The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-02
JUDGE HAWLEY'S CANDIDATURE.


Although Judge HawIey neither denies
nor admits the truth of the report that
ator, the indications are that he is in
clined to favorably consider the PROPOSE
ton. Judge Hawley is nearly 70 years of
age. Nearly, If not quite, one-half of his
life he has occupied a position upon a jul
dicial bench. For many years he was one
of the Supreme Judges of Nevada, a po-
sition he held when appointed Judge of
the United States Circuit Court for this
judicial district, slime ten or twelve years
ago. Before coming to Nevada he prac-
ticed law successfully in California, and
was, we believe, at one time District At
forney in Nevada county, in that State.
His entire manhood days have been de-
voted to law and he has never, we under
stand, held a legislative position in his
life. He could, If he chose, retire from
his preesnt judgeship upon full pay, five
thousand dollars a year, which is equal
to the salary of a United States Senator.
His judicial career has been an honorable
and successful one, and when he chose
to retire to private life he would leave as
enviable a record as was ever achieved
by any retiring Judge on the Pacific or
Atlantic coast.
We are confident that Judge Hawley's
best and most sincere friends, of what
ever political party, will regret, If, in the
autumn of his days, he should conclude
to abandon the channel in which his life
current has run. to enter a contest for a
position which If attained would not add
to the honor of his former career, nor af-
years as he has experienced from the per-
Torrance of the duties for which he was,
and still is, so eminently fitted, and which
he cannot expect to enjoy at his age in
an entirely different and unfamiliar
branch of public service. This, upon the
supposition of his election. which is
hardly within the limit of bare
possibility, for the Judges political views
are entirely at variance with those of at
least two-thirds, and probably nearer
th~ree-fourths, of the voters of the State,
and If he should permit his name to be
used in connection with the Senatorship.
1t is a moral certainty that he would be
doomed to the humiliation of inglorious
defeat, which would be but a sorry finale
TO his honorable public career. There is
no man within or without the borders of
the State, however personally popular,
or however clear his official record, who
advocates the gold standard, trust-foster-
Eng and imperialistic policy of the Repub-
lican party, that can successfully contest
for a Congressional position In the State
of Nevada, and Judge Hawley is a thor
ough going Republican and unreservedly
endorses the policy of his party upon
those questions.
AS the report of the Judges candida
ture was contemporaneous with Senator
Stewards arrival in Carson, II Is fairly
presumable that the latter was the lead
ing spirit in the movement. Stewards
motive is two-fold. He hates Mr.. New
hands, and although he does not expect to
accomplish his defeat he wishes to make
it as hard and expensive a fight for him
as possible, and he thinks, perhaps, that
Judge Hawley might possibly secure a
few hold-over Senator'S whom he could
Hse for himself two years hence, when he
will be a candidate for the election. With
Stewart for his sponsor. no candidate for
United States Senator could be elected in
the State. AS the candidate of a minority
party, with the immoral support of the
reereant Senator, the unfortunate aspir-
ant, when the Legislature meets, would
be glad to forget that he had ever per-
mitted his name to be used in connection
with the Senatorship.-Reno Journal.
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