Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — SOME DOUBT ABOUT LURTON [ARTICLE]

SOME DOUBT ABOUT LURTON

President Thought to Be Wavering In f Supreme Court Choice. Washington, Dec. 10.—Perhaps, after all, Judge Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee will not be named by President Taft to succeed the late Justice Peckham on the supreme bench. Senators Bankhead and Johnson of Alabama and Senator Taylor of Tennessee called to urge upon the president the appointment of Judge Lurton. Representatives Austin and Brownlow also were callers with the same mission. The presence in the White House as Taft’s guest of Judge John W. Warrington of Cincinnati is the base for leports that he may be named. Judge Warrington is not as old as Judge Lurton.