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...question before the Senate was whether or not to approve President Roosevelt's nomination of Federal Judge Thomas F. Meaney, henchman of New Jersey's strident Boss Frank Hague (TIME, May 18). Only there was no question. In the Senatorial gentlemen's club, there was no chance of blocking the appointment, and old George Norris knew it. Nevertheless Norris rose to speak his mind: to indict political machines such as Hague's and political deals like the Meaney affair...
Condemnation and Shame. Said George Norris: "The confirmation or rejection of the nomination of Mr. Meaney is a national question. It is not a local question; it is not a question affecting New Jersey alone, but it is a question affecting the entire United States. The question involved is whether the Hague machine, which is one of the most disreputable, demagogic political machines that ever existed, shall extend its power beyond New Jersey and take in the Federal Government...
...Hague-dealing Senator William Smathers, who needs Hague's support in order to get re-elected this autumn. Said Smathers smoothly: "In the interest of bringing on a speedy vote, I shall deny myself the pleasure of the two-hour speech I have here." The vote to confirm Meaney...
...recent career of Mr. Meaney has demonstrated that he is a pawn in the hands of a man who has expressed his conception of the nature of justice in the now-famous phrase, 'I am the law.' . . . Can it be assumed that he will divest himself of the habits of a lifetime and administer his court with a justice unstained by politics...
Statesman Edison put the issue of making Tom Meaney a judge up to the statesmen of the U.S. Senate...