The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1909-02-11
JUDGE F2AUENTHAL' S ADDRESS
Speech Accepting Office of Asso-
ciate Justice.
In Brief but Eloquent Talk New Judge
Gives Conception of States
Highest Tribunal.
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY


Frauenthal in accepting the office
of associate justice of the supreme
court is pronounced literary gem
by everyone who has commented
upon it. The address in full fol-
lows:
"Mr. Chief Justice and Gentle
men of the Supreme Court: 1t has
been with some misgiving that l
have accepted this appointment of
associate Justice of this high court,
because l feared that mihgt not
meet that great test of research.
legal acumen, correct judgment and
literary accomplishments which
the duties of this great court COM
mand, and this, too, at a time
when this court has lost one OF It's
brightest and most learn I'd men,
bers. l have always held in high
est admiration and deepest regard
the judiciary of the nation and
state. In our peculiar republican
form of government it has especial
ly devolved upon the judicial
branch to protect the lives and
property, and to keep carefully and
properly within their respective
spheres the different departments,
so that this free and beneficent
form of government, the best
known to man, may remain as
strong, pure and unsullied as when
it came from the hands of the
fathers.
Much of the prosperity of this
country and much of the security
and preservation of the government
has depended on the teachings and
decisions of those great patriots
who adorned the supreme be lch OF
the nation, from Jay and Marshall
to Fuller. And the rights of the
people of the state of Arkansas in
their properties and lives and liber-
ties have been greatly protected
and preserved by the bench and
bar of Arkansas. In the supreme
court of Arkansas justice has al
ways found its votary and defender;
and every citizen who has come
here to this high court has had his
rights jealousy guarded and en-
forced. The reports of this court
are luminous evidence of the
high character, purity, patriotism
and ability of its members, from
Ringo, and English, and Cockrill,
and Bum to Hill.
The governor has on this &C.
casion seen fit to take from the
rank and file of the bar one of its
members who has never held any
Office except the high and honorable
Office of representative of the plain
tiff or defendant, and has placed
him on the bench. He has been
led to this is true, by too great a
partiality to me; but he may also
have been influenced by his active
and large personality. In this
court we pore over the records OF
the various cases written in
dry words on dry parchment.
The plaintiff and defendant do not
az pear here in person before the
court; but back of every case are
the living, breathing parties
Wrapped up in every line and sen
tence of those dry and musty
records and transcripts are the
rights and liberties of living men
and women. Filled with the per
sonality of the plaintiff and defend
ant, the records will speak in aud
ible words and the dry transcripts
will pulsate with the heartbeats OF
the parties. And to emphasize
this he may have chosen one fresh
from the lltigants themselves.
And this court has ever been alert
and alive to the rights of the liti-
giants and has been permeated with
the noble spirit that the most sa-
cred trust yet confded to man is
to pass on the rights of his fellow
man.
"If in the performance of such
duties as may come to me as a
member of this court l may catch
this spirit from you and that splen-
did devotion to duty which you
have ever evinced, SO that l shall
be able in some small way to illus
trate and carry out the high and
sacred obligations which this court
of last resort owes and has ever
shown to the people, l shall deem
myself happy, because l then shall
feel that l, too, have added some
thing to the great cause of good
government.
Collections Reported Good.