St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-16

ing the workingmen of Minneapolis and
Hennepin county with the true inwardness
OF the fight over the judgeship, when he said,
'take care, you arc certain to be spotted, they
have spotted me already.n III spotting means,
and it cannot mean anything else under
heaven, that if reelected, Judge Young will
use his official position to wreak his ven
geance upon the haDless attorneys who have
presumed to oppose him. or itself it should
damn his prospects forever and make his de-
feat as unquestionable as his own unap-
proachable unfitness for the position. Use
his official position for the qualification of
personal spite! May she of the scales and
bandaged eyes look down upon US in pity
Now, what should be the attitude of the
workingman in regard TO this issue2 Shall
Judge Young succeed himself or shall an
other succeed him!
The discussion which this question has
brought about, and the bad feeling which it
has engendered, indicate that at the least,
there is 4 diversity of opinion upon
the subject. 1t has divided the Hen
nepin county bar into two opposing
factions, styled respectively the young
uns'' and the anti ''Youug-uns." 1t has
caused two of the great political parties to
abdicate a custom both time-honored and
unique, by which all questions concerning
the Judicial succession were studiously and
sternly kept from the communicating influence
of factional strife, and elevated into that
higher and purer atmosphere where personal
fitness was the prevailing consideration, and
has entailed upon the community the en-
barrassment of public discussion of the
merits and dement's, the qualifications and
disabilities OF the present incumbent. Nay
I go further and say that the seed sown by
HiSnrapnf1l brCil Hrcr pin f,f fha
judicial question into the mire of politics will
be prolific of far greater and more lasting
evil than that now visible. Where lies the
blames With those attorneys who sought
in the interests Of justice and harmony, the
removal of Judge Young: With that flock
OF "bantling attorneys" rs the younger
portion OF the bar was CONTEMPORARY styled
by one who, though certainly not obnoxious
to the imputation of youth in years, is GER
tainly of not sufficient mental maturity to
boast of intellectual puberty! Not at all;
but with the Republican Judicial convention
packed, almost to man, by the friends OF
Judge Young, in the interests of Judge
Young. A judicial convention whose dele
gates were chosen by a committee, which
committee, in its turn, was the creation of
the arbitrary will of one man, a certain
Samuel Hill by name, not only the friend,
but the intimate, personal friend of A. II.
Young. What does the workingmar think
of this method of nomination. What does
he think of the reception accorded by the
Republican convention to the committee
from the Democratic convention? When
that committee, appointed by the Demo
cratic convention for the express purpose of
making one final effort to keep
the question of the judiciary out
of politics, entered the hall where the
Republican convention WAS convened with
overtures looking toward peace upon the
question of the judgeship, they were CURLY
informed that that was the Republican con-
vention, and that they should nominate
whom they pleased to nominate.
OF all men on earth, how does it happen
that this man Young can raise such storm
of enthusiasm How comes it that he alone
holds in his hands the springs of Republican
sympathy! By merit? No! for men of far
greater merit have been before the people be-
fore this, and still the Judiciary has been
kept out of politics. By political influence?
Assuredly not, for men of far more brilliant
parts and far heavier political moment have
not yet succeeded in dragging the judiciary
into politics.
Whence his nomination! By his friends;
by political chicanery; a well laid plan by
which the favorites OF Judge Young were to
foist on the people anGthe community man
who was placed in the chair and clothed
with Judicial ermine by Tom Lowry, the
friend of no man but himself, and the
greedy, grasping monopoly which he repre-
sents.
speak to the working man of Hennepin
county. If there is an Office within the
power of the people to bestow which, more
than another, affects the interest of the labor
ing classes, it is the office of judge of the
district court. Justice, and a fair and i'm
partial administration of the law is the only
thing which the working man can get with
out money and without price. Let him be-
ware how he tri1es with this Office
Your congressman will perhaps never
directly benefit you, your county attorney,
nor your register of deeds, but the man who
dispenses justice to you and TO your families
touches you with the hand of power at every
turn in life.
myself know of one instance in which
A. IL. Young, in the interests of the corpora
ton which created him judge, lifting him by
its mighty power from the comparative and
fitting obscurity of private life, to which by
nature he was so admirably adapted, and
clothing him in the vesture of judicial emf
nence. | say | know of one instance where
OIL from legal redress man whom this same
corporate monopoly had permanently in
iured, disregardng in his ruling the direct
utterances of the states highest tribun al and
preferring rather to be governed by the long
line of his own learned and official decisions
than by the direct decisions of
the supreme court of the
state of Minnesota.
Now by no means intend to say any
thing in derogation Of Judge Young's per-
sonal integrity, on the contrary l regard
him to be man Of few generous and no
bic impulses, and possessing some fine
merits Of personal character. But the
friends of Judge Young will permit me, in
the most delicate manner possible, to insin
uate that these last are not the qualifications
which fit a man to assume the responsible
tiles and discharge the functions incident to
the judiciary. l care not how virtuous a
lmay be; how venerable his beard, nor
how sanity his mein; whether he be an ell
der in the church, or a scoffer at sacred
things, his fitness for the bench must de-
pend upon, and be measured by his intel
lectual and professional qualifications, and
in no degree upon the charms Of his personal
character It is my opinion, aud
stating my own, but re-echo the verdict of
hundreds that Judge Young is disqualified
by nature for the judiciary. He has not the
judicial mind. He is essentially a fanatic;
narrow minded and Of no breadth or
scope of intellectual insight. Having come
TO the bar when he was far on in years, his
mind having received its bent and his hab-
its OF thought their trend and mould in other
departments Of activity, he has failed, sig
nally failed, in filing The position he now
occupies. He was placed on the bench by
corporate monopoly, and Is now sought to be
kept there by convention packed by his