The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-24

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An enthusiastic throng that packed
Carnegie Hall to the roof and doors and
overf,owed into the surrounding streets
assembled last evening to ratify the elec
tons for the bench made by the judiciary
n~ominators.
The big hall was filed by half-past 7
O'Clock. and half an hour later the crowds
in the street had swelled to proportions
sufficient TO keep no less than four lively
overflow meetings going for an hour ana
a half. The inside audience furnished
such an exhibition Of brains and metro
politan standing as is seldom seen at a
political gathering.
Men Of all stripes Of political beliefs we're
there and cheered the speakers. On the
platform we're scores Of men who's names
are known TO every man who takes an in
terest in the big things that are doing in the
life of the city and the State. Among them
we're most Of the men named by the judici-
airy nominators, including Judge kufus b.
Cowing, Lewis l.. Delaield, Samuel H.
Ordway. Lawrence f. Sexton. Charles +.
Rushmore, Edward B. Whitney and Theo-
dore Connolly.
Every box in the big horseshoe was filed,
among the boxholders being Arthur Van
Briesen,. Charles F. Brown, John l.. Cad
walader, Judge William q. Choate, Judge
William NJ. Cohen. Robert W. De Forest,
John F. Dillon. Benjamin F. Einstein. Austen
G.. Fox, William ID. Guthrie, Adrian IL.
Joline, Joseph L~arocque. Wallace MacFar-
lane. David Mcclure, James McKeen, John
G.. Milburn, John f. Parsons, Eugene A..
PhiIbin. Harrington Putnam, John Mclean
Nash, Hamilton Odell, James r. Sheffield,
Henry W. Tuft, Leopold Wallach, John De
Witt Warner, Edmund Wetmore, Gen.
Daniel Butterfeld and Arthur n. Masten.
ALTON r. ARKER PREsIDEs.
Alton B. Parker, formerly Chief Justice
Of the Court Of Appeals. presided ana made
a vigorous address, being followed by John
NJ. Bowers. Joseph II. Choate and ex-Assist-
ant District Attorney William II. Rand, Jr.
Roth Judge Parker and MIR. Bowers were
heartily cheered. but IL was Mr.. Choate and
Mr.. Rand WHO ran away with the crowd.
veteran leader of the New York bar got a
reception when he was introduced that al
most TOOK him of his feet. He made a half
hour talk that bristled with the humor and
sarcasm that have long made him such a
power in political debate.
Mr.. Rand made his Impression. and a
deep one il was, by a merCiless and hard
hitting arraignment of the type of MaRis-
trates and Judges to whom the selections
Of the Judiciary Nominators are intended as
n stcrn r. buke. Mr.. Rand did not stick at
names either and thunders of
annlause followed his description of the
spectacle presented at Buffalo last month
when Magistrates Wahle. Finelite and Finn
marched through the streets at the heels
of Big Tim sullivan.
we are here said ex-Judge Parker,
-to try 10 Interest you in one Of the most
imporiant campaigns that has been waged
in New York city in many a day. Zach
Of Won has n personal interest in a canvass
which involves the election Of thirteen
Judges for a period Of fourteen years.
There is not one OF you who can with GER
tainty say that he may NO. be called into
court to protect his property, TO indicate
his good name Oh TO demand the aid OF the
court to defend or protect a personal right.
And when that time coElet each and every
one OF YOU will thank God II there sits on
the bench before you a man with legal
ability, high character and z keen owe OF
Jud0e Parker paid a tribute to the bench
as at present constituted, saying that the
majority of our judges we're able, honest
and fearless, but they were SO not because
of the machine, but in spite Of It. lie
added:
WHERE THE REPUBLICANS FAILED.
Now there is no difference between a Re-
publ can machine, where the Republican
party ia in control, and a Democratic
machine. The principle which governs
in each case ia prec sely the same, but in
this particular canvass our work is directed
against a combination of a Democratic
machine and Independence League ma
chine. Applause 90
aOur Republican frie nds. while not able
to indorse our ticket alt ogether, have never
theless indorsed twelve out Of the thirteen.
and | suppose we ought to be satisfied with
that. We should nave felt better il they
had indorsed them all, but the youth who
bore, mid now and ice, the banner with
that strange device, Excelsior was not
more persistent, il he was otherwise differ
can machine. Applause In vain did
some old men and many young ones say To
him: Try not the pass; it il full of oppor-
tunities for defective ballots but that
clarion voice replied: 'ROsalskyV IL this
leader. with his family deeply rooted in this
soil for more than two hundred years, him
self a man of learning. of character, Of great
ability. and az | believe lofty patriotic pur-
pose, was unequal To the opportunity, what,
/ should like to know could you expect OF a
machine that was dominated by a Murphy
or a Hearst or both in Combinationr
Judge Parker declared that Murphy at
Buffalo had turned a convention which had
a valid title into a fraudulent convention.
Those things were done" aid he. which
in business constitute a crime. and which in
politics ought to constitute a crime" ?
John VI. Bowers said that the only criti-
cism that he had heard levelled st the selec-
ions OF the Judiciary Nominators was that
these selections were those Of Joseph II.
Choate. Assume" said Mr.. Bowers. that
he had a guiding hand in those selections.
the question il whether Joseph II. CnOate's
nominations are as good as Murphy's."
GREAT WELCOME FoE CHOATR.
Mr.. Choate was cheered TO the echo when
Judge Parker introduced him. He de-
scribed the Heart Murphy judiciary deal
in terms Of sarcasm thSt made the crowd
roar with delight, clubbing the Murphy
Hearst ticket a mongrel ticket and declar-
ing that il had a Hearst Murphy license,
a Hearst Murphy collar and II elected,
would wear a Hearst Murphy muD zle on
occasion. Said Mr.. Choate:
Il indorse fully all that Judge Parker
in his very manly and independent address
has said about the purity, the ability and
fidelity Of the great ma jority Of the Judges
who now constitute and in all the past have
constituted the Judges OF our local courts.
And | am not very much out with Mr..
BOwers in his statement that Tammany
Hall has given to the city and the county
generally very good Judges.
But both Of nv distinguished friends
recognized that there have been some
exceptions. and I think I can tell you when
and how those exceptions nave occurred.
II il when the righteous elements in Tam
manv Hall, with which Mr.. Bowers il so
familiar, have been thrust into the back