Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-09
An Address from Mower
to her Sister Counties.
oVERPoWERlNG REASONS FOR
OPPOSING PAGES RE
ELECTION.

ovERPowER1Na REASONS FOR
OPPOSING PAGES RE-
ELECTION.
To the Voters Of the Tenth Judicial District.
On the 18th of July last, the Republi.
can County Convention held at Browns
dale for the purpose of electing delegates
to the District Convention called to nom-
mate a candidate for District Judge, on
motion of Hop. J. D. Allen, of LIE Roy,
adopted unanimously the following pre-
ample and resolution, viz:
WHEREAS, Sherman Page has announ.
ced himself as an Independent candidate
for reelection to the Office of Judge OF
the Tenth Judicial District, and whereas
his entire judicial career has been sub
vcrsive of the public interests and a dis.
appointment to those who aided in Sc.
curing his election, therefore.
Resolved, That the chairman OF this
convention is hereby Instructed to ap-
point committee consisting OF one from
each voting precinct in the county, to pre-
pare and publish such an address as the
facts will warrant, showing why said
Page should not be reelected to the posi-
ton which he now holds.
The undersigned having been designat'
ed to perform the work required by the
foregoing Resolution, undertake it, con.
sclous of the necessity that 1t should be
done we'll, aud that they may not be ful
ly competent 10 meet the exigencies OF the
undertaking.
They therefore in advance bespeak upon
their efforts the lenient consideration
of the people whom they seek TO serve
1t is not often that there is need of making
a formal and direct appeal to the people,
in order 10 save them from the consc.
quences of ill-advlsed action; nor IS i: fire.
quent that VIGOROUSLY bad man seeks,
by art and by intrigue, to force himself
upon their attention, and compel them to
support him agains, their will and their
convictions of duty. If, therefore, this
proceeding shall be regarded as unusual
and extraordinary, it must be remembered
that the spectacle of man whose name
is by-word among good people, and
whose life has been a constant aggression
upon the character and the pecuniary In.
teresls Of his fellow men, is also an &C.
ceedingly unusual one, hence, if any ex'
cuse were needed, it is supplied abund:
antly in the extraordinary character and
practices of this self nominated candidate
for the office of the Judge of the District
Court, who is now plteously appealing
for your suttrages.
To ask for Office, is to invite fair crlti.
clsm, to covet thorough investigation
We proceed, therefore, to the important
work, not alone at the bchest Of the Re.
publican Convention, but by the special
invitation Of Sherman Page, and should
the result prove detrimental TO Page, il
will be his fault rather than ours. So
much by way of preface.
NOW WE SUBMIT FACTS, and ask
for them candid consideration
and as he has appeared before the public
in the triple character of Citizen, A,tor.
ney, and Judge, we shall present the ar
raignmcnt in three divisions.
FIRsT.-ACTS AS A CITIZEN.
Soon after he came to Austin to reside
he falsely charged good citizens with hav
ing committed crimes in Office, and he
slandered everybody who did not believe
his charges to he true.
He got into dispute with man who
was attending mason for him, and fol
something that was said attacked the
workman with his fist, receiving in ex
change therefor, a black.eye.
BECAUSE the Common Council had
built Il sidewalk on the front Of lol
occupied by him for stable purposes, and
had not put in "crosslng" for his con.
venicnce, he tore up the walk, and when il
was replaced by legal authority, he re.
moved it again.
WANTING access to the public school
building, in the city of Austin, and being
refused by the Board Of Directors, with
an AK he cut down the door and took
possession.
HAVING committed an offense against
the law, he violently resisted an officer
armed with warrant for his arrest.
WHILE in a political convention at
Owatonna, he got into fight with del.
tgate and was restrained only by the in
reference of bystanders.
KNOWING the existence of city ordi
nance prohibiting fast driving, lie raced
his horse through the streets, and when ar
rested for the act, went before the court
and declared the ordinance was illegal
and tn al if 1t were enforced against him,
he would make trouble for the officers,
and so got clear of merited punishment.
He wrote complaint against Solomon
Snow, who was then county treasurer
charging him with embezzling the public
funds entrusted to his care; took Snow
Is miles from home for examination, and
when he was held TO bail, said: "That is
all want or expect to do with him." and
nothing more was ever done with him.
He sued E. B. Crane, then a justice of
the peace, upon one charge and that false,
four several times, once at Pleasant VAL
ley before j. P. Williams; once before A.
!. Fetch in Racine; once before Charles
Lamb in Frankford, and once in LcRoy
Crane appeared at the time set for each of
the first three trials, but at the fourth he
was not present. Taking advantage Of
his absence, Page went before the justice
where he made complaint against Gran e
verified by his oath, which was false in
general and in particular, thereby CON-
hitting State prison offense, and al! this
he did in revenge upon Mr.. Crane, for
having been fined by Crane for contempt
of court.
At the time of the so-called whisky
rlOt IN Austin, ana previously thereto,
Page made incendiary speeches, calcula-
ted to excite even good citizens to acts of
violence and lawlessness, and he was the
chief cause Of all that occurred that was
in any sense disgraceful.
For the double purpose of making
himself appear to those abroad to be viii.
ling to sacrifice himself upon the altar OF
the public good, and that he might cast
odium upon the citizens of Austin, and
thus bring them into contempt before the
people of the State, he pretended to be
afraid to go alone from his Office to his
house after dark, for fear of seinatlon,
and be actually made a body guard of
q few Of his dupes whom he used, not
only to accompany him about the streets at
night under pretense of finding the haun1s
of criminals, bit also to stand a. rentinels
around his dwelling while he slept from
bedtime until day break; and he did this,
not because lie felt that he was in danger,
but that he might disgrace his neighbors
VIZ now chronicle few of his Lesser
meannesses, for they as clearly indicate
his real character, a. do those of more
and greater public importance.
HE nnarrellad with a hnv ahor,f tho