Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1914 — HITS JUDGE WRIGHT [ARTICLE]

HITS JUDGE WRIGHT

BANKER WANTS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JUDGE IMPEACHED. Sensational Charges Are Filed With President Wilson by Washington Financier. Washington, Feb. 27.—Sensational charges gainst Daniel Thew Wright of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, were filed with President Wilson by Wade H. Cooper, president of the Union Savings bank and the United States Savings bank of this city.

Justice Wright, who is nationally known because he sentenced President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, to a term in prison for contempt of court, is accused of frequenting resorts of bad character in Washington; that he accepts favors from various attorneys practicing before him, and is notoriously partial to them; that the general counsel of the Washington Railway and Electric company indorsed notes of his, and many notes given him by attorneys have been allowed to go to banks for discount; that his relations with a female litigant in a certain case before him were so notorious that the case had to be taken out of his hands and given to another judge; that he practices law in Washington in violation of a statute of the Uplted States; that he is a member of the board of directors of a New York corporation, and has received money for work on this board. In addressing his letter to the president, Mr. Cooper says: "I do not hesitate to say that Judge Wright’s conduct Is a disgrace to the judiciary of the nation and that he should be impeached.” Makes Charge of Larceny. Mr. Cooper further charges that Justice Wright took portions of the assets of the Sealed Package Ice company of Washington to the extent of SI,OOO and that he therefore is guilty of the crime of larceny. An emphatic denial of the charges was made by Justice Wright.