Abstract

The Approaching Attempt to Rid Us of an Elective Judiciary

The people of New York State will be asked at election to say whether the experiment of an elective which they set the example of trying twenty-seven years ago has proved satisfactory, and whether they are now willing to go the old method of appointment. In the next place should be considered the matter of reappointments. Since the elective system began, now about twenty-five years, the ablest judges in the State, with hardly an exception, have been dropped from the judicial roll. Some have been defeated in conventions, others at elections, and few have been too much disgusted with a first election to submit to a second. Such losses have always been a matter of regret to the better portion of the community, but a matter beyond control.