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Show f ! I mt. I' r ONE DUTY OF CITIZENSHIP. H I tj The needs of the awakening of all the people H to the necessity of seeing to it in the primaries Hi' and conventions that only their candidates shall mml a be nominated, grows more and more pronounced Bn ji daily. The last proposition that we have noted fff !' is in tho statement in the dally papers that cer- Hr ' tain gentlemen are candidates for nomination for mi ' the Supreme bench; and that the nominations B will be a test between one or another of the B 'Boss" factions. If that Is true, then not even m the Supreme bench is safe from the graspers. m ,j We do not believe that any seif-respectlng lawyer i j will consent to be a candidate with the under- L i, i standing that he has been selected for the place. H; f J by any political or ecclesiastical manipulator, but m) j ' the only way to be absolutely sure is for the B' people themselves to take the matter in hand, Bj 'j not at the polls it will be too late then but at IB ' the primaries and in the State conventions. The B higher courts of our country are the country's B anchor. We may become ever so much excited B over politics and make ever so strenuous a fight B. for partisan triumphs, but after the election is ,B over there should be the thought that the courts i; at least are secure, that there is not one judge B who owes his election to the favoritism of any Br creed or politician, that they all owe their places B j to the will of the whole people and that their or- B flee precludes their being under obligations to any H i one save the people themselves. American citi- Ht i zenship carries with it certain duties, one is to Hf ' P see to it that the ballot shall never be dishonored H nor defiled. |