Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-03
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certain ~ Washington polite. Two
day aSoa positive Statement I'll high
au; .ori'y va, made by tie Y,:,.< co.
re.,ou'!ont that the President had
d,cl icl t. appoint Edmund-, of Yer
mont, 10 the bench Of the Supreme
Court. Nothing had been said in an
official way to EdmundS, but be had
been advised nnoiiicialy 0; ,le pre,i.
dents intention. His recent visit 10
his home was occasiDned by the pos
sibiily Of his carly appointment as
Justice. 1t WAS hot that there was
slightest objection in the way of
EImunds, nothing beyond the fact
that it was going outside the State
of New York. Mr.. H"nt, the retired
Justice was from that State, and New
York lawyers have SO urged upon the
President the importance of giving
thai State the same representation
it had before that Mr.. Arthur had
changed his mind and decided to
send in the name of Roscoe Ccnk-
linz for the place. He will do this
without consulting Conkllng, and
vi bout asking whether he will accept
it or not. 1t is thought that although
Conkling once refused the Office of
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
which was rendered him by Grant,
his friends are rather inclined to
think he will accept the appointment
when it is made. His health is not
rs good as it was, and it is Il uucs-
ton whether he can keep up with
the practice that has been thrown in
his way since retiring from the
Senate.
Comments on COnIkling's No mination.
New YORK, Feb. 25.-The Tribune
has the following remarkable editor
ial: Guiteau has made Supreme
Judge as we'll Us a President. There
is not Il human being III the country
so ignorant as to believe that Roscoe
Conklin2 would have been awarded
the highest Judicial office in the gift
of the President if the cold-blooded
assassin bad not first murdered the
President whom the people elected.
For that horrible murder no man
living is thought by the people of
the United States, more responsible
than Conkling himself. The Presi-
dent gave him fve-sixths of the i'm
portant patronage of his State, and
he demanded it all. On the nomin-
alton of single man whom he dis
iiked, he declared war upon the Adj
ADMINISTRATION. He fought it in tie
Senate till he found the struggle
hopeless, and then he betrayed his
party aad threw the Senate into the
hands of the opposition be resigning,
and then besought the State of New
York to return him with letters of
n argue as licensed privateer to
wage war upon his own people,
Conkling was beaten in his own
State. In the contest ho invited
he was overwhelmingly, hopelessly
and disgracefully beaten. A leeis-
lature of his own creatures dared
not to re-elect him. The people of
the State were a hundred to one
against him. When he returned
defeated IRON Albany bc could not
have been elect j road supervisor or
justice of the peace in the strongest
Republican county of the State.
Then Guiteuu stole up behind Gar
field and fired his shot, and now tho
man whom Guiteau made President
makes Roscoe Conkling Judge of
the Supreme Court of the United
States. These are simple historical
facts, known to everybody and dis
puted by nobody. We recall them
now merely to set this appointment
i'll the light of attendant facts. If
the nomination were otherwise u ii,
one, SON ething would be pardoned
to the personal friendship and per-
sonal gratitude OF the late Vice
President, but the nomination is on
other grounds VIGOROUSLY unfit.
Conkling has no standing at the bar
to entitle him TO be even thought of
in connection with the Supreme
,nHench. He has had no considerable
Practice since his youth, and he has
been retained in no cases save those
which come in the way for pay for
political influence. The appearances
he has made in court have been such
as to provoke the contempt and ridi-
cule of real lawyers. On this point,
in spite of the high position and
great influence he had, there has
yearly been divided opinion. There
is no doubt that he might have been
good lawyer, but he chose to de-
vote his active years to something
else, and he is now too old to lea.n.
MIR. Conkling is unfit for the SUI
preme Bench, or for any bench, be-
cause he is not man of judicial tenn.
per. Everybody, friend and foe
alike, know him to be IN intense.
rcd hot partisan, who never sees OF
can see more than one side of a
question. There was absolute ac-
cur"cy in Curtis description of him
as a person who divided mankind
into two classes slaves and enemies.
Such q man NAV do uOo1 carv;.o :,