The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-05-12
THE. REMARKABLE MCLEAN
CASE.
Cali for Justice Hughes Brings to
Mind the Candidacy of Former
Justice.
New York Times.)


In short, Mr.. Justice Hughes must
resign and say yes" or mo" for good.
after the manner of General Sherman
Mr.. Justice Hughes is believed to be
fully capable of attending to his own
business, and probably he knows q
little more about that austere bodv"
than some of the purists who are bent
on smoking him out" He must he
familiar with the remarkable, cath
Ole, permanent "receptiveness" of Mr..
Justice Mclean. for instance.
Son OF poor and full-quivered Ter
seyman, who finally settled in Ohio.
after twenty years in Virginia and
Kentucky, John Mclean served in the
House of Representatives from 1878
to 1916. He was then a Democrat.
For six years he sat on the Ohio Su-
preme Bench. He was postmaster
general and mighty good one, in the
last two years of Monroes administra-
ton, through J. Q. Adams" and for a
short time in Jackson's.
The general tried to make him Sec
rotary of War, Secretary of the Navy.
He refused both posts, resigned the
postmaster-generalship, and was ap-
pointed (l829) an associate justice of
the Supreme Court. He acquired the
convention habit.
His name was "also considered" for
the nomination of president in the
anti-Masonic convention at Baltimore
in 1881, which named William Writ of
Maryland. The national Republicans
(Whigs) held no convention in 1886
Nominations were made by state. Ohio
named Mclean as its candidate for
Vice President. In the Wing national
convention of 1910, Mclean got two
votes for President on the final bal
lot. He was next candidate in the
Free Soil convention at Buffalo in
l848. In the first Republican national
convention in 1856, he got 1876 votes
to General Fremont's $50.
His Several Candidates..
In the same year he received thir-
teen votes in the Know knothing, or
American convention that nominated
Willard Fillmore. His dissenting op-
inion in the bred Scott case should
have strengthened him in the North
but in the Republican convention OF
1860 he got twelve votes on the first
ballot, eight on the second, FIVE on the
third. Earlier in the year he got q
votes in the Constitutional Union con-
vention that nominated Bell and Ever.
EFT. So one member of that austere
body" was a receptive" candidate ]
times six for President, one for Vice
President. His various experiments
or those of his friends, stretched over
nearly generation. He sat with I'M
impaired credit in that austere body
for thirty-two years, dying in 1861, al
the age of seventy-six. He was fam.
Gus for the power of his charges tc
grand juries, and his bred Scott opin.
ion, like that of Justice Curtis OIL
Massachusetts,, was famous in its
day. The yearning of members of sc
many parties to make him President i:
pretty we'll forgotten. With no irrev'
erence to so distinguished jurist, il
may be said that he was Ohio's all
round favorite son.
Associate Justice Levi Woodbury. o.
New Hampshire, Story's worthy sue
cessor in 1845, had received two vote:
for President and 2o6 for Vice Presi
dent in the Democratic convention o.
1874; in that of l848 his highest vote
was ffty-six. He had held with dis
tinction some of the highest politica
Offices. His transference to the bench
did not cool the ardor of his partisans
Was it his duty to resign or to decline
irrevocably! An easy method tor thu
recall of supreme court justices. Blu
the case of Justice Mclean is thu
richest, longest and fullest comment
airy on the Manchester imperative