The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-07-12
our candldales for Supreme coun.


at Springfield has finished its work,
anu named a ticket that can receive
the hearty support OF all democrats,
and Of all persons who put honesty
and ability above partizan prejudice
Judge Sherwood, a ine lawyer, was
defeated because OF his age, and be-
cause he was suspected Of leaning a
little too much toward corporations.
The defeat OF Judge Sherwood
shows the temper OF the state democ-
racy toward lobby and corporate in-
~fuences, for while only a compare
lively small minority Of the party be-
Ilieved that he was under any such
influence, it was deemed best to avoid
even the appearance OF evil. Stones
overwhelming lead in the senatorial
race is in further evidence Of the same
fact. He is no dearer to the demo-
Gratis of Missouri than DeArmond, or
several other public men in the state,
but he is 90 record and stands more
prominently than they do on ques-
tions which at this time are exciting
the interest Of the people. While
some minor officials, whose records
are not satisfactory to the democracy
OF the state, are receiving renomina-
lions, owing to merely local popularity,
there can be no question Of the sin
certify and earnestness of the state
democracy upon these matters. The
hypocritlcal pretense of the republic
cans upon these questions can deceive
no one but him who wants to be de-
ceived. 1t is ~inconceivable how the
republican party, with it's past record
and present leadership in the state,
can court an issue upon which its
record, without a single variation,
from the civil war to the last session
Of the legislature, is as black as might.
Judge Gavon D. Burgess was born
in Mason county, Kentucky, in 1898.
He was admitted to the bar in 1854,
elected to the Kentucky legislature in
1858, and came to Missouri at the
close Of the wal between the states.
In 1868 he was nominated by the
democrats for Judge Of the sixth
judicial district, but was defeated. 10
1874 he was again nominated, and this
time elected to the bench in the
eleventh district, practically the same
as the old sixth district. He was re-
elected 10 1880 and 1885. He was a
prominent candidate before the state
convention for the supreme court in
1880, 1884 and 1888, and was a sue
cessful candidate in 1892.
Judge Leroy B. Valiant livesin St.
Louis. He was born in Alabama,
June IA, 1888. He came to Missouri
in 1874 and was elected circuit judge
of St. Louis and served from 1885 tc
1899. He was elected to the supreme
court in 1898 for the short term.
Judge Valiant served as captain of a
Mississippi regiment during the wal
and his record is full of heroic deeds.
OF the three candidates Judge
James D. Fox, of Fredricktown, l;
the only native Missourian. He was
born in Madison county In 1S47, ant
admitted TO the bar in 1866. He wa:
J elected Judge Of the twentieth circuit
court NOV the twenty-seventb) II
1880, reelected in 1886, in 1892 ant
, again in 1898. One of his biographert
} has stated a somewhat remarkable
fact that In the first case he ever had
B which was before a justice Of tn,
peace, his father was the opposing
counsel, and that in his first case il
the circuit court his father was agaii
l the opposing counsel.