Modern battles of Trenton .. . n the bench. When public attentionhad thus been directed to their vicious abuse of function, an acttaking from those in the cities all of their civil prerogatives,and transferring them to District Courts, conducted by ap-pointees of the Governor, easily won the favor of the Legisla-ture and Governor Bedles approval. Like courts would havebeen established throughout the State but for ofthe rural members that the constituencies they represented couldnot bear the expense attending them; and in the cities theywould have been denuded of their criminal fu
Modern battles of Trenton .. . n the bench. When public attentionhad thus been directed to their vicious abuse of function, an acttaking from those in the cities all of their civil prerogatives,and transferring them to District Courts, conducted by ap-pointees of the Governor, easily won the favor of the Legisla-ture and Governor Bedles approval. Like courts would havebeen established throughout the State but for ofthe rural members that the constituencies they represented couldnot bear the expense attending them; and in the cities theywould have been denuded of their criminal functions as theywere of their civil, but that the State Constitution, in providingfor the election of Justices of the Peace, seemed to give themsome kind of constitutional countenance. When he came to the selection of new functionaries, GovernorBedle created no end of commotion among the more partisan ofDemocrats by nominating John A. Blair, a conspicuous Repub-lican lawyer, to one of the judgeships in Jersey City, and incurred. Jostpb D. Bedle. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 141 a more than fair degree of censure for the selection of his father-in-law, Bennington F. Randolph, for the other. The strifebetween the State House managers and the anti-State Housemanagers had not yet expended itself, and Senator Abbett, asthe leader of the antis, made vigorous protest against the con-firmation of the nominees. As Mr. Abbett represented the countyin which these gentlemen were to serve, his refusal to consent toconfirmation was final, and Governor Bedle had to make theappointments ad interim, after he had sent the Senators to theirhomes for the year. The next Senate confirmed them, however. A second excitement that attended his administration grewout of the great railway strike that, beginning on the Baltimoreand Ohio lines in the West, spread sympathetically all over thecountry. The lawless rabble that exists in every communitymade the agitation attending the strike the cover for rapine an
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