St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-21
PALMER AND PETTIGREW
Telling a Good Deal That They Know
About Each Other.
IN WHICH THERE'S NO TAFFY
But Ugly Charges Involving the Repu-
tation and Honor of These
Gentlemen.
m WHICH THERE'S NO TAFFY
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
SIOUX FALLS. April .2O.-For the past
week Judge Palmer and r. f. Petit
grew have been amusing the public by
a bitter newspaper controversy, in
which ''you lie" and ''you're another
disguised only by the thin veil of more
dignifed language, have been ex-
changed with remarkable frequency
and considerable asperity.
The whole matter started by an inter-
view published in the Argus-Leader
some time ago, in which the judge de-
MED that he had told anybody that he
had retired from the race for delegate.
In this letter he carefully kept from
committing himself as to whether he
was to be in the canvass or not, only in
sisting that it was too early to render
an opinion.
This letter was taken up by Mr.. Petit
grew, who was interviewed in the
Argus-Leader The interview was an
swered by letter from Palmer, this by
a letter from Pettigrew and this by
another from Palmer, until everybody
here in taking up newspaper says in
stinctiyely while looking over its pages,
Lets see, whose turn is it to get
roasted to-night?'
Palmer in his first letter threw down
the challenge glove to PettigreW as fol-
lows: ''Mr. Pettigrew, please consider
me a candidate long enough to make
THE GRAND EXPOSE
which you propose. Speak out don't
be guerrilla"
In answer to this Pettigrew virtually
claims that Palmer sold his first de-
cision for his appointment on the bench
saying in his letter:
SAT the time you were candidate for
the place upon the supreme bench, left
vacant by the death of Judge Kidder,
the people of Dakota were very much
interested in the case before the court,
the decision of which involved the val
idity of the capital commission law. 1t
was generally believed that you had
formed and expressed an opinion upon
all of the questions involved in that
case, and that it you were appointed
Judge you would declare the law valid
For this reason many prominent citizens
of Dakota opposed your appointment.
was in Washington at the time, and EX-
Gov. Ordway and Alex Mckenzie were
then urging your appointment with
great vigor, and when you were finally
confirmed they openly boosted that they,
the chief parties interested in the CAPT
tai commission swindle, had gained a
victory. Your decision in that case in
their favor proved that their trip to
Washington to secure your appointment
was profitable one to them. These
facts led me to be suspicious of your in
tegrity, and l watched your course upon
the bench with some interest in order to
form true estimate of your character,
and l concluded that you were not a
PURE AND UPRIGHT JUDGE,
and that the stories told about you were
true"
Going on, Pettigrew slashes right and
left, impeaching Palmer's ability and
purity as judge.
Palmer answers this in short let
ter, which does not touch on his capital
commission-except in a general way.
Pettigrew has blood in his eye, and says
he wants to fight somebody. Palmer
takes things easy land is willing to abide
his time. Grigsley sits by and smiles.
with ''heads, win; tails. you lose,"
expression ON his countenance. Politi-
clans wear big smile, and general con-
tentment reigns. Nobody now doubts
that Palmer is in the race, nor that he
and Grigsley are to have hard tussel
before the ides of whenever the conven-
tiOp mpatS rolls around