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THE RECALL OF JUDGES
Proceedings of a Session of the Illinois State Bar Association
April 26,1912, 8 O'clock P. M,
(Continued from last issue)
ARGUMENT AGAINST THE RE
CAI,U OK JUDGES BY MR. JAMES
H. WIUKERSON, OF THE CHICAGO
BAR.
In this connection I cannot help but
think of what would have happened,
under this system, to one of the most
courageous and fearless judges who ever
sat upon the bench of this county. Sev
eral years ago Chicago was going through
a period of industrial disturbance. There
were strikes, riots, slugging of laborers
accepting employment against the warn
ing o f powerful organizations, destruct
ion o f property, and almost every other
form o f violence conceivable. We had a
i judge on the bench who, iu this situation,
had the courage to enter decrees in this
county i n accordance with the fund
amental principles o f the common law,
and with the decisions o f almost every
State in the Union. The correctness of
those decisions has never been question
ed by anyone familiar with the rules o f
I law o n this subject. Every one o f those
| decisions was taken through the higher
; courts of the State, and in every case
: they were affirmed, in all of them with
but one or two exceptions by unanimous
opinions of those courts. And j et there
is little doubt that, if the recall had been
in force in Cook County, a petition
would have filed for the recall of Judge
Holdom. Politicians, 1 n order to currj
favor with powerful organizations, would
Ijav^ sided in with them and, in all prob
ability, he would have been removed
from the bench. Or, if he had been per
mitted to remain, it would have been as
the result of a contest, which it is mon
strous to bring upon a high-minded,
honest and fearless judge.
In communities like this, questions
are constantly arising involving bitter
political conflicts, wdiich in the end must
be submitted to the courts for decision.
Take such questions as the price at
which gas is to be sold, the fares which
street car companies and railroad com
panies are to be permitted to exact, and
similar questions involving a determin
ation of what constitutes confiscation o f
*
property: these are questions which
should be decided on a careful consider
ation of sworn testimonj’ and of definitelj
ascertaintd facts with reference to the
business which is under attack. The pro
posed system would amount to notice t o
every judge who had the courage t o d o
the right thing in the face of newspaper
or political agitation, that he must be
prepared to fight at the polls for his life
on the bench.
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It would be far better to take the short
cut, and to provide that the people, by
majority vote, may take whatever prop
erty they see fit to take, without compen
sating the owner for it. This, for the
reason that the infamy and outrage of the
latter method is so apparent that no gov
ernment could live and endure it; while,
under the proposed reform, substantially
the same result would b e accomplished
in the guise of justice and under pretense
of the forms of law.
One of the most peculiar arguments in
favor of the proposed reform is that, in
asmuch as the people have come to com
plain of the courts, it is better that this
weapon of recall should be placed in
their hands than that the condition o f
complaint should be permitted to,con
tinue. The line of reasoning seems to be
this : the people are complaining about
something as to which they have an in
definite notion; if they had the power of
recall they would b e obliged either to
cease complaining or to reach a definate
conception of the precise nature of their
complaints ; if they undertook to do this
they would find out that, in most cases,
there was no real ground for complaint,
and therefor would cease complaining.
In other words, in order that the public
may have temporary peace of mind, we
are to alter a vital and fundamental prin
ciple of our Government and create a ,
situation whereby, in times of real pre
judice a n d genuine passion, there will
be no safeguard against hasty, intemper- j
ate, and unjust action.
I believe that our people have reached
that degree of intelligence where it is
possible to remove this unwarranted
feeling of discontent with our judiciary,
without striking at the very foundation
of our system of government. Far more
satisfactory results would be produced
by trying t o get before the people the
true facts as to the ability and integrity j
of the American judges, as to the r e a 1
reasons upon w hich so- unpopular decis- i
ions have been founded, as to the divid- j
ing line between law-making and law in
terpretation, as to the limitations inpos- j
ed by the Constitution upon the action
of every judge, than by attempting
through an appeal to ahe feeling of pow
er and importance on the part of the
the people to induce them to
change a judicial system which has been ;
the growth of centuries of experience for
one i n which the court o f last resort i s
the majority of the moment, as express
ed at the ballot box.
Even if, tinder ordinary circumstances,
the proposal did all, or more than is
Socialism stands, uot for better wages,
but for th<* abolition of the wage-system.
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claimed for it, if it furnished an efficient
way of getting rid of the incompetent or
dishonest judge, still all this good would
be a compensation infinitesimal when
compared "with the great injury which
would come from removing one of the
safeguards necessary to self-restraint in
government and one of the checks de
signed to protect ourselves against the
hasty action of the moment, and to make
effective that sober second thought which
comes after careful thought and cool de
liberation*
It seems hardly necessary to argue to
men who are familiar with our national
history, the necessity o f maintaining
such a check and safeguard a s a vital
part of our government. We all know
that, under any such system as that pro
posed, the great chief justice Marshall
would have had to fight at least twice for
his position on the bench, both times
with powerful presidents against him,
although today the decisions which were
then assailed are accepted without ques
tion as fundamentally right and vital a s
to the development of the nation.
We have seen various popular crazes
come and go : the Greenback movement
the Free Silver movement, are all mat
ters of recent history. Each one of these
experiences only emphasizes the wisdom
on the part of the framers of our Govern
ment i n devising a system whereby w e
as a people force ourselves to wait some
times until we have had the opportunity
for reflection, and have made upour
minds as to what is really right and just
and fair. And if there is one branch of
the government around which this safe
guard should be thrown like a stone wall
it is tsat department which has to do,
not with registering the decisions of maj
orities, but o f deciding fundamental
questions o f human rights and human
liberty.
(Applause.)
NEXT ISSUE CLOSING ARGUMENT
IN FAVOR OF THE RECALL BY R.
M. WANAMAKER, JUDGE OE THE
COURT OF COMMON FLEAS, SUM
MIT COUNTY, OHIO.
(To be continued)
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