervisors for each precinct a majority of Republicans, as already shown, who could carry things their own way. Even if the judges were disposed to make fair appointments of supervisors, they would be confined to lists presented by Republican chief supervisors, which would undoubtedly contain as few names of Democrats as possible. But the probability is that the judges would show their partisanship when they were called on to do so, as they would be by this proposed law, and the Republican machine would work on smoothly. Suppose something went wrong in the conduct of either the chief supervisors -r the judges. If a chief supervisor were prosecuted, he would be tried by the judge who appointed him; would it be probable that the judge would cond.