St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-05
CLARKSOH IS BITTER,
Fepoeious Attack on Har-
rison Because OF Jaekson's
Appointment.
He Calls 1t a Betrayal Of
Party Faith and Public
Trust.
An Act Of Party Periidy Little
Short OF Moral
Crime.
Republican Senators Asked
to Refuse to Vote to
Confirm.

Dies MONIES, Feb. A bitter attack
on President Harrison, because of his
appointment of Howell E. Jackson to
the supreme court bench. appeared in
the Iowa State Register today over the
signature of James 5. Clarkson. Ii is
in part as follows:
New York, Feb. 4.-Your request
for an article or dispatch from ne on
the appointment of Judge Jackson 10
the supreme bench finds me in sick
room, but | cannot refuse to speak OH
the subject. President Harrlson'S
right Democrat 10 this high
court of last resort in the present
critical national situation is gross be-
trayal Of public trust and party faith.
Indeed. in my Judgment, it is an act of
party perfdy little short of moral
crime. Alone of all branches of the
government, the judiciary stands be-
tween the South and its aVoWed hoStil-
ity to the principles Of all systems and
policies adopted by the government and
accepted by the great body of American
people as
Tiae Result Of the War.
1t remains, or but for this act of a
Republican, would have remained, for
four years as the one defense OF the
government against the reactiouary
policies of the South and as the only
protection to the Republicans of the
Southern states, whose helpless
ness under the Democratic rule
president Harrison KNOWS to-day
better than any man in the land for he
has borne for four years their pteous
and Intellectual 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 he had for two years
Republican congress TO support him he
was not able, even with such supreme
national power, to enable even the Unit
ed States courts in the South either to
execute the laws OF the nation or en-
force their processes. Not only this.
but President Harrison was lot able,
with Republican congress and cabne
and Republican supreme court, TO
protect the lives of his own officials in
the discharge of their duties in the.
South, or families of the victims left
to a bitter life of poverty and 0Stracism.
THAT a Republican president, when
the South, neither i'll its press nor by
any public utteranCe of its people, con-
demns outrageS Oh theEnegr0, should. in
selecting
4 Supreme Judge
from the South choose a man who rep
resentS such cruelty to the negro, and
that he should do it on the very day
after negro had been burned alive,
with the consent of the state and au-
thOritieS in that state, makes the
danger both unaccOuntable and more
to be condemned. Whether this act
OF President Harrison, the greatest
solicism in party politics ever commit
United by any president. and the first
instance since the foundation OF the
Republican party of a president Sc
Letting Tor the supreme court man OF
the opposite party, was doue in personal
piQue over his own defeat or from what
ever motive Or cause, the Republican
party owes it to the party Of Lincoln,
Grant and Blaine to condemn it. To
accept and confirm it would be to con-
teSS Republcausm sham and all its
glorious principles cant ana hypocrisy.
For any senator Of the Republican
party to vote for it is to Stultify himself
and his party as much as if he had
voted for Cleveland i'll November. If
the Democrats and unrecanted believers
i'll secession and states rights and free
trade and hatred of Union soldiers may
be appointed to the supreme bench by Il
Republican president and confirmed by
a Republican senate, there would seem
to have come time when there is no
need for Republican to live at all"