The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-10

creases the peoples confidence in the im- partial administration of the government. Mobile Item.
 hama to know that in his selection, Pres- ident Roosevelt has chosen a man who has won the esteem and admiration of the people of his own State and that as @ Judge of Federal Court of their State they know they not only will have d man and a lawyer fully equipped and qualified to preside. but that at his hands no in- terest of the State or tof the people will suffer.
 Well done. President Robsevelt-Mobiie Register.
 The appointment will cause more gen. eral satisfaction than any other would nave n s done lone. for ,, Governor rn Jones was one banna ever had. He has also made a rep utation as brave soldier and fearless Governor while in the chair and this fact along with the others to his credit known by the President probably went a long way toward settling the presidential mind in the matter of the appointment. /. The press of Alabama will extend thanks to President Roosevelt and con gratulations to Judge Jones.-Tuscaloosa Times.
 So it goes that Governor Thomas G. qualified to be United States District Judge, has been appointed to fill that po- sltion by President Roosevelt. While we advocated Mir. Smith of Birmingham kLew him to be gentleman to the man ner born lawyer of the highest attain ment, we little dreamed that Governor Jones was being considered even by the Chief Executive. But it seems that he was, and 1t seems that he has been se- lected. and ifs we are a judge of our own feelings and candid in our statement, we concede that language fails us, that words fall still-born in an effort to be- speak our delight at this appointment We not only base it upon our admiration for Thomas G. Jones. whom we have al- ways respected, but we assert that it , was a masterly piece of patriottism t1,s and to fire this bomb into the mis- erable camp-fires of the pie brigade and send them dazed. bewildered and curbstones like maudlin idiots, wondering that it were possible for human being to have the nerve. the hardihood to defy the delegate-makers, the corrupt. and the corruptable from the degraded State death. % @Daa and its Visitation s R long ' coming has at last arrived in Alabama Repub- hcan camps, and there is wailing and Republican daily has had a long, hard. bitter fight, 1t was fight against odds. we were helpless as babe in Repub- lican squabble where neither good couu- SCI or nlRn DfinCiplG pEetd1leu. we nave been run over, but we have warned and we have defied, we have struggled for the principles of our party and asked for none of the loayes and fishes ..
 The action of President Roosevelt as starter, the adoption of the new suffrage plan as a second, and the organization of a business mans Republican praty in Alabama in ontra-distinction of the pie bligade's party, is the culmination of our unselfish ambition. It seems to us that for the first time in twenty years, that many potent influences are working in that direction.-Huntsville Tribune
 Governor Jones and President Roose- welt are not unlike ir their mental char acteristics. Neither Is a practical politi, oian, and both are very independent, and very much inclined to dispiace policy with principle. It is an admirable ao- pointment in every respect.
 If this appointment be followed py otn- CTS of like nature. the days Of the pro- fessional Republican politicians are num- bered Like Othello, their occupation will be gone. Such appointments do more 10 soften political asperities than most or smooth words with no acts behind them. In It's every aspect this appointment Ia very significant. It means the best men in Federal offices, and this is by no means an unimportant matter m thls section of the country.
 What it may mean In the long run to party lines and party divisions we need not stop to inquire. It Is sufficient to know t; at Governor Jones has not a particle-that he, a Democrat, IS ap- pointed because he Is an excellent man for judicial duties. There the appoint nient stands, and time must worA out itS
 President Roosevelt deserves ana as s,Iredly will receive the warmest thanks for this appointment from every c1tizen of Alabama.-Birmingham Age-Herald. 
 In making this appointment the new President rises high above party ana par tisan lines and manifests distinct deter imitation to carry out in acts the Droad- ly patriotic policy which he has hereto fore proclaimed in words-that he Will De President of the whole country. regardless of sections and political divlslons ana with this idea in mind will choose for the offices he has to fill the best talent that is available. in every respect a splendid selectlon. ne is most admirably equipped for the office. He is a ripe scholar and profound con- stitutional lawyer. He Is a man of sound judgment and highest personal and onl- cial integrity. His convictions are always positive and even intense. He is not a politician nor a trimmer. His sense or justice is keen and his ardent advocacy of the enforcement of law and order was chair and later while he was a member of the Constitutional Convention as to at tract to him national attention.
 Governor Jones, as The News under stands it, had made no formal applica- ton for the office for which he has been selected. He is a Democrat and the Judgeship comes to him as a recognition of his ability and through the desire of the President to pursue a broad course and elevate the standard of Federal of- ficehoIders in the South and not for any political consideration. Birmingham News.
 In taking this new departure President Roosevelt shows himself not only man of much liberality but also of much in- dependence of character. He has ignored party precedent and party ties, and has served notice on Southern Republicans that if they wish orice they must seek to fit themselves for iA
 As for the appointee no man in Ala bama is better fitted for high judicial position. Able, learned in the law, cour- ageous, firm aud devoted to duty, Cover nor Jones will make an ideal judge. It Is not necessary to speak of his politics, for when Thomas G. Jones becomes a | United States Judge he will know no pol itics He has stood with his people all his life, through good report and evil re- | port, and his life has had much oi stormy incident in it. Now. when the me- ridian of life has passed, it is pleasant | to think that calm and untroubled ha- ven has been reached in which he can spend the rest of his days.-Mobile Her.