The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-27
BUT WILL He ACCEPT IT?
SOME OF, HIS FRIENDS THINK
,.s.N,- THAT HE WILL NOT. ~4e
NHftE OTHERS SAY HE'LL GRAB AT II
TIE Salary is a Good One but the Time is
Rather Limited, as The Next Legislature
Will be Called on to Elect for The J.
$50 Unexpired Term. efty

Now that it is Pretty well settled that
Judge Dwarf is to be appointed rs
Judge Dicks successor on the Federal
court bench, the politicians are begin
ming to inquire who will be Ewart's
successor as Judge of the WesteFn
criminal court.
The opinion prevails here that it will
be Col. LusR. Of Asheville. q"
Governor Russell has the appointment.
Col. IIusk is n close friend of the Gov
ernor's. He stuck by him in the rail-
road fight in the last Legislature. Since
then he has been appointed II director
of the North Carolina Railroad.
So far these are the. kinds of friends
thexGovernor has sought to reward, aud
it Is not believed he will lose this OPP
pORttlnity of rewarding the man who has
serTed him so faithfully. 1t is almost
ceHain, therefore, that he will tender
thes place to Col. VTgilius Supercilius
UalSk.
Whether Lusk will accept it or not
is Falore doubtful. Some say he has
beeh such Il political hoodoo in recent
ye<ihs that he will jump at 1T. Others.
RebaIblieans. aver that Lusk, having
beaA a candidate for the judgeship
EwArt is to get is now too proud 10
LIKE IIlb IbidCtA Ills GlNdI gives UP.
TAe first theory is the correct o9e.
! Lusk is anxious for the Criminal court
iud@eship. He can afford to wait, 10
be foaxed and patted- ON the back ami
askai a second time, for he KNIVES the
Goyprn0r is anxious for him ID take
thesAmdgeship. He's bound to offer it
to IAlsk, for Lusk is the only real friend
he'ssgot in the district. And LuSk ain
goiIg to lose any chances either. once
theS4hing's offered. He may hang MS
head with timidity and say 'sho" III
tha4k tone of voice used by a woman
whhh she means yes" but he'll nevc-
let Shat jldgeship escape him. He is
toosalong- for that He knows
on which side of his bread his butter
repDses; and he's been in politics long
enough to know how seldom a man has
chance of refusing $1,000 job.
1t may he even more than that. TIE
salary is 500 a week, and so far, Judge
Ewart has managed to find enough husi-
ness, TO hold almost a continuous court
This makes it one of the most desirable
judgeships in the State. barring, IF
course, places on the Federal and SUI
preTne benches.
I.usk let a chance like this slide:
ssN0t on yOIIr existence as Steve Bro /
die would say. Those who suggest
such thing don't know Virgilius Sd
pereilius. Didn't he get a taste once
of a good fat office. when ne was dis |
frict attorney? Hasn't he been trying /,
10 get another pull of public pap ever
sincei Isn't ne a standing candidate for
Governor. Senator or Supreme court |
justice? Don't you remember how mad
he got when Butler beat him for Speak |
- y Ie.tR
Vance Walser, the present pass totin'
Attorney General: how much warmed in
the collar he waxetl when Marsh Mott 7;
beat him for chairman of the last State
Republican convention? Then VIXEN the
Legislature met he was a dark-horse j
candidate for Senator. and mors re-
Gently for the Federal judgeship.
All Of which makes it a safe bet that
be will take the Criminal court jddse-
ship when Ewart resigns and the Gov
ernor offers it TO him.
Judge Ewart was elected for four
years, beginning January LIST, 1897. He
has therefore served only one yen" and
a month, having rlAarly three years
Of his term left. But the man who Is
appointed can only serve until next
January, for the law establishing the
court says that in case of vacancy the
"oflice shall he filled by appointment
of the Governor, and the persons 81
appointed by the Governor shall hoif
his office until the next general clec-
ton. at which said election the qualified
voters OF the said counties Of Bun.
combe, Madison. Haywood and Her.
ders0n siraH elect a person TO I'LL the
said office for the unexpired term"
IL Iusk doesn't accept Ewarts east
off shoes II will I've because he IS AFRAID
they will be taken away from him next
November.