Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1908 — GROSSCUP IS RETICENT [ARTICLE]

GROSSCUP IS RETICENT

He Declines to Take Notice nf the r President’s Comment on the Oil ftust Decision. New-York, July 24. —Judge Groescup, of Chicago, is In this city stopping at the Waldorf Astoria. He is one of the three judges constituting the United States circuit court of appeals, sitting in Chicago, which delivered the Judgment In the Standard Oil case. When shown the statement from Oyster Bay relative to the decision he wrote the following: , “There is no more ftason why I should take notice of the comment of Mr. Roosevelt than I would that of any private citizen, for the office that he fills and the office that the judges of the court of appeals fill are entirely independent, though co-ordinate, branches of the government.” The Democrat for Job Printing