Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-12-08 | Page 6 | Taft and The Supreme Court

TAPT AND THE SUPREME COURT. Tho question of utilizing our fomior Presidents iK fairly solved ho far as our only liviug ox-l5rcsident. is con-cornod. con-cornod. Colonel Roosevelt is talcing caro of himself, and io managing to fill a largo portion of f.ho public notico in a way peculiarly his own, and certainly cer-tainly immensely pTofitablo to himsolf. And if tho kindly expressions of a largo number of Democratic newspapers count for anything, Prcsidont Taft is likely upon his retirement from office, if a vacancy occurs in tho Supremo Court of tho United States,' to bo well provided for by -appointment to that great tribunal. Tt is pointed out that President Taft has been absolutely non-partisan, and has wholly ignored not only party lines but geographical conditions, in- his Up-pointments Up-pointments to tho Supremo Court. Pivo of tho members of that court, being a clear majority, aro of his appolntmont, and Chief Justico White, a Southern Democrat, was mado Chief Justico by appointment of Prcsidont Tnft. If thero should bo a vacancy in tho court during dur-ing President Wilson's term, it looks now as though thero would bo a unanimous unani-mous popular demand which President Wilson would bo quito likoly to acccod to, for tho appointment of President Taft to whatever vacancy might arise in that court.