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Show TAFT FOR SUPREME BENCH. When William H. Taft was president presi-dent ho disregarded party lines In selecting men for the supreme bench Now the suggestion comes that the former president would make an excellent ex-cellent successor to Justice Lamar. President Wilson might well follow his predecessor's example by naming Taft to fill the present vacancy. Mr. Taft would be our first choice for the place, though at the last election elec-tion we opposed him as a candidate for the presidency. By training and temperament he is best qualified to be a Judge. He would make an Ideal justice of the supreme court. He is well balanced on all the big problems now before the supreme court, Included In-cluded that of the rights of labor and the proper protection of property rights. He would be free from bias and accord to either side oxact justice jus-tice There Is a demand from the south that a southorner be named owing to Justice Lamar having come from that part of tho country. The south today has more than its proportionate representation rep-resentation in the affairs of government. |