The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-07
WISHES TO
 BE A JUDGE.
 Z:yH Hundley SeeE Aantle of
 Meys mick.
 Igy IN 4O$.<T OF APPEALS One Huntsville Man Already on the Bench. A Prominent Southern Republican Tells of the clarksonizing of This section-The Presi-
 dent h Uneasy.

Washington, Jan. e.-(special) )-Here is tonishing.
 Judge Mccormick of the United States Court of Appeals, which embraces the Gulf States. is about to retire, he having reached the age limit and being in poor health. He dwells in Texas. the other Pardee formerly of Louisiana, now Q resident of Atlanta, and Judge David D. Shelby of Huntsville. Ala.
 The story is. and it comes from one of the most prominent of Southern Republi- cans. that Oscar R. Hundiey of Hunts vile, some time Democratic State Sem ator of Alabama. but of recent years a Republican applicant for office. namely. United States District Attorney, also Dis trict Judge. is already an applicant in ef- feet for the great dignity which Judge Mccormick is about to relinQuish.
 In other words, Mir. Hundley having failed to obtain district judgeship. or even an attorneyship, now aspircs to the exalted honor of Judge of the Court of Appeals.
 Another Huntsville Man.
 Yet Mir. Hundley's fellow townsman, Judge Shelby, is a member of tho same high bench. Truly this Is passing strange. Evidently Mr. Hundley is unaware of many things in practical politics and or dinary expediency.
 United States. District Judge Meeks of Texas. Judge McCormick's State, will be an applicant for the vacancy to be creat- ed by the latter's retirement, and Judge Meeks has the supreme advantage of be- tng welded to a niece of Clarkson. the manager Of -ehs PEesident'A Southern pie- counter.
 1t dare not be repeated in print that one or two Republicans a few years ago removed to the South from, the North in order to obtain certain offices because, for purely legal reasons, to state so in specific terms is not to be thought of. Yet there is and has been much talk along certain lines. not needful to the ob- servant mind to specify. This much will he ample.
 Now then, we are about to know some news in the South that will be sensa- tionai.
 Much of what has been already said is in substance beyond speculation. But even of greater interest, perhaps, are cer- tain remarks made by the Republican leader. referred to, and 1t may be accept ed without thought of questioning that he has been long a leader of his party and one holding high oflce. For obvious reasons it Is needful to protect his iden- tity. He said in part:
 Clarksonizatiou.
 ''The purpose of the administration in denying the lily whites in Alabama, North Carolina and throughout the South generally Is to Clarksonize the whole South and thereby get the negro votes for Roosevelt in the National Convention next year. We all know what it is to Clark sonize the South--it has been done before and in this instance there is but one in- depreciation to be placed upon 1t: 1t is that Roosevelt is uneasy about his own chances for the Republican nomination.
 'Jence he calls in the active support of henchman Clarkson to roll up the ne- gro delegates. as has been done before. This Is the meaning of the heroic efforts in behalf of the negro woman Cox, post mistress in Mississippi. It is the mean ing of the appointment of the negro Crum as Collector at Charleston; and of many other pro-negro acts of the administra- ton, such aparent devotion to Booker T. Washington. The President is Clarkson- izinE the negro delegates. while playing for the negro vote in the North. He does not care for a decent Republican party in the South, for such 6 party might not suit his purposes next year. He is un- easy. So he appointed Crum. not be- cause Crum was the best man offering, but solely because he Is a negro"
 Lucien Julien Walker.