SULLIVAN COUNTY, TN - NEWSPAPERS - Kingsport Times, 22 Jun 1916
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(Journal and Tribune)
The news that came, telling of the impeachment of Judge Edgington, of
the criminal court of Shelby county, was not unexpected by any one who
had kept track of the trial, and the evidence heard by the senate,
acting in the capacity of a court of impeachment, nevertheless it was
heard with sorrow.
When a man has been elected to a judicial office and goes so far wrong
that he must be removed from office, in the manner provided by the
constitution, it is a matter of sincere sorrow to every good citizen who
feels the necessity of the honor of the judiciary being upheld. It is a
cause for sincere regret, that the voters in any jurisdiction are
capable of making the mistake of electing an unworthy man to such an
office.
It cannot be expected of Judge, who himself has been guilty of criminal
acts, may be depended upon to do his part in the enforcement of criminal
laws.
There are honest and clean voters in Memphis, just as honest and just
as clean, as voters in any other city in the state, or in the land. It
is but just to that class of voters in Memphis to say they claim that
Judge Edgington was given an office in the holding of which he has sunk
to the lowest plane of disgrace, as a result of fraud in elections and
not that he was the choice of a majority of the honest voters of the
county.
It is said that he was a product of machine politics, the machine having
an organization that could tell as well before an election as could be
told after the election was held how many votes its tool would receive
or what his majority would be. 
The verdict of the senators composing the impeachment court was
practically unanimous, and it is to be hoped that the fate of the
convicted and deposed jurist will serve as a warning for all time to
come, that will prevent the voters of the state from electing judges who
will not stand a reasonable test.

Kingsport Times
Volume 1, Number 8
Thursday, June 22, 1916
Page 2, Column 2


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