Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-04-05 | Page 2 | Aspire to the Bench

ASPIRE TO THE BENCH Eighth Judicial Circuit Presents the Liveliest Contest for Place Yet S Passed Upon President t Roosevelt will have a xblj aggregation of legal lights to survey when United States Circuit Judge Henry C Caldwell of Arkansas retires says the Washington Post He Is a Democrat appointed by President Cleveland and Is now long past the retiring acre It Is expected that he will retire In September for his health Is bad The Judgeship is In the Eighth Judicial circuit which includes thir teen States and three Territories extending ex-tending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian boundary and comprising States west of the Mississippi river and oat of Utah J Colorado has brought forward two candidate one of them Chief Justice John Campbell of the State Sumerne court and the other oxChief Justice C D Hayt From Towa United Stales District Judge Smith McPherson who left Congress a few years since for his present position Is In the running Senator Burton of Kansas has In dorsed exRepresentative Alexander O Cochran and the Kansas delegation In the House has Indorsed United States District Judge Hook United States District Judge Elmer Adams of Missouri also has an eye on the r place which would be a nice 1 > promo tion and Mr Charles J Green a prominent attorney of Omaha has asked the President to consider his qualifications for the bench Wyoming has a very strong candi date in Mr J A TUner but he amlfcapped by the fact that Ttldte 1 Vandevcntcr appointed to the same circuit only a few weeks ago hails from Wyoming It has become the liveliest fight for a judicial place President Poosevelt has yet had to posy upon