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THE DAILYINTELLIGENOER,
PUBLISHED KVKIty XVXTflXQ,
BY STEINMAN & HENSEL,
Intelligencer Hulldlng, Southwest Cerner of
ventre square.
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subscribers In the City of Lancaster and sur
rounding towns, accessible by Uailread and
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iuyuhle te tlie Carriers, weekly. By Mail, $5 a
year in advance : otherwise, $ti.
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second class mail matter.
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Lykcns Valley Egg and Steve 4.S0
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AXTEE FULLWEIUIIT, butallew te WEIGH
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but we will de the next thing te It, viz :
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customers te the fact that we have en hand a
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T ANCASTER
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Fer Tanning and ether purposes ;
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Bellows Pipes,
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Blacksmi thing generally.
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PHILADELPHIA.
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OF-
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IX OUR STOCK OF
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LESS THAX PRESEXT COST OF MANUFACTURE PREPARED BT
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THE LEADING AXD POPULAR CLOTHIERS OF PHILADELPHIA, FOR THE
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FOR THE BEST AXD CHEAPEST CLOTHING CALL AT THE
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431 and 433 Market Street, Lancaster, Pa.
We are new ready for SPRING TRADE, with a Fine Assortment or
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Having purchased our stock for cash, before the recent advance, we are enabled te otter
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Lancaster Intelligencer.
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1880.
I
RIGHTS OF THE BAR ANDTHB PRESS.
The Kclationsef Newspaper and the Courts.
The Subject Discussed by Leading Journals.
A Flagrant Judicial Ciiine.
Philadelphia Times.
In the bill of rights guaranteed te the
people by the fundamental law of the
commonwealth, it is written that "the
printing press shall be lice te every per
son who may undertake te examine the
proceedings of the Legislature or any
branch of the government, and no law
shall ever be made te restrain the right
thereof." Such lias been the supreme law
of Pennsylvania since the organization of
our civil government ; but the enlightened
progress of the age was fairly reflected in
the additional clause that emanated from
the late constitutional convention, pro
viding that there could be no conviction
for libel in a criminal prosecution for the
publication of matter proper for the pub
lic information, even if unwarranted by
the truth, unless "maliciously or negli
gently made." There was an old-time be
lief cherished by some of our judicial dig
nitaries that they were a privileged class,
and that they were tee sacred in their
ellice te be criticised by public journals,
however conspicuously they might display
the infirmities from which none, high or
low, can claim exemption ; but nearly half
a century age that judicial delusion was
dissipated by a statute that se taught the
judiciary the necessity of the wholesome
restraints of the press. In the act of luth
June, 1836, it is provided as fellows :
" Ne publication out of court, respecting
the conduct of the judges, officers of the
court, jurors, witnesses, parties, or any of
them, of, in or concerning any cause de
pending in such court, shall be construed
into a contempt of the said court, se as te
render the author, printer, publisher or
cither of them, liable te attachment aud
summary punishment for the same."
There is no mistaking the spirit aud
plain intent of the foregoing statute and
its letter could net mere clearly express
the sevcie limitations within which the
necessary power of courts te inflict sum
mary punishment for contempt of its au
thority shall be exercised ; yet in the face
of these safeguards te the citizen given
in the fundamental law, and lepcat
ed by statute, Judge Patterson, of Lancas
ter, has stricken the names of A. J. Stein
nian and W. U. Hensel from the roll of at
torneys for a "publication out of court re
specting the conduct of the judges." It is
tiue that the act of 1800 does net
distinctly refer te publications by
attorneys and in terms exempt them from
summary punishment for misbehavior in
eflice ; but it must be evident from a care
ful study of the entire act, that such statu
tory protection was emitted solely because
it wa assumed that no judge in this com
monwealth of newspapers and free schools
could be capable of such midsummer mad
ness. The words "no publication out of
court " are net accidental. They were
manifestly employed te express the ab
sence of all exceptions te the rule ; and te
assume that an attorney, net profession
silly connected with the case criticised, and
withholding criticism until the linal dis
posal of the legal dispute, can be sent for
by messenger te appear before a judge,
catechized as te his legitimate editorial
duties, summoned without complaint te
answer rules for contempt and misbeha
vior in office, aud finally discharged from
the contempt but subjected te the mere
infamous judgment of dismissal from his
office of attorney, must be an act of the
most atrocious judicial tyranny or the con
stitution and the laws must be lying snaies
for the press.
