Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-15

prime of life, OF strong BODY ana VIII
make a 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
a crisis and the peril Of some misdt
was so great that the feeling now that
Judge Siebecker is safely promoted
from the circuit to the supreme bench
is one of great satisfaction to bar and
laymen alike. Two judges win 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. LaFollette. He was Demo
crat in earlier days, and always q man
of great tact, uniform urhanity and
dignity. He has wisely kept lands off
and even in this storm center of the
factional fight, when passion has been
hottest the Judge has gone his way
with a pleasant smile and no one has
had word of criticism for him. He
is a 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 1t 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 a man
man be "selfmade" who puts himself
through a college, as much so as If he
never went to college. But while the
latter made a showing In Abraham
Lincoln's generation, and while men
of genius and power VIII forever make
places for themselves irrespective of
schooling, the competition is becoming
SO ken 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
ia Eupore b, 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 a studious nature ana
has always taken life seriously. lie
went to the legislature for TINS as
trict in 1901 and, as everybody knows
has been a diligent exponent OF Gov
ernor LaFolette. We have at tne
Madison bar men ike Burr A. Jones
and two or three others who ~ould
outrank Mr.. Stevens ON point OF Mt
ness for the post, but some OF these
would decline the $4,000 salary and
will perhaps keep from the supreme
court.
The University and Mayor Groves.
sefftFlE EI LtkC AIliutlkAA+Ak AAtNAAA''~ANS -
the faculty, with Judge Winslow,
called on Mayor Groves the other
night with 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 az
ministration Mayor Groves Is giving
them. The especial point Of attack is
the "stall saloon" nefari0us IN
gtrument OF vice, which encourages the
presence Of women in saloons, ana
which Mayor Groves and some Of the
aldermen are loath To completely cut
out. It appears the visitors did not
get much satisfaction as tire mayor
talked the storm Of words, forbidding
them to scarcely say anytht1e, ana
resorted to Mayor Roses weiEknown
and unangwerabIe argument that
thuru never was a better governed
.aty. Groves has anotler year TO serve
cIid while the liquor interests VIII '1e
closer bound 20 hirn by reason "f the
incident there is q IaEge conservative
As good a. t,.s bes' and bette
than the rest" are the silver laced Wy
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