Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-03-30
Circuit JudgeShip.

VuuiNitil NICulI, IL WHO Sudll NC III
next Judge? The question as to wheth
er Judge Tuttle shall be his own sue
cessor is being seriously considered
and while the Judge has his friend,
he also has strong and untiring oppc
sition from men who We believe ar
working for the better interests Of tn
circuit.
One of the charges made agains
Judge futile by his opposers, was thu
violating of his pledge as a temper
ance man, and, while in Bay City OF
judicial business, he allowed himself tC
become disgracefully drunk. When
the friends of Judge futile interviewed
him regarding the charge Of drunken
ness, he promptly denied it. His OPP
posers therefore began to collect evil
dence to prove that their charge was
true.
In the meantime a public meeting of
citizens, irrespective of party afilia-
tons, took place in the Court House,
with the object of assisting the Judge
toward the denomination. AT this
meeting, among other very serious
charges that were made by response
BILE citizens, was the Judges spree at
Bay City, and his denying it. State
ments were made that convinced ma
iority of those present that the charge
was true, and a motion was passed
forming Il committee of citizens to ex-
anime into the affair, with the under
standing, that, if the charges made
were proved true, it was to be the sense
of the meeting that ii was opposed to
Judge Tuttle's reelection. The reso-
luton provided that Judge futile
should sign a denial of the charges
and agree to allow certain parties in
Bay City to give public statement of
what had occurred at Mr.. Hatch's res
idence on Sunday, February 9th, 1881.
Judge futile answered the resolu-
ton, the next day, by Withdrawing his
name as a candidate for reelection rs
Judge of the 23rd Judicial Circuit.
The Judges Withdrawal put a tenn
porary end to the investigation, but
Judge Tuttle's friends still kept his
name before the public, and declared
that if neither party nominated him,
they would run him as an independent
candidate.
A day or so before the meeting of
the judicial conventions at Harris
lille, Judge futile announced his in
tention of being a candidate for re-
election, and some time after publicly
announced himself as an Independent
candidate.
This action of the Judge caused the
committee, appointed at the citizens
meeting, to investigate the Bay City
affairs, the result of which will be
found in certain letters published in
connection with this article.
Last week we published the follow
ing letter sent to Judge futile by the
proprietor of the Frazer House;
FRASER HOUSE,
s.A. yASDEusES.
BAY CITY, March 18th, 1881.
Judge Tutle:
DEAR SIR.-You have some friends in !
Alpena who are investigating your last .
stay at my house, and my clerks have been /
asked TO give testimony that you were |
drunk while here. Now, my dear fellow, |
If any letter from me will set you at rights
before the public, shall grant it with |
good cheer. have no hesitation in saying |
the report is false. / saw and had a long
talk with you Sunday evening and am sat
isied you had not drank anything. / also
saw you Monday morning while paying
your bill. If you had drank anything in
toxicating surely did not discern it, and
l think | can tell drunken man without
much difficulty.
Kindly yours,
"A. VAN DEUSEN,
In regard to the above letter word
or two in explanation may not be out
of place. The law prohibits the sale
of liquor on Sunday, and if the Judge
got drunk while at the Fraser House,
at the time specified, the question that
naturally arises, did the Judge obtain
all, or part, of the liquor he drank, at
the Fraser House, for, if so, the pro-
prietor must have violated the law
which forbids the sale of liquor on
unless the liquor was bought
previous to Sunday morning, or at
some other place. AT any rate, the
proprietor of the Fraser House was
interested in not having it known that
such things took place at his hotel--at
least that is the way it appears to us.
Another thing has also to be con
sidered. If Judge Tuttle did purchase
and use intoxicating liquors on that