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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1903. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE PLUTOCRATS AND THE JUDICIARY. We distributed what we had to say of the legislative and executive each, in the foregoing, under State, municipal and national heads, but for reasons already given, this chapter will pay but little attention to these divisions. It will become more and more manifest to one, as he reads it, that the lines making American government tripartite--that is, State, municipal and national --are not drawn hard and fast through the judiciary as they are in the legislative and executive, and therefore our proper treatment of the judiciary requires that these lines be much more often disregarded than kept in view. We must tell you at first, how the plutocrats fill American courts to suit themselves; and we begin with the State courts. In more than half of the States judges are elected by the people, in some by the legislature, and in the rest they are appointed by the governor. Under the command of the plutocrats, the machine irresistibly leads on the primary, or convention, or caucus of the legislature, nominating, or the executive appointing, to name only those whom they want for judges. The candidacy of a non-plutocrat is always prevented if possible. With every decade they find it more easy to avoid objectionable candidates. The constitutions direct that nobody but a lawyer can be a judge. As a general rule, only a lawyer of some reputation will be an available candidate. To gain this reputation he must have had a fair practice. For a generation or more anti-corporation practice his steadily become less, and corporation practice more lucrative, and consequently corporation lawyers now lead the bar everywhere, and, as a general rule, there are no others that will come into the mind of anybody when a judicial vacancy is to be...
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