St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-14
TWAS WELL ADVISED.
king Lear.
They Will Not Try to Fill an Uncreated
Office.
CoTERIE KNOCKED OUT.
Gel. Hooker and Seagrave Smith Prob
ably on Top in the Judicial
Fight.
Silence. We gods to keep your tongues in awe,