Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-07-28
THE JuDeEsn1P.


To the Editor of tie Weekly Telegraph,
Tho publication the papers this county Of the card
Judge Chsee and the proceedings Of the meeting OF the
members u the Of this suhjudoal district held Al Asb
tabula the I2th pst naturally exciting comment ana
signed the call for the meeting and Tor time entered hesrti
y into the arrangement and the ct he aerwards With
drew has naine from the call has excited inquiry aud vev
many desire the exact facts Of his CONNECTION viii
and participation In the arrangement for that meeting These
can al any time be referred to IN re-
gard 70 those statements The Ast that heard bar
court. Judge Chsee stated to r. B. woodbury. ESQ., that
the members OF the bar cfGeauga county in body him
discharge Of his duties Common Pleas ladge for the
present term and requested him to be candidate for the
next term and pledged 10 him their undivided suppofg Az
terward he made the statement TO L. J. Bsts r. O.
Wade and s. A; Northyay During the May term, Jndge
Chaee again said 10 E. B. Woodbury. that there talk Of
having bar meeting agree upon member Of
70 be 70 the convention candidate for Common
Pleas Judge and that thought would be we'll enough 70
have such meeting and that II Reuben Hitchcock would
agree IT, he would and would sign call for meet
spx ucporou Of the Jar we're u n
he did not want and in fact, he would n OF haveit
About the middle of June, either tho 18th 1eth H.
regard meeting and asked Judge his opn
D relation to it, Judge Chae replied that of course he
the bar should take in the premises he would conform to-
would go with the bar. On the afternoon
day, Judge Chafee In conversation with II. B.
woodbury., said he had had conversation with F. H. Fitch
in rcgard to bar meeting and that he could obee
enough 70 have bar meeting; and the evening Of the
day, Judge Chaee related his conversation with Mr.
the phtest objection to such meeting, that 1t fair
Expressing choice and that all attorneys would feel
Vs steS that he did not desire to be- nor would h. be
eanddse unless the bar for him. that would be
b nSSs than snr atber sa., Q, psyons Jude
Ch.Gee sd that Judge Hitchcock had announced him
candidate Judge and said he should not sign the
call unless Judge w. did During this time the question Of
the meeting pending. Judge Chaee expressed him.
be candidate unless the desired it, the attorneys
thus knowing Judge Chadees feelings and he having beon
meeting, and the morning Of the Fourth Of July E. B.
Woodbury. Abner Kellogg, c. s. Smonds 9. ANorthwsy,
the call in the Office Abner kellogg. while Of these
gentlemen present. Judge Chaeo n and call
and left the Office saying he would think of it vety soon
after This think the day, he said to f. B. Woodbury.
the members Of the bar and he asked Mr. Woodbury. he
ChaHee) had better sign II not Mr. W. replied that he
Hitchcock would sign it, would but Hitchcock had gone
West and could not do Mr.. W. replied that he under
bly, give his sanction by letter; which Judge Chaee
| replied, If he did he would sign it.
tn afternoon of the 4h day of July Judge Chaee had
conversation with A Northway, in presence Of j. D. En-
gn in their Office and Mr. Eorthwsy then told the Judge
frankly that msry Of the members Of the bar opposed to
Chae went 70 Ashtbu and conferred with the attorneys
there aud left there saying that he should home and sign
hs CALI that he wanted all the attorneys % sign it. and told
Mr. Sherman that he must be have Mr. Petbone, M
Stone and Mr. H. Sherman sign 1t. He came back TO JEFF
erson, went to Mr. Keogg Office and called for the paper
and signed It. He went 10 the office of Wade Belts
9ussted them to sign y and to DO present By all means at
Rugg.s and told Vim H. Rugges to 60 and sign the pa
and requested him TO see that Goddard and Chapman
that he must not fail to have them sign before they ef
The next morning. duly 6h he told s. A. Northway that
the time that IL proper method to get candidate be-
fore the people and desired that all the attorneys should
sign IT. and that except for little opposition that would be
Judge Wider he (Chaee) would be the choice Of
the entire bar Mr. Northway ssd Don't deceive yourself
Judge-you can be nominated In that meeting The Judge
replied shall get two thirds of all the votes. The
morning Judge Chaee went TO Geaugs county, and his
way stopped at the Office of Hall Gary, in Geneva and told
them he had signed the CALL and desired them to do and
bc to attend the meeting He returned from Geaugs
cornty, Saturday evening and told Mr. Kellogg that he
had been to the Chardon boys; that he all but Dur
fee and they said that they had signed CALL should
they that they boWed the whole thing, and blamed him
(ChseeD for getting up On Sunday Judge Chaiee
to Mr. Kelogg called for the and erased his
ing Now, in the of reason, how Judge Chaee
his friends blame the attorneys for their acon
Ing that except for the signing OF the such meeting
by Jadgss Hitchcock and Chaee, who then the only
candidates before the people, there would have been no
ton the part the attorneys Judge Hitchcock acques
in the result With what proprety 1t
Chairee by unfair means shown that he
suited at each STEP and his sanction to all the proceed
.gst How the Judge his friends gentlemen.
due. the campaign they conducting it BY claiming
that the lawyers trying to control the action Of the peo-
pie, long the Judge himself of the. number
most airs in getting signes to the call for such meeting
1t be supposed he weuld be the person the meeting
would request 10 be the candidate; the Judge
other person. explain how ssc request would mol be at
tempt to control the acton of the people, long as is
claimed by them that the action the meeting in request
ing Mr. Sherman to be the candidate attempt to
troll such acen If unfair for the attorneys to request
Mr. sherman to be ddate would 1t not be unfair
10 request Mr. Chae to be canddaef But the Judge
in his published note Withdrawing his from such call
that he signed the paper under the superstition and belief
on my his part that 1t fully known and acquiesced in,
the members of the bar in all the counties mentioned in
it, the caD and composing this district" Does the Judge
to infer that IL the call had been "known to- and
quesced in by az the members Of the barr that then
meeting which shOu Id request him Mr. Sherman to be
candidate mould not be attempt to control the action Of
the people The fact i the call is "acquiesced" in by
Of the members OF the bar of Geauga county while the other
three members OF such bar have, intoraed, cand
date of their TO present. and hence do not "acqueSce
in such call All ask is for candid public to judge
calmly of action and say wherein have gone beyond
province good citizens in requesting Mr. Sherman to
be a candidate for Judge. J. d. ENSIGN.
JEFFERSON, July %, 1856.