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ONE MAN'S OPINIONS Darn the Lawyers. Graham Tay lor, who hands down from high-brow heights swell humanitarianism for the Daily News, offers as an argu ment for the election of John E. Northup as county judge that North up was preferred by 900 lawyers while Judge Scully was preferred by only 317. That's -a darned poor argument, and would be just as poor if the fig ures had been t'other way around. Then Taylor proceeds to say that "this judgment coincides with that of the public-spirited citizens as to the qualifications of these two candidates for the county judgeship." What I want to know is, how in thunder Graham Taylor knows what the judgment of public-spirited citi zens is. I think it is a safe bet that there are public-spirited citizens who favor Scully, others who favor North up and still others who favor Cun nea; and I don't think Graham Tay lor knows enough to speak so gener ally for public-spirited citizens. He may think he knows. That is often evident by his cocksureness when writing stuff for the News. But I think Taylor only does a little think ing himself, figures out what Law son wants and then assumes that all public-spiirted citizens ought to want what Lawson wants whether they do or not. My own judgment is that Northup was picked long ago by the trust newspapers, and advertised in ad vance of the primaries by being made a special state's attorney with a spe cial grand jury, and then given lots of special advertising in the news papers that are playing the game. I am satisfied that Northup is the candidate of Big Business and Special Privilege, and that either Cunnea or Scully is infinitely to be preferred to him by the general run of voters in all parties. Anyhow, it's a bad sign when most of the lawyers are for him. Very few lawyers are good citi zens. Most of them are for sale td the highest bidder, and Special-Privilege is generally the highest bidder. Being Regular. Some Democratic politicians who don't like Roger Sulli van are supporting him for U. S. sen ator for no better reason than that they want to be regular. Some Republicans are supporting Sherman for, the same reason or lack of reason. But did it ever occur to YOU that nobody has to be regular except a man who wants to run for office some day? Ninety-nine per cent of both Re publicans and Democrats are not of ficeholders and don't expect to be. Being one thing or the other makes no difference to them, so far as their daily bread and daily life are con cerned. The average partisan is a Democrat or Republican because his father was before him, or because he got started that way and let it be come a habit It doesnt get him a cent. His party never did anything for him and never will. Each party 13 run by the organization, and the or ganizations are run by the office holders. The so-called public servants are the party masters. To a man who owns himself and controls his own vote provided he is not a capitalist there can be no argument as to the respective merits of Roger Sullivan, Larry Sherman and Raymond Robins. Sullivan got rich through the Og den Gas franchise, and his interests are the interests of the public-service corporations. Sherman has been a mere tool of these same interests. Robins has been a workingman and. has always been a partisan of the working class. His interest has been in humanity, while Sullivan's has been in dollars, and Sherman's is mere politics. There would be no difference in the situation if Sherman were rutmirg .3 mmimmmmumiiibimmimitifmtmdmJiam