The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-04-07
TSSEN.OCORMAN
CHOICE OF SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE ENDS LONG
DEADLOCK.
ON TIE GATH BALLOT
ft3 Votes 10 30 for Depew-Democrs-
tic insurgents CapituIate and the
Rest Is Easy.

Albany. April - Supreme Court
Justice James Aioysius O'Gorman,
Democrat. of New York city. was
elected United States senator by the
legislature after the most protTaCted
struggle over this position ever held in
the Empire state On the final ballot,
the siXty-fourth. he received H. votes
C. 50 cast for Chauncey NJ. Depew,
whose term expired March 4.
Al the close OF q day of almost con-
tiuuous negotiations the insurgents
c~apitulated and Justice OGorman was
elected. A few minutes before the
ballot was cast Justice O'GOrman's
resignation from the bench vas filed
at the Office of the secretary OF state,
as a constitutional provision would
have prohibited his election while
holding the Office Of justice OF the
supreme court.
Wild applause marked the end Of
the long contest and the legislature,
driven from the state capitol BY We'd.
nesday's fire, quickly adopted a reso-
luton adjourning until April l..
Governor Dix Pleased.
Governor Dix expressed qualification
at the result.
The state of New York" he said,
has elected for its representative in
the federal senate an eminent jurist,
a man Of pronounced ability, of great
attachments and Of the highest char
arrar Tho nlnnYinn nF TrIua n'Enr-
man cannot but meet with the ap-
prevail of the citizens of this state, re-
CARELESS of party. He will rank with
the ableSt statesmen the senate has
known, will represent the Empire state
and bestow honor upon the party that
elected him. l am gratiied at this
solution of the problem which has o
fronted the Democratic members OF
the legislature for the past ten weeks"
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam
many hall, who for weeks has been
striving TO bring about the election
of Mr.. Sheehan, expressed himself as
highly pleased at the outcome.
NO better selection could have
been made by the party after the I'm.
fair and unmerited defeat of Mr.. Shee-
han, whose position before the people
has been greatly strengthened" said
Mr.. Murphy. Judge O'Gorman needs
no commentator from any one, but
the public undoubtedly will see that in
the triumph Of the majority rule and
in sustaining the party caucus the
power of the party and its opportuni-
ties TO serve the people have been
greatly increased"
Justice O'Gorman's Career.
James A. O'Gorman has long been
one of the most prominent members
of Tammany hall. He has been one Of
its foremost orators for 80 years, hav-
ing established his reputation as a
public speaker in it's interests when,
at the age of 81, his eloquence was
credited with having saved a doubtful
assembly district.
Mr.. o'Gorman val born on the low
west side of New York, on May
s, 1860. He is the son of Thomas and
Ellen O'Gorman, and married Anne
VA LSSllC III ILLS CITY Ou Jan. q Ioot-
They have nine children, seven daugh-
tiers and two m
After finishing a course In the public
schools, Mr.. O'Gorman, as a lad of IL,
entered the college of the City of New
York and later attended the Uniyer-
sity of New York law school, was grad
uated and entered at the bar in 1882.
From the time he cast his first vote
he aligned himself with Tammany
hall which favored him generously.
In 1893 he was elected a justice of the
municipal court and in 1899 was eject
ed a justice of the supreme court for
a term of IA years, from January /,
1900. His salary has been $17,500 or
almost three times what he will re-
ceive as United States senator, and
he had almost three years to serve,
while as a senator he has six years.