St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-19
HoRNBLoWER's REJECTION.

Mr.. Hornblower has been silenced.
but his friends have sounded bugle
blast of war.-Pittsbnrg Dispatch.
Hornblower will not sit OH the SUI
preme bench. Score another Knockout
for Grover and the Mugwumps. -Cieve-
land Leader.
1t is notorious that the nomination
was rejected because Mr.. Hornblower
had made David b. Hill his enemy
! New York Times.
1.-THE rejection of the name of Judge
Hornbiower, nominated for the supreme
bench. shows that the United States
senate is political rather than legls-
lative body.-Chicago Dispatch.
We may fairly infer that Senator Hill
and the senators who voted with him
believe that it is the ''prerogative" of
senators to be consulted before nouiina-
tons are made louisville Courier
Journal.
After Senator Hills experience in the
championship of Maynard's unrighte0us
claims 10 judicial place. it is rather re-
/! markable to find him calling into ques-
ton the qualifications of man like
Hornbiower.-Wa shiDgton Star.
The rejection of William B. Horn
blower by the United States senate
would seem TO indicate that the long
threatened rupture between the Demo
cratic president and the Demo cratic
senate has finally taken place. Albany
Journal.
Mr.. Hill has convinced the president
that the senate has still prerOgative i'll
the matter of candidates tor high public
station. Having done so. we think that
lesser nominations will be acted upon.
and In all proper cases favOrably.-
Buffalo Times.
Undoubtedly this was meant as a
check upon the personal power of the
president, and the senate would be false
to its obligations if it failed to subject
nominations to the closest scrutiny and
to act Independently when occasion re-
qulres.-New York World.
The rejection by the senate of the
nomination of Mr.. Hornblower was
undoubtedly due in the main TO the
Jealous resentment and Vaccinations of
the New York senators, whose opinions
and personal interests had been ignored
lnthe Seleetion.-BoSton Traveller.
Mr.. Cleveland is not the only presi-
dent whose nominee to the supreme
court has failed to find senatorial ap-
prevail, by any means. Nor is Mr.. Horn
blower, with ali HIS excellent qualities,
the only man in the East worthy to wear
the silk robe of high judicial station
Boston Globe.
Mr.. Hornblower Is defeated. the result
OF combination OF Republicans of the
kind that Chandler can influence and of
Democrats of the kind that Dave Hill
can influence. 1t is disgraceful COIL
blnatIon. anu one that denotes the low
ness OF tone that pervades our public
affairs.-Indianapo News.
\. Mr. GluuaIopH cbO,,Jd nov, IOco M tiDna
in making another nomination. Already
the vacancy on the supreme bench has
existed more than three months, with
no little detriment to the public in
tereSts. 1t is important that !t be filed
at once. and there can be no excuse for
failure to do so.-New York Herald.
Of his qualifications for the office of
supreme court Justice there is only one
| opinion among tile we'll Informed, but
he had committed the unforgiyabie of
tense of opposing Isaac IL. Maynard.
Mr.. Hornblower comes out of this af.
fair more creditably than his enemies,
and his good name has not suffered
New York Tribune.
Hornblower was not worth tight and
a humiliatiag defeat for the administrs-
ton. When SO many great public and
party ends call for harmony and active
cooperation between Democrats it is a
shame for the administration and Demo-
cratic senators to be snarling and vast
Ing energy over patronage SQuabbleS. =
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
By an adverse majority Of six the
senate has rejected the nomination of
Judge Hornblower to the supreme
bench. In doing SO it has furnished
fuller proof-though, assuredly, no ad-
ditional evidence was needed to eStab-
| lish the point-that the public Interest
is likely TO kick the beam when it is
weighed against the courtesy of the
senate. "-Boston Herald.
So far as the public is interested in
| the HornblOwer case, it may be said
! that no damage has been done. While
| Mr.. Hornblower is an uneXcepti0nable
| gentleman, it cannot he truthfully
| urged that he compares favorably with
| the distinguished lawyers whom it has
! been customary to nominate for the
supreme court-not even with the ap-
| pointments made by Mr.. Cleve land.
| which have not always been the most
| judieious Baltimore American.
! The manner of the rejection was still
( more discreditable to the senate than
| the reasons which inspired it. Mr..
| Hornblower was appointed in Septe NJ
| Der, the vacancy on the supreme bench
| has existed more than six months, the
| work of the court is greatly III arrears,
| and it was highly necessary that the
| vacancy be filled at the earliest possible
| moment. If MIR. Hernblow was to be
| rejected at all. it should have been done
| three months ago.-Philadelphia Times.