Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-12
INTERVIEW WITH JUDGE cox.

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INTERVIEW WITH JUDGE cox.
He Denies Most Emphatically the Charges
of the LanesbOrO Journal.
CHANGING at the Merchants Hotel register
last evening GLOBE representative espied
the name of Judge E. ST. Julien Cox of the
Ninth Judicial District, and shortly after
wards found that gentleman in conversation
with well known attorney of this city.
Approaching them he signifed to Judge Cox
his intention to interview him for the benefit
of the numerous readers of the GLOBE on
the subject of the published statements con
corning his conduct on the bench at the
county, which originated in fhe Lanesboro
Journal. To this Judge Cox readily assented,
and their interview commenced as follows:
Rep.-Judge Cox, you have seen the state
ment of the Lanesboro Journal?
Judge Co1-Yes sir. / was never more
surprised i'll my life than when on my way
to st. Paul this morning. I saw the article
you refer to.
Rep.-You were at Fairmont?
Judge Cox-I went to Fairmont at the re-
quest of Judge Dickinson of Mankato to
hold court, leaving home on the 21st and
arriving there on the 22d.
Rep.-How long were you there?
Judge Cox reached there from St.
James on the 22d about noon, and opened
court within an hour after my arrival. l
started for Winnebago City, having adj
journed court at 3 o'clock. While there,
some twenty cases we're disposed of,
including the case of the State VS.. Archie
Macdonald which occupied some three days.
Rep.-Well, Judge Cox, what truth is
there in these charges?
Judge Cox-At no time while I was
there was / under the influence
of liquor. No such scene as that
described in the Lanesboro Journal ever
took place. Any and all statements or in
situations that 1 was drunk while on the
bench are absolutely and unqualiiedly false
and malicious.
Rep.-When did you reach the city, Judge!
Jndgs Cox-I arrived here at noon. and
Immediately went to the capitol where
called upon Mr.. Ladd of the judiciary COM
mittee, and requested him to demand on my
behalf an investigation of the charges con
tanned in the Lanesboro paper, Offering at
the same time to furnish him with the names
of any number of gentlemen who were pres
ent during the term and cognizant of my of
fetal department.
Rep.-Was the editor of the Lanesboro
paper present at Fairmont-do you know?
Judge Cox-He was not, nor was any one
from that section as far as know.
Rep.-Can you give me names of any geu-
tlemen who were cognizant of your deport-
ment at the time alluded to?
Judge Cox-Yes, Hon. M. S. Wilkinson,
A. G. Dunn, Alanson Fancher, clerk of the
court, VIM. Bird, sheriff, and Rev. Mr..
Everett, Episcopal clergyman at Fairmont.
These gentlemen will substantiate my state
ment.
Rep.-Well, Judge, is there anything else
you wish to say?
Judge Cox-I think not. l do not wish
to be understood as making any
defense through the newspapers. MY
defense ! propose to make through the
proper channels, and l will say
further that pledge myself positively to re-
sign in case any part of the allegations of
that paper is sustained. I will go further
you may state it if you please. Let the
Legislature appoint a committee OF three. ]
will pay all the expenses attending the inves-
tigation, and if any one of the three says
that any of the charges are sustained, will
resign forthwith place my resignation in
the hands of my opponent who would then
doubtless succeed me. feel for the homo,
of the State, and while never before cared
for newspaper attacks, this one has hurt me
and am frank to say that am simply an
swering your questions not to make defense
before the people, but because the charge is
weighty one and I certainly feel that il
true, have no other recourse than to resign
But sir, they are not true.
Rep.-Well, then, Judge: if 1 understand
you correctly, Mr.. Ladd has the matter in
charge?
Judge Cox-Yes, sir: l have asked him tc
demand the investigation, and am prepared
to step down and out if the charges are sus
tanned in the judgment of the committee o.
any one of them. This closed the interview