Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-29
Mcpherson will be Judge.

Last Saturday Congressman M c :
Pherson was selected by the Iowa
congressional delegation, for United
States Judge for the southern district
of Iowa, in place of Judge Woolson,
deceased. The delegation could not
unite on any one else. Mr.. Mcpherson
was for Judge Walter /. Smith, casting
his vote for him to the last. Concern
ing the subject Mr.. Mcpherson said to
the State Register correspondent at
Washington
1t is true that / have at last CON
sented to accept the place. There
seemed to be no other way. Every
candidate was worthy and not an UNI
kind word was said against any of
them. But no candidate could get a
majority, while they all insisted upon
nv selection. Finally / consented to
accept. ] fear that it is mistake for
me to have done so. have just begun
succeed in that line, however, have
been over persuaded and time alone
can deterime whether / have made
great mistake or not.
The selection is tribute to Mr.. Nc
Pherson as a lawyer and as man. 1t
has had the effect of precipitating
another contest for the nomination of
congressman upon this district. The
field of entries is said to promise
larger than ever before. The Council
Bluffs Nonpariel speaks in this way of
Judge Smith 81.
JUDGE SMITH FOR CONGRESS.
The uncertainties as to who would be
appointed TO the federal judgeship have
now been cleared away and the name
of Hon. Smith Mcpherson will he soon
presented and confirmed. That he is
in all ways we'll fitted to perform the
responsible duties of this position is
conceded. He long since won by merit
general recognition as one of the fore
most of the profession in Iowa and there
has been but one reason why his name
has not been earlier sent in as the
successor of Judge Woolson on the
bench. That reason was his determined
loyalty to the support of Judge Walter
/. Smith, of this city, and his refusal to
have his own name considered. He has
supported Judge Smith for the position
from start to finish and despite the
earnest solicitation of his fellow repre-
sentatives of Iowa in congress to accept
the position himself he has steadily re-
fused until it became evident that there
could not be a majority secured either
in favor of Judge Smith or any other
of the candidates named. Then, and
then only, did he consent to accept the
place which he might have secured in
the first place and even without the
asking.
The friends of Judge Smith are now
urging him to become candidate for
the position of congressman from this
district, which will be made vacant by
the placing of Mr.. Mcpherson upon
the federal bench. Judge Smiths well
known ability has been so widely recog-
pized that many have for some time
been anxious to see him placed in
congress, and now that conditions have
so shaped themselves as to make him
the natural and desirable candidate his
friends will take steps to secure his
consent. While his wishes in the mat
ter have not been made known by him,
it is believed by his friends that he will
consent to allow his name to be used
and if so there will be an enthuastic
rallying to his support.
Judge Smith is popular in this county
and has many friends here who would
like to see him in congress He is
eloquent, learned, social and has the
personal qualities that attach people to
him. He has the material in him, so
his friends think, to make him strong
man in congress.
There is also talk, so we see, of Col.
G. Ct. Saunders and G. M. Harl, of
Council Bluffs, for the same place.
They are strong men. Saunders did
some good work in this county last fall
for the republicans on the stump.
Cass county has candidate in Hon.
T. B. Swan, strong and excellent
man. Mr.. Swan has more than once
responded to the call from this county
to assist in republican speech making.
Concerning him the Telegraph said
Monday:
T. b. SWAN FOR CONGRESS.
T. b. Swan, of Atlantic, will be a
candidate for the republican nomination
for Congressman from the Ninth Dis
trict to succeed Hon. Smith McPher-
son, who, it is now known will resign
his seat before the expiration of his
term in order that he may accept the
position of Federal Judge for the
Southern District of Iowa.
The Telegraph believes that Mr..
Swans candidacy is in good taste, and
that his aspirations are based upon the
soundest of political principles.
He is man of uncommon ability,
learned in the law and experienced in
the school of mems affairs. He be-
came republican in 1896 when the
democratic party committed that series
of atrocious blunders which drove so
many thousands of its more intelligent
membership away. At that time L. b.
Swan saw that the hope of the nation
lay in republican policies and he es-
poused them heartily. He has been a
man to rely on since that time. As a
campaigner he is the peer of any man in
the district argumentative-k e n--
witty and eloquent, his appeals to the
voters have always been effective in a
marked degree.
The republicans of Cass county are of
the same mind, that they deserve for
one of their citizens this congressional