The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-19
Letters To the Editer
THE HUT,DLEr coNFIRMArroN,

T North AIabamiap writes of Positios ef senators. is' sdItor Of Advertiser:
 No Alabamian finds greater pride than the writer In the statesmanship ana accomplishments of the two dis ,inguished representatives of our be- sSssa sta state in the Senate of the united confluence in their honesty of mind and intention, l feel at perfect liberty to, crlticise and dissent from their atti- tude tude with respect to the confirma- nation to be United States judge of the Northern District of Alabama has been pending before the Senate of the United States for nearly two years. Inere has been no nominations, within half century. by the Presi- dent pf the. United states for an im- portant Federal position in Alabama that has challenged more general op- position. or that has been charac- terlzed by equal severity of resistance. The repugnance to Judge Hundley's confirmation is not limited to Demo- crats, but Is shared and publicly ex-. pressed by the abIest. w.sest and The late Senators .Pettps and Nor gan were uncompromisingly opposed to the confirmation and based thelr resistance thereto upon the mola and intellectual unfitness of Judge Hund- ley; and 1t Is known that a rerort of a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee declared. him an improper person to be entrusted with this high responsibility. J A large majority Of the Representa- tives In Congress from Alabama have. by protest and otherwise. unt ringly opposed nis confirmation. and Demo- srats sn from all sections of the state Ihe consent of the Senate 10 this ap-
 For these reasons alone. our sena- tors would be abundantIy justified in tion of this appointment
 But from the standpoint of Demo erat who does not believe that judicial positions should be subject 10 partisan zen of the state experiences the great est pride in the reflection that Ala bama has furnished a list of lawyers and jnrists whose names grace the test against the action of our Senators lending their Influence and votes to the confirmation of Judge Hundiey. I. have met this man at the bar. and does not possess one single element that fits him for a judge. He Is ig- norant of the law. and does not pos sess an anafytical mlnd. In other words, he. is not now fitted to be a ever become fitted.
 Grave questions affecting funda- mental Drinciples of government for which democracy stands and which are forging to the front for final Judicial determination. may have their origin tq the District and c rcult Courts of the United States; the rights of the employed as against the aggres- sions of wealthy eorpora ions are ad- proDounded by Secretary Root at the Phiiadeiphia Club, to wit: What is to be the future Of the states of the United states under our dual system of constitutional goYernment7H may find it's first revolutionary answer and suggestion of change in the political organization of our country in a de- cisiop of this court; extra judicial of the reserved rights of the states may find primary and unexpected and unwarranted expression through the United States District Court of Ala banla.
 When the momenteus occasion ar- rives. as most assuredly 1t will, there sheHld be a Federal judiciary in A'a- banla whose tFanscendant abilities and impregnabl ble characters will enable them to declare h behalf of the com understood and declared by the Fathers of the Republic, F' Does any intelligent person believe who knows the man. that Judge Hund-
 
 a guarantee of the preservation of these rights? Surely not. t|
 The tendency of the times is to re- move the Federal judiciary as far. as possible from the Influence of poli- tics. and this tendency has been ac- centuated by President Roosevelt in the appointment of Judge Thomas G Jones.
 That a Democrat embo lying In a supeTlative degree the mental qualtfi- cations and legal abilities and demo- cratic conceptions of the relation or the citizen to the government and the State to the nation, can secure this appointment, no one acquainted with the situation can gainsay. The very bickerings. schlsms and factional diff ferences. now existing in the Repub- lican party in Alabama make this probable.
 It Is possible that our two Senators who represent the probity, the pru- dence and sagacity of the people of Alabama will fritter away this i'm. nerial opportunity? If so, may the people not forget them!
 North Alabama