The sun., 1895-03-23

cannot look forward without apprehension
| to the prospect Of having to give n
up The mind not,rishcd MS Mr.. SPRING
ER's has been nourishcd, upon the
latest cuts and richest juices OF finance
and political economy, shrinks instructive
ly Mt the thought Of having to try COW
case. The intellect, devoted as Mr.. Kill
GoRts has been devoted. to the nicetes of
parliamentary procedure, must become too
luminous for village like Wills Point.
Statesmanship. such rs belongs to the two
eminent gentlemen whom Mr.. CLEVELAND,
with more than his wonted felicity
of Judgment, has chosen to be the
pillars of Federal justice in the Indian Ter
ritory, is cumulative. We leave 1t to Mr..
SPRINGER If he is not n more impetuous,
elastic, and rapiG.rotating statesman than
when he first swan into the ken of a Won
dcring world N the Forty-fourth Congress.
For twenty wears Mr.. SPRINGER has been
with the Democratic party, and that both
he and the party survive in any degree Of
preservation. should b- sufficient proof that
the association has not been unhappy. at
least on the part of Mr.. SPRINGER Twenty
years of Mr.. SPRINGER. Memory tingles
at the thought, and the halls of Time ring
with the echo of many voices, all Of which,
it is perhaps supcrt!uous to say, are Mr.
SPRISGER's.
Of Mr.. kILGoRE the country has had less
Only eight years, and it was not until the
Fifty-iirst Congress that his peculiar
talents were made known. Since then he
has been an illustrious figure. As full Of
movement, although not rs nervous as Mr..
SPRINGER, this Texas statesman's speciality
is action. He may not have pondered the
problems of the currency or the income tax
as deeply rs his future associate upon the
bench has, but there was directness.
simplicity about his method of attack that
was overpowering; and even his errors were
felt to be of the foot and not the heart
Such men ns these two were i'll prepared
to slide down the giddy heights of glory and
be swallowed up in private life. The out
look was unpleasant to them, and yet from
no merely selfish motive Well may they
have trembled for their country. What
would She, what could she. do without
them? But Mr.. CLEVELAND. always firmly
convinced that public Office is public trust
and that Cuckoos must be provided for,
saved the country and the two statesmen.
We wish to congratulate all parties.
and especially the Indian Territory.
1t is seldom that even State is
permitted to have simultaneously two
such Judges as Mr.. SPRINGER and
Mr.. klLGoRE will be; and n young commu-
nifty like the Indian Territory ought to be
proud OF tie honor bestowed upon it. Both
the gentlemen will be residents OF the Ter
ritory, if their appointment is confirmed
Doubtless This is Mr.. CLEvELAND's under
standing of the declaration of the Chicago
platform, that eve hold that the officials
appointed to administer the government of
any Territory together with the District of
Columbia and Alaska. should be bona tide
residents of the Territory or district in
which their duties are to be performed
1t is an interesting fact that the two new
Judges We're born almost within year of
each other, MIR. kIIGoRE in Georgia, Feb
90, SO, and Mr.. SPRINGER in Indiana. MAY
30, 1896. Mr.. kTLGoRE moved to Texas in
1916 and Mr., SPRINGER to Illinois in 1SiS.
Mr.. SPRINGER has had no judicial expert
ence, but he has many temperaments, and
the judicial temperament may be assumed
to be among them. Mr.. kILGORE has been
a Judge. In 1869 he was elected to the I'M
portant office of Justice of the Peace in Rusk
county, Texas.