Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-11-08
May
Get Place
v NinCabinet
Judge W. R. King 1t Is
Claimed Will Be Placed on
Wilson's Cabinet Probably
Secretary Of Interior


That former Supreme Court Justice
Win R. King, premier champion of
Woodrow. Wilson on the Pacific coast,
and who, while on the Oregon supreme
bench, wrote an opinion on the ques-
ton Of irrigation which has become
almost a textbook on that subject and
which is recognized as a masterpiece
by the United States supreme court,
will go into President Wilson's cabi-
net as secretary of the interior, is the
opinion of many Salem Democrats.
That Judge King should be appointed
70 that office is the universal opinion
in this section of the state.
Since the opening of the campaign
Judge King has been at the Chicago
headquarters directing not only the
Democratic campaign on this side of
the Rocky mountains, but because Of
the absence from the bureau much Of
the time of the heads Of the other
campaigning departments, practically
in charge of the entire Wilson head
quarters Judge King has been work.
ing day and night ever since the Bal
timore convention, but his first efforts
toward making Woodrow Wilson the
next president of the United States be-
gan IN Oregon more than a year ago.
He Visits Bryan.
It was while Judge King was on the
Oregon bench that he began to mani
fest his admiration for Governor Will
son, and at that time he expressed the
opinion that Wilson would be the next
president. About the middle of 1911
the Oregon man made trip east and
visited a number of leading Demo-
Gratis, among them William j. Bryan,
in Wilson'S behalf The Wilson boom
IN Oregon was started by him and
there is no doubt that his efforts for
the New Jersey governor were felt
throughout the nation.
Judge King is certainly great ma
terlal for position in the cabinet as
secretary Of the Interior" said Judge
Thomas A. Mcbride, Of the supreme
court today, "and Oregon and the west
will certainly be lucky If he is named.
Judge Mcbride and Judge King were
intimate friends before the latter left
The bench "He knows more about ir-
Iigatlon than any other man in the
United States" continued the Judge
He has been student of the subject
for years. He was born and reared or
an Irrigated farm in Umatilla county
Tells Of Noted Case.
Judge Kings famous opinion in the
case Of Hough against Porter has be.
come a textbook on the water subject
It has been commented on favorably
by the supreme court of the United
States several times, and it is consid
cred all over the west as the finest ex
position on the subject Of water rights
that has ever been written. 1t is thu
longest opinion that was ever writer
ID the state, taking 149 pages in thu
court reports, while most cases re
quire only two or three pages. 1t Il
exhaustive of the subject"
The case of Hough against Porte
which resulted in Judge Kings opin
ion orlginated from southern oregon
No Ak to Grind.
II do not think Judge King ever hat
AK to grind while he was working TO
Governor Wilson," said Judge Nc
Bride, 81 have never heard of his as
plring to cabinet position, but h
has certainly earned it. 1t requires
nerve for him to champion Wilson II
Oregon at the early time at which h
did It, because there was a very stronl
feeling here at that time for Cham
Clark'
With Judge W. 7. Slater, Judge Kin
was appointed a commissioner of tn
supreme court in 1907, an unusuall
large amount of work in the court a
that time requiring the creating o
these temporary Offices Two year
later both he and Judge Slater wer
appointed to places on the bench.
Mine Fire Is Out.