The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-04-12
JUDGE LAWRENCE.

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pi'u'C| "'N'i'" MN 10 oc '""""o'c. lo' 'c
election 20 the Supreme bench. While The
'"gcntlrmcn of the bar" are doubtless, excel
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'"' S'o,' J"'H' III, p''l''' S'n''"''l may
be less cIeaf rs 10 tIeir exclusive right to
nominate the candidate To be supported for
that office Vet in fine nrr.c,t case thnrp will
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! Is not likely any candidate VIII be presented
against judge Lawrence.
We have heard Of no sorfous obicctfon to
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'"' '''''''I"" VI ""-' ,''" ''''' mum any
! quarter lie maSs"Fe Offended some Ihlca-
90 editors, but the people OF his own district
,.l,o NO mar, !, .,,,h , folt He i. rroardrl
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"'i'"""u'' d. 'c'N'' Is " WY ,"l'"'''' ,'''''
man, ana an ornament To Tie supreme bench.
! Ever since the constitution If our state was
80 cbanred ~ to elect the .Tr,l,,a by q vote of
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'''' people, 'lc Sc.cc''oh' ''' 'II' 't'l'I'l''
bench have been uniformly excellent ana III
no case NOR" 50 than in that of Judge Law
renee. Satisfied that our pre3cnt supreme
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be hard 10 improve IL, the people ask no
change, and will put Il prompt veto on any
of,r,s fine small nolitici,r. ,,,,,.r,,l, in ,l,ot
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t'AhESbtRG, LII. April :, 1913,
| Tote, .NlnbDs n. Bar If tAa j-h JvRtct0l
District.
| G,>r, ,.,,ty.-I have rcceivol ,or. can,
.,unirqtfnn g.ling me to he = c9rIiJatn for
re. Election in Juno next To thr hrnrh of thr
Sunrcme cour,. am informed it,s Stoned
| hy almost every LAWYER in the thirteen conn.
tics compo.inI thi, judicial district For
vour invitation and terms in which If j. OK.
pressed lam profoundly grateful. The HIGHEST
reward I can have for the severe laborS ofmy
iudicoI life next 10 the approval of my own
I1cnn.cianrn !. the belief nat enjoy ME rnrn.
served confidence and rc>pcct of fhcmcmbprs
the hor
Under ordinary circumstances I should sra,
no more than This, and either ACCEPT or de-
cline your invitation. But in the present con.
dition of the public mind with regard to this
election. il !, propcr that | should add some
ItLipr further.
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,Eothoi. ~ ro ~ man
o,,nnnGrt soon atfnr this excitement heron
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,,l va. w. - ,l,n co,o aftilo raii,ro,, Com
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road COMPANY, Some of the leaders of this
movement, probably without having read the
opinion of the Court, profess to regard it
A. antaropistic to the interests of farmers,
though believe no man, certainly no LAWYER
has ever had the hardihood to say that it did
not correctly announce the law. | observe
bv the papers that at several of the farmers
conventions the decision has been denounced
by some of the speakers, and at one of these
meetings a resolution was adopted in favor of
calling a convention for the purnose of nom
mating a candidate for the Office now held by
me. The object of such a convention, if il
shall be held, will probaly be to select a can
didate who, if elected, would be expected 20
take his seat upon the bench as the pledged
agent of that class OF the people to
whom he would owe his denomination and cleo