Show I New Supreme Justice an Ex Confederate Federate Judge Horace H Lurton Democrat 1 I MOr Morgan Raider War Prisoner Was Presidents i Associate on Fe del al Bench N nearly seventeen years earll asa ago a largo large young man IN n a smaller but considerably oldo r man to each guest at a morning reception In honor of oC the latter Then the he Introducer and the of oC honor proceeded arm In arm to the United States circuit court where the man to the lighter man mantho manthe the tho oath ot of office as one ot of his brother Judges of oC that bench The Tho big man was William Howard Taft of oC Cincinnati The other was wash h Horace Harmon Lurton of at Tenn The other day Mr Taft Tatt as president of the UnIted States pointed Judge Lurton nn an associate jus tico of oC the supreme court of the United n E states to succeed the late Rufus W V Peckham of at New York Justice Lurton Is a Democrat an ex cx and Is the tho anI only man ever appoInted to the tho supreme bench who has served time In a penitentiary Dont draw quick conclusions Justice Lurton was wa a prisoner of war but his place of at imprisonment was the Ohio state penitentiary at Columbus where he remained from the summer of 1663 until the tho close of at the civil war Lurton who was born In Kentucky was QS years ears old when the war ar beg began For two years ho he had been studying at a university In Chicago He went straight home and joined the Confederate arm army but was discharged from Crom service the next year because of at ill III health When he got well he reen reenlisted reenlisted listed and was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson He escaped A few tew weeks Inter he made his third enlistment joining General John H Morgan cele celebrated celebrated caval cavalry brigade ade adeIn In midsummer 0 young Lurton AccompanIed Morgan on the noted raid Into Ohio circling around home hometown hometown town William H then beIng but a small boy and with Ith Morgan and many others Lurton vas captured and sent to the state prison hy by the federal all au authorities The war department had discovered that John Morgan was a 8 mighty good man to keep Inside n a stone wall until hostilities ceased cased but the Kentucky raIder e escaped and wont back Into the tho service only to be be betra betrayed tra ed by a supposed friend In Ten Tennessee and shot to death Lurton tall fall e ed to o escape s o but he lives ves to become a member of the supreme bench ot of the nation against which he fought and curiously enough he Is appointed b by n a member of the party of oC Abraham Lin Lincoln Lincola cola coln and a native of at the state which he to terrify In 1863 appointment keeps keep the makeup of oC the supreme court the I same Bame politically that It H was before Jus tico Republicans and three Democrats Much pressure Was teas brought to bear Upon President Tart Taft to Induce him to name namo a Republican lican The president was determined from Crom the first to elevate eleato Judge Lurton with whom he served for tor years on the federal circuit bench Lurton was up ap appointed pointed to that bench b by Pr President Cleveland In 1893 and amI hM has been judo judge of at the Sixth judicIal circuIt over sInce with principal headquarters at Nash yule Tenn Mr Taft TaCt discovered that Judge Lurton was wa a lawyer lawer of ability and determined if presented to place him on the supreme bench I O RM 1 s ft 4 w wJ wb J b HORACE H LURTON NEW JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT h u o o U 0 0 00 |