Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13


ask you to give any time to it, except for your interest
a voter and citizen and member of the governing
body. The supreme judges Of the state may hold the
lives liberty and property of the people within their
keeping subject only to restrictions frequently not
clearly understood and they often make mistakes and
sometimes do wrong through constitutional infirmity
or unfortunate environment. 1t is perhaps nearly
much to your interest to know something Of the rails
ing culture, tendency mental and moral soundness
judges of the supreme court it is to know some
thing of the. financial soundness of the banks and
other institutions with which you do business and Of
the tendency and character of the people who manage
and control them,
1 candidate for the republican nomination
for judge of the supreme court of the three
republican candidates to be selected August 18TH by
republicans to against three democratic candidates
selected on the same day by democrats, and the final
Is to be, you know, at the November election
between three republicans the republican side
against three democrats on the democratic side.
There are eight republican candidates running
against each other and seeking the republican nom
nation. Only three of these be nominated because
there only three offices to fill and therefore five
of the republican candidates must be defeated. l
naturally seeking to be of the three republican
dldates who are nominated. The republicans
who running against me all live in the southeast
corner Of the state except mcfarland Of Omaha am
the only republican candidate from the west twothirds
of the state. All of the supreme court judges
live in the east third of the state All the republican
candidates live there too There has never been
supreme court judge nominated and elected in the
rtory included in the west two-thirds of the state
After Governor Hocomb's term as governor had ex
pired, he was nominated by convention and elected
by the people, but at that time he resided at Lincoln
and was in business there and did not belong to the
west. . ........ ..
There are no longer any conventions to nominate
candidates. you we'll aware Before the adoption
OF the new way, the way of the primary a mans
neghbor boosted him in the convention if he was a
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boosted somebody else and there or less
aggeration of good qualities and fitness along with
some slight criticism, and there seldom was nomina
ton by convention without respectable body of men
vouchng for the ability and fitness of the candidate
and his availability at the election strong man
who would poll the party vote or Men who are
active In politics and who engage in party campaigns
and who make speeches at political meetings from one
end OF the state to the other and whose
stanty IN the newspapers in connection with party
measures, may be known to the public at least to
certain extent but how do the public know much about
busy lawyer who is seldom seen out of the courtroom
out of his office Have the public any special inter
est in the ordinary grind of the courts Do the
public more for the business of the lawyer trying
civil cases. such suits notes. the administration of
estates ordinary damage cases. etc. etc. than they do
OF the occupation of the farmer the merchant the me-
chanic the bankerf
Often the good lawyer is a plodder Just hard
working podder. Do the people know or care any
more about his poddng than they about the pod-
der of any other ocupationi Do the people study awi
How do they know when Judge is qualified or fit to
be trusted, or anything else about him touching his
professionf Do they know anything about the lawyer
who aspires to be judge unless he tells themH and if
the newspapers do not know for other reason
fail to tell the people and the candidate himself fails
to tell them then how shall the citizen exercise his
intelligence in selecting to determine who shalt
live and who shall die and who shall be deprived of
liberty, and who shall go free, and who shall have
judgment rendered against them, and who shall mott
How many of your neghbors who not lawyers even
know the names of the supreme Judges let alone their
fitness for the position that they holdf
The necessity of the must be my excuse for
telling you something of myself. You know little or
nothing about me- unless tell you, and yet have been
a busy lawyer and judge among the people of my
state and have lived in the state than fortyone
years have done little political speaking although
have tried many cases. AS lawyer have done the
legal business of country community have repre-
sented the country banker in prosperity At that time
/ have looked after his collections and his cases in
court If trouble came upon the whole country because
of drouth crop failure and he and his business
in danger, then, | was modest sympathizer and all
earnest helper While have always been the business
mans attorney have at the same time had client
age of poor people who got in trouble perhaps otener
than they should have helped them the best could
and the trial unfair and the result unfortunate