Show DO NOT LU IT It is hard to shake off the impression that the appointment of Governor Hughes of New York to take ake the place of Justice Brewer on the supreme bench ench was a mistake No doubt he is a good lawyer lawyer law law- yer and a level headed man but he does not fill our ur idea of what a justice of the supreme court ought to be And then he lie has made a reputation in n the last three years of being an alert reformer in iii n a 3 place where reform is much needed There are ame plenty of great lawyers who would make nake superior supreme justices whom the resident president have found Wo We believe the pres pres- ident dent is better fitted for that place than lie he ic is for president because he se seems ms to lack initiative tive where here he is and the contentions around him if f they do not disturb him show pretty well that re he e is not of the time temperament which successfully rides ride's rides ides out a storm We think Elihu Root would have lave been a better appointment Indeed there therea a area re ea a dozen lawyers in New York with the real cal judicial temperament which is needed for that place lace Justice Brewer came from the tile district in which Kansas Cansas City is situated but we believe that really the he appointment was due to the northeast and we ve suspect that if the time appointment had been left lefto to o the selection of the New York bar it would not have been Governor Hughes |