The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-05
The Nomination Is Acceptable to President
Elect Cleveland, and Therefore 0pposi.
tiOn Will at Once Be Withdrawn.
President Harrison's Action Severely
Criticised by Hon. j. s. Clarkson.
Appointment Of O Southern Democrat De.
nOunced as an Act of Party Perfidy Little
Short Of Moral Crime
WILL OBEY CLEVELAND.

Democratic Senators Will at Once Confirm
Judge Jaokson's Appointment
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-As stated In these
dispatches last night there is no doubt that
the nomination Of Judge jackson to
be an associate Justice of the
Supreme Court will be confirmed. The most
of the opposition which hung over the
nomination upon the Democratic side Of
the Senate chamber was cleared away like
a morning sun dispels the gloom by the
announcement from Mr. Cleveland that
the nomination was to him acceptable and
gratifying from every point of view. Sem
ator German. late this afternoon. and
speaking for the Democratic side of the
Senate. said there would be no opposition
so far as he could learn. and that he
anticipated confirmation early next week.
A leading Republican member of the CON-
mittee on Judiciary said to your corre-
spondent that he had not the
least doubt that at the meeting
of the committee on Monday morning
il would be determined to report the nomi-
nation. with unanimous recommendation
for confirmation, and then he added that
there Is no doubt of prompt confirmation,
dorsement which amounted TO a command
to the Democrats TO support the nomina-
tion.
The opposition upon all sides appears to
be Withdrawn, and the impression pre-
walls that confirmation will be had early
next week, which will give President Har-
risOn an opportunity TO name a successor to
Judge Jackson on the Circuit bench.
possession of men In Congress or
elsewhere about Washington as &c
the intentions of the President respecting
the circuit nomination. further than thar
it is his purpose to fill the vacancy with q
Republican If time IS given him after the
confirmation of jackson. The name OF
Judge w O. Bradley. of Kentucky. is the
one most frequently heard In connection
with the circuit judReshiD.
Harrison Attacked by CIarkson.
Special TO Indianapolis Journal
DEs MONIES, Ia, Feb. A bitter attack
on President Harrison because of his ap.
poIntment of Howell E. jackson to the
Supreme Court bench appeared In the Iowa
State Register to-day over the signature of
James s. Clarkson IL is dated New York,
Feb. s." and is in part, as follows:
Your request tor an article or disuatoh
from me on the appointment of Judge
Jackson to the Supreme Bench finds me in
q sicK-rOom. but L cannot refuse TO speak
on the subject. President Harrison's act
in appointing q Southern State rights
Democrat to this high court OF
last resort naaie,a IN s,hs,oI the STs,
betrayal of public trust and
party faith. Indeed. In my jud gment, it Is
an act of party per6dy little short of o
moral crime. Alone of all the branches of
the government the Judiciary now stands
between the South and Its avowed hostil-
ity TO the principles of all sy stems and pol
icies adopted by the government and &C.
cepted by the great body of American people
as the result of the war. 1t remains. or
except for this action of Republican Pres.
ident. would have remained for four years,
as the one defense of the government
against the reactouery policies of the
South, and as the only protection TO she
Republicans of the southern States whose
helplessness under the Democratic rnle
| President Harrison knows to-day better
than any one in the land. for he has borne for
| four years their piteous but Intellectual ap-
| peals for protection In their right TO vote
| as citizens, in their right TO defense in the
| courts aud In their rights OF property and
| life itself. For even when he had for two
| years a Republican Congress TO support him
| he not able, even with such supreme
| national power. TO enable even the
United States courts In the south
| either to execute the laws OF the Nation OF
| enforce their pr0cesses. Not only this. but
| President Harrison was not able. with q
Republican Congress and Cabinet and
| Republican Supreme Conrt. To protect the
lives OF Ills own Olnclals In the Ciscnarge
| of their duties in the South. and the fami-
| lies of the victims are now lett TO bitter
| life of poverty and ostracism.
THAT a Republican President. when the
| South neither IN its press nor by any pub.
| lie uttersnce of its people condemn out
| rage ON the negroes. should. IN selecting
| Supreme Judge from the South. choose o
man who represents such cruelty TO the
negro. and that he should do It on the very
day after negro had been burned alive
aud tortured with the passive consent of
| the State and local authorities in n South
ern State. makes it stranger and both un-
| accountable and more to be condemned.
| whether this act of President Harrison,
| the greatest solecIsm in party politics ever
| committed by any President. and the first
instance since the foundation of the Repub.
| lie of President selecting for the Supreme
| Court a man of the opposite political party.
was done in personal pique over his own
defeat. or from whatever motive or cause
the Republican Senate owes IL TO the party
| of Lincoln, Grant and Blaine 10 condemn it.
To accept and confirm 1t would be to con-
fess ReDublicanlsm n sham and all Its
| glorious principles canting hy ypocrisies.
''For any Senator of the Republican
| faith to vote for IL Is TO stultify himself
! and his party as much as If he had voted
for Cleveland in November. IL Democrats
| and unTecsnted believers In secession. and
| State rights and free trade. and hatred
of Union soldiers may be appointed to the
Supreme Bench by Republican President
and confirmed by n Repuoii Senate
there would seem TO have come q time
| when there is no Iced for Republican 20
live at all"
| TRIBUTE To MR. BLOUNT