Show NEW EW OF TbT ERDAY daiv djs 4 A 0 mm tale ale I 1 of the supreme court borg F parker tells how president Preel dent cleveland offered the chief jus e to john 0 carlisle Carl lilo baor naming fuller it hu his always been the popular ars presumption that since the time when john marshall wa was appointed chief austice of the united states that la is the legal title for the office of chief jusuke of nt the supreme court only one verbon has ever ver declined the offer of chief senator roscoe conking of new now york it was widely published at the time of the incident that president Preel dent grant had offered the post of chief justic justice to senator conic conk ling the ila letter la in chel the otter offer w wax as madu waa was pres preserved erred aa an one of the me choicest of the pipers which came into ha the possession of at senator conk lings literary executors but the popular bullet that senator conkling la Is the only man who ever ra fired fused to become cenit justice of at the united states la Is erroneous and 1 I have for my authority for thia this statement mr george F parker the blog cipher of at grover cleveland A close friend of mr cleveland a for nearly 30 years and one of the few low friend friends ad milled into perfect intimacy with mr air cleveland mr parker not only telli tells here for tho the first time in print who the other man waa was who refused clr be chief but aljo also how it came about that melville W fuller became chief justice of the united states after the death of chief juanico morrison Mor rleon R waite in the latter part of mr cleveland first tion 11 aid fit mr hit parker mr cleveland after giving much thought to the nomination of ot hie his successor decided to name john 0 carlisle Carl tile for the post provided mr air carlisle Carl lale revealed a wll wil lin gness to accept the honor mr car 1119 at that time was speaker of the house of representatives and mr sir cleveland Clevel aad had come to entertain it very high regard for him ae as a harlim a legislator and a lawyer I having lATIng arrived at this decision de clelon by counsel wholly with himself hime olf mr Cl cleveland oveland took the first opportunity to place before the speaker of at the house hia his desire to place him on tho the eupheme court bench and in the hinbest place oa on that bench mr car halo greatly appreciated the tentative offer after but be tie decided that it was not expedient for him to accept it very likely he had bad to in view A political ca roer of ot a different kind one with a vista thai thal reached to the white house itself dut but this much Is certain had ho ba been willing to accept the office tie and not melville W fuller would have become bome the th count rya chief jus tice in 1888 I 1 nor I 1 presume Is it gae rally known that after mr aft carlisto Carll doc declined lined ho tho chief Justlee ship the president for time seriously thought of at a appointing P to that great office the Is late to jamea james C carter of new york then regarded ai as the leader of the amerl can bar in whose office associate Aiso clate justice charles N hughes received his first experience in active legal practice but finally after he had also seriously thought of calling ed ward J phelps home from the court of st james to take the poet poa he turned to melville W puller fuller of chicago what definitely determined mr cleveland to select mr fuller for chief justice were certain re presenta blonn made to him by member members of the supreme court they said ld to him that a man to be successful as chief jus flee tice of the uni united ted states should have la in addition to great legal learning leaming and A high judicial capacity great execl tire tive ability under chief justice walte waite they delicately intimated great lawyer though he wax was the business of the supreme court had lagged so that it waa was about three years behind the docket mr air fuller had been recommended to president cleveland not only aa as a very able lawyer but also as a bust ness man of unusual opacity capacity had ho he chosen a business busl nece life instead of the law his ht sponsors spona ore declared declare dand and probably correctly he would have rained gained distinguished success aa as an executive it waa was this qualification and this chiefly that led mr sir cleveland after r his talks with members niem bora of at the S su u preme court to appoint melville E fuller chief justice and it gave bin him no small degree of satisfaction after waid when he learned from members myr abera of the supreme court that un under der chief justice fuller tho the executive arrangement ot at the supreme courts bustness busl bus heis thess had been eo to adequately perfected as to enable the court no longer to lag in the disposition of cases copyright hit 1111 by bir E J edward edwards all reserva story of vice presidency how flow the nomination for that place wa WAs offered to governor doles of iowa by william C whit ney nay and declined the only democratic governor the elate state of at iowa has ever had since the organization of at the republican party was horace florace doles BOW now in his eighty fourth year mr dolea dotes wa was elected governor in 1890 and elected reelected re two yeara years later and two years after he bad had left the gubernatorial chair he be waa was second in the balloting for preal dent by the democratic national con which gave mr dryan bryan his first presidential nomination in of the initial tri of mr doles over lowas republican host governor holes doles through his hi friends the late blose at ilam and jennie J of at daven port iowa was urged and consented to alke part in what was exl expected acted to ue oe the largest political banquet ever held up to hat time it was flied for the evening of december 23 1890 in new york city CRY and was looked upon its the beginning a of the national campaign of last days of great lawyer knowledge that he had hereditary disease of eye eyes checked evart career carter in senate and drove i him front froni public life no man anco since the daya days of at the civil war ever entered the united states senate with greater prestige thi thi i did william M evarta for year years be he hid been recognized aa an the leader of the amorian bar be he la in to be numbered amonia the few lawyer lawyers who aro are of ot permanent recognition of hta his career lie bad had been the spokesman epo keeman tor for the nomination of william it 11 cloward for the presidency denvy of 1860 during the civil war he be bad been ent sent on a dip lobatto to england by pros ideal lincoln aa As president Preel dent a senior counsel coun etl be the did to secure johnsone