As this startling judicial act of Jud:;c
Patterson is one that affects the entire legal
profession of the state and the highest
safeguards of public journals, we give
elsewhere the full text of the decision that
assumes te unsettle the guarantees which
have been sacred since the foundation of
our government. It will be most carefully
studied by the judges, the attorneys and
the journalists of the state, for it is a revo
lutionary departure that unites judicial ig
norance, and the despotism that official ig
norance ever breeds, te the absolute en
thralmcnt of the press, and the enforce
ment of silence however great may be
judicial wrongs. It is" a decision that, if
sustained and enforced, would retire from
the columns of both city and rural
newspapers, their ablest and most
needed contributors, and fully two
thirds of the prominent lawyers of
the state would te-day be liable te dismis
sal from office, and criticism of judicial
proceedings would be among the forbid
den pieiegativcs of journalism. It must
be remembered that if it be misbehavior
in office for an attorney te print criticism
upon judicial proceedings in newspapers,
it must be equally an offense te criticize
en the hustings a judge who may be a can
didate for election, and even the private
conversation of attorneys must be free
from all suggestion in regard te the fair
ness or integrity of a judge. If it is an of
fense te write and publish, it must be
equally an offense te speak cither in pub
lic or in private, for either must, accord
ing te Judge Patterson, be "calculated te
disturb and prejudice the mind of the pub
lic respecting the impartial and just ad
ministration of distributive justice."
And what aie the facts which underlie
this insolent judicial deliverance against
tnc jecitimate prerogatives ei iuu iiumie
press ? If Judge Patterson had sincerely
aimed te protect the sanctity of the admin
istration of justice, there might be some
excuse for a' blunder that is worse than a
crime ; but his whole judicial action in
this case clearly and painfully refutes his
fidelity te the integrity of his own court.
A lawless ward politician was arraigned in
the quarter sessions for keeping a disor
derly house. The mayor and his police
were unable te maintain order in the im
mediate community because they were
political potentates who protected him.
The case was finally forced into court, and
Mr. Brown, associate attorney for the pros
ecution, was deputed by the district attor
ney te examine the witnesses. He met
Mr. Jehnsen, counsel for the defense, who
urged upon Mr. Brown that " the Snyders
were the best workers in the ward," and
that.thcy should net be convicted. Mr.
Brown did net cxamine the witnesses, but
reported te District Attorney Eshleman
that there was no case against the defend
ant, and a verdict of net guilty was taken
without trial. This was before Judge Liv
ingsten, who,of ceurte,had no knowledge of
the deliberate miscarriage of justice. The
result provoked free criticism and ear
nest pretest from two of the leading jour
nals of Lancaster, one of each party, and
se direct were the accusations against the
I management of the prosecution that Dis
trict Attorney Eshleman instituted a
variety of suits against the JVew Era for
libel. One of the suits came up for trial
before Judge Patterson, and he heard the
testimony in open court, from his own
sworn officers, establishing the fact that
the administration of justice had been
subordinated te promote political ends.
Had he desired te maintain the integrity
of the channels of justice, he would, then
and there, have had abundant employ
ment for rules for contempt and misbe
havior m office ; but he was silent under
the shame that was flung into the his judi
cial face, and never attempted te vindicate
the dignity and majesty of the law from
pollution in its own sanctuary, although
called upon te de se by leading journals
at home and abroad. Se positive were
the pretests from the press and public that
the mockery of a second indictment was
played before Judge Patterson, and he
ruled, as the law directed, that the former
acquittal entitled the defendant te dis
charge. It was then that Messrs. Stein
man and Hensel reverted te the fact that
nobody had been called te account for the
palpable pervisien of justice, and they
offended in the following paragraph :
"Logically, the last acquital, like the first,
was secured by a prostitution of the
machinery of justice te serve the exigen
cies of the Republican party. But as all
the parties implicated, as well as the
judges, belong te that party, the court is
unanimous for once that it need take no
cognizance of the imposition practiced upon
it and the disgrace attaching te it."
