Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — Judges and Junes. [ARTICLE]

Judges and Junes.

New YOrkSun, !. ’ ... ; The suggestion that judges are leas’ subject swayed hy improper influences‘thkn jurymen‘fs one that cannotsatisfactorily be diecussed without fuller information on tiis subject than is accessible at present. Mr. Dodge’s, conclusion (in , Scribners Monthly), however, that Jil9tice : is safe in the hands ~of judges, is expressly based upon the history of the English courts since they became independent of the “Cnown r "and of opr own .where the life tenure of office has been preserved.’, It would thus appear that it is only in the Federal courts and in those States of the Union'where a life tenure is established for tjbe judiciary, that even he woi Id dispense with the jury. The number Of such States is very small. •• ' .