Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-06-28
JUDGE HOWE.

what ex-senator Cory Thinks OF
the Judge.
Ex-senator Cory, now editor Of
the Watertown Public Opinion, Tor
many years vas a resident of the
town Of Red6eld. He is intimately
acquainted with Judge Howe, and
the following sketch written by Mr..
Cory will be OF interest 10 our read.
ers:
"Judge Isaac Howe, whose nomi-
nation was dictated at the Mitchell
convention by the Loucks element
Of the party, is a campaigner who
never sleeps.
HE was born among the hills OF
Vermont, in Winsor county, seventy
years ago-in 1924, il his own word
is to be taken, and we know OF no
reason to doubt it on that score
and it was there hat he attained to
manhood. Received a fair educa.
cation, entered the Vermont Medi.
cal college from which he graduated.
Whether he ever practiced medicine
We do not know. Some thirty or
forty years ago he removed to Wis.
consin and studied law, but we
think he was not admitted to the
bar in that state. He managed a
drug store for some years before
coming to Dakota in 1885, where
he began farming near the city of
Mellette, in Sphinx county.
"We do not know with which party
he affiliated prior to the war Of the
rebellion, but we believe be was a
union man during the war; at any
rate, he claims to have made
speeches for Lincoln in 1864. But
whatever may have been his politi-
cal opinions prior to that time, it
was not long before he became a
democrat Of the most pronounced
type. He continued to train with
the democratic party, except when
hobnobbing with the green hackers,
until he removed to Sphinx county in
1882. In 1886 the republicans Of
Spink-we should have said the
Redfield wing Of the party, for oil
parties were divided in that county
in those days on the county seat
question, and there was a split in
the party every campaign until
that all-absorbing matter was finally
Observation-Disclosures Mr.. Howe the
nomination for probate Judge. He
accepted and made the figh. as a re-
publican. He was elected. He was
reelected in 1883 by nearly a thous.
and majority. In 1890 he was nom.
mated for the same office now known
as county judge, by the populists,
and he made one OF the strongest
campaigns Of his life. Notwith-
standing the republicans carried
every other Office within the gif. Of
the people Of the county, from the
governorship down to constable,
Judge Howe was elected by some.
thing over 100 majority. In 1892
lie was again the only populist who
was successful at the polls in that
county.
Judge Howe is a man Of great re.
sources in a campaign. He is what
may be termed a sleek" vote get
ter, believes in neither God, man nor
the devil; but when he arises to al.
dress a political meeting he opens
his speech with some reference to
what the lowly Nazarene would say
or do under such circumstances,
or what he said once upon a time.
That sets him right with the re-
ligiously inclined. Then lie wades
into tho scorpion plutocrats, and
portrays in his inimitable style
the crime of taxing unborn genera.
tions by permitting the Internal rail.
roads to issue interest bearing bonds
running 100 years. In satire and
ridicule he is at home, and on the
end OF his tongue he carries the
sting Of a hornet. After a fashion
he is eloqnently impressive. and the
air Of sincerity is never for q
moment lacking. All these powers
he has the faculty Of bringing into
play al their best before an audience.
His peroration is q succession of
climaxes of the hell and damnation
which a corrupt and degenerated
and glutted party is heaping upon
the people. The scorpion plutocrats
in league with the imps Of perdition,
urged on Ivy the satellites OF the devil
and imbued by the spirit Of hellish
avarice and british greed, are
skinned and their hides used 10 can
the whole series Of climaxes.
"There you have Judge Howe's
speech which no one but himself
can deliver.
"Judge Howe believes that there
should be no law to enforce the col.
lection Of private debts. The taking
Of interest for the use of money lie
regards as a crime against the
A!mighty-in whom he does not
believe! He believes that it il
wrong toincur obligations for future
to meet, hence il opposed
10 bond issues
Housshell Treasure.
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