The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-07-21

last December, will make no change
in the lineup of the Supreme Bench
as between Liberal and Conservative
approaches to Constitutional ques.
tons coming before the high court
Justice Cardozo, who was appoint.
ed to the Court by President Hoov'
er few months before President
Roosevelt took Office, was known
throughout his distinguished judi
cial career as a man of broad lib
eral views, who held that the courts
should keep pace with changing eco
nomic and social conditions and be
extremely tolerant of legislative eff
forts to adjust the laws to new con-
ditions.
His opinions as Justice of the SUI
preme Court followed that line OF
judicial reasoning, and he was
counted as. one of the Court group
who could be depended upon to up
hold any properly drawn laws de-
signed to carry out the Administra-
tons economic and social policies.
In picking his successor the Presi-
dent will, naturally, select jurist
whose mind runs in similar chan
nels. There will be no such change
in the Courts personnel as occur
red after the designations of Justices
Van Devanter and Sutherland, ul-
tra-conservatives, who were sue
ceeded by the liberal Justices Black
and Reed.
The general belief held here, in
the absence of an intimation from
the President, is that Felix Frank
furter of the Harvard Law School is
the most likely choice for the va
cancy. Prof. Frankfurter, although
holding no official position in the
Government, has spent a great deal
of time in Washington in the past
five years, acting in an advisory ca
pacity on legal matters, as he did
in President Wilson's administration
when he was very young man.
Presidents Political" Tour
Among lawyers he is regarded as
an able exponent of constitutional
law. He has written several books
on the Constitution and the Su-
preme Court, and his appointment to
succeed Justice Cardozo would meet
with little if any opposition from
the bar.
The political pot is boiling with
great heat and giving off much steam
which somewhat beclouds the out
look. For the moment interest cen
tiers on the acts and words OF Mr..
Roosevelt in his capacity of leader
of the Democratic Party, in going in
to states where party primaries are
pending and advocating the nomina-
ton of liberal" candidates for the
Senate who will go along with him.
Senator Barley of Kentucky,
Buckley of Ohio, Thomas of Okla
homa and Mrs. Hattie Caraway, Sen
ator from Arkansas, were among the
ones to whom Mr.. Roosevelt gave
personal Endorsement in speeches IN
their home state on his tranS-contl-
mental tour.
The threat to eliminate Senator
Van Mugs of Indiana, as punishment
for his opposition to many New Deal
measures, did not accomplish Its
purpose. The Indiana Democratic
party organization, acing Mr.. Van
Nuys' threat to run as an independ-
ent candidate if he were not re-
nominated, and realizing that such
a course would split the Democratic
vote and result in the election OF a
Republican Senator, handed him the
nomination on silver platter.
New York Political Picture
In New York a dispute which en-
phasizes the split between President
Roosevelt and his successor, Gov.
Lehman announced that his admin
istration had got the state finances
"out of the, red,' cleared off the
deficite of nearly 100 millions which
the Roosevelt Governmental admin
istration had left behind it, and put
a surplus of more than 6'millions in
to the state treasury.
President Roosevelt dountered
a statement that this condition was
: the result of Federal aid to the
State of New York in taking care of
the unemployed and those on re-
lief. This is denied by Gov. Leh-
mans friends, who produce figures
in support of their contention.
All of that is part of the strug-
gle between New Dealers and anti
Administration forces over the two
Senatorial vacancies to be filled
from New York next November.
Gov. Lehman, who is anti-New Deal,
has thrown his hat in the national
ring, and it is the belief OF most ex-
perienced political observers that he
is certain to be elected.
Senator Robert Wagner, ardent
New Dealer. want to be be re-elect-