Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, March 20, 1886. The Fredericktown Plaindealer authoritatively announces the name of Judge James D. Fox of that place as a candidate for re-election as Judge of this judicial district. We are pleased to see that Judge Fox has had the good judgment and firmness to turn a deaf ear to the political sirens who would lure him away from his chosen career as a jurist into the glittering mirage and pitfalls of political life. He was an able lawyer before his election as judge, and though many fine lawyers are failures as judges, Judge Fox has, during his term of office, which will expire this fall, shown himself to be possessed in an eminent degree of that rare quality, a judicial mind, which enables him to clearly grasp the essential and vital point in a disputed question and strip away by clear logical reasoning the cumbersome shell which the learning and skill of able lawyers are enabled to weave around it, and reason out a decision consonant with justice and right. Few, if any, of his decisions which have been appealed to the Supreme Court have been reversed, and it is seldom that the losing lawyer, after listening to the reasoning of his decision, fails to see the weakness and fallacy of his own position and acknowledges the justness and correctness of the decision against him. Hewing strictly to the legal line and letting the chips fall where they may, regardless of friend or foe, political or social influence, he has won the respect and confidence of the bar and general public to the extent that today he finds himself without a competitor or rival for the position. This is the greatest compliment that could be paid him, and is conclusive proof that he has proven himself worthy of the high trust the people have placed in him. Just and prompt in his decisions, firm in his determination that the laws shall be enforced, courteous but firm in his treatment of the members of the bar, he stands today in the front rank of nisi prius judges and is destined in the near future to adorn the Supreme bench. He has our most cordial support. May his career to ever upward and onward. Note: A "nisi prius judge" refers to a judge in a court of original jurisdiction as distinguished from a court of appeals