Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-10-27
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
THE SUPREME COURT.

The Populistic press is now devoting
a great deal OF space to vituperation
of the Supreme Court ofthis state. AS
the present Judges are candidates for
reelection this effort is to secure
if possible, by Misrepresentation and
abuse their defeat. But this plan will
not work. All the wild talk and dis
NAL predictions of the pops has proved
SO unreliable and false i'll the past that
they have 40 influence upon thethink-
ing public. We are aware that the
vote of the unthinking pop or the
vicious anarchist or tramp counts for
just as much as that of the greatest
student and most thoughtful citizen,
but under the benign influence of the
fine schools, the newspapers aad proba
bly, more than anything else, the expert
ence of the past few years, the peopleare
beginning to do ~ heapo OF %thi.iking,'
and the natural result of this will be the
triumphant success OF the Republicans
ticket in South Dakota this fail. ii the
Republicans do their duty. We copy
from the Rapid City journal a sketch
of the career of the Supreme Court
Judges who are candidates for ~re-elec-
ton, as follows:
ID. Corson was born i'll Somerset
vile. and admitted to practice in the
supreme court of that state. Soon
after admission to the bar he came west
and settled in Milwaukee, Wis. In
1857 he was elected to the state legis-
lature of that state, and was appointed
one of the judiciary committee. In the
fall of 1858 he was elected district at
t0rney for Milwaukee county, reciev-
ing the entire vote of the county, both
republican and democratic. In 1861
he went to the Pacific coast and settled
in Virginia City, Nevada. Upon the
organization of the territory he was ap-
pointed by the governor district attor-
ney for the First judicial District, then
embracing Virginia City and the fam
Gus Comstock mines. This position
he held for three years and upon the
admission of the territory as IA state
he was elected to the same position,
which he held for two years. In 1877
he came to the Black Hills where he
has since resided. He was IL member
of the constitutional unconventional 1850,
and also of the convention of 1889.
Upon the admission of the state, he was
elected one of the supreme judges, and
is now the presiding judge of that court.
III. G. Fuller was born on the fifth
day of January. 1901. at Glcnns Falls,
New York. Soon afterwards the fam
lily removed to jackson county, Iowa,
settling Oh Il farm near Maquoketa.
where he was reared and received a
common school education. together
with such knowledge of the law as q
boy unaidcd could obtain from tho
reading of Blackstone and Kent. In
1871 he went TO Eldora, Iowa, and after
attending an academy for about one
year commenced teaching and soon be
came principal of the Union publ,
schools, continuing i'll that capacit.
vacations i'll the law Office of the Hon
Henry L. Huff. Although admitted tt
the bar in March of 1881, he there
after served two terms as county super
intendent of Hardin county schools
and. as the nominee of allpolitical par
ties. was reelected for n third tern
which he declined to accept and cam
to Dakota i'll the spring of 1886, for tn
purpose ofresumingthe practice of Law
In 1859 he was elected Judge of tn
Sixth judicial circuit and was re-electe,
in 1893 but resigned on the 10Th o
January 1894, to take the place he no,
holds on the supreme bench mad
vacant by the death of Hon. John 4
Bennett.
Judge Dick Haney was born in Lar
sing, Ia. in 1852. His early educatio
was acquired at home under his father
supervision and in select schools. III
attended the Wesleyan University i
1874. and soon after he engaged in til
practice of law at Lansing, Iowa. whe1
he remained until 1885, when he cam
to Plankinton. Dakota Territory, wher
he practiced until the admission {
South Dakota. In 1887 he was electe
district attorney of Aurora count
without opposition. Was elected eli,
cult judge of the Fourth circuiti in 1873
renominated by the republican circu
convention by acclamationa and re-elec
ed circuit judgein 1859, and appoints
supreme judge by Gov. Charles ]
Sheldon, February !. 1896, to fill ii
vacancy caused by the resignation
Judge A. G.. Kellman. He was a dem
crat until 1884 when he joined the r
publican party. being a delegate to I'll
republican state convention of Iowa
that year. Since attaining his MAORI
his time and, talents have been excl
sively devoted to his chosenprofessio
without any effort to secure polite
preferment outside of the judicar
He was nominated at the late republics
state convention by reclamation wit,
out the slightest effort on his part
secure the nomination.