Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-30
..1atan's ssdlepemdon Candid late.

From the st. Pa,l Dispatch, oct. ga. II
While the Dispatch has always held
to the belief chat Sherman Page was
guilty Of nothing in his Official career
which called for impeachment, it has
been equally candid in statements whose
unmistakable inference was, that he is
totally unfit for judicial duty by reason
of infirmities of disposition aud nature,
which he could not, or would not coerce
into a sense of official fitness and deco
rum. Before and after the impeachment
the testimony was universal and unani-
nous as to his malevolent temper, which
saw in the most Insignificant opposition
to kim treason, and misconduct calling
for the Intervention of judicial power.
Not alone in rancor Of heart is his luck
less character sad transparency of un-
fitness, but In the littlcness of neighbor-
hood disputes, The vindictive misrepre.
sentation In every shape, and in the ma
Judge and private citizen, he has brought
which he perverts from its high mission
The charitably disposed portion of his
constituency hoped that with the salu,a
ry lesson Of the impeachment, and the un.
enviable hair breadth escape from it: pen
atty, a recurrence "r the 0lsgracful ebulli.
tions Of spite and mean persecution would
be impossible. That man could persist
in the same mischievous acerbities of
temper, the same miserable and unmanly
hatreds, and the same old programme of
revengeful pursuit, and this, too, in the
face Of more compact, threatening, and
cevn subversive antagonism than he had
before met, proves an Obstlnacy imper.
viOus to all reform, and insensate to that
public esteem which alone makes his au-
thority valuable.
The obluseness or audacity which i'm
pels such an unnatural being to claim an
Office Of which common humanity and
public decency alike forbid his tenure, is
one Of those vagarles Of insanity or inor.
dinale egotism beyond all precedent as it
should be beyond all fulfilmcnt.
Enough has been said, written, lived
through and proved in every way for years
If the abnormally wicked character Of
Sherman Page in his prosecuted district
to make any public continuance OF him
! griev0us calamity. The calm and dis
passionate citizens Of his precinct, UNI ex.
ed by any of the malign interference of
Sherman Page, who fear none OF his in.
dictmeuts, who are in no thrall Of friend.
Illness or enniity towards him, teel justi-
fable apprehension Mt the least prospect
Of his official temperance. They con-
slider such q mean, malicious nature an.
noying and dangerous az \ neighbor, aud
4 disturbing element clothed with no au.
thOrity whatever.
When this nature, diabolical graft on
manhood, marked in private life for dis.
turber of the peace, with a positive genius
for quarrellng, becomes the controlling
epirit Of judicial district, legalizing Sian.
der, pervertlng facts, misslating law to ju.
ries, debating their findings, determining
| their personnel, directing their indict.
meats for the conviction Of persons ob
| noxi0us to him, it's the most compreleu
sive carte blanche for "raising the devil''
ever dreamed Of even in the pessimistic
philosophy Of G. N. Cameron.
Sherman Page believes that it is his
| mission TO be IN instrument of re.ribution
to the malcontents of his province, who
do wrong from the Page standpoint which
being mainly basis Of aggressive self as
sertion and devouring self esteem, finds
no devotees fully up to the requirement.
Of Page Fetichism. Raising the devil &C
cidentally in the first election of such q
man was bad enough, hut if TIL ough ter
rorism, carclessness, bribery or apathy IN
other seven years Of such infamous judi
cia' tyranny be permitted, then the peo
pie ut the Tenth district deserve whatever
punishment Is now sm0uldering in
me treacherous and malignant ingenuit,
of Sherman Pages subter human nature