The complaint of the lawyer-editors was
that Judge Patterson failed te take cogni
zance of " a prostitution of the machinery
of justice" in his own court; and the
judge, instead of purging the polluted
temple of the law wherein he was master,
passed the guilty parties by and visited
the vengeance of perverted authority
upon the officers of the court who had
demanded that justice should knew no
distinction between parties. In short,
Judge Patterson was himself the offender
by plain dereliction of duty, and his at
tempt te inflict summary and disgraceful
punishment upon the respondents, under
circumstances entirely without precedent
in our judicial history, shows, te use hisewn
language, that his felly was equalled only
by his criminality. A judge who thus hides
his own disregard of the integrity of jus
tice behind the feeblest technicalities must
of necessity misquote the law. His ex
tracts from the Austin case are ingeniously
garbled, but they emit the stubborn
English of Chief Justice Gibsen, in
structing him that attorneys " held
their offices during geed behavior,
and are net answerable for a scru
tiny into the official conduct et" the
judges," and the later mandate te him in
the Dickens case declares that "an act,
though highly discreditable, if net infa
mous, and unconnected with an attorney's
duties, will net give the court jurisdiction
te strike him from the roll." Had Judge
Patterson studied the plain language of
the constitution, of the act of 18eG, of the
repeated decisions en the point, and then
examined the precedents established by the
many abler judges than himself who have
suffered even graver criticism without pro
vocation, and taught the dignity of the
judicial office by a dignified devotion te
justice, he would have saved himself from
an act of judicial tyranny that is a re
proach te our courts and te our civilization.
His judgment is net only entirely without
precedent, but it is against all precedents,
and it is the mere atrocious because it mul
tiplies the abuses of judicial power te hide
the protected prostitution of justice in his
own court. That he will be reversed in
the court of last resort cannot be reason
ably doubted, but even the vindication of
the misjudged law and of the prerogatives
of the pi ess will leave a Patterson en the
bench te blot the annals of justice in Penn
sylvania. Disbarred for Doing their Duty.
Baltimore Sun.
Judge Patterson, of the Lancaster (Pa.)
court, en Saturday filed an opinion in the
case of Messrs. Stemman and Hensel,
sti iking them from the roll of the attor
neys of the court. These gentlemen have
been disbarred as attorneys for doing their
duty as editors. They were editors and
publishers of the Lancaster Ixtei.t.ioen Ixtei.t.ieen
cek, as well as attorneys, and in the for
mer capacity, having committed no offense
as lawyers or as citizens, ventured te com
ment upon a case of notoriety that had
been tried and adjudicated upon. The
court had, therefore, done with the
case. It was en trial only befeie the
bar of public opinion, and there Messrs.
Stcinman and Hensel, in the dis
charge of their professional duty as
editors, proceeded te arraign it. Fer this
they wcie charged with contempt of court,
but the rule for contempt was discharged
because the alleged misconduct was net
committed in the presence of the court.
The rule te disbar, however, was made ab
solute, and the names of Steinman and
Hensel were struck from the roll of attor
neys. This proceeding excites considerable
feeling in Pennsylvania, and the Philadel
phia Times says that ' if Judge Patterson
has acted within the legitimate powers of
the courts in this case, then is the boasted
freedom of the press, se clearly defined in
our fundamental law, a mockery and a lie,
and every journalist who happens te be a
member of the bar is a mere plaything of
the ignorance or malice that sometimes
crawls or climbs te the bench."
Let Dim lleunce the Pulpit.
Philadelphia Xerth American.
