The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-07-11
The many friends of Judge VIM. R

The many friends of Judge VIM. r |
Day, of Canton, will learn with regret
that his health will not permit him to
undertake the duties of the high posi-.
tion to which he was recently appoint
ed by President Harrison.
Judge Day would have been one of
the ablest U. s. Judges on the Bench,
and his inability to serve is a matter
of extreme regret.
The following special to the Cleve.
land Leader fully explains the situa-
ton:
CANTON, O., July Mrs William
Il. Day and children left this af,ea uoOn
for Mackinaw to join Judge Day, who
has been sojourning there for short
time.
The news of the declination OF Judge
Day to accept the United states DIS
trict Judgeship. was great surprise
1t was known that Mr.. Day did not
regard the salary of So. 500 sufficient,
but as it was generally expected that
it would be increased TO $5 900. no
no doubt of his acceptance of the po
sition was entertained. The Stark TO.
Bar had arranged to banquet MIR. Day
last night, and while it had been whis
psred among The ecorhmittee OF arrange
ments that the banquet would be
delayed until October, nothing definite
was known as TO the cause of the wait.
1t transpires now, however, that the
Judges health was regarded as in more
serious condition than he himself be
Heved, or his friends anticipated. Like
his father, the late Judge Luther Day
of the Ohio Supreme Court. he had
always been a hard and almost inces
SAINT worker This trait of his char
acter attracted the remark of Judgs
Cooley, now of The Interstate Com
merce Commission, when he was MI
Days preceptor at Ann HarbOr Mich.
University. Since the appointment
Mr.. Day spent much of his time at his
home, in North Market street. Or
June 22nd he, with his wife. left fol
Philadelphia. His Physician here
DIR. Il. III. Phillips, had advised resi-
from all cares, and stay at Atlantic
City was among the matters undel
contemplation. AT PhiIa .elphia, how
ever, Mr.. Days condition was such
that he called upon doctors there. and
it was the opinion of eminent physi
clans that entering upon the duties o.
the judicial Office to W hich he was ap
pOtHt6u IOf lie, WOulu mean u0dtA
The doctors said the trouble was sim
ply overwork, but it demanded loue
rest. When matters reached this crit
lcal point, Mr. and Mrs. Day returned
home. The Judge, however, in few
days, accompanied by his brother ant
law partner, David Il. Day, left fol
Colorado Springs. Upon reaching
Chicago the Judge found travel by
train too severe. and he took boat fOl
Mackinaw. Arriving there. he i'm
mediately wrote home for his family
He has a cottage there and will remair
during the summer. From MacklnaV
it is expected by his most intimate
friends and relatives here, he with hi
wife and children will go to the Sand
wich Islands in the fall, where I
brother of his grandfather, the lat
Judge Spalding, of Cleveland. is sait
to have been high in official authority
and where recuperation from thu
balmy climate is expected. Mr.. Day
upon being elected without an opposi
tion Democratic candidate. Judge o
Common Pleas Court in 1885, resigned
after few months service on accoun
of. the inadequacy of the salary. Ther'
is general satisfaction here that so cap
able, worthy and popular a man a.
Captain Kicks has been appointed II
the position.