Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES

James Rolph, Jr., Who Will Be Mayor of San Francisco.

James Rolph, Jr., who was chosen mayor of San Francisco at the recent primary election, will not need to go to the polls for ratification at the regular election in November.~the vote in his case being final. Under the new law the two candidates for each office receiving the highest number of votes in the primary are declared the nominees, but if one candidate receives a majority of all the votes he is declared elected. The old three, four, five or even six cornered contests, through which a candidate might slip into office by a mere plurality, is done away with. Mr. Rolph. having received a majority of all votes cast, is therefore the regularly elected chief executive. His opponent. P. H. McCarthy, the present mayor, was completely overwhelmed. The new mayor elect is a native of San Francisco ahd is forty-two years of age. He is a shipowner, a member of the firm of Hind. Rolph & Co. In 1902 he was made president of the Shipowners* association and won the confidence of the union sailors by his fair treatment In the recent campaign he had the support of nearly all the labor union forces, which had turned against McCarthy.

A Noted Federal Judge. Peter S. Grosscup. presiding judge of the United States circuit court of appeals for the northern district of Illinois, who recently announced that he would retire from the bench, has served nineteen years and decided many important cases. He was one of the three judges who prepared the opinions which relieved the Standard Oil company of the famous $29,000,000 fine Imposed by Judge Landis. An other case was when application was made to the federal courts to close the World's Columbian exposition on Sundays in 1893 Judge Grosscup dissented and ruled that the exposition should be kept open every day in the week. It was he who issued the injunction against Eugene V. Debs and other officers of the American Railway union

during tbe railway strike of 1894 in Chicago restraining the labor men from committing acts of violence, and it was he again who later called upon President Cleveland to send federal troops to Chicago to preserve order. ■Judge Grosscup has been a lifelong Republican and owes his appointment to a Republican president. Recently he analyzed the two great political parties to the detriment of his own and predicted a complete Democratic victory in the next national campaign. Judge Grosscup is a native of Ohio and is in his sixtieth year. He was graduated from tbe Boston Law school in 1874 and began the practice of law at Ashland, O. In 1882 he went to Chicago, where be practiced until appointed to the bench.

PETER S. GROSSCUP.