The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-11-16
THE RESPECTABLE DOLPH.

We have always had it impressed upon
us that Do1ph belongs to the respecta-
bic, the solid element of the United
States senate. Yet we find this respecta-
Bile, this aristocratic senator of ours vot-
ing to make the personnel of the highest
court of our nation dependent upon the
selfish desires of revengeful politicians
When President cleveland nominated
successfully, Hornblower and Peckham
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Justice Bradley, Dolph voted against their
confirmation. There were no charges
preferred against either; admittedly they
were lawyers of the highest rank and
character. This was particularly true
of Peckham. But they did not suit
Hill; they did not belong to the lower
strata of New York democracy. Both
nominees were defeated.
The constitution places the selection
of federal judges In the hands of the
president; not in the hands of senators.
It did not require the president to con-
suit D. B. Hill in making his selections.
The refusal to confirm Mr.. Cleveland's S
nominations, without valid reasons, prac-
tica1ly compelled the president toconforn
to the demands of the senate, making the
senate and not the president, the no1ni-
nator. Such course was against the
spirit of the constitution, and was clearly
revolutionary.
The people Of Oregon did not send
Dolph to Washington to take part in a
democratic row; to aid and abet Hill in
his petty attempts to humiliate the presi-
dent. A Hill democrat is bad enough
deliver us from a Hill epublican-deliver
US from Dolph. Hills course has been
emphatically repudiated by the decent
people of his state; Oregon should repu-
diate his confederate Senatorial timber
in Oregon is not so scarce that we needs
must return this petted darling of socie-
ty-the respectable Do1ph. The people
of this state have little respect for that
thing they call senatorial courtesy"
particularly when 1t means discourtesy to
the constitutional rights of the chief ex-
ecutive; when it meant trifing with the
makeup of the supreme court.
The president was finally forced to
nominate southern senator of no bril-
liant legal attainments. Our senior sena-
tor, who opposed the confirmation of the
northern men, simply because they did
not belong to the Hill stripe of democra-
cy, voted for this ex-confederate, and he
was confirmed. The nominee should
rightfully come from New York. The
people of Oregon would prefer judge
from the Empire state whose code and
practice is very similar to our own, to
one from state that still follows the old
Common Law system. In voting against
Peckham and Hornblower, Do1ph voted
directly against the interests of Oregon.
1t is to Mr.. Mitche1ls credit that he did
not act with his colleague in his con-
dennab1e course. Mr.. Mitchell seems
to have always remembered that he is
an Oregonian and a republican, and
above all, a patriotic American.
If the sole issue of the last state CAM
paign had been the return of Dolph to
the United States senate, the GAZETTE
doubts if single republican senator had
been elected, unless, possibly, in Multi
nomah county. Our nominees in this
county were confronted with the charge
that they were Dolph men. The oposi-
ton tried to make that the issue, know
ing that if they succeeded it would be ef
fectual. Our nominees on the stump
claimed that this was not the issue; that
they would favor republican who was
known to have the interests of the state
at heart, and were not pledged to any
man. The people voted, mot to return
Do1ph, but to defeat the senatorial aspir-
ations of Pennoyer.