Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — FOR CHIEF JUSTICE. [ARTICLE]

FOR CHIEF JUSTICE.

Men Who Are Mentioned as Possible Successors of Judge Waite. The following gentlemen have already been suggested by the newspapers and in other ways as possible candidates for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: George V. N. Lothrop, of Michigan (now Minister to Russia). Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan (now Postmaster General). Judge Miller, of the United States Supreme Court. Judge Field, of the United States Supreme Court. Ex- Senator Thurman, of Ohio. Ex-Senator McDonald, of Indiana. Senator Turpie, of Indiana. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana. Judge Niblack, of Indiana. Secretary Bayard. Attorney General Garland. > Minister Phelps. Secretary Vilas. Judge Doolittle, of Illinois and Wisconsin. James G. Jenkins, of Milwaukee. Speaker Carlisle. Judge Hoadly, late of Ohio, now of New York. Judge Jackson, of Tennessee. Senator Morgan, of Alabama. W. 8. Groesbeck, of Ohio. Lyman Trumbull, of Chicago. Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago. William C. Goudy, of Chicago. Judge Scholfield, of Illinois. Col. J. Ross Thompson, of Erie, Pa.