Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-01

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Louisiana to be Justice of the Supreme
Court of the nited States. to succeed the
late Justice Blatchtord, has been fairly well
received by the great maiority of tho repub-
lican news papers, as it is conceded that he
is Il man OF ability Some OF the democratic
journals are outspokcn i'll their criticism of
the appointment, however and especially
those i'll New York and vicinity These
newspapers wanted a Justice to fill this va
cancy who would he a representative of New
York. an they will not he comfortod be-
cause he is not
\ solemn warning was given to President
Cleveland in advance 10y the ultra-demoCrat-
c New York Times that he must not yield
to the senior senator from the Empire State
in this matter; but that third anti-snapper
from New York must he appointed to the
vacancy as rebuke to liillism: and it as
serted that if the president was defeated, or
seemed to acknowledge defeat il this in
stance the administration would be entirely
at the mercy of the coalition Of senators.
The Times now INDUCES in dismal forebod-
ings in a similar strain audit states that the
appointment of Senator White to the Su-
preme Bench was a gigantic mistake.
The democratic newspaper which is the
most outspoken in its condemnation of the
presidents course in this matter is the
Brooklyn Eagle edited by st. Clair Nickel
way, which is one of the ablest journals in
the country, regardless of party. The Eagle
| holds that the appointment is as much of a
blunder politically as it is public offence,
and it claims that Mr.. Cleveland has thus
done for Senator Hill what the latter could
! not do for himself, in that he has gone not a
| short distance to strengthen and rehabiltate
the senator. Continuing the Eagle comments
US follows:
''Surely the president most perverted
self or his most intimate enemy must have
moved him to this act. He neither further
| resisted Senator Hill nor surrendered to him
He ran away from him far as he could
! till only the Gulf OF Mexico arrested his
flight There was no need. The number OF
tit New Norkers whose confirmation CoulC
not have been prevented was incompatible
The irony of the case now IS that Senator
| Hill is himself blandly able, whether IL
good faith or in bad, to call the
roll of as many of them as he plcases in tn,
Senate of the United States. Personally
tho appontee is unobjectionable. BY rea
son of location, the location from which h
comes, and the locality of the vacancy eX
isting. the appointment is indefensible. b.
reason OF the disoyal record of the man il
the past his appointment as for his loya
circuit is offensive and outrageous. 1t is a
appointment which the slightest exercise q
memory or of judgment by President Clevc
land should have convinced him that he
among all the men who have ever filled til
executive office could least afford to make.
TO any one who studies the case CAREFUL
it will readily appear that Mr. Clevelan
thought he would secure revenge on Hill b
deprivng New York of this Office and thro'
the responsibility on the senator, but i'll tn
as in other recent acts tho president seen
to have dulled perceptibly. If there Ia
been no able men in the Empire State upo
whom all factions could agree, the situatio
, would have been materially changed, bt
, the president took the position that he woul
appoint one of his own faction or no on
from New York, and it looks very much {
if he had 'bitten off his nose to spite h
face
, President Cleveland in the course pursue
3D. has not only strengthened Hill but he III
. weakened his own cause and following
his own State, by throwing away an oppo
tunity to do something toward uniting h
party in the Empire State, That this is
is evident from the comments of the dem
/ cratic newspapers quoted and others wlAc
I might be included. Thus another polite
blunder is added to the list which has "a
ready made Cleveland's administration pr
| eminent in the entire history of the countr.
Nermont's Representation in the Senat
From the Brandon Chronicle.I