The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1903-10-12
The New Mexican Has High
Praise For Judge William
Hayes Pope.
AN ABLE LAWYER.
A Man Yet Young, Whose Life
Has Been Crowded With
HOnOrS.
Santa Fe New Mexican.

Santa Fe New Mexican.
+. At the age of 20. the first honor
graduate of the University of Geor-
gia; at the age of 21, the law partner
of the most successful and one of the
most brilliant attorneys of the south;
at the age of "a broken in health and
far from home, among strangers, re-
porter on the Santa Fe Daily New
Mexican; at the age of 25, assistant
solicitor general of New Mexico; at
the age of 26 assistant United States
attorney of the court of private land
claims; at the age of 80, United
States attorney for the Pueblo In
dians; at the age of 81, judge OF the
court of the First Instance of the
Philippine Islands; at the age OF
scarcely SO, district Judge and asso-
ciate justice of the Supreme court
of New Mexico. But a few weeks
ago offered without solicitation an
honor and a task. the nature OF
which the New Mexican cannot at
!. this time divulge, but the acceptance
of which honor and the performance
of which task in the manner that he
has performed all his other tasks,
great or little, before this, would
have given, him national prominence,
that in the states would have some
day placed him in line for the great
est honor that the people of the Uni
ted States can bestow upon man.
The honor and the task were declin-
ed for reasons of health. Such has
been the career of Judge William
Hayes Pope, who is to be judge of
(. the Fifth Judicial district and asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme court of
New Mexico.
be the last man to think so or to say
so. There ought to be nothing re-
markable in man being capable,
clean, conscientious, we'll balanced,
Industrious. The man who does not
slight the least opportunity to do
well or to do good, however, is al
ways remarkable, not because it is
easy to apply energy and virtue to
the task that lies nearest but be-
cause it is so seldom done. AS re-
porter on the Santa Fe Daily New
Mexican, Judge Pope was as earnest
and as high minded in writing an
unimportant minor city item as he
was later in working upon the epoch
making Peralta-Reaves case in which
the stakes were an empire and the
reward page in the book of fame.
1t is no wonder at all, not in the
least bit remarkable, that such a
man is greater than any office; that
he is rendered positions when he
does not seek them: is given respon-
sibilities without asking for them; is
destined for the high places within
the gift of the government and the
people.
expressed it's pride in the career of
Judge. w. H.. Pope. IL has held him
up as a model for young men who
are ambitious, has predicted great
honors for him, has praised him
when occasion offered for his superb
manhood, his talents for which he
is making such good use for his
moral loftiness, his popularity. his
charity, his humility, although it
knows that such praise is distasteful
TO Judge. Pope. that he does not seek
to be held up as q model, to be point
out as being anything else than
young man who strives to do his du-
ty and to maintain his manhood un-
der all and every circumstance.
Is Judge Pope to be congratulated
upon his elevation to the supreme
bench of New Mexico at so early a
point in his career? Yes, verify, it
is no slight honor. But the Supreme