The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-17
POLITICIANS
DISAPPOINTED
IN SELECTIONS
Review Shows Harding and
Daugherty Pick Admirable
Men But Ignore Urges of
State Organizations.
SENATORS RESTLESS
ny MARK SULLIVAN

between the president and the senate
are entirely correct So are the re-
ports Of discomfort over patronage be-
tween the president and the poll
ticians
A review of the appointments that
President Harding has made, compar-
ed with the kind Of appointments that
the political organizations in the var
ious states thought he ought to make
and fully expected he would make
shows some results which explain why
many Of the senators and politicians
are extremely restless.
The most recent conspicuous one is
that of James M. Beck to be solicitor
general. If the politicians don't like
this appointment, if the senators from
New Jersey don't like it, and if the
Republican organization in New Jer-
sey doesn't like it, no one ought TO
be surprised. Mr.. Beck has had his
voting residence in New Jersey but
a few months. His appointment to be
solicitor general is absolutely no polit-
ltical asset whatever to the Repubn-
can organization in that state.
Hard on Organization.
AS the Republican organization of
New Jersey like the Republican or
looking forward TO a probably hard
fight next year it naturally feels it
isn't helped very much by appoint
ments which are charged against it.
but which are not local political
asset.
From every point of view, except
the political one, Beck's appointment,
of course, is welcomed as admirable.
1t is the most recent of a series of
appointments made by Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty in his department
which have received the highest
praise. The solicitor general is the
most important appointment within
Mr., Daugherty's gift. The solicitor
general is the lawyer for the United
States, before the supreme court, in
all litigation in which the United
States is party.
Big Gases Coming
The difference between first-class
lawyer and one not 50 good in the
solicitor general office during the next
four years probably will mean a diff
ference of not less than $4,000 000, 900
to the United States treasury, for
there will be d large number of ex-
tremely important cases involving big
sums in taxes, war contracts and the
like.
The appointment of a man of Mr..
Beck's experience and ability repre-
sents, on the part of Mr.. Daugherty
and President Harding, the end of a
long search and a steadily held pur-
pose to get for the job the kind of, a
lawyer who. in private practice, could
readily earn ten times what his sa,a ry
will be as a government official
Hayward Selection
The same kind Of thing occurred in
the appointment of Col William L
Hayward as federal district attorney
in New York. The character and
quantity of government business
which must be cared for by the fed
eral district attorney in New York
are such as to demand the highest
kind of ability, both legal ability ant
organizing ability.
1t is we'll understood in Washington
that for this Office the New York poll
ticians and the New York Republican
organization had several candidates
and that Attorney General Daugherty
turned down these political recon
mendations in order to name as good {
man as Hayward.
The New York organization formally
IbCOulU1SHuSu
New York politicians of great powe,
put their shoulders, in the most earn
est way, behind some five other candi
dates. The turning down of thes'
seven men. and the choice of Hayward
by the president and the attorne.
general on a basis other than politica
was naturally disappointing.
Another Place Open.
Mapy other oF Attorney Camera
Daughertys appointments and recon
lnendations have taken the same turn
Just now. incidentally it is understood
that there is soon to arise the ques
ton of filing a vacancy in the fedora
judiciary in New York. 1t is under
stood that one of the federal justice
in the circuit which includes New
York. Connecticut and Vermont i
about to retire. 1t is understood ais
that political influences in one OF tn
smaller states composing the distric
would like to fill the vacancy with
lawyer from their state who has no
had judicial experience.
The alternative TO this is TO fill tn
vacancy by promotion from among tn
men already sitting as district judges
the two district judges who are mos
strongly recommended for the vacanc
being Hand, of New York, and Juliu
Mayer. of New York. If Attorne
General Daugherty in his recommends
ton and President Harding in his al
pointment stick to the course whic
they already have followed to such
degree that it indicates a policy o
their part. they will fill this vacanc
on the circuit bench by promotion
rather than by taking some one ine2
perienced on the bench.
Important Places.
All of the appointments of judge
within the power of the attorney gel
eral and the president are of the higl
est Importance The terms of thes
Judges being so long, it is within tn
power of the attorney general and tn
president to determine the characte
of the federal judiciary and the tren
of evolution in legal sense, for a
most 4 generation to come.
Everything that Mr.. Daugherty an
President Harding have done so ia
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