Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-04-02
Several Lies Nailed.
Detroit Post.


Some of the fool friends of the Fusion
nominee for judge in the supreme court
of Michigan have been asserting that
Judge Cooley travels on railway passes.
This is one of the lies that show how
hopeless \ cause the FusiOnists have.
Mark how plain tale shall put them
down:
Judge Cooley never used pass on any
railroad.
He was never employed as attorney or
counselor for any railroad corporation.
So strictly did he adhere to his deter
minatien to avoid even the appearacs
of accepting favOrs from any railroad
company, that when invited with others
to ride ever the Grand Trunk he insisted
upon paying. and did pay. his fare.
When offered place as arbiter for
the trunk lines pool by President Fink,
to act with Charles Francis Adams, he
declined 1t, though urged to accept and
offered much better salary than he
was receiving. rs chief justice.
When the New York board of trade,
the merchants exchange and other in
tsrestsd organizations in New York
make united protest against certain
trunk lines course charging them with
q discrimination in rates, favorable to
Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities
and when the others took a decided
stand against any change in the cOmpar-
alive rates charged, the railroads dis
claimed any interest in the matter sx-
cept to harmOnize their disaffscted pa
irons. To this end q commission was
agreed upon, and men were chosen
whose records would rsfute the ide& of
favOritism to the roads or any one of them
Thurman OF Ohio had seen to il that the
Union Pacific did its duty, and he was
chosen. CoOlsy, Of Michigan had reh-
dersd the decision In the Salem case,
quoted far and wide as opposed by rail-
road spectators. and he was placed up
ON the commission. Washburne of
Illinois had record that showed him
clear OF entangling alliances with rail-
road corporations, and he was placed up
on the commission. They, while acting
as arbiters, never saw the railroad men
Interested but once. and that was at the
opening OF the drst meeting Of the COM
mission when they announced that they
had no interest whatever save to have
the controversies between the different
cities fairly settled.
Last summer Judge Cooley decided to
resign from the supreme bench and 80
announced. Thersupon he was asked
to pass upon certain questions in which
railroads were interested. Two of them
mere contracts that were construed aft
er reading and others Involved nothing
that could remotely affect Michigan's
supreme bench or the interests with
which it dealt.
After he had yielded to the earnest
protest Of his friends in all parties and
rssoasidered the purpose Of resigning,
he was urged by Manager Callawav, Of
the Union Pacific, to decide simple
matter of contract which all parties in
interest were content to leave to his de-
cision; bat he positively refused to act.
He never asked favor Of railroad
but twice in his life. Once when in a
hurry to reach Lansing he secured a
permit to ride from Lansing OH u freight
train, paying his fare. Another time he
went to Chicago ON round trip excur-
sion ticket and to save time gained per-
mission to make the return on the fast
express.
A campaign of mud throwing is the
one most congenial to those who oppose
Judge Cooley, but they are beginning to
learn that most Of the mud sticks to
| THAR own finpers