Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-07
A GOOD YEAR TO BOLT.
The Republican Organ Advises the
Scratching of Hubbard = Preparing to
Give Him Dose Of His Own Medicine
The Minneapolis Barter.
Pioneer Press, Nov. 81

WHY
If we may judge from surface indications,
the general election of state officers, which is
to take place next Tuesday, elicits far less
public interest than has attended any previ-
GUS election in the history of the state. The
general Indifference far surpasses the ordinary
lethargy OF the of-year, and it is due mainly
to the profound disgust which prevails
among the Republicans of the state, in cOnse-
quence OF the disgraceful proceedings attend
ing the nomination of the candidates for gov
ernor and judge of the supreme court.
The lapse OF time has not softened, nor re-
fection mitigated the first rude shock to the
pubic sense OF decency occasioned by the in
famous bargain openly completed at q pub
lie conference held in the ordinary of the Mer-
chants hotel between the supporters of Gen.
Hubbard and the representatives of Judge
Yanderburgh, whereby it was agreed that the
Hubbard men should in body support Judge
Vanderburgh for the supreme court on condi-
ton that the Minneapolis delegation, with
lew exceptions, should support Gen. Hub
bard
Trades of this kind, as between candidates
LOT polltlcal offices, have been made before,
DuG IL mas always been deemed necessary as
matter of ordinary prudence and decency to
veil them In secresy. Never before in the his
tory OF Republican or even Dem
ocratlc state conventions. even when
political offices only were concerned, was the
shameful bargain openly promulgated and its
details arranged and completed at public
meeting, not only with no attempt at con-
cealment, but with reporters present to adyer-
tlse the transaction in the newspapers as a
matter OF ordinary business. But it is diff
cult to conceive the impudent shamelessness
OF the political prostitutes who could thus in
suit the moral sense of a civilized community
by putting up the high and venerable office of
supreme Judge at public auction, and then
hasten to proclaim the transaction in their
organ as political triumph to be proud
Of. We have seen supporters of Gen.
Hubbard present at that meeting, who
have since avowed that they
SUNK with shame out of the room when the
details OF this infamous bargain were discussed
as II the sale OF q judgeship were as common
as the marketing of beef cattle, and especially
when George A. Camp proceeded to explain
That Minneapolis wanted Minneapolis man
for judge of the supreme court, for the reason
that ne would be prejudiced in favor OF his
locality on any question coming before the
court affecting its interests. This is, perhaps,
the most extraordinary reason ever publicly
given for asking the nomination of Judge of
the supreme bench, that if any question should
come before the court affecting the interests of
his locality he would not act impartiallv, but
would be controlled by local bias. Mr.. Camp
might well have believed that there was moth
ing even in this atrOcious frankness to shock
the moral sense of any one present at public
meeting assembled to complete bargain for
the sale of the highest judicial office in the
state, as well as of its chief executive office
The Republican state ticket is too deeply
stained with the odium of this transaction
to awaken any popular enthusiasm in its
support: In state which gave 10000 ma
jority for Garfield, any Republican state
ticket could hardly fail of an election by
the mere routine action of the political ma
chinery of the party. But if there had been
any organized effort to give expression to the
prevailing dissatisfaction, especially in regard
to the judicial nomination, it is quite probable
that it might have been defeated. That there
has been no such organized effort Is due
wholly to the earnest opposition of Judge
Clark to any movement by his friends in oppO-
sition to the successful candidate. But there
are large numbers of Republicans in every
part of the state who do not
intend to ratifY by their votes the
shameful bargain at the Merchants hotel, or
to be accomplices of Camp and Jennison in
that indecent degradation of the judicial
Office. There are good many, too, who in
tend TO initiate the example of Gen. Hubbard
by boiling his nomination, since it wassthe
fruit of the same iniquitous trade. No Repub-
l1can can put his vote to better use than to
rebuke bargain which outrages every princi-
pie OF public morality, and compromises the
purity and independence of our higher courts