Show I The Associate Justiceship Washington 28Had Garfield lived there is little doubt that Chief Justice Horace Gray of Massachusetts would have been named to fill the vacancy in the Supreme Court by the death of Clifford Clif-ford AttorneyGeneral Devens had some pretentiona to fill the vacancy and was strongly urged upon Garfield by Hayes He was however appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts by Governer Long and will be satisfied it if i said by appointment to the chief justiceship of the same court in place of Gray should Arthur carryout carry-out the arrangement made by his predecessor prede-cessor Judge Gray is described by Senator Davis as a man of large inherited wealth and of the best blood of Massachusetts He studied law from pure love of the profession and was appointed ap-pointed to the Supreme bench before be was forty years old Ht has never been interested in or employed by railroads or other corporations and is i entirely free from such influence He is a republican republi-can but has taken no part in the organization organ-ization of the party or in working its machinery ma-chinery In person he is a magnificent specimen of manly form being as lrge aa Charles Sumner Judge Gray has the hearty support of GvLong and both Senators from Massachusetts and probably proba-bly will have no opposition from New England which is entitled to the vacancy vacan-cy that section being now without a representative on the bench |