Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-12
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
Will Not Retire to Give
Way to TAFT
SECRETARY MAY GO TO BENCH
Belief That He Will Be Sidetracked in
Presidential Race Prevails to Some
Extent President Roosevelt 6ames
Yellow Journals for Some Of the
Financial Troubles.

ldenL elSnL months III ADVANCE ol tile
next national convention.
Those who question the success Of
Secretary Taft and his ability to 3e-
cure majority of the delegates, say
that soon after the secretary returns
from his und-the-World-trip there
will be a conference between the pres
ident the secretary and the leaders in
the Taft movement, the result of which
will be the retirement of Taft as a
presidential candidate; and that such
retirement will be based on the UNDER
standing that the secretary of war
will be appointed chief justice of the
United States supreme court when
ever a vacancy occurs.
1t will be recalled that President
Roosevelt rendered his secretary If
war position on the supreme bench
two years ago, and it was stated ut
the time, as coming from a source very
rear Judge Taft, that if he should
ever conclude to accept such position
it would be only when the chief Jus
ticeship was rendered to him. After
this statement was published there
was much gossip as to the possibility
of Chief Justice Fuller retiring, since
he is long past the age limit
The venerable jurist is now Over "A
years of age, and while he is physical
ly rather delicate his mind is strong
and clear, and those who are in po-
sition to know say that he accom-
nit oo a no has NVtyh-
in the last four or five years. 1t is
said he has declared he will never re-
sign while President Roosevelt is in
position to name his successor.
Within the last hundred years no
chief justice has retired on the attain
ment Of the age limit
In the earlier days of the rep.h,ic.
and under the administration Of
George Washington, the tenure Of tie
high office OF chief justice was very
short, compared with the later period.
The proceedings of the Cosmopolitan
Shipping Company against the Ham
burg American Packet Company, the
North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany, the Wilson Lines and the Scan
Q1NdV1dH .AIIleIlCdIl Lille, IIlCh SSNSAtSi
months ago, with the interstate COM
merce commission, have taken on
new and important phase. AS attorneys
for the defendant lines, former Sena-
tor John G. Spooner, William G. Choate
and Harrington Putnam have entered
with the commission a demurrer to
the complaint Of the Cosmopolitan
Shipping Company, In which it is set
up that the commission has not, I'M
der the laws of the United States, jur-
isdiction over the subject matter of the
complaint or power to proceed against
the defendants.
1t Is maintained further, that the
complainant's petition sets forth no
matter which is cognizable by the In
terstate commerce commission, OF
which it has been given power to rem-
edy. The counsel for defendants ask,
therefore, that they may be not'com-
PEELED to answer the complaint, and
that the case be dismissed.
The commission has fixed Tuesday
December 8, as the date for hearing
argument on the demurrer.
Mr. John A. Fox, of Arkansas, spec
ial director of the national rivers and
harbors congress-, reached Washington
after q trip Of more than 10000 miles
5thruout the United States. He is here
to complete certain arrangements in
connection with the forthcoming con-
vention of the Organization. Among
those who have signified personally tc
Mr.. Fox their intention of being pres
ent are Governor Glenn, who will head
a delegation of sixty from North Car
solina; Governors Hoke Smith, OF Geor-
gia; Chamberlain, of oregon; Cutler
Of Utah; Mead, of Washington; Gill
lett, of California; Kibby, of Arizona;
and Guild, of Massachusetts,. Governor
EHoke Smith is to make an address and
Ambassador Won Sternburg and AM
bassador Jusserand will discuss wat
erway development in Germany AND
France, respectively, at the conven-
ton.
President Roosevelt has protested
against the misrepresentation of GER
tain conservative newspapers, and has
expressed his conviction to some OF
his friends that these papers, which
are usually as influential with invest
ors as with the financiers, have done
more by their persistent distortion OF
the facts and their willful misrepre-
sentation of his aims and policies, to
precipitate the lack of confidence OF
which they are now complaining than
have all Of Mr.. Roosevelt's trust pros
ecutions and oratorical denunciations
Of successful dishonesty.
AS a matter of fact those capitalists
and financiers, who come to the White
House to plead with the president
against a petition Of utterances they
have attributed to him, or beg him to
say certain things which they believe
will help to restore confidence, are
generally amazed to find that he has
never said the former and that the
latter he has put in more forceful
manner than they suggest. The diff
fculty is that the man of affairs, as
rule too busy to read the presidents
messages and speeches, accepts as
rule the misleading headlines, intro
rule the misleading headlines. 1t is to
these "yellow" headlines the president
objects, which in no way represent the
context of the speech, but are de-
signed to mislead the reader.
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