The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-21

elect. not before the election, to the South, that would do theIbest l could to wipe out the feeling that the cen- tral government at Washington was a government allen to the Southland and I pointed out that the only way the as In him lay, to put into office men in whom the community at large. without regard to party, would have the highest confidence. Now am trying to do that and I am going to appoint Republicans and am going-fo appoint Democrats, striving in each case to get man who will commend himself to the comraun- ity in which he lives.
 Tt Is suggested that it is an insult to the Republicans of district to ap- point a Democrat a judge because from that Is to be inferred that there is no Republican worthy of the appointment. and understand that there arc some gentlemen in the Democratic Party who are willing to make that inference as strong as possible. But I venture to say that when the whole account Is added up, that spirit will have disap- peared and the Democrats who seek to utter it will find that it Is not a pop uIar method of attacking the Republi- can administration after all.
 Points to Harrison.
 II plead to my Republican friends as 6 Nlh0iSGlAOH anu JuSllhIebblOA course. the course of as orthodox a Republican as ever filled the execu- tive chair and a man than whom there never was a President who did so much to maintain the standard of the Federal judiciary as Benjamin Harrison for he deemed 1t his duty to put one Demo- crat on the Supreme bench and two on the Circuit Courts of Appeal.
 'The Federal judiciary. my dear friends. to my mind, is the strongest bulwark we have in all this country to protect ultimately our institutions of civiT-liberty and those of the things in the Federal Constitution that we must love and must hug to our bosom If we are to continue this civilization.
 And therefore. there is no more sa- cred duty that the executive has than in the selection of men whose appoint ment and service on the bench will strengthen it with all the people at large. Ordinary considerations of po- litical partisanship have much less ap- plication to the appointment of judges than they do to others and temporary offices.
 T think not that we are at a point where there is to be political revolu- ton in the South I never had such a dream. But I believe We are on the eve of such a condition in the South that there should be complete toler- ance OI OplnlOn ana that LneTe small grow into respectable power an oppo- sition in each State which shall tend to the betterment of the Government as 1t exists fin the State which shall give us occasionally, as you have already given us in North Carolina, a Repub- lican in a crowd of Democrats, in or- der that we may have represented in the Congress at Washington your views without regard to some past issue. without regard to the ghost of an issue that really ought not to in- huence you in enforcing these par ticular economic views that you really entertain.
 "I hope you will forgive me for an apparent reference to political condi- tons when I am really only extending you you the right hand of fellowship as Americans explaining. possibly by inference, some of the difficulties of conducting this Government as Its Chief Executive"
 Speaks to, Negroes.
 To the negro students at Riddle Uni | versity, the President said. In part: "I am not oblivious to the troublous times through which you and your fa- ters and mothers have passed, or of the burdens and possibly the cruelties which circumstances have made 1t nec- i essary for you to bear. But l thank God that these things are passing away and the proper place fer you to look