POPULAR ELECTION OF FEDERAL JUDGES ADVOCATED BY DILL

"The men who make our laws are elected by the people, the men who execute our laws are elected by the people, and there is no reason why the men who interpret them should not be elected by the people also," stated Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washington in an interview following an address to the Harvard Democratic Club in the Union yesterday afternoon.

Senator Dill, who is the leading proponent in the Senate of a bill to provide for the election of the judiciary by the people, is better known as a leading Progressive.

When asked by a CRIMSON reporter why he advocated popular election of federal judges he replied. "Ever since the first Constitutional Convention, the policy of the people has been becoming less and less that of Hamilton, the Conservative, and more and more that of Jefferson, the Republican. With the coming of the national convention of the people for nominating the president, the popular election of senators, the initiative, referendum, and recall the people have been tending toward supreme control of their officials. One of the main things in the way of this progressive movement is the appointment of the federal judiciary by the president. Until the people gain the right to elect their own judges the Hamiltonian principle that the people are not qualified to govern themselves will continue and progressive policies can never become dominant." The query as to whether this would not bring politics into the judiciary brought the frank reply. "There can never be more politics in the judiciary than there are right now. Appointment of judges inevitably brings political entanglements. There will be politics in the judiciary until the judges are directly responsible to the people just as the legislature and executive officers are."