East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

into the arena OF Oregon journalism
edited by Bush Livermore, a Pendle
ton boy reviews the political situa
tion and The federal judgeshlp as fol
lows;
And now everybody wants to be su
preme judge. Each Tom, Dick ant
Harry who aspired to the fedora
Judgeship desires to take the next
hest thing and call IT square. It seem,
to he settled (although Maverick has
not yet been consulted) that Supreme
Judge Bean has been recommended
by United States Attorney General
Moody and tina; his appointment ly
the president is mere matter of
time.
If this is so, and Judge Bean gets
the job, a vacancy will be left on the
Oregon supreme bench. The appoint
i've power in this instance rests with
| Governor Chamberlain. II is said
that Chamberlain is a democrat; it
therefore follows that he will select
man from his own party to fill
Beams vacant seat.
/ This is too bad--not because a
| democrat would not make a better
| Judge than n republican, but because
it erases from the slate of posslbili-
ties such men as Judge Henry f. Me-
CHM, Hon. Stephen a lowell and
Colonel Emmett Callahan.
On the other hand, II brings the
name of Hon. Thomes G. HALEY, Of
Pendleton. into the public eye. Tom
is democrat; likewise, he is a close
personal friend of Governor Cham
herlain. Furthermore, he is a good
lawyer, which means that he might
make a good Judge. But he is young
maybe not too young, but quite
young
If appointed by Governor Chamber
lain to sit in Judge Beams seat, Tom
would be the youngest supreme
Judge on record-he would be "the
kid" sure enough.
The peculiar fact that eastern Or
egon has no representation upon the
supreme bench of the state is being
strongly urged as a good and suf-
ficient reason why Governor Cham
berlain should choose Bunchgrasser
when the time comes to appoint
Beans successor.
This argument is sound as is also
the one advanced by a certain eastern
Oregon paper, that the saIubriousness
Of this east-of-the- mountain climate
the obvious hard to- Deafness of this
bunchgrass region, breeds better
judges than does the muggy, humid
atmosphere of the webfoot slope. Be
that as it may.
If Chamberlain sees his duty in
this particular sectional direction.
and does il, Umatilla county can't
very well expect to be the whole show. /
There are other Richmonds in the
eastern Oregon field than Tom Hal !
ley. Tom is n ripping good chap. an
F. f. ", and all that, stand-patter
in the way of law enforcement. and /,
generally a nice. clean, eligible per-
son.
But what's the matter with Sam
White, circuit judge of the tenth ju-
dicial district with headquarters in
the county seat of Baker county? No
man east of the mountains is closer
to Chamberlain than Judge White.
Witness the fact that George ap-
pointed Sam to his present position
i'm the face of violent protests from
other democratic headquarters. Cham
berlain owed White a whole lot Sam
was chairman of the democratic state
central committee when George was
elected governor Sam was the main
squeeze on that committee and George
knew 1t.
Whether or not the governor be-
lieves that his political debt to Judge
White was completely satisfied when
he caused the latter to be draped in
the judicial ermine in this district, is
not known. It is not believed, how
ever. that Judge White gave a re-
ceipt in full when the governor hand
ed him circuit judgeship.
And then, again. there is ex-Judge
ID, Clifford, formerly of Grant
now of Baker county and
city. Judge Clifford was candidate
for the tenth district judgeship in
opposition to Sam White. Clifford
wasn't one-two-three in that race
and he is a good democrat, too.
1t hardly seems possible that Cham
berlain would appoint clifford SUI
preme judge after turning him down
for circuit Judge. And yet, stranger
things have happened As between
White and Clifford there is small
choice in the matter of qualifications
for either the circuit or supreme
White has made a mighty
fine circuit judge and Clifford only
lacked the opportunity to exhibit the