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...elected next fall, New Jersey's ruddy, sleek Senator William H. Smathers must have the help of Boss Frank Hague. So Smathers recently backed Hague's man Thomas F. Meaney for a Federal judgeship. And, although Senator Smathers has not distinguished himself in the Senate, President Roosevelt, who wants 100% New Dealers reelected, obligingly appointed Meaney (TIME, May 18). The deal was a piece of routine politics...
Governor Edison knew that President Roosevelt's appointment of Meaney was the routine sort of kick-in-the-face that practical politicians must learn to shrug off. He knew that, unless he held his peace, he would embarrass Friend Roosevelt. Yet last week, with the philosophic detachment of the deaf, and the practical detachment of a man to whom politics is more than a game, he sat down and wrote a statesman's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...From the day when his name was first mentioned, I have opposed the appointment. . . . Not because I have any personal antipathy to [Meaney]-so far as I know I have never met him-but because he represents an attitude toward the judicial office which is to me repulsive, and is and ever will be, I hope, repulsive to all Americans...
...November (the Senator's only achievement is riding the New Deal coat tail) and knew he needed Hague's machine to turn the trick. Edison and his fight to clean up New Jersey politics must wait. Mr. Roosevelt's Justice Department took a look at Mr. Meaney and promptly pronounced him "superior" to the three other candidates...
Said the Newark Evening News, which has supported the President in the war effort: "For all their protestations of good government, Mr. Roosevelt and his Attorney General find it possible in the midst of a great war to do a turn for a corrupt political machine. . . . What made Mr. Meaney 'superior' was the fact that he was Boss Hague's candidate...