The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17

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prime Of life, of strong body and will
make Il useful and satisfactory judge.
The people have made no mistake.
There are some lawyers who are his
superior in point of fitness. but it was
Il crisis and the peril of some misfit
was so great that the feeling now that
Judge SiebecEer is safely promoted
from the circuit to the supreme bench
is one of great satisfaction to bar and
laymen alike. Two judges will soon
be added to the bench following on
the new constitutional amendment and
Greene of Green Bay and men Of his
rank who are cOnfessedly first choice
for the highest court can then be ad
vanced. Judge Siebecker is a brother
of Mrs. LaFOlIette He was a Demo-
crat in earlier days, and always a man
Of great tact, uniform urbanity and
dignity. He has wisely kept hands off
and even in this storm center of the
fractional fight, when passion has been
hottest the Judge has gone his way
with Il plea SAINT smile and no one has
had a word of criticism for him. He
is graduate of the state university
and the story of the boys struggle to
master the English tongue and to get
an education makes a thrilling one
and it would do all our Wisconsin
youth good to read it. =
Another Madison Judge.
e. Ray Stevens, who by appoint
ment becomes judge in this circuit, is
another university product. It is hard
to see how In the face of the success
of these college educated boys, one can
still lift the cry Of " self-made men,
by which they narrowly mean men
who never had the advantages of
college education. OF course man
man be "seIf-made" who puts himself
through a college, as much so as If he
never went TO college. But While the
latter made Z showing III Abraham
LincOlnS generation. and while men
of genius and power will forever make
places for themselves irrespective OF
schooling, the competition is becoming
so keen that only those who have the
best preparation can win success.
Judge Stevens is but thirty-four,
though there are precedents for young
judges. Winslow of the supreme
bench was a circuit judge before he
was thirty. Judge Stevens aided the
way through the university by the use
of his pen, acting as correspondent for
the Milwaukee Sentinel. The day has
gone by when many people can be sent
to Eupore by newspapers for the
descriptive letters they may write, but
Mr.. Stevens was sent by the Sentinel
to write articles on municipal govern
ment. He is Of studfous nature and
has always taken life seriously. He
went to the legislature for this dis
trict in 1901 and, as everybody knows,
has been a diligent exponent of Gov
ernor LaFollette. We have at the
Madison bar men like Burr A. Jones
and two or three others who would
outrank Mr.. Stevens on point of fit
ness for the post, but some of these
would decline the $4,000 salary and
will perhaps keep from the supreme
court. "a le.P
:, The University and Mayor Groves.
Some of the influential members OF
the faculty. with Judge WlnsloW.
called on Mayor Groves the other
night with 4 view of getting him in
terested in improving local moral con-
ditions. Citizens who feel that the
seat of the state university owes some
thing to the parents Of the state have
not been happy over the kind OF adj
ministration Mayor Groves is giving
them. The especial point of attack is
the stall saloon" a nefariOuS in
strument of vice, which encourages the
presence of women in saloons, and
which Mayor Groves and some of the
aldermen are loath to completely cut
out 1t appears the visitors did not
get much satisfaction as the mayor
talked the storm of words, forbidding
them to scarcely say anything, and
resorted to Mayor Roses well-known
and unanswerable argument that
there never was a better governed
city. Groves has another year to serve
and while the liquor interests will be
closer bound to him by reason of the
incident, there is a large conservative