Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-02
AUSTIN, Mimi, July 31st.
Judge Sherman Page:

COPY OF PRESENTATION.
AUSTIN. Mimi, July 31st.
Judge Sherman Page:
SIR: At meeting of citizens convened in
Austin this afternoon myself and the gentle
men accom- panying me here were designated
as committee to cali upon you aud make q
presentation of this document, a petition of
yoar constituents, requesting you to resign the
Office of Judge of the district court.
In performing this duty, we feel constrained
to say that, Notwithstanding you we're lmpeach-
ed by eleven more than two-thirds majority
in the House of Representatives, and notwith-
standing the fact that this action was subse-
quently sustained by the votes of twenty-six
against those of fifteen of the Senators, com
prising the high court by which you were tried
your fellow citizens accepted the action OF the
Senate final, although believing it unjust,
and they indulged in the hope that your subse-
quent conduct, both as citizen and officer,
would in some sense not only atone for the
past, but serve to justify the sympathy which
Influenced several of the Senators to vote for
your acquittal.
In this they have been bitterly disappointed.
your late speeches, one at Dexter on the 4th of
July ult., full of recrimination and threats
and ominous OF that one which soon followed.
the intemperate and abusive harangue made on
the occasion of your late reception, together
with your recent arbitrary revocation of the
order of Judge Brill approving the sheriff's APP
pointment of jailor, have dispelled
from the minds of the people
all hope that peace or harmony of feeling or an
impartial administration of the law will again
prevail in this community while you remain
clothed with judicial power.
1t is the conviction. the positive belief held
by "a large majority of the people Of the county,
that has inspired the movement which cul-
inmates in this presentation.
Believing that we express the views, not
alone of the 800 voters whose names APP
pended to this paper. but Of the great majority
| of those who have not had all opportunity to
sign it, the committee present you this address
and the accompanying petition, and respect
fully but earnestly request your compliance
herewith. W. STANLEY, Chairman.
THE PETITION.
The petition is headed as follows
WHEREAS, The people of Mower county have,
| for the twelve years last past, beel. in a per-
| petual broil and confusion; whereas, families
| have been divided, society distracted, and the
! moral, social and pecuniary affairs of the peO-
pie nearly ruined; and. whereas, we, as country
| loving and law-abiding citizens, believe the
| cause of our trouble, social discard, and dis
graceful reputation abroad is directly traceable
to the acrs Of Sherman Page, judge OF the tenth
judicial district; and, whereas we. the citizens
of Mower county, have presented our grievances
to the Legislature of the State, the only legal
|
| the protection Of our rights and
the redress of the grievances and wrongs we
! have suffered; and whereas, by constitution
al provision requiring the vote of two-thirds OF
1 the Senators to secure a conviction the said
Page escaped punishment, although declared
! guilty by large majority of both branches of
the legislature; and whereas, the said Sherman
Page has since his acquittal and since his re-
| turn to his home been making throughout the
| county lntammatory, revolutionary and
1 disgraceful speeches, wherein he
has denounced law-abiding. peace
able and respectable citizens of this county, as
conspirators, convicted criminals, thieves, de.
! faulters, comparing them with the convicts in
| the State prison at Saltwater; and, whereas
each and every one of said charges and innuen.
does is false and without any just foundation
whatever; and, whereas, they are made first tt
| crafty the malicious and revengeful spirit Of
| said Page, and, second, to hun1iliate and dis
grace those of his fellow-citizens whom ht
can neither control intimidate; and
| whereas, by these acts he has given additiona
proof that he is wholly unfit to perform
the sacred functions of the judicial Office; anc
whereas, by reason of his irascible temper anc
vindictive spirit and his expressed determine
ton to persecute his enemies, there can be NJ
social amity public prosperity in thi
community SO long as he continues to hold
office; therefore
1 Resolped, That the said Sherman Page be-
ana ne Is ncreDy requested TO resign Inc ONCE
of district Judge without delay, and that a cop,
hereof be presented to him for his considera
ton Ind action.
To Sherman Page:
Il We, the undersigned citizens of Move
county respectfully ask you to resign the offic
of judge of the Tenth judicial district:
fThe GLOBE reporter has forwarded a cop,
of tho names by special messenger, and i
proves to be something immense. The list il
such a monstrous one that we could not pub
lish it save to the exclusion of almost every
thing else. The list of names
twenty-four feet long, closely written i,
double column on legal cap paper. The name
are certified to under oath as being correctl
copied from the original paper, and it canno
be gainsaid that it is monster petition. Their
are some 1000 or more names attached.-EI
GLOBE.
One of Pages Fr;easas to the Rescue.
To the Editor Of the Globe.
AUSTIN, Aug. Lit will undoubtedly startl
your readers to notice anything in your pape
with reference to Judge Page that does not fal
sify and misrepresent his acts and sayings
But at the risk of SO surprising them, woul,
like to have you publish the fact that Judg
!, Page had no knowledge up to 6 P. NJ. Of Wed
nesday that any com mittee desired to wait o.
him, and that he then promptly Informed then
he would meet them at 10 O clock to-day Mt hi
Office. It is true a number of men was hang
ing around the block on which is Judge Page
!, house nearly all the afternoon, but the tramp
J just now are thick, and there was nothing il
the appearance of the men except their dres
to distinguish them from that class. Nobod
would ever have dreamed they were me-
who had any claim to responsibility, or tina