Show I AMERICAN JUDGES JU I h Pt of ol J J i I 1 J I J lY read before the W c Tn a an exhaustive ct The Influence of oC o the thee Bar in int InI IIi t I iff h 1 Ion lOft of ef Judges Judge air Mr i n d fI been In correspondence with within i j i s in ri every ery state in iti the Union I e 1 ie e the result re of or hIs hie inquiries t fIlow practitioners His con coni i HIS the Utah bench bencha Vt t r I a j aI influence In uen e and activity are arec c 01 oiling i factors in selection modi fir II i i i th words word of or one correspondent I to the dominant cc oc a ital fical of the state f Mormon church Correspondents r s to the extent to which the thO g rt Mt an competent and impartial 1 I ac a i t to tf the degree de f or of confidence they theyon I on ott the part of oC bar and an public ImbUe the ther thet r t i lb ag i sentiment being eing rather un f on nn all of or those points The i 1 M i k best fitted are not as 88 a rule on en tV b The exert little or ori i 1 i z in n selection Ik T feature about aboul this esti e ti r af at of ff 1 the Utah bench is it that it is IsI f t i 11 1 i And Alid a larger lar part firt of 1 n fl h It troubles is due directly to tor tot t r fi f f that no man inait can be elected t I i a i t hil in thia state who ho will T t t c i 1 to a Il greeter greater gr Ater or 01 less Jess extent I mi rable partisan polities both boCh boChI I 1 roo n c the convention and during the i Air Mr 11 found round t I Rat atts s in which the judges are most t tf ft f or in lit all RII respects res peels are the Ule thet t n rI the occupants oC or the 1 I f Ii L I ar art arc appointed This rule pro pre v 11 1 1 j i Connecticut Delaware Maine 1 I l j i lixi hu tt New Tf i ii hirt New Jersey and to a lint lini i I i nt in Florida In the slates 4 4 Ki IF lo Island Jand South Caroline Carolina Ver VerS f S vi Virginia the judges are arc tru I y the joint assembly of or th the g b I It UTin un 1 I 1 1 I is description of the theM M bench av applies li to P l n 11 I of the appointive benches It ItI I gal ability success at nt her bar anti and nd 11 11 entirely 1 III political activity seldom Idol hava hass uny nily bear bearT bearr T r I 1 v when lien they do ability and andi nd i a t tr r must still be predominant r Ss 5 thoroughly competent mid anti im ira iraI imI I Lt il Jill highest hi confidence ot oti o ol ot l i t 1 I nubile As a s rule men In n thor sM fitted for bench are appointed l ugh gh some of the tho ablest lawyers f o c J TInt riot accept judicial positions t R go to tn involved i 1 rr ts do 10 not collectively or Ot through I LT L r a oc seek to exert any iii In r r r in the selection eJection because this 1 unnecessary but they the latin latine 1 he e iu ti rh h selections by b t to t f governor There i is no occa occar I r r f bar har to exercise any an i 1 e In the selection election of or judges Al l is as z the appointive s n 11 there work to entire nUre t f r state U hii ul t t is not true trus that all an ap nv l 1 iR 5 true that thet the average of ap api i i t i judges are good m inu n u it cert t rd judges to MJ very much higher r m In rt titi average of or elected judges i ui thing is Js that more moret ht 4 t hae have not adopted the th appointive t tnt U |