The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-01-07
Judge CIdgue
Resigns From Office
FALLS MAN WILL FILE
THIS MONTH AS CANDI-
DATE FOR CONGRESSMAN
TAKES EFFECT FEBRUARY /.
JUDGE NJ. OLSEN MAY RETURN
TO BENCH IN NINTH JUDI
CIAL DISTRICT.

Judge Frank Clague has filed his
resignation as judge of the Ninth
judicial District, the resignation benz
received Monday morning by Governar
Burnquist upon his return from low :;
where he has been for past three weel.s
The resignation will take effect Fe6-
ruary /, Judge Clague wishing II
finish all the work of the last term
1t is probable that Judge l. NJ. Olsen OF
New Ulm will be appointed to fill the
unexpired term as it is the wish
the attorneys of the District that he
! do this work
Judge Clague will, sometime da7-
ing the month of January, file as :!
candidate for congressman of Il,
Second District, the present Congress
man F. F. Ellsworth having stat
his positive intention of becoming (.
candidate for governor of the stat
The actual date of MIR. Clagues filing
has not been announced although il
is known that it will be early in til
month. He will begin his active cam
paign soon after finishing his WORK
as Judge.
Mr.. Clague's candidacy will give
the people of the Second District 2
opportunity to send a successful bu
mess man to Washington to attend tn
the affairs of the state and the dis
trict, need which is especially great
at the present when the country is IN
a state of unrest and when wise man
Iagement of state and national affairs
is more necessary than it has eve
lA,g1
made success and it has been game
in the school of experiences which
make him eminently fitted for the
high office to which he aspires. Sine
his coming to Minnesota in 1881 he
has worked su2adily and sturdily ana
has achieved much.
Politically Mr.. Clague has been
a factor in the development of tn :
section of the state. Following his
coming to Minnesota he was resider {
lof Blue Earth County for many years
attending school there, and reading
law in the office of Pfau and Young
After coming to Redwood County IA
served as county attorney from 1897
to 1903, leaving this work to go in
the state legislature where he serve d
as a member of the House for tue
, terms; during the lattar term i,e
was made Speaker. He returned I
the Legislature the next term, 1876?
tas the senator from Brown and Red
, Iwood Counties a position which h
held until 1915 when he refused t.
again become a candidata. 1t wa,
: during his work as Senator that Nc
Clague by his splendid work as char
man of the Finance committee, prov
his worth as business man in II
affairs of state as well as a statas
g man. Following his senatorship he a.
tended to his private practice as 81
attorney until the last general ner
tion when he was urged by his frier
5 to become candidate for the judge
5 ship.
AS judge Mr.. Clague has be
u very successful and has met with tn
: greatest favor throughout the d.
: trict. However he has not found t.
n work entirely congenial and h
G friends have felt that his field L..
y rather at Washington than local
S and have insisted that he become
: candidate for the national position
, Mr.. Clague has hosts of friena
a throughout tho district, every one (,
: whom is backing his candidacy to t,
S limit, and he has received the heart
). est endorsement from the many vet
S ers of the district who are anxious t
q send him to Congress.