Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-10-27
SUPREME COURT
ONLY REAL FIGHT
0YershadoWs All Other Contests
in the Campaign.
KEEP JUDGES kOA-PhRTISAN
Fisk, spaIdine and Burke Compared
With OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES at Is
sue Briefly Outlined.


sue Briefly Outlined.
The only fight in this campaign that
touches every citizens life and prop
erty, is the contest for supreme court.
People begin to realize the dangers
that can easily arise from mis-step
and are asking these questions:
Do we want, as judges, creatures of
powerful political organization, or
judges controlled alone by their sense
of justice and honor?
Do we want judges to decide cases
as we want them decided, or accord
ing to law and justice? Will not a
League-elected judge render League
desired decision?
Is it safe to allow any political or
ganization to select our supreme court?
Mistakes Will Happen.
Soon this League will control the
legislation and every state Office.
These are new men, untried and mex
perienced. In their enthusiasm they
are likely to make grave mistakes.
Don't we need now, more than ever,
an emergency brake that we can
trust? We can trust the present SUI
preme court-the judges we have.
The only real non-partisan candi-
dates for supreme court are Charles
]. Fisk, Burleigh F. Spalding and E. T.
Burke. They are controlled neither
by Big Politics nor Big Business. They
have experience, ability, integrity,
good name and are free from the in
fiuence of any political machine. Their
records prove them progressive. They
have catered to no class. Yet an in
spection of their decisions shows they
have given the farmer and toiler full
measure of protection. They have
been criticised for four decisions
which, 1t is asserted, were wrong. Out
of hundreds of decisions, to have but
four criticised is marvellous record.
Their Record-Their Decisions.
Here are some decisions of the pres.
ent court:
1t held the low Ignite coal rate
valid; three big railroads were fight
ing it;
1t held the anti-snuff law good; the
tobacco trust opposed the law;
When an elevator man became bank
rupt, the court made his surety, a
bonding company, pay in full every
farmer who had sold his grain to that
man, even when the bonding compa-
ny had compromised with the farmers,
nor was the bonding company allowed
to do business in the state till it paid
dollar for dollar;
Stock shipped by farmer was in
jured; the railroad claimed he had no
right to damages because he waited
sixty days before making a claim. The
court set aside the sixty-day clause
and made the railroad pay;
A farmer shipped grain; the car
proved leaky and lot of grain was
lost He sued for the price and the
court held the railroad must prevent
such loss or pay the damage;
A farmers wife worked too hard
fighting prairie fire started by rail-
road engine. She sued for damages.
The railroad argued that she was not
injured by the fire, but the court held
that damages were due her;
The court made the elevator, lum-
Der and oil companies pay taxes on
land used on railroad right of way;
The court made hail insurance
company pay for farmers crop, even
when the land was wrongly described;
The court held the state bonding law
good; this law would allow the state
to write bonds for county and city Of
ficers, saving the cost, usually paid to
bonding companies, who fought it hard.
What Have the Others Done?
The three opposing candidates have
been in the state number of years.
Have they given their time and talents
to fighting the battles of the farmer
or have they suddenly grown inter-
ested?
Robinson is nearly seventy-five years
old and has lived in the state thirty
three years. His record does not show
him farmers champion. He has
figured in one case where he tried to
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lived on, cultivated and paid taxes on
for ten years and wanted the supreme
court to declare law unconstitution-
al, to do it.
Birdzell is man of no practical ex-
perience in the courts. He has been
a teacher in the state university, but
has never had occasion to do the work
of an attorney.
Grace is small-town lawyer of less
than mediocre ability and education.
His standing at home was shown
when he ran for county judge and was
low man of three candidates, and |,
again when he ran unsuccessfully for
states attorney. AS candidate for
postmaster he could not get sufficient
support from his home people to land
the job, paying $1,000.
Promises have been made for these
candidates that cannot be fulfilled.
The candidate who solicits votes by
promising to do what he knows is I'M 7
possible is morally as guilty as the
person who obtains property under
false pretenses.
Vote for Fisk, Spalding and Burke ,
and repudiate such men and methods.
NON-POLITICAL JUDICIARY ASSO.
CATION.
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