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"The great curse of Kentucky is that many of her Judges belong to that
very common species of Judge. Judex apiarius. Their capacity for hearing
the facts and declaring the right is blurred by the buzz of the bee of
political aspiration and self-interest.

"A Judge who belongs to this species can usually be classed as of the
family Judex timidus,--those whose ears are so great that they can never
lift them from the ground, and when a mosquito hums in Covington their
dreams of peace are disturbed in Frankfort.

"They are the secret enemies of the law's certainty and stability. Their
decisions shift with the tide of popular opinion. They wash their hands
like Pilate (not always to cleanliness) and permit the crucifixion.

"A year or so ago, Chief Justice Grinder, in an address before a men's
Bible class, declared that the Court of Appeals upon an appeal to it
would have reversed the Sanhedrin. There are more than several lawyers
in this State, who, knowing the members of that court, have grave
doubts about it, had that court sat in Jerusalem and the appeal been
prosecuted A. D. 30.

"Saylor is worse. He would make a judicial tool. Judicial tools have
generally been in politics for a number of years and, preceding their
judicial service, a member of the legislature for several terms, like
Saylor, where they are first tried out. This judge expects one day to be
Governor and is willing to do any thing to further his political
ambitions. By some hook or crook or pull he succeeded in obtaining his
license to practice law and since has appeared in court occasionally;
generally when a jury was to be influenced.

"He is more or less a wanderer and, when he changes his residence,
changes his politics and votes with the majority. He is usually a
candidate for office and spends more time on the street than in his
office.

"He is a mere pawn on the political chess-board and his master
occasionally has him elected to office. Then the master tells him how to
decide, not all, but certain cases.

"His opinions are generally misstatements of the facts presented by the
record and never mention an authority cited by counsel opposing his
master's decree. His references are not complimentary to such counsel,
his purpose being to make him appear ridiculous and to forestall all
hope for modification by a petition for rehearing, because it is barely
possible that another judge may then read the record, though it is not
conside