The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-15
SPOONER is
TO REMAIN
Continue Senator if Wiscon-
sin Republicans Agree.
BENCH Is NOT O. { FOR OF. HIM u
BENCH Is NOT FOR HIM
President Says Spooner Cannot Be
s., Spared in the Senate.
LA TOILETTE CANNOT UNDO HIM
Senator Prefers a Life of Action to
a Life Of Study as Supreme
Justice.

Special to The Journal. D.. ss..
Chicago. March ia special from
Washington to the Record Herald this
morning says: John c. Spooner OF Wis
consin will be candidate for reelection
to the United States senate. His friends
say he will be elected, despite certain OPP
position from members of his own party.
year or two ago Mr.. Spooner wrote a
letter in which he said he thought he
would not be a candidate for anothN
term His friends now declare that the
republicans OF Wisconsin have so gem
orally insisted upon reconsideration OF
this letter that the senator has consented
to recall it, and to stand for reelection
before the legislature next January.
Governor La Toilette is not favorable to
the reelection of Mr.. Spooner, and the
governor is a great power in the state,
but men who know Wisconsin politics in
sist that even the governor is not strong
enough to defeat Senator Spooner.
Not on Supreme Bench.
Mr. spooner will not take seat upon
the bench of the supreme court Of the
United States, neither now nor at any
time in the future. Various reports to
the effect that he was going on the bench
were in circulation. One account has it
that Chief Justice Fuller is to retire next
February, on reaching his SEVENTEEN
year, and that Mr.. spooner will be ap-
pointed to the chief justiceship. No
one knows whether the chief justice will
retire or not; all the probabilities are
that he will remain on the bench for many
years to come.
| Whether the chief justice retires or not,
l., t,aS0r,
| arise on the supreme bench, Senator
| Spooner is not to be member of that dis
tinguished tribunal. This may be con-
sidered settled once for ALL Nor would
he take place in the cabinet He has
already declined several offers of this lat
| ter sort.
| Cart Spare SpOoner.
| Not long ago Attorney General Knox,
4 Informally discussing the possibility of
| vacancies on the supreme bench, said to
| President Roosevelt:
! "If a vacancy should arise there is one
man am willing to recommend for the
| succession, here and now.
/ who is, he ?"
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin,
/ "But that won't do" replied the presi-
tdent; 1--WE cannot spare him from the SEN
ate.''A
This remark indicates the estimate in
! which the senator from Wisconsin is held
at the White House, and the opinion is
echoed by his colleagues OF both parties
| in congress- Mr. Spooner was long age
called 1.-THE little giant of the senate" il
this correspondence, and the title has
stuck to him and is in general use among
his associates in public life.
Mr.. Spooner has no ambition to sit OF
the supreme bench. He has already de-
| clined one offer to become a member Of
/ that court and would decline another were
lit made to him. He is to fond of actor
/ to retire to a life of study. If he re-
mains in public life-and all the chances
1 are that he will for a long time-it viii
| be as member of the senate, where he
has attained influence and power Of use
! fulness second to those of none of his col
/ leagues