Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-29
TIE JUDGEShli. J
Machine politics-A Would-De Court
Reporter and IL WOnid-be Deputy.

MaCnine k'oifCicS-A w Dutu-DS Court
Reporter and IL Wouid-be Deputy.
II have read the address of the bar in be-
half of the non-partsau ticket for juGge, but
wish to contribute little history which was
made after the bar meeting,n said leading
attorney yesterday
And, by the way, 1t was one of the most
active friends of Davis who made the motion
at that meeting to make Clan kson's vote
unanimous. When it was made Pat
O'iiawes said in substance. hold on, let
me get outthere is republican convention
coming Then a chorus of voices cried out,
What are you here for! Pat got out and
is the only member OF the meeting who did
not join in the vote to make it unanimous
Pat has a high regard for his political
honor, and, as he says, he don't like Clark
son.
Davis friends, several of them. now ac-
tive against Clarkson, congratulated Clark
son and tacitly anyhow promised their sup
port. Even Davis himself, it is reported,
congratulated Clarkson aud to all intents
yielded allegiance TO the non-partisan nom
ince.
Now it so happens that there was u stem
ographer in town who was stuck on himself
He had, at the last judicial contest three
years ago, tied up with the partisan nominees
and fought the non-partlsan ticket, with
view of being court reporter. His candi-
but not office.
'This time he went to Clarkson TO get a
pledge to name him if elected. Mr. Clarksen
decliued to pledge himself Thereupon our un.
unofficial fried said (probably at the midnight
hour for nobody heard it) I'm for 'tother
man. What do the people elect judges for
II not to appoint court reporters! What are
judicial functions not involved in appointing
IA reporter worth anyhow!
"He went straight to Paul Vanderyoort.
Paul is no slouch. The result was that the
would-De court reporter and friends secured
proxies to the republican convention. They
with Pat o. Hawes on the side) worked
the republican machine. When the band be-
gan to play Davis legal friends, and others
who holler so loud for The &. o. p. for what
there is in it for the "boysn-the men who
admire the surplus as a feature of our ma
tional polity-began to dance and when the
convention met, 10! 1T was a hurdy .gurdy and
hoe-me-dOwn. tff
"The next thing was to procure Davis
consent Charley Green, having got the
shoemaker's wax off his pants, spoke tho
speech prepared. for the last conyen tion.
When Davis, who had many scruples about
the propriety OF doing so, yielaed to Mr..
Green's argument accepted the nomination,
and thereby plunged the judicial election
into the vortex OF ward politics, we see it
to-day. The woud-be court reporter here
smiled u smole, and later, at midnights hour
probably las nobody heard it), he said, 'Hes
mlne He's miuer What are Judges for
"This is not poetry. 1t is history.
Later. the would be reporter circulated a
petition among lawyers addressed to whom
soevor might be elected, requesting his ap-
pointment for reporter. number of law
yers who were (many of them) wholly ignor-
ant of the wiley game, signed II. Here is en-
terprse for youi
snow, it Is not my purpose to blame
the active young man, but TO record
a peculiar IL not extraordinary. phase of our
judicial canvass Truth is stranger than fic-
tioa. The fame of the fellow that fired the
Ephesian dome outliyed that of the chap who
built IL. Great oaks from little acorns grow.
If there had been no would-be court reporter
there would have been no contest over Clark
sons election.
''As a loOker-on, as an admirer of audacity,
as one who has, perchance, seen what those
joining in tho game have overlooked, am
waiting to SEQ II the sterling solid citizens of
all nationalities that are SO busily and SO sue.
cessfully building an enlightened common