johnsons acquittal in the gront im peach mont trial he ito had bad beben attar coy ney one rai la 14 johnsons cabinet and of at state under he lie bad had served as the leading counse lor the republicans before the electoral lec toral commit commission sion appointed to decide the rayon tilden presidential election ke lie had been chief couchel for his country before the me fanom canom geneva court of arbItm arbitration tIon ani sal the cause for bo he pleaded had triam triumphed phed thu thus when in IMS 1985 mr evarts waa was elected united senater from now torti york state this wae was upon aa as a lattice of importance aad gnu laings were ex pecked of at him both by the senate it bell elf and ue U e country at large put mr evarts kid hd not bea been in bis seat eat la in the senate long before his hi colleagues began begin to whis por aiming themo vives saying ilas thia this great man found himself in an unfamiliar place are his abilities ex cloel clust rely thos cf of s great lawyer or diplo diplomat matt ile seems to be lapsins into a spirit of tu difference more and more it waa was noticed that mr evarts WM was becoming almost a lay figure ta la the senate chamber and it WM was although quietly sidd bis his service as a senator would probably prove to be b an hotl climax t to 0 hu 4 crt ert it was when be he entered the th chamber cha jaber he be occasionally felt bu w way to hu beat 46 lie lb igmos bied ho ile was carefully attended at lait last it was assumed that be the change was due to III 11 health after senator evarts 1 retired from he the onate in 1891 he gradually began to disappear from this places which bad had long known him finally it became known mat ho he waa id 10 his hi house lie ito llred lived in A roomy old fashioned dwelling which faced veri lt square in new now york and lay in the shadow of at st georges church gradually he was confined to bis his room and at last to his bed then his friends knew know what he had known when ho be was in the senite eer iule that he was as a victim of an hereditary disease of at the eyes a malignant physical taint which wets in the roger sherman blood from which also mr evas t s cousin the lato late senator george F hi ar r ot of massachusetts uttered suffered and it was this secretly bravely I 1 borne that had caused him to seem like another man when seno senior or never waa was an invalid patient than this heroic figure when he wae was brought to bed in the summer with the window open he the could hear bear the murmur of the city and the children as they played in the square the tra fragrance grance of at the blossoms he perceived and greatly enjoyed so that he could with mental vision picture forth the coring of the spring and early summer hut but friends reported that after all be he was finding his greatest consolation in the unobscured mental vision viston which was left him by means of it he could pIc picture tAra forth the men and incidents of the historic events with which he be had bad been associated and thus consoled coni oled the thus occupied with the varied and fascinating mental likenesses of men and historic scenes the great treat american at last passed into perfect sleep copyright 1911 by rl I 1 edward edwards all nights norvl nr vl you should have seen governor holes doles when he be arrived in new york aid said to me a member of at tho the democratic national committee of that year lie was in much distress of mind and he revealed the reason when be he aided us it it would be proper for or him to appear at the dinner in a business suit mull he ile didat t own euch such a thing aa as a dress suit lie ile was much relieved rell eved when ve we told him that there would not he be the slightest objection to bis his business busl nes alt suit then ho he asked if he might read his speech ho ile said be he had tried to commit it to memory but it wai of at no use and finally the governor appeared to be very happy when we told him why of course you can read your speech it proved to be a great speech the subject was farmers and the tariff and it attracted so much attention that william C whitney and the others who were directing the machinery for the nomination of cleveland two years hence were not surprised when they learned that it had resulted in a fine presidential for governor doles that would not down it was tro tto only thing of consequence that an noyed mr friends of course the iowa democracy elated by its gubernatorial victory and almost carried off its feet by the expectation that an iowa democrat would be nominated for the dency deney sent to chicago in the summer of 1892 a magnificent host probably ten thousand persons in all and they made much political noise but the noise did not avail after afler mr nomination on the first ballot some of those who bad had directed the LamP alvi sn met in william C whitneys room mr whit ney said that under the circumstances it would be expedient to say to tle tt iowa delesa delegation tion that it governor dols Bs dol B s would accept the nomination for vice president it would be made probably by acclamation emp emphasis hasig ing tho the last two ardi v thereupon a courteously and gen worded communication prepared by mr air whitney was bent to the iowa delegation only a few moment were required for the reply mr whitney rec received elved it he lie wa was a told that governor nr holes boles under no circum stances would consent to take second place upon the national ticket none of at those who were present can forget the queer almost bewildered wilder wil dered e d expression which came to mr air whitneys face but time pressed thero there must bo be a second choice for the rice vice presidential nomination so go wo turned to adial E stevenson of 11 illinois and speedily learned that there would be no rejecting of the otter offer on an the part of adial or bis his friends and because he be WAS a lort sort of choice adial stevenson became vice president ot at the united states to ro the da day ly of hie his death mr air abit ney always had A strange strings suspicion that governor doles dotes was not eon coil suited and that his big friends were mo disappointed over the outcome of the presidential contest that they repudiated pud ted offhand the vice ties presidential nomination it seemed to mr sir whitney that it such a distinguished democrat an thomas A If endricks of indiana would accept a IL democratic nomination tor for vice president or tf it that noble alien allen a 0 thann of ohio were willing to accept a ilk 11 nomination as ho be did governa dotes dolee friends night might well have arll wil loved lowed their pride and accepted mr coffeo alt by IL j agi MIMS I 1 |