The Washington times., 1911-10-14

Murray bay. Canada, where the jus-
tice always spent his summers. He de-
clafed golf to be q better form OF ex-
ercise than walking because II gives q
man something TO think about. Walking
does not afford anything for the nina
on his seventy-eigath birthday, jus
tice' Harlan talked OF longevity. health.
worry. and kindred subjects. ..,..
is ONE thing a man must learn 70 avoid
nc no one thing in the world that has a
tendency to upset and rust lsn,S,,, mans tnan
The whole nation sent Justice Har-
ian expressions of good will on his last
Srtnday Il seemed to to make ns enas sne ere asre
took occasion to deny that he would re-
.'sometimes have thought would
rssrs rss he shss said SS SSps Shss ss
TO face with the problem ] shrink from
at this TIME ! hays no purpose to to
life have I been sick. with. those eS.-
ceptions, I have been absent from court
only twenty days during my entire
judicial career. Will, such health. why
should any one want 10 retire?'
Career Eventful.
Justice Harlan's career was an event.
full one throughout. He began his ju-
dicial career as q country judge IN Ken
lucky. He figured also In the field OF
politics, before his final elevation to the
highest tribunal, and when he assumed
the position of Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court. more than q third OF
It's most brilliant and forceful stump
lie was a citizen of the famous Ash
rent such men to Congress as Henry
CLAY, Thomas r. Marshall. James B
Beck, ]. C. 8. Blackburn, w. c. P.
Breckenridge. william Owens, and
others 1t was originally a Whis con.
Young Harlan. when but twenty
six years old, was a candidate for
Congress Of the Whig party. and was
defeated by less than a hundred
In 1851 he moved to Louisville and
began the practice Of law. He was
elected attorney general a, by the the
active practice. He was the Repub-
lican candidate for governor Of Ken
lucky in 1871, but the Republican
party in that State In those days
today. In 1872 his name was present.
ed for the Vice Presidency. and in 1871
was again the Republican candidate
eor governor,
In the famous convention Of 1876
he gave Hayes the Presidential nomf-
nation by switching to his standard
the Kentucky delegation. In 1877 he
was appointed by Hayes to the Su-
preme bench, where he has been ever
, since.
Was Independent.
As his powerful dissenting opinions ir
the Standard Oil and Tobacco trus,
cases indicated, Justice Harlan was
thoroughly independent on the bench
During his long service on the Supreme
bench he figured in number of i'm
portant dissenting opinions. sometimes
standing alone, sometimes having th'
| support Of one or two of his colleagues
Among the most noted cases in which
Justice Harlan stood alone. was th'
| celebrated Knight case Of 1896. the mrs
case in which the Supreme Court inter
, preted the Sherman law. The maJortt!
opinion was a blow to the supporters g
| the new act. The Government attempt
| ed to annul the purchase of four Phila
| delphta refineries by the Sugar trust
! The court held, in effect, that what hat
| been combined was merely q group o
| manufacturing interests, all in the on
| State, and that the mere fact that tn
1 sugar refined in these establishment
was to be sole In all parts of thu
| country did not make the manufactur