The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-02-08
CRITICISED.
]. s. 0larkson Objects to the
Presidents Appointment Of
JUDGE HOWELL E. JACKSON
To Succeed the Late Justice Lamr on
the Supreme Bench.
SENATOR CULLoM is
JUDGE HOWELL E. JAcKS0N
SENATOR cULLoM IS

Against the Appointment-Mr. Cullum's |
Statement.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. GA bitter at
tack on President Harrison because OF
his appointment of Howell E. Jackson
to the supreme court bench appeared in
the Iowa State Register Saturday over
the signature Of James S. Clarkson. 1t
is in part as follows:
NEW YORK, Feb 4--Your request for an arti-
ole or dispatch from me on the appointment OF
Judge Jackson 10 the supreme bench hnds me
In sick room, but cannot refuse TO speak on
the subject President Harrison's act In ap-
pointing o southern states right democrat to
this high court Of last resort In the present
critical national situation is gross betrayal OF
public trust and party faith Indeed In my
judgment II is an oct OF party perfidy little
short OF q moral crime. Alone OF oil the
branches of the government the judiciary now
stands between the south and Its avowed hos
tility to the principles OF all systems and poll
cies adopted by the government and accepted
by the great body Of American people rs the re-
suit Of war.
II remains, or except for this act OF repub.
lcan president, would have remained for four
years as the one defense Of the government
against the reactionary policies OF the south and
as the only protection TO the republicans OF tho
southern states, whose helplessness under the
democratic rule President Harrison knows to-
day better than any man in the land for he has
borne for four years their piteous but ineffect-
ual appeals for protection In their right to vote
as citizens In their right TO defense In the courts
and In their rights OF property and life itself
For even when ho had for two years republic
an congress TO support him he was not able,
even with such supreme national power 10 en-
able even the United States courts In the south
either 10 execute the laws Of the nation or en-
force their processes.
Not only this, but President Harrison was not
able, with a republican congress and cabinet
and republican supreme court TO protect the
lives OF his own officials In the discharge Of
their duties in the south, and the families OF the
victims were left TO bitter life Of poverty and
ostracism. That republican president, when
the south neither in It's press nor by any public
utterance Of its people condemn outrages on the
negroes should, in selecting q supreme judge
from the SOUTH choose man who represents
such cruelty TO the negro. and that he should do
Il on the very day after negro had been burned
alive and tortured with the passive consent OF
the state and local authorities In southern
state, makes II stranger and unaccounlable and
I more 10 be condemned
/ WASHINGTON, Feb 6.-The criticism
upon the appointment by President
Harrison of Judge jackson to succeed
the late associate Justice Lamar on the
supreme bench made by Mr.. j. S.
Clarlsson was the subject of consider
able discussion among politicians yes
terday. The fact that Mr.. GARRISON
had requested Senator Cullom to pro-
test against the confirmation Of Jujgo
Jackson's nomination added interest TO
the affair. Senator Cullom was seen
Sunday afternoon by a reporter and
asked what action, If any he had de-
termined to take He said that he had
been so busy with other matters that
he had been unable to consider the sub
ject and had nothing to say as to his
intentions with regard TO the course Of
the nomination. He said that Mr..
Clarkson's message to him he consid-
cred 10 be personal in its nature and he
did not expect to make public either IL
or his reply thereto, which had not yet
been sent
II Is not considered probable by many
Of the senators among the probabilities
that Judge Jackson's nomination will
be rejected Notwithstanding that there
has arisen considerable opposition TO
him among the democratic members Of
the body. They say Judge Jackson Is
not satisfactory TO them as party man
and Senator Harris is quoted as having
referred to him as no more Of a demo-
crat than ''men on the other side Of the
chamber" One of the presidents
friends said that Mr.. Clarkson's state.
ment that no other president had ever
before appointed a member OF the SUI
preme bench from the ranks Of another
political party is not well founded in
fact He said the president had the
precedent of the first republican presi-
dent for his nomination Of Judge Jack
son-that in 1858 President Lincoln
nominated Stephen ]. Field, a demo
crat, TO place on the bench which Mr..
Field still retains
He said that the president before max
ing the nomination was assured that
the confirmation of a republican was
extremely improbable, and that being
the case he chose to promote demo
crat who had demonstrated by his de-
cisions upon the bench that he was a
protectionist and a nationalist with a
big IN" There had been. he said, more
convictions for violations Of the federal
election laws in Judge Jacbson's court
than in any other court in the country.
As o matter Of politics, he continued
In the circum noea of tho casa JudOe