Judge Patterson's rule, disbarring
Messrs. Stcinman aud Hensel, members of
the Lancaster bar, for opinions expressed
in the editorial columns of the paper which
they own, is a most remarkable stretch of
judicial authority. As editors of a daily
journal, responsible only te their patrons,
they commented upon a case already de
termined, and with which they had no
professional connection. Te admit that
for this acta judge may disbar them would
be te concede his right te usurp the func
tiens of both grand and petit juries, and te
impose a dangerous check net only upon
the freedom of the press, but also upon
freedom of speech. Fer, if a judge may
thus punish an editor who happened te be
a member of the bar, he might equally
disbar for pulpit utterances a clergyman
who happened also at any time te have
been a member of the bar. Messrs. Stein
man and Hensel will meet with universal
sympathy and encouragement in their ir.-'
tentien te carry the matter, if need be, up
te the court of last resort.
Philadelphia Times of Sunday.
Judge Patterson filed an opinion yester
day in the Lancaster court, striking the
names of Messrs. Steinman and Hensel
from the roll of attorneys. Of all the
many judicial vagaries cxhieited in latter
day courts, the act of Judge Patterson is
among the most flagrant. It attempts te
dishonor two reputable members of the
bar, who have committed no offense what
ever, either before the court or in the ex
ercise of their professional prerogatives
outside the court. A legal trial that had
attracted the widest public discussion ;
that had shamed the court in its own
sanctuary by the testimony of its own
sworn officers ; that had dragged the ad
ministration of justice into the sluices
of the wars of parties and factions,
and that stands upon the records of
the court and is imbedded in the
considerate public judgment as a
GRAND
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LANCASTEE BAZAAE,
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THMSDAY, APBIL 8th, 1880.
ASTRICH
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FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS, MTT.T.TNERY,
HOSIERY, GLOVES, UNDERWEAR, CORSETS,
APRONS, WHITE GOODS, &c.
CALL AND SEE!
predetermined miscarriage of justice was
commented upon by Messrs Steinman and
Hcuscl in the Lancaster Ixtelmeexcer, of
which they aie the editors, after the case
has been disposed of and the eflices of the
law had ended. As editors of a public
journal, they reflected what the sworn
testimony before the court had taught
the community, and for thus criticising a
legal proceeding with which they had no
professional connection and after its final
disposition by the court, Judge Patterson
has declared himself te be above the Cons
titution and the law by striking editors
from the roll of attorneys for daring te
question his judicial acts. If Judge Pat
terson has acted within the legitimate
powers of the courts in this case, then is
the boasted freedom of the press, se clearly
defined in our fundamental law, a mockery
and a lie ; and every journalist who hap
pens te be a member of the bar is the niere
plaything of the ignorance or malice that
sometimes crawls or climbs te the bench.
Its Imagination Fails It.
Philadelphia Pre-..
Judge Patterson's decision in the Lan
caster court of common pleas en Saturday,
disbarring Messrs. Hensel and Stcinman,
the editors of the Lvteleigexckk, for an
article in that journal which he says,
" impeached the integiityef the court,"
will decide nothing, as these gentlemcn
who combine the profession of the law
with that of journalism, will appeal te a
higher court; and the judge evidently
knew that it would decide nothing, since
he discharged the rule for contempt which
had been entered, and punished the offend
ers for what he pronounces a libel. If
Messrs. Steinman and Hensel were guilty
of libel as journalists the court has gene
about the wrong way of punishing them,
and if they were net guilty of contempt as
members of his court, it is difficult te im
agine what they were guilty of.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Judge Patterson, of the Laucaster court,
by striking the names of tiie editors of the
Intelligencer, of that place, from the
list of attorneys, net for what they did
as attorneys, but as editors, has in a most
thorough manner made himself ridiculous,
and brought the law, as expounded by
himself, into merited contempt. As edi
tors, Messrs. Steinman and Hensel, who
are also lawyers, felt compelled te criticise
legal proceedings, which, in their vocation
as journalists, they had net only a right te
de, but which, if the criticisms were
just, it was their bounden duty te de.
