Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — APPELLATE COURT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

APPELLATE COURT.

Georgp L. Reinhard, candidate for appellate judge, First district, is a native of Germany and is forty-eight years old. He came to this county quite youug, and has resided in Indiana most of his life. At the age of seventeen years he enlisted as a private soldier in the Fifteenth Indiana volunteers and carried a musket for more than three years, participating in several battles, among them those, of Shiloh and Stone river. From 1865 until 1888 he was a student at Cincinnati and at Miami university, Oxford. O. In 1870 he located in Rockport, where he entered upon the practice of law and achieved good success. In 1876 he was elected prosecuting attorney, and was reelected without opposition, being placed on the Democrat and Republican tickets. In 1884 he was elected judge of the Second judicial circuit. In 1890 he was re-elected and served until appointed by Governor Hovey on the appellate court bench, aa one of the two Democratic members of that court. Second District.

Frank E. Gavin, candidate tar appellate judge, Second district, was born in Greensburg, Ind., Feb. 20, 1884, graduated atHarvardin 1873 atthe ageafaiaeteaa,

■feadied law until he was twenty sms, whoa he was admitted to the bar ad Greensburg, where he has since been achhsely engaged in the practice, his firm baring had a large practice during all the trine. In 1876 he was the Democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney, but was defeated with the remainder of the ticket in his district. He was county attorney fee several years, and in 1884 was the Cleveland and Hendricks elector for the Feurth district. While always taking an active interest in politics and always a Democrat, he has been essentially a lawyer rather than a politician. His father, Colonel James Gavin, was one of Indiana’s bravest mldiers and ablest lawyers, haring been one of the authors of the Gavin & Hard revision of the Indiana statutes, and colonel of the Seventh Indiana volunteers. Third District.

The nomination of Theodore P. Davte as candidate for so high an office as that of appellate judge, for the Third district, is an honor which few men of the age of Mr. Davis have enjoyed, and should he be elected he will be one of the youngest men who has ever held the position of judge of the appellate or supreme courts of Indiana.

Although quite young, being only thirty-seven years of age, Mr. Davis is a veteran worker in the Democratic party and in the practice of law. In the course of sixteen years he has enjoyed a large and lucrative practice and has been engaged in not less than 150 cases in the supreme court of Indiana, and has enjoyed the reputation of standing in the front rank of able lawyers. The bar of Hamilton county is one of the strongest and best in the state. Mr. Davis is a son of Newton J. Davis, a farmer of Hamilton county, an original Democrat and an honored citizen, and was born in Westfield, Hamilton county, Ind., in 1855. He spent his boyhood and youthen hard labor on the farm ; attending the district school in the winter. In 1872 he attended a term at the Norj mat School at Lebanon, 0., and returned to take up the profession es teaching. In 1 this work the evenings afforded him time for Blacks tone and other fundamental authors on law. At the age of eighteen he entered the law office of Moss & Trissal as student The foundation he had previously laid, together with close application $s student fat office, enabled him to enter the practice of law at the age of twenty-one years, when he formed his present partnership yyith Thomas J. Kane. In 1876 Mr. Davis was selected as chairman of the Democratic county central Committee which position he filled with marked energy and ability until 1880. Being one of the hardest laborers in behalf of his party, he has long been reverenced by the Democrats of Hamilton county as one of their most valiant and valued workers in the interest of the party. He actively participated in every state convention since 1873, . and was selected as alternate delegate to the national convention at St. Louis in 1876, and delegate to Cincinnati in 1880. That Mr, Davis commands the love and esteem of all who know him, without regard to party lines, is shown in the language of many Republicans who, by their actions and words, have assured him that they will support him, and it is openly conceded by all that' they believe him to b,e a, man who is so loyal to justice that he would not sacrifice his honor, even to any of his party, in the discharge of his high official duties, should he be elected. * Mr. Davis has been for many years a Mason, Knight of Pythias and an Odd Fellow. Fourth District.

Orlando J. Lotz, candidate for appellate judge, Fourth district, was born in Jay county, Ind., in the fifties. He lived on a farm until he reached his majority; attended the district schools, and commenced teaching therein at the age of eighteen. Attended the high school at Fort Recovery,o. , and Liber college in the years of 1869 and 1870. Read law and entered the aenior class of the National law school at Washington, D. C., in 1873, and graduated with distinction in 1874, receiving the gold medal for progress and proficiency. Was admitted to the bar in 1874 in the District of Columbia before Judge Arthur McArthur. Located at Muncie, lad., and commenced the practice of his profession in 1875, In 1885 was appointed by Governor Gray judge of the Delaware circuit eourt to fill a vacancy. In 1886 waa elected judge of said court for a full term of six years as a Democrat in a county largely Republican. During his services on the bench he haa tried and determined some of the most important cases which have arisen in the courts of eastern Indiana. Considering the number of cases and the intricacy of the questions involved, his rocord m the affirmation of his judgments by the supreme court is perhaps the equal at that of any other judge in tea state.

GEORGE L. REINHABD.

FRANK E. GAVIN.

THEODORE P. DAVIS.

ORLANDO J. LOTZ.