Show JUDGE WOODS CLAIJI1 I I It is said that it will be difficult for the President to overlook Judge Woous claim reads a dispatch sent over the wires the I other day concerning the vacancy in the supreme bench of the United States The President wants to appoint his law partner I Attorney General MIILEII but WOODS claim to recognition stands in the way and H tiiitisoN cannot overlook it What is that claim J WOODS is United States judge of the Indiana district Last fall Colonel W V DUDLEY adistinguished Republican and warm personal friend of the President and also a Hoosier wrote his fame s blocks of five letter which was the most outrageous violation of the c cation law which occurred during the campaign The whole nation was scandalized by it and there was a popular pop-ular demand for the prosecution of the man who openly urged the buying of votes for his candidate The grand jury met last winter and Judge WOODS charged the inquisitors in such a way as to encourage them to inflict DUDLEY and those who pro I tooted election frauds The country sounded the praises of WOODS and the grand jury went to work in earnest to bring to justice the men who had bought and sold the votes of Indiana in tbe interest of HEX VMIK HAUHISOX Lawyers declared Judge WOODS charge sound and the political thieves and scoundrels trembled in their boots DUDLEY carefully avoided Indiana fearing arrest and HAIIIUOV himself was nervous not that he had had a hand in the votebuying but he was to profit bj the corruption In the midst of its work after hundreds of indictments had been found Judge WOODS called the jury before him and explained the law to it exactly contrary con-trary to his previous interpretation There was no explanation orcxcuse for this pro ceediug and everybody wondered what had come over the judge who a little while before had seemed so anxious that political oorruptionists should be brought to justice The grand jury was stopped by the ruling the arm of the vigorous prosecuting attorney at-torney was paralyzed and DUDLEY and associate scoundrels were delighted Later when it came to the trial of the hundreds of votebuyers and sellers twothirds of the indictments were dismissed dis-missed by the judge and the other defendants de-fendants were promptly acquitted under directions or in accordance with WOODS rulings There was but one conviction and that was of a miserable Democrat who voted for CLEVELAND in the morning and being made drunk by Republicans voted for Hinni < v in the afternoon Docs the claim which the President finds it so difficult to overlook dcte from Judge WOODS reversal of himself in the interpretation of the law Because Judge WOODS kept scores of prominent Republicans Republi-cans out of the penitentiary and threw the protection of the law around the bribe givers and the corruptors of elections is he to be deemed worthy of the reward of a place on the supreme bench Having saved prominent Republicans from states prison and prevented a scandal or reproach attaching to the HXKKIIOX title does the judge have a claim on the administration adminis-tration which the Pr sident dare not ignore t HARRISON has shown the courage to refuse recognition of DUDLEYS claims which ought to be as strong as those of WOOD but having yielded to the judge perhaps the President will next succumb to DUDLET and reward him also for the part which he took interrupting the Hoosier voters |