The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-02-08

DIS MoINEs, Ia., Feb. 4-lspecial. J
James S. Clarkson prints the following
letter in the Iowa STATE Register his paper.
today:
NEW YoRK. Teb. a-Your rsques. for an
article or dispatch from me on the appoint
ment OF Judge jackson 10 the supreme bench
hnds me in a sick room but cannot refuse 10
speak on the subject.
President Harrisons action In appointing
southern state rights democrat 70 this high
court OF last resort, In the present critical
national situation, is gross betrayal
OF public trust aud party faith. In.
decd, In my judgment, IL is an act of
party per6dy little short Of a moral crime
Alone OF all the branches Of the government
the Judiciary now stands between tho South
and lie ayowed hostility TO the principles OF oil
systems and policies adopted by the govern.
ment ana accepted by the great body of the
American people a tho result OF the
war. IL remains. or, except for this
act OF a republican president. would have re.
NAMED, Tor four years ne the one defense Of tho
government against the reactionary policies OF
the South, and ~ tho only proteo.
ton TO the republicans OF tho
| southern states whose helplessness
under the democratic rule President Harrison
knows today better than any man Ia the land.
for he has heard for four years their pitsous
but Intellectual appeals Tor protseton In
their right 10 vote "a citizens,
in their right 10 defense In tho
courts aud In the rights OF properly And
| life itself. For even when he had for two
| years republican congress 10 support him he
was not able ever with both supreme aud
national power Sg,llo even the U. :.
courts In tue south 'sllasf 10 execute tho
laws OF the nation or enforce their
process Not only tBis. bus President Hsrrison
was not able. with a republican congrcss aud
cabinet and a republican supreme court. 10
protect the lives OF his own cabinet in the dis
charge OF their duties Souih. and the families
Of the victims we're left TO bitter life OF pov.
erty aud ostracism.
That republican president, when the South
neither In iis press nor by any public utter.
oucs OF itS people condemn outTages on the
| negroes, should. in selecting a supreme Judge
from the South, choose man who
represents such cruelty 10 the negro.
and that he should do II on the
very day after n negro had been burned alive
and tortured with the passive consent OF the
state and local authorities In southern
state, makes IL stranger aud both un.
accountable and more 90 be con-
demnsd, whether this act Of President
Harrison the Rreatest solecism In party pollIol
ever committed by any president, aud the
first instance since the fougdation OF The 70.
publican party OF a president selecting for
the supreme court man of opposite political
party was done In personal piQue over his
own defeat or from Whatever motive or cause,
the republican senate owes it 20 the
party of Linoon. Grant and Blaine
to condemn IT, To accept and
confirm it would be 10 confess republi cauism a
sham aud all its glorious principles canting
hypocrisy. For any senator Of republican faith
to vote for IL Is to stultify himself and his
party as much as IL hs had voted for
Cleveland in November II demo
Gratis and unrecanted believers in
secession aud state rights and free trade aud
hatred OF the union soldier may be appointed
to the supreme bench by republican presi.
dent and confirmed bya republican senate,
there would seem to have come time when
there is no use Tor republican to live at all.