The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-04
JUDGE F2AUENTHAL' s ADDRESS
Speech Accepting Office of Asso-
 ciate Justice.
In Brief but Eloquent Talk New Judge Gives Conception of States
 Highest Tribunal.

The address of Judge Sam 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: It has been with some misgiving that l have accepted this appointment of associate justice of this high court, because I feared that I 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 time when this court has lost one of ts brightest and most learn ed mem 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 benehcent 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 bench 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 jealously guarded and en- forced. The reports of this court are a luminous evidence of the high character, purity, patriotism and ability of its members, from Ringo, and English, and Cockrill, and Bunn to Hill.
 "The governor has on this oc- 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, it 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 ar 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 litigants themselves.
 And this court has ever been alert and alive to the rights of the liti- gants 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.
 of in the performance of such duties as may come to me as a member of this court may catch this spirit from you and that splen- did devotion to duty which you have ever evinced, so that shall be able i'll 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, shall deem myself happy, because l then shall feel that I, too, have added some thing to the great cause of good | government.