bear dy agree with everything said by Judge vertrosess, Hore are some things still to be done in Chiblacim regard to the Municipal Court, before is tae sid court that I should like to see held up as a vyhas the country.

- with some peeliar feelings, because I had felt lied almost to put the court out of existence before it eame natas, by holding that the constitutional amendments

4. the court was erested had not been properly submitted ple, or adepted by the people. But, fortunately, in lor instances, there was a higher court to reverse ra, cui vas acco-Lngly reversed. (Laughter.)

Say the particular point that I want to mention, because it arples not only to the Municipal Court, but to every Court throughout the mery, is this: There is to be an election next November of some of the julges of this court. There were a great many candidates in the popular primaries. The Bar Assoa ciation had a bar primary, to select from among those who were ging to be candidates at the popular primary in each party, a ponber equal to the number to be chosen. I have been at the Har and on the Bench in Chengo for over twenty years, and I unable to pick out on each ticket thirteen men whom I perdie knew among the candidates as fit to be on that bench. I

did not know among the candidates either personally or by reputation, thirteen men on each of the tickets, and my experience was, I have learned, that of many others; this means, I believe, that the right kind of men are not applying for the position of judge of the Municipal Court, and one of the reasons for it is, that they have to be elected as Republicans or as Democrats, and not as lawyers and as men, and that they have to submit themselves to popular vote at the time of the presidential election, when there is apt to be a landslide one way or the other. And that means that no individual will be elected judge of that court on his own

merits.

Now, until we do away with this method of selecting candidates and of electing judges, we will not get the best men in the Municipal Court of Chicago, or in any other court. Until the Bar stands up for non-partisanship in judicial elections, until the judicial elections are separated from political elections, so that the dangers of landslides are eliminated, neither the bench of the Municipal Court of Chicago, nor that of any other court in this country, will be what it ought to be, what it can be, under proper method of selection of judges.

I listened with great interest this morning to the most admirable address of your president, and of all of the things that he said with which I most deeply sympathize, there was one that struck me as particularly fine, and that was his statement that in the lowest of judicial offices, from the standpoint of possible judicial rank, it is necessary to put the biggest men. In those courts to which the poor people of the country come, in which the great mass of the people of the country get their lesson of what American justice means, the men on the bench ought to be the ablest legally, the broadest-minded humanly, that you can find. I know that we lawyers like to deal with cases involving millions, and the cases involving $5.00 do not mean much to us. But the case involving $5.00 to the poor man, means more to him than the case involving thousands of dollars means to the rich