The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-08
Judge TAFT Proves
Himself, by Far, a Man
Bigger Than His Party
His Speech to Virginia Lawyers
q But An Evidence Of His Broad
ness and Is F,led With True o.
y American Patriotism.

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mind fairness be ad-
by Bryan supporters newspaper or people
Judge has been compelled and now becomes
only firmly established by OF his speech before the
Virginia Bar association behalf of quckened justice ana equal
y for all in the wherein he evidences that he nnuiu "
great today within the administration OF justice
He appreciates that the hardness and delay which
of the with money ana with
corporate power.
He appreciates too that it POOR LITIGANT who suf
fers by of this snae process in the administrator OF
justice.
HIS PLEA THEN is FOR THE POOR MAN, and The
Times nothing audaOn for him in this positive stand
Judge Tats echo of the words of Grover
retirement when he said truthuy;
grown up among people disregard for the
restraint disposition evade its limitations while
queruous structures concerning the actions OF our courts tend "
undermine popular faith in the course of justice
the advantage OF the rich man and
to the disadvantage poor that there equality
ters admittedly the regrettabe state OF affairs which confron
country al the present time.
condition remedd contemplation present
from the class against class
which inevitably result
Judge Taft admits this himself
He said the Virginia lawyers:
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naming Judge Taft would have the codes OF
cedue simplihed great body of litigation set
tied in the courts the intermediate
peae limiting appeals the court of the United
typical which wide in their application such for
involving the construction of the United States
constitution the constitutions statutes of the states He would
mandatory reduction of and fees and higher
qualifications for judges who sit hear involving small Pc
cuniary
federal ofhca
settling damage arising
in the carrying of interstate commerce.
and whether the man fares
the corporations let quote
Wilson, Princeton in his work Con-
sttutona Government the United States in which he says
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ii speech the Virginia lawyers resounded with
patriotism spoken with cleaness which made
evidence of his sincerity and it will command
of the high regard in which he held by the
American people throughout the land.
His remarks free from partanshp and again is COM
rendable upon that
The thought original with him. evidenced by the quo
taon Wilson, great
weight prominent place which before
the possibility that they be the words
the United States
Judge Taft however though while this view of
is not his he big enough its truth and
regardless of whether
Judge Taft is bigger than his party.
Were he not he INDUCES the expression of sentiment
which could hope hear only from the direction Lincoln
Blu. by the way
Supposng Bryan had said it'