The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-17
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Repnbltcsrs a, tho Fifh Avcnue Ho,sl
yesterday had a storv witch they aid hat
p.tculased from tho , secuttvc tharter
q, Altanv. that Gov Hiaains, after all
may no, siah tho biil calling Tor t~ertv-tWo
new Supreme Court Justices IN the state
The Repuhlicara down thia way didnf
src'n tn take the story very much Va heart
ave ~ u affected tho proposition to nnrne
rev t%ua,lce- In tho first and Second d"-
iricts. In fact. they openly aid they didnf
care a copper II Gov HiREins ve'o"i IN"
hill ca ling for an ihcrea q" " Justices IN the
Third and Eighth districta-the former
Albany and adjacent cDunties and the lat
tor Buffalo and adjoining counties hut
they did hope that Ncw York and Kings
would get the increased number of Justices
They seemed to forget that YOU cannot vote
for the electors for President without vot-
ing for the came electors for Vice-President
and that Gov. Higgins must either veto or
sign the entire bill.
other Republicans aid that the hill waA
being held In nbeyance az Albany until Re-
publican envoys from the capital a-cer-
tanned for a certainty that Justice Edward
Clinch. appointed by Gov. Higgins TO sue
coed George C.. Barrett. resigned, would
be nominated. and that In addition tho
New FORK and Kings counties Republican
organizations INC the Democratic organi-
zations would divide evenly. giving to each
organization seven Of the fourteen new
Justices to he nominated in the First and
proposed new Second judicial districts.
and then both organizations to indorse the
ticket.
Such a proposed programme coming IN
a year when a State ticket, headed by a
candidate for Governor, and when Congress-
men, senator's and Assemblymen are to
be elected, so machine politicians said, might
lead TO all sorts of complications and might
give either the Republicans or Democrats
an undue advantage in the general election
The announcement that the Citizens
Union is preparing to butt in - It was
nut. and claim a share Of the proposed
new judicial nominations has. il was stated,
further complicated the situation. The
Citizens Union movement, it was added.
was largely if not entirely in the interest
of Austen G. Fox, whose friends have said
for several Years hat he desired n seat
on the Supreme Court bench of the county
A Joint Republican and Democratic
judiciary ticket, it was pointed out, would
be printed in the columns on the BALLOT
headed by the party candidates for State
officers, while the Citizens Union candi-
dates for justices would be printed in a
separate column. Politicians, both Repub-
| licans and Democrats, it was remarked
have become timid about fussing much
with judicial nominations since the May
nard and DAILY years. The nomination OF
Isaac II. Maynard in 1894 by the Demo
Gratis led to the utter rout OF David b
Hill, the Democratic candidate for Governor,
and the complete turning over OF the state
to the Republicans healed by Thomas G,
Plat, from which hour Senator Plat 4
rehabilitation "a leader of his party In the
state was established. Mr.. Plat often
said in 1894 that II the Republicans didn't
win that year he would forever retire from
politics. The MAYNARD nomination, fol
lowed two years later by Brvan's nomi-
nation for President, completed Platt's
triumph and insured his return to the
United States Senate.
Democrats said yesterday that Richard
Croker's refusal in 1898 to renominate
Joseph F. DAILY to the Supreme Court bench
in New York county was more responsible
for the defeat Of Augustus Van Wyok and
the election OF Theodore Roosevelt fol-
Governor than any single event in that
campaign. Yet in a Gubernatorial cam.
paign the Republicans hav not hitherto
combined with the Democrats on a judicia
ticket such as has been suggested in the
case Of the fourteen new Supreme
Court Justices for the First and the pro-
posed new Second Judicial districts. So
the proposition is being looked upon from
many viewpoints.