Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-02
JUDGE C. M. WEBB,
Favorable Press Comments About
His Candidacy.
JUDGE WEBB'S ACCEPTANCE.

JUDGE WEBB S ACCEPTANCE.
w. J. McElroy, secretary of the
recent State Bar convention, has
received the following letter of
acceptance from Judge Webb:
GRAND RAPIDS, Wis, Feb. 90
Messrs. VIM. H. Seaman, presi-
dent, and w. J. McElroy, secre-
tary, Observation-Disclosures:
Your very cordial letter Of the
18th inst, in behalf Of the COM
mittee requested SO to do, convey
ing to me official information that
the general convention Of men,
bers of the bar Of the state Of
Wisconsin held at Milwaukee on
the 10th inst, named me "as the
choice of the bar of the state for
nomination and election to the
office of Justice of the Supreme
court, to succeed Chief Justice
Lyon upon his voluntary retire
ment at the expiration of his term,
has been received. To have been
selected as a suitable candidate
for the high and responsible office
named, by a convention Of the
lawyers of Wisconsin, whose
membership, including many
prominent and hOnOred names,
was fairly representative of the
great body of the profession in the
state at large, is indeed a very
great honor THANK the conven-
ton for it, and accept its invitation
to become non-partisan candidate
and, if chosen successor to the
eminent jurist whose determination
soon to retire renders necessary
the selection of a new member of
the Supreme court, my best and
constant effort will be to perform
the responsible duties thus en-
trusted to me as to deserve the re-
spect and confidence of all the
good people of this state. | am
very respectfully, ETC.,
CHAs. NJ. WEBB.
The committee which has been
appointed to manage Judge Webb's
campaign consists Of w. H. Sea-
man, Sheboygan; w. c. Silver
thorn, Wausau; T. r. Hudd,
Green Bay, H. w. Chynoweth,
Madison; Michael Griffin, Eau
Claire, F. M. Hoyt and w. J.
McElroy, Milwaukee.
JUDGE WEBB.
The honor confined upon Judge
Webb by the state bar convention
at Milwaukee, in placing him in
nomination for the supreme bench,
should be supplemented by the
unanimous vote of those who would
lift our Judiciary above the con-
terminating influence Of politics
His standing as a jurist, his recog-
nized genius in correctly interpret
ing the most complex legal prob
lens and his courteous consider
alton for all who practice in his
court are factors that must inure
to his benefit in the campaign
Judge Webb is a student and a
worker. In a literary and social
sense there may be a metaphorical
and poetic side to his nature but in
the discharge of his functional OBJ
legations he is always pointed and
pungent and extremely practical
He never theories, or dreams, or
speculates. In a dispassionate
manner he carefully weighs the
pros and cons Of every case and
when a decision is reached equity
and law are carefully blended on
the side of justice. In the posi-
ton of Supreme Judge the same
broad humanity that has impelled
him along his arduous career as a
Circuit Judge will throw a luster
of exhilerating light across his
path in his enlarged sphere and es-
tablish in the public conscience an
abiding faith in his integrity and
ability. The opposition that Judge
Webb will encounter in his canvass
will have its origin in those politi-
cal factions not able to rise superb
Or to the narrow, vindictive spirit
SO generally characteristic of those
greedy for party spoils. Judge
Webb's election will mean the rec
ognition Of ability, integrity and
nonpartisonship in our Judiciary.
His defeat can only be interpreted
as the triumph Of offensive and
dangerous conspirators who would
sacrifice law and order for their
own OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
JUDGE WEBB CHOSEN.
At the bar convention held at
Milwaukee on Thursday last, Judge
Webb was recommended as a can
didate for Associate Justice Of the
Supreme Court. Every county in
the state with a single exception
was fully represented, and immedi-
ately upon the convention being