People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — A Veteran of Political Freedom [ARTICLE]

A Veteran of Political Freedom

Richard Lithicum, a clever newspaper writer well and favorably known in Chicago and throughout the West, writes a very fascinating pen picture of Judge Lyman Trumbull, who in his eightieth year has reentered public life after a silence of many years. This has been one of the most notable political events of the year, for Judge Trumbull has throughout his lopg career won the esteem of friends arid foes alike as a man of great force of character, and of the most judicial and temperate and conservative opinions. Nevertheless lie has.always stood for the widest individual freedom, political and social, and the highest possible citizenship, so that his recent condemnation of what ne considers a-departure from the constitutional juridical rights of the judicary of this country has carried no little weight, and shows that if the judicary* are exceeding their powers the popular arm of the government should exercise a greater discretionary power over the appointing privileges of the Executive. A fine autographed portrait of the old political veteran accompanies the article and lends it additional interest and value.