But, as their adverse comments affect
ed Judge Patterten, he dragged the
editors into court, and then, without dis
proving their criticism, but, arrogating te
himself the various offices of public prose preso prose
cutor, judge and jury, arraigned, tried,
convicted and sentenced them as attorneys
for an act which, as attorneys, they had
net done. "We are inclined te believe,
upon the ground that law is both common
sense of justice, that Judge Patterson's
law is as defective as it is original, and
that the supreme court, before which the
disbarred attorneys propose te carry it,
will net confirm it as a precedent, for,
should it be se confirmed, no attorney
could hereafter pursue the profession of a
journalist without a license from every
petty, wrong, er irascible country judge,
and with the understanding that, no mat
ter hew corrupt or ignorant the judge
might be, no proceedings of his court
should be criticised. The sooner the
supreme court acts upon this case the bet
it will be for the community, for it cannot
tee promptly rebuke the vindictivencss or
blunders of a petty official, whose peculiar
law, if net set aside, would seen set aside
altogether our boasted liberty of the press.
Philadelphia Recerd.
About two months age Messrs. Hensel
and Stcinman, two lawyers, who happened
te be editors of the Lancaster Intelli
gencer or two editors who happened te
be lawyers charged Judge Patterson in
the columns of their journal with being in
fluenced by his political affiliations in fail
ing te call certain persons te account for
procuring, by false representations, the
acquittal of- a Republican ward worker
named Snyder. The two lawyer-editors,
or editor-lawyers, were hauled up before
the irate iudsie, who entered a rule upon
them te answer for a contempt in the pub
lication referred te and te show cause
why they should net be disbarred for mis
behavior in their' office of attorney. They
appeared in answer te the summons, but
declined te purge themselves by disclaimer
or apology of the alleged contempt. Judge
Patterson finally announced his opinion en
Saturday, dismissing the -charge of con
tempt but disbarring the two attorneys
for professional misbehavior in impeaching
the official integrity of the court. The
severance of one rule into two was an ex
traordinary piece of judicial legerdemain.
The "contempt" was evidently the
gravamen of these two men's offence,
and, being dismissed, it would seem
that the whele procedure should
then have ended. Judge Patterson
however, proceeds te create a new offense
under the name of "misbehavior," and
after wading through three columns of
verbiage concludes by firing Messrs. Stein
man and Hensel out of the bar. The dis
barred gentlemen thereupon appeal te a
higher court, and revenge themselves upon
Judge Patterson by publishing his remark
able "opinion."
All the alleged reasoning in the world
OPENING.
OPENING
THE-
BROTHERS
fapr3-lyd
would net convince any man of common
sense that the expulsion of these two law
yers was net a high-handed outrage. The
day has long passed when the bench could
claim immunity from criticism. Since the
eight-te-scven decision of the electoral
commission, three years age, the peeple
have had their eyes opened te the fact
there is such a thing as partisanship
among judges, as there always ad
mittedly has been among legisla
tors and executive officers. The judi
cial department of the government, both
state and national, ought of ceurse te be
elevated above any and all partisan bias or
prepossession ; but this ideal standard of
purity is net always and everywhere real
ized in these degenerate days. It is true
that judges act under the sanction of au
oath, but se de congressmen, members of
the Legislature, governors and presidents.
)h-s. I). Morrison. Furnham Centre, P. O..
writing uheutJL. Themas Electric OH. says:
"Geerge Hell ucd it en his son, anil it cured
him et Rheumatism with only a few applica
tions. The balance of the bottle was used by
an old gentleman for Asthma with the beat- re
sults. It acts like a charm." Address all orders
te II. R. Cochran, druggist, LS7 ami 13D Xerth
Queen street, Lancaster.
hTTAisTics prove that twenty-nvu per cent,
of the deaths in our larger cities arc caused by
consumption, and when we reflect that this
terrible disease in its worst stage will yield te
a bottle of Lechcr's Renowned Cough Syrup,
shall we condemn the suHcrcrs ler their neg
ligence, or pity them for their Ignorance?
M. A. St. Mars, St. Renifacc, Manitoba,
writes: "Dr. Themas' Electric Oil is a public
bcnelit. It has done wonders here, and has
cured ine of a bad cold in one day." Address
all orders te II. 15. Cochran, druggist, 137 and
139 Xerth Queen street, Lancaster.
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