Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1909-04-02
TO THE VOTERS OF THE TENTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.

Within one week you will elect cir
cult Judge for the term beginning Jan
uary /, 1910, and for which Judge Johr
Goodland is q candidate for reelection
There are several well grounde Z
reasons why he should be reelected.
The first is his superior fitness fol
that Office. His legal learning, exten-
sive judicial experience, honesty and
fearlessness in the discharge of his du.
ties, mark him as the man to whom all
are willing and content to submit their
differences and satisfied that they will
have substantial justice meted out to
them. He has always lived SO simply,
temperately and wisely that he is unu-
sually well preserved, physically and
mentally, and fully capable of perform
ing the duties of a circuit Judge for
another term. The result of the re-
cent primary vote in Outagamie county
shows that the people have confidence
in his ability to perform the labors of
the Office another term, and their ap-
probation of his services in the past.
The second is that by his election
the court chambers, the place where
much of the important court business
is transacted, will remain in Appleton.
Notwithstanding the effort being made
in some quarters to incite prejudice
against Outagamie county and opposi-l
tion to Judge Goodland because of his
residence ia Appleton, 1T Is NEVER
THELESS TRUE that it is in the in
terest Of the whole circuit that the
court chambers remain at Appleton.
The recital of the following facts will
satisfy you that such is the case. Here
they are: The trial of all jury cases
and of court cases, involving the exam
inatitn Of several witnesses are now
held in the county where the actions
arise The other court business is usu-
ally transacted at the court chambers
and requires only the attendance of
the attorneys and sometimes their
clients and few witnesses, and in any
one case rarely more than half day.
The court house at Appleton is well
provided with = "a u a t e court
chambers, that is to say, rooms for the
use of the judge and the court report
er, and no other court house in the cir
cult is so provided except that at Anti
go.
To give even tolerable rooms for
court chambers at Shawano would re-
quire a considerable addition to the
court house. Outagamie county has
practically, one-half of the population
of the whole circuit, having had in
1905, 49,O15 to the total of Shawano
and Langlade counties of 46,775. BY
the state assessment of 1906, Outagam-
lie county had taxable property to the
amount of $44, 1855 as compared to
$29, ,035, ,526 for ALL the rest of the cir
cult, and $40, ,957 ,0SS for Langlade and
Shawano counties together. 1t is safe
to say, though we have not examined
the records, that Outagamie county
furnishes more than one-half of all the
court business of the circuit. There
are at the court chambers in Appleton
/ 900 volumes of law books for the use
of the Judge and the attorneys, while
at Antigo and Shawano there are but
very few such books. Appleton is
much more conveniently located for
the entire circuit than any other place
in it. One can go from Florence to
Appleton and return in less time and
more conveniently than to either Anti
go or Shawano. The train schedules
of the railroads within the circuit are
such that one can have his breakfast
at home in Amigo, Shawano or any
station on the C. & N. w. Ry., in
Langlade and Shawano counties. take
the morning train to Appleton, spend
six hours at the court house and re-
turn the same day. On the other
hand, one can not go from Appleton
| nor from any station in Shawano coun-
tv on either line of the c. & N. W. Ry.,
not even from Aniwa to Amigo, at
tend to business at the court house one
ho.r and return the same day. Shawa-
no city is little, If any, more accessi-
BILE to the people of the other counties
than is Amigo, and TO considerable
portion of Shawano county is no easier
to reach than is Appleton.
For these and other reasons the Out
agamie county bar, at recent meet
/ ing of large majority of its members,
voted unanimously to endorse the can
didacy of Judge Goodland and appoint
ed the undersigned committee to pro-
! mote his reelection.
Dated at Appleton. March 29th, 1909.
+. M. WILCOX.
JoHy BuTTEEsEK.