The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-10-03

The Pioneer of Sunday morning contains
the subjoined card of E. G. PALMER. ESQ.,, in
relation to the use of his name as a candidate
for the Office of District Judge. In its pre-
factory notice the Pioneer endorses Mr.. P. as
"a sound lawyer and thorough-going Dem
ocrat," and regrets that circumstances should
have occurred impelling gentleman of his
reputation to assume an attitude of hostility
to the regular nominee of the Democratic
party. The same principle which professed-
ly governed the Pioneer last fall in its repu-
diation of the nomination of MCLEAN to the
Legislature, and GoRMAN and McGRoRrY to
the Constitutional Convention in May last,
we should think should lead it to the adop-
ton of similar course in regard to the Dis
trict Judge. But the Pioneer is not repuda-
ting Democratic nominations so much as it
was, for it has found by bitter experience
that it is sure way to promote their sue
cess.
In regard to Mr.. PALMER, we have only to
say that we believe he is gentlemen cmi-
nently capable of creditably fulfilling the
duties of the office to which his friends seem
anxious for his promotion and if the clements
of disaffection existing in the Democratic
ranks in consequence of the inopportune
nomination of Mr.. MURRAY, can be resolved
into the support of Mr.. PALMER, that gentle
man mnst make the most formidable oppo-
nent which Mr.. NJ. has ever yet had to con-
tend with.
1t is unnecessary for US to recapituate the
Importance of the Office of District Judge in
this county, and how grossly the community
and the bar were outraged when the Demo-
cratic Convention presented the name of that
arrant political trickster and demagogue,
VIM. P. MURRAY, for that Office /; and we
pray most fervently that Heaven will spare
US the nfiction of the curse that his election
would bring upon us.
The following is the card of Mr.. PALMER,
spoken Of above:
A CARD.-At the request of large num-
ber of the citizens of Ramsey county, and in
obedience to a call signed by nearly every
member of the Bar of St. Paul, am induced
to offer myself as candidate for the Office
of District Judge for the Second Judicial
District. AS my name has already been be-
fore the public in connection with the posi-
ton, do not feel at liberty TO decline a re-
Quest which bears such strong evidence of
the wishes of the people, and therefore con-
slider it not only proper, but my duty to be-
come candidate.
At the same time the office of Judge of
this Judicial District is so important to the
interests of u all, and the faithful discharge
of its duties requires such peculiar qualifica-
tions, that hope to be thought sincere, in
saving that earnestly desire the electors, in
making selection, to do so entirely irrespec-
tive of any personal considerations for my
self, and to look only to the welfare of the
public. Should their choice fall upon me I
shall feel myself honored by such mark of
their confidence, and shall exert myself to
justify the selection in some degree, by en-
deavoring to discharge the duties of the office
with strict impaltiality and scrupulous fdel-
ity.
E. @, PALMER.
st. Paul, Sept. 26, 1857.