Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-05
Has the Heartiest Greet
ing Of All at St. Louis
Pays Respects to Bryan for
Laiter's Recent Criticism
Of Appointment Of Gov. Hughes to
The Supreme Bench.

Washington, where he is scheduled 10
arrive Friday morning. 1t remained
for st. Louis to give Mr.. Taft the
heartiest demonstration of his present
Journey. The city was gaily decorated
and there were throngs wherever the
President went. Several times his au-
tomobile was stopped to receive bou-
quets. These Mr.. Taft afterward sent
to St. Luke's hospital and the Home
for Incurables.
The apparent warmth of reception
seemed to effect the President and
when, at the luncheon of the Business
Mems League late in the afternOonI
President Walker Hill praised him
amid deafening applause for his APP
pointment of Judge Lurton and Gov
ernor Hughes to the supreme court
bench, Mr.. Taft launched into a vigor-
GUS speech in which he paid his re-
spects to VIM. ]. Bryan for his reported
criticism Of Governor Hughes and de-
scribed the Cant of the Demagogue"
and the disposition Of public journals
ito make unjust charges against men
in public life"
IAN am appealing for is justice and
a square DEAL" said the President,
49, OSPCNAoAy AoA NY ocll, lOI lIIl
q position where l can get along bet
ter than some of the rest without it.
But 1 am appealing for justice in deal
ing with all classes"
The President declared that he held
the appointment of men to the SUI
preme court bench to be the most sa-
cred of his duties. He said that in the
constitution, those who framed it,
gave to the supreme court and the sub
ordinate tribunals to be establish
ed by Congress. certain powers, which
interpreted by Marshall and those who
followed him, make that court I'M
equdled among the tribunals of the
world. The court was constituted to
preserve the rights of individuals
against the people themselves when
ever in the heat of emotion of tempo
rary ALTERATION they enacted meas
ures that deprived the individual of his
Just rights under the constitution
Hence, it is to me. a lawyer that
the supreme court Of the United
States is the most sacred thing that
we have in this government and that
the appointment of men to that bench
is the highest and most sacred func-
ton. the Executive has to perform.
''Now / do not like to be invidiouS in
my remarks, or to quote what may have
been a misquotation, but I did hear a
criticism of one appointment, that the
appointee was not an implacable form of
wealth and corporations. l think perhaps
that criticism has been misunderstood
and that the utterer. of it did not in
tend to give 1t the meaning that. thus
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all, Democrats and Republicans and In
surgents, are patriotic citizens and We all
are in favor of having on the bench men
who are foes of nothing but what is
wrong and are in favor of equal justice
to everyone. whether that be an organiza-
tion of men doing business under the law
and using the instrumentality of cor
poration to promote the industries of the
country or be the humblest citizen strug-
Cling with his hand to earn a living for
his family.
II do not mean to say that men by their
habits of life may not acquire a bent
or a prejudice In one direction or an
other and that 1t is always wise to select
for the highest tribunal men who have
not such a bent and who have not in
their makeup the danger Of prejudice to
one interest or against another. But
do mean to say that there Is in the public
journals. and In what may call the
cant of the demagogues. a disposition to
charge that kind of bent in favor of
corporate monopoly when there is no JUS
tice for the charge at all.
II am applying for justice in dealing
with all classes.
II said all classes OF course. prac
tically it Is pretty hard to give it. To our
Socialistic friends who are engaged in
decrying our present institutions. l could
furnish a good deal better ground for
their complaints than the government it.
self. think If they were to object not
to our administration of justice but de-
lays In it, arising from the traditional
methods pursued in courts, by which the
man with the longest purse has the ad.
vantage. because the litigation is drawn
out. they would be getting, as the chill.
dren say. pretty warm in reaching a
subject that will bear full discussion and
in which we shall have to have yery de.
cided reform.
I'VE have got to arrange it so that
cases are decided promptly. 1 am bound
to say that the United States courts are
not models in this. but all courts may be
reformed in this regard
What is driving you merchants out
of courts into arbitration? 1t is the cos,
Of litigation. Now we ought to have
courts that can dispose of business
promptly and end litigation and speak
as lawyer and I speak as a Judge, and
therefore, I speak with confidence. be-
cause know what / am talking about.
] feel much more at home on this sub
ject than do In discussing great sub.
5ects which interest farmers"
The President closed with reference
to possibilities Of making the MISSISSIPPI
ri a great highway Of commerce. Earlier
in the day the President made little
sreech on the Panama canal at a break
fast of the Commercial Club and ad
dressed the Farmers Union in the Coli
scum on Conservation"
After the Business Mems League
luncheon, the President visited both OF
the big league baseball games which
were played today.
At both games the President received
f 1 81.