Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-20

The candidates Of the Non-Partisam
judiciary party Ton The supreme Caurt
are: Ch2t!es T.. S lepard oi seattle.
Warren ". 1ln ali. OF Sp9kaue; iiaEs
Bugse, of Bel.ingham; WiILiam r,ick-
man Moore, CT Seattle. and Preston
VI. Troy. Cf Olympia. Each is ad-
mirably fitted 10 nj tue hi-h place
for which he has been named. "When
in doubt see Shepard, is the motto
Cf every young attorney in Seattle.
for Charles L. Shepard is consulting
lawyer Of more Mhan Seattle reppta-
ton. a man Cd small frame, sixty
lwo years cid. but appearing twenty
years younger. he is Cl the judicial
temperament IS against the advocate
he is student OF laN, more than u
practitioner and firm believer III
the common sense and common hOu~
esty Of the people. MI. Shepard
studied law at Yale many years ago
and he studied IL hard. As youth
he devoted his every energy 10 littWg
himself for the LAW, for law has al
ways been a sacred, serious purpose
with him. When lie was graduated
from Yale he knew more law than
most lawyers CT many years practice;
He practiced law Tor many Years III
Wisconsin. In 1881 he was an as
semblyman and took prominent
part in drafting progressive laws
which have since been developed. ne
came to Seattle III 1891 and immed-
lately took high rank at the bar os
WASHINGTON. He wrote shepard S
Wisconsin Digests" in 1904 q work.
which alone was sufficient to assure
him a lasting reputation. Ee has
served on the library board n seat
| tie and is one OF the men directly qe
sponsibe for the present ib.fary. A
quiet, scholarly man Mr.. Shepard has
never come into the white light Of.
publicity, but among lawyers there is
no better known man in the state. tie
has never appeared in the startling
cases that fill the newspapers but on
many a mOmentOus occasion his opin'-
ions have been voiced in court by 9th
er attorneys who brought their
troubles to him for solution, and
bolstered their own regulations with
his knowledge.
/ Warren w. Toman has practiced
law in Spokane for the past eighteen
years and during that time be has al
ways been an advocate OF better gov
ernment in the city and state. lna
1901 Mr. Tolman's name was before
the people continuously owing to the'
opposition the railroads manifested ~
the Tolman railroad commission oIt
1t was one OF the hottest Legislative
fights in the history OF the state aud
Mr. TolMan emerged triumphant with
q reputation as a fighter and a law
maker. From 1903 10 1906 he was q
member Of the Spokane school board:
he was member 0l the Was luGtNnl
comm issiOn to the St. Louis fair amos
a member of the original CJ'rnIltef0Ca
for the Lewis and Clark fair at Port
land. He has been a member 81 uGar--
! II every civic organization IN SpoGaHe
and was one OF the men selected 20
| dr2ft charter for the commits On
form OF government Mr. Cotm2u
cores from the farm. lie wo.~eu On
farm in Kendall county, lltu0is. M
til he was sixteen years Old His
father died and the boy had to start
out in life for himself with only the
education that he secured When the
farm did not claim his services. His
/ irsr venture vas as clerk III q country
store Next he was Clerk in couu.
ny postoliice and finally drilted uto
rai,,oading, where lie remained lntik
ne was tventy-three years Of aFe-
Then he decided to study lew. lie.
had saved his money and was abie-
to go through the Western UniverSitys
law school at Chicago where he Wasl
graduated in 1881 He Joined the iaw
firm of Tolman 4 TOlman which later
was merged with the older Iirm OF
Doolittle &McKee MI T0lDlan came,
to Spokane in 1882 and was married.
in 1889. He is forty-nine years old
and Democrat in national politics.
Hans Bugge OF Belingham, was
born in Norway forty-two years ago.
He came to Minnesota when he Was5
two years old. When he grew to maxi
hood he entered the law Office of Sen
ator knute Nelson where he remained
for two years before going to the
University of Minnesota to study law.
He was graduated from the law school
with first honorable mention and went
home to be elected prosecuting attor-
ney of his county which Office he helG
for five years. In 1896 he was dele.~
gate to the convention of the National
League of Republican Clubs held I'M
Milwaukee. Shortly afterward he came"
west to Bellingham where he began
to practice law Always intensely i'll
terested in public matters Mr.. Bugge
was early impressed with lie neces- -
sty of direct legislation and the direct
primary law He was one Of the ,,a.t- -
ers of the present law ana one rl he
hardest workers in lis behalf. Ais
progressive temperament has kept
him always in the forefront of every
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