Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-14
PENNYPACKER ATTACKS
PRESIDENT WILSON'S METHODS
Objection Is Raised by the Pennsylvania to Will
sons "Swap" of the "Governorship of New
Jersey for Another High Office

being done i'm secret, and the next day
wrote to the Ledger:
/ have carefully read the wanton at.
tack upon myself in yesterdays Record
10 see whether there could he any possi-
BILE justification for Il except a wish 10
excel in newspaper enterprise / may be
wrong, but IL seems to me there is no
principle of ethics which would prevent
me from going before the next Republi-
can state Convention as a candidate for
the Supreme Court, or from asking the
support of Mr.. Quay or any one else who
may have influence, provided do not use
the power of the Governor for that pur-
pose. II / chose to take this course,
should not hesitate in order TO escape
illogical comment. As "a matter of fact,
j have not asked any person who may be
a delegate to that convention, or any one
who may have weight in its deliberations,
10 do anything whatever in connection
with II and do not expect to do so In the
future. As Governor ! have refrained
from efforts to influence political move
ments.
In the appointment of judges have Ell.
deavored t. do my full duty TO the courts
and in each instance, save in the scIeo
ton OF MIR. Bispham, have ascertained
and given due weight to the views of tho
court most concerned. In appointing Mr..
Thompson | have indicated so plainly
as to the kind of man who ought to be
placed in that position have given
him term of thirteen months, all that
had to give, and only folly or malevolence
could ask me for more.
If, however. as the Record predicts, ITO
Republican state Convention should see
fit in its wisdom TO nominate me for the
Supreme Court, and that should be fol-
lowed by AN election, shall return to tho
bench.
Quay's Objection
This letter told the exact truth and In
effect declared to any one skilled in the
language that did not intend to be Il can-
dldate. II asserted my right to go before
the convention and solicit help in any di-
rection and affirmed that l had not so done
and did not intend SO to do in other words,
that I was not doing the things | would
have done had purposed to be candidate.
II, Notwithstanding, the party should nom
mate me and the people elect me, as the
newspaper asserted, then l would return TO
the bench. II would in that event be a
duty. Nothing could have been straighter.
1t was likewise Il defiance and intended TO
be a defiance. Should I choose to be n
candidate. and should + choose to ask Quay
to help me. then ii asserted / would do II
in utter disregard Of what might be pub
lished IN the newspapers. Again did the
heathen rage, and again the cartoonists
earned their hire That man should be
20 constructed as to act decently in mat.
ter concerning his own interests was not
10 be conceived and one vino was willing
to go to the Supreme Court must neces-
sarily be taking all sorts of underhand
measures in order to get there.
Quay thought my letter to be wretched
politics. but there We're some things more
important to me than either office, and we
We're not viewing the subject from the same
angle And l still think 1t was good poll.
tics, since 1t did away with all talk about
secret plotting.
On the twelfth OF December was
the guest of honor at the dinner of
the Pennsylvania Society Of New York,
most successful society, the active spirit
in which is Barr Ferree, and there l met
Governor Odell, OF New York, and Gov.
ernor Edwin Wariield, of Maryland
tomorrow Governor Pennypack,r feIIs n, .
tnnrii!lnE episode with u murderer in the Easier
Penitentiary. " o '-aS'erh