Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-21


II there is anything that | can do II
my administrator to make that feel
ing of union more close | shall do II
/, Appointees viii be Worthy.
Il am anxious, OF course, speaking
from a partisan standpoint and ieav
ing my official position for moment
that the Republican party of Nortf
Carolina should be strengthened
merely 10 have a good fight at every
election, and of course insofar as may
legiimately do so, should be glad tc
build up the Republican party. Now
] understand that some of my Repro-
lican friends think that have lost
sight OF the Republican party in put
ting into Office in North Carolina a
gentleman now o. The Supreme bench
of the state, a lawyer of the highest
eminence and learning and integrity
but Democrat.
II promised after / was the Presi-
dent elect to the South that | would
do the best i could to wipe out the
feeling that the central government
at washington was a government alien
to the Southland, and | pointed on,
that the only way by which the exc
cuiive could cure that feeling was,
in so far 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 am
going to appoint Republicans and !
going to appoint Democrats. striving
In each case to get a man who Will
commend himself TO the community
in which he lives.
Method Not Popular.
1T is suggested that it is an in
suit to the Republicans OF district
to appoint a Democrat as judge, be-
cause it is to be inferred that there
is no Republican worthy of the ap-
point ment, and | understand that
there are some men in the Democra-
tic party who are willing 10 make that
inference as strong as possible. But
venture to say that when the whole
account is added up that spirit VIII
have disappeared, and the Democrats
who seek to utter II will find that II
is not such a popular method of at
lacking the Republican administration
after all.
Cites a Precedent.
Il plead to my Republican friends
as a vindication and justification for
my course. the course of as orthodox
a Republican as ever filed the exc
cutive chair, and a man than whom
there never was a President who dId
so much to maintain the standard CT
the Federal MISUNDERSTANDING Har-
rison, who deemed it his duty TO put
one Democrat on the Supreme bench
and Two on Circuit Courts of Appeal.
The Federal judiciary, my dear
friends. to my mind is the strongest
bulwark that we have in all tnis
country to protect ultimately cur in
stitutions OF civil liberty and those
OF the things in the federal constitu-
ton that We must love and must hug
to our bosom IL We are to continue
tnlS clVlllZdUon.
And therefore there is no more
sacred duty that the executive has
than the selection of men whose ap-
pointment and service on the bench
will strengthen it with all the peopr
at large. Ordinary considerations CT
political partisanship have much less
application to the appointment OF
Judges than they do to other and
temporary Offices.
Doesn't Expect Political Revolution.
II do net think that we are at a
point where there is to be political
revolution in ,he South. never rao
such a dream. But believe we are
on the eve Of such a condition in tne
South that there shall be complete
tolerance of opinion and that there
shall grew into respectable power an
in each state which snail
tend to the betterment of the govern
merit as its exists in the state WHICH
shall give us occasionally as you have
already given us in North Carolina, a
Republican in a crowd Of Democrats.
in order that we may have represent
ed in the Congress at Washington
views without regard 10 some past
issue. without regard TO the ghost or
an issue that really ought not TO in
auence you In enforcing those particu-
lar economic views that you really en-
terrain
Il hope YOU win forgive me Tor
an apparent reference to politics when
! am really intending 10 snow the right
Kind Of fellowship as man explain
ing possibly by inference some Of Toe
dificuIties OF conducting this govern
mcnt as It's chief executive"