Evening star., 1922-02-11
Was the "Bloc" Beheaded2

Popular Endorsement OF Senator
Kenyon's fitness for federal Judge.
ship, widespread and warmly cordia!
though it is, is almost lost in editorial
why's and wherefores Of the appoint
ment, and in the expression OF
deeply felt regret at his passing from
the Senate. The New York Globe lin
dependent) finds it almost impos-
sible to give any adequate explana-
ton of why the Iowa leader accept
Oregon Journal portland. independ-
ent] has it. he was too big and too
useful q man to be taken from the
Senate and buried in a federal
judgeship."
reason enough in the senator's own
Phiiadelphia Public Ledger Gnde--
pendent). he has been sick at heart
over 'Newberryism,' piqued, disil.
lusioned, tired of the Senate and OF
politics.; tired. the Dayton tohao,
News ldemoeratis9 ,s s,. continues na Sss been
making against the strongly in
trenched and what to him must have
seemed at times insufferable reac-
tionaries in the United States SEN
ate" So, with "the public welfare
department which he longed for not
stitutional amendment which he ia
vored giving the President the power
to veto individual items In an ap-
propriation bill still only dream;
the packers still free from the fed.
eral control he would put upon them.
dependent democratic) says. to the
studious and quiet usefulness OF the
bench"
(democratic) observes that ne oio
the best thing for Kenyon. IN, IN aceepL5 elp,d
not not have been declined by any mem
ber Of the Senate the Des MONIES
Canital (republican) rather hotly re-
torts that. the senator was luIiy
justified" in making the change IN mis-
service to the public since ss,a nus nn a the
Federal Bench" q capacity in which.
the paper holds, ''he will have oppor-
tunity to follow the same ideals that
he has pursued In the Senate"
delphia bulletin independent repub-
iican) regards his appointment "an
admirable one" for, as the Minnesota
star minneapolis, independently de-
clares, "a man of Kenyon's type IS
certainly needed on the bench. ne
will bring to the bench tnat numan nns z
ent, @ believes, and. therefore, the
Omaha World Herald Undependent)
Considers his appointment "a distinct
gain for the federal judiciary" as the
most needed in that great and power
full branch of the national govern
ment," possessing, the Fort Wayne
journal Gazette (democratic) feels'
"an instructive sense Of Justice.
But, granting all that is saia a IN
many writers agree with the Green
Bay Press-Gazette Independently that
his going is "a greater. loss to the
Senate than gain to the judiciary:
and, as the Duluth Herald (tndepend-
erit) puts 1t, nobody Is going to oe
especially happy about the ehange'" ha ;e !"
the Grand Rapids Herald (independ-
ent) asserts, for "the United states
Senate is none too strong today IN
it's personnel at best, and its standing
with the country Is none too good,
while the New Orleans States (demo-
cratic) feels that mo man in the BODY
and esteem of the whole country"
Iowa "1oses," comments the Sioux
City Tribune Independently, she has
been proud Of her junior senator,
and the Journal (republican) Of the
same city feels that the state will
miss the strength that he has con-
tributed to the battle for righteous
ness and square dealing" Indeed.
"there will be general regret through
the west" the Rocky Mountain News
(Denver, independently thinks. for. as
the st. Paul News Independently ex-
presses 1t. his withdrawal from the
Senate "is q bitter blow to the vast
agricultural interests Of the country.
But precisely because Of the power
he. was developing In support Of these
same vast agricultural Interests as
head Of the agrarian bloc In Congress,
many editors ind It. reasonable to
suppose, with the Hartford Times
f3arnocratfcl that ssE,resiAent f1n rdisp =