Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-22
SETTLED AT LAST.
Judge l.. X. Church Dakota's New Execu-
tive-The Withdrawal OF Mr. Day.

Judge l.. X. Church Dakota's New Execu-
tive-The Withdrawal of MIR. Day.
The nomination Of Louis X. Church to
be Governor of Dakota was sent TO the
Senate on Tuesday of last week. Late
Saturday afternoon Mr.. Day removed the
last obstacle in the way of the Presidents
desire by Withdrawing from the race. In
| addition to his simple letter Of withdrawal,
Mr. Day sent a private letter to the Presi-
dent, the contents of which he refuses to
divulge. 1t is known that it was limited to
Mr., Day that some other appointment
awaited him outside Dakota, and that in
this letter he stated that his home was in
Dakota, and that he would always remain
there If lie never held political office. He
further told the President that he had never
been candidate for the Office. and hal
never made application for it, although he
would have appreciated the position if it
had been rendered him. He knew, how
ever. that his friends had been kind enough
to energetically push him for the position,
and that his candidacy simply complicated
matters and prevented settlement of the
whole question. He knew that by with
drawing he would hasten the consumma-
ton of Dakota's wish for Democratic
Governor. That was the great desideratum
IN this matter, nnd he would not stand in
the way for a minute. Mr.. Day says his
candidacy longer would have kept Church
out and Pierce in, at least until the first OF
the year, and he determined TO aId in the
change. Mr.. Day did not appear to be
greatly disappointed over the result, al
though he wouEl gladly have had the Office.
Louis Kossuth Church, of Hicksyille, l..
l., was born in Brooklyn, N. ", Dec. IL,
1916, of English Welsh parents. He was
educated at Claverack Institute, New York,
and is lawyer by profession. He never
held political Office until 1882, when he was
elected member of the Assembly from the
First District of Queens County. He was
reelected III 1888 and in 1884, and de-
cllned Reelection in 1885, and was soon
afterward nominated for Associate Justice
of Dakota. In the Assembly Mr. Church
took a prominent part in the movement, led
by Theodore Roosevelt, for reform in the
city government of New York, and incurred
therefor the bitter hostility of the factions
in that city. During his term in the Leg
islature one of his warmest friends was
William L. Smith, since Assistant Secre-
tary OF the Treasury, now solicitor of the
st. Paul and Manitoba Road; also men,
Der OF the Assembly at this time 1t is due
to this that Smith and his former law part
ner, Smith NJ. Weed, gave Mr.. Church
such active support for the Governorship.
After Church's term in the Legislature ex-
pired be began to look around for an OPP
portunity to improve his financial cond-
ton, as he had large family and no prop
erty to speak of. President Cleveland,
who had known him at Albany, offered him
a Justices seat on the Dakota Supreme
Bench, in place of Seward Smith, the Iowa
man, and lie accepted ii ut once. 1t is said
that, while not great lawyer, lie is a man
who would make fair Judge or good
Executive officer, and could fill the de-
mands of Dakota's Executive office with
manifest ability. Mr.. Church has ALWAYS
been Democrat, lut he has shown
sturdy independence in dealing with all
public questions that augurs well for his
success in his new station. Mr.. Church is
of medium stature and fair complexion,
with fiaxen hair and biz blue eyes. He is
genial aud aud unassuming in manner, and
makes and holds friends by his frankness
and ncerity.