Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-03
RICHARD FIELD.

The gentleman whose name nedus
this article is a candidate for the dem
ocratic nomination for judge Of the
sixth judicial circuit OF Missouri. A:
the time approaches for decision upon
this Office by the democratic voters Of
the circuit, il may not be amiss for Us
to assign a few reasons why Mr.. FielC
should be preferred to the other able
honest and clever gentlemen who also
seek the place.
Mr.. Field was born in Louisville
KY, in lS43. He was the son of Col.
VIM. H. Field, a leading lawyer il
Louisville, who retired from practice
and moved to Pettis county, Mo, where
he settled on a farm in 1858. Richard
Field was educated chiefly at al
academy taught by Professor George
B. Newton, and was TOR a short time
at Westminster college in this state.
After the tragic death of his father IL
1862 at the hands of Federal soldiers.
Mr.. Field applied himself to the study
of the law and was graduated from the
Louisville Law School in 1866, since
which time he has been in the active
practice of his profession. Mr.. Field
married a most estimable and charm
lady of this city In 1869, and has an
exceedingly interesting family. He is
a member of the church, a sober, dis
Greet, modest and polite gentleman,
discharging every duty of life as it
presents itself, carefully and conscienti-
ously. So much we have said to show
that Mr.. Field is not only by rearing
and education in sympathy with the
democrats of the circuit, but that he
has had such training in the law as will
render him from that direction well
qualified to fill the high and RESPONSE
BILE place which is asked for him by his
friends.
Mr.. Field is old enough TO be ripe in
scholarship and matured in judgment,
and yet young enough to justify him
in taking upon himself the new duties
and fresh impulses of the jurist as
contradistinguished from those of the
advocate. Calm, fair, impartial, capa-
BILE of long continued labor and re-
search, with a judicial mind, careful to
weigh both sides of every question, he
is by nature fitted to be a judge, "and
poise the cause in Justices equal scale:
whose beam stands sure"
AS to his legal ability his associates
at the bar have spoken.
AS to his worth as a man and a citi
zen the people of his county will testify
by giving him a solid and an enthu-
siastic delegation to the convention al
Brownsville.
Without disparagement to his
worthy opponents we conscientiously
believe that he is of all the candidates
best fitted to satisfactorily and thor
oughly transact the business of the Of
flee. We do not say this because he is
from Lafayette. county, but in spite o.
it, for the reason that we believe it te
be of infinitely O Importance to Sc
cure a good judge than it is to select
him from this or that corner of the
circuit. The choice of a judge is no
to reward or punish a county, but t.
secure an able and efficient dispenser o
even-handed justice, one who is MOI
only sufficiently a lawyer to decide
correctly, but who is enough of a bust
ness man and who possesses the physl.
cal ability to clear his docket within
term time, as a rule, and to keep hi
work up with the demands that will
naturally be made upon him in SO i'm
portant a circuit. Such a man is Rich
ard Field.