Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-10

behalf And, Billy, you are the very man for
such crisis! Come up to the work.
Charles e. Vanderburghs Republican
Candidate for Judge In the Fourth
District.
In the excitement of the general election,
and the universal attention paid to the matter
of Congressman and State aficers, there is
danger that the voters of the Fourth Judicial
District may too much overlook the fact that
they have to elect Judge, to serve out the
unexpired portion of the term to which Judge
HALL was elected in 1857. He resigned in
the following year, and Mr.. SHELLEY appointed
to fill the vacancy temporarily, Hon. EDWARD
o. HAMLIN, of Sank Rapids, who is the Dem
ocratic candidate for election this year.
Against him the Republicans have nomi-
mated CHARLES E. VANDERBURGH, of Mime
apolis, gentleman of remarkable industry in
his profession, more studious and thoroughly
read in the law then any lawyer of his age in
the district, and of vigorous sound and dis
eliminating intellect. Having had thorough
training in the Office of the ablest lawyers Of
the interior of New York, after the adoption
of the Code, and having had for the four
years he has resided in Minneapolis especially
the charge of the pleadings, motions, &c., in
cident to the large practice of the law firm Of
which he is a member, (his partner perform
ng the part Of the advocate,) his habits of
thought and study render him peculiarly fitted
for the bench. Ofthe strictest integrity, and
almost devoid of partizan feeling, his rulings
(should he be elected) will command the
highest respect.
We are glad to be able to say, that both
the Candidates are of irreproachable private
character. Judge HAxLIN's urbane deport-
ment and courteous demeanor, have won him
many friends. That his rulings have not been
very reliable upon questions of law, is attrib.
utable more to his lack of previous experience
and study, than to any original want of ability.
Educated in Pennsylvania, and moving thence
to Sank Rapids, where there has been almost
no litigation, and his business has been deal
ingin land and leaning money more than the
practice of law, it is not strange that our
Code Qike that of New York; so different
from that of Pennsylvania, should perplex him
somewhat, nor that his knowledge of common
law should have become somewhat rusty
But as presiding Judge, he conducts the
proceedings of Court with ease and grace,
if not with speed.
His political friends have charged him with
more zeal in packing the convention which
nominated him, than is altogether commenda-
BILE in Judge; but as that is family quar-
rel we will not NEEDLE with it. We only
know that there was present a large delega-
ton from the counties which Mr.. CARUTHERs
said at the Convention shave not white in
habitant," that those delegates did not live
in the counties they claimed to represent, and
that they were not elected, nor their creden
tials made in those counties. Who did it we
don't know. But we do know that the coun-
ties of Hennepin and Wright, containing more
than half the population of the district, were
voted down in the Convention that nominated
Judge HAMLlN, by those uninhabited counties
chiefly.
The local argument would seem in all fair
ness to be very stroug in Mr.. VANDERBURGH's
favor. Hennepin County, in which he lives,
has fully three-forths of the law business of
the whole district Under our our Code of
Practice, throwing so much labor upon a
Judge at Chambers, and with the intimation
given out by the Supreme Court of the re-
stricted view they take of the powers of our
Judges of Probate (er-o1acio Court Commits
sioners) it is very desirable and almost indis-
pensible to that county to have judge resi-
dent within it. Candid men from the more
thinly settled portion of the district are dis
posed to concede this.
But above all, Judge HAML1N is Lecomp-
ton Democrat, and Mr. VANDERBuRGH a con-
sistant Republican. In view of the uncon-
scious influence which even ge's political
views may have upon him in deciding ques-
tons of a political character coming before
him, it is palpably no less important to the
complete success ofour principles, that the Ju-
dietary should be redeemed from our oppo-
nents, than that the Legislative and Execu-
tive Departments should. Wisconsin would
to this day have been in the hands of "BAR
STOW and the Balance" had not fearless Re-
publican Judiciary enabled our friends there
to thoroughly investigate and expose the cleo
ton frauds which placed that corrupt clique
in power. We hope to see the full Republi-
can vote of every county in the Fourth Die