Remarkable Oddity by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 12, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 28.

Remarkable Oddity

By Editor

"Remarkable Oddity."—Judge Robert B. Frazier, of Detroit, Mich., recently declined to take advantage of legal technicalities in a judicial recount of votes. The recount showed a small majority against the judge, but legal technicalities would have given him the office had he chosen to take advantage of them. But he chose to regard the intent of the voters, and a leading journal of that city calls this "his remarkable oddity." When a man is said to be odd, the inference is that he is unlike the generality of men; so, according to this journal, most men would be expected to take undue advantage of the people in order to secure public office. And we are not saying that the thought is a mistake, but it is certainly an ominous sign of the times when we are confronted with a condition of society when an honest judge is publicly marked by the press as a "remarkable oddity."