Show I 1 FOR CHIEF JUSTICE We hope President Taft will not make ex Gov and Justice Hughes chief hief justice We hope hopet t o because we feel feol deep within us a convi tion that h hr h is not a truly brave man mae and courage ought to tob tobe tobe b be one of the highest attributes o. o of a chief justice When he was elected governor of New York an honor was placed upon him film higher than he had any right because of former services to expect and h lud hd d he been through and through a true man nIan when the proposition was made to him to give up his place while yet his term terni was on and take a pla place e in the supreme court hi answer answer would have been Not now I appreciate the honor exceedingly exceed exceed- but when I It was elected governor of the empire empire empire em em- pire stats state I m made d at least an implied contract to serve out my term I have no light to think of myself myself myself my my- self until that term is out I have no right to nurse my own ambitions for a higher place until that term is out Contra Contracts ts ought to be sacred and my contract written or 01 understood was with the p people popie peo po- Oa pIe that I would serve for the full term and an- an especial reason why I cannot consider the offer now is that the state is is in some trouble my myown myown own own record is being que questioned tion ned l nud nd for me to de- de desert sort sert the post would be like liko a sentinel giving up his his' post while th the army was cp tr trusting sting t to his lIis vigilance There Thore are re plenty of just as g good od lawyers lawyers law lawa ers ag as s Justice Hughes plenty in every sh state t and he is is not a a. necessity as s a chief justice It would b h ba a gracious thing for the president to appoint the oldest St justice on the bench to that honor one who has served longest ore one who has been true al always always al- al ways with his friends when they had the law with tr true e to his opponents when they had the law with them We mean Ju Justice ti e Harlan He ought to have the honor and if the pre president ident cannot see his way appoint to-appoint him then then in inthe the multitude of lawyers lawyers lawyers law law- in the country Jie pc ie can find others as great as Mr Hughes he can find others just as great lawyers law law- and greater men |