Show f A SEAT on the United States Supreme I Su-preme Court bench is the loftiest I41 ambition of the lawyer but the t position seems to have few charms t l H for the politicianlawyer Now j 1 1 = i I Judge Edmunds has declined the l associatejusticeship refused by ex Senator Conkling The President s I i had now better offer it to a man i who likes the law more than politics t pol-itics and to whom justice is of t i i more importance than party success t suc-cess Judge Blatchford of New i k I York is one of the ablest and 1j I i purest jurists in the county and f la 1 1 1 like Gray of Massachusetts would 1 1 be a credit to the Supreme Court 1 Blatchford is also less a politician I i i than either Conkling or Edmunds i t and his appointment would therefore there-fore be more appropriate than either a li of theirs |