The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-06-23

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public spirited. We served with
out pay, paid the expenses of the
convention, which included it's
stenographers' fees and printing
bills, and made one of the best con-
stitutions, which Was largely fol-
flowed in the making Of the one un-
der which the state is now govern
ed.
Speaking about fighting quail
ties reminds me that / once had q
law partner over in Illinois Of whom
it was said, he fights like q wild
cat. No sooner do you tear him.
loose than he is back on you again
and when / heard Of the fight be-
tween Kit. and Crawford it struck
me that tie latter's style of fight
ing would come up to that stand
ard, and might worst his opponent.
But now ssthere is another Rich
| mond in the field"
II / understand Mr.. Egar's po-
sition, in the prosecution of Mrs.
Kaufman he secured her convic-
tion for manslaughter and the su-
/ preme court reversed the decision
and the lower court thon convicted
her Of assault, or assault and bat
terry, and thereafter the supreme
court disbarred Egan on some mat.
ter not connected with the Kauff-
i man case, and later denied him
the right to hold the Office Of states
attorney of Minnehaha county,
and he then determined to appeal
to the people for election as their
governor. | know nothing of the
merits of the different proceedings,
but the political result thus far
looks like successful appeal from
the courts to the people, and re-
minds me of case that once oc-
Cured in western court where
the Justice met the criticism of his
4 decision by leaving it to the audi
encs& to say whether he was right
or wrong and the crowd promptly
voted him down; or that other
case in Cincinnati few years ago,
where the success of Tom Camp
bell, q great criminal defender,
aroused the public indignation to
such an extent that it broke loose
from the law and burned down the
temple Of justice South Dakota
is certainly in the lime light polit-
ically.
When Mr.. Taft took the field for
the presidency and during the ear
+ ly part of his administration, ii
was heralded abroad that Wade
, Ellis, the attorney general of Ohio,
was the John the Baptist of the
! coming administration, and toe
J much could not be said of his abil-
! ity, power and requirements.
remembered Wade Ellis as a young
+ clean democratic lawyer of Charles
! Mix county and deemed that South
Dakota was highly honored in the
prominence given his name. Lat.
: er he resigned good place in
Q Washington to go home to Ohio,
s as the one man necessary to make
e peace in the interest Of success in
: the republican ranks because o1
/ the rupture caused by displacine
+ Jimmy Garfield as Secretary of tht
t Interior By the present incumbent
y Ballinger, and now comes Ballin
: gers attorney and says he clea,
d listed the Cunningham coal claim
n in Alaska, which is at the bottom
u of the Ballinger Investigation, o,
!, the report of Swarts, who | under
n stand was given a place in the lant
It department when Senator Kyl
d was serving his last term. and it i
further said said that that Dsll;Sseer reeSerse
n his decision on a subsequent re
l. port of CLAWS.
10 Swarts was a populist and tn
G only populist, or democratic, law
% yer in the House of the legislator
e Of 1897, that remember, and wa
d made chairman of the judiciar
committee, of which l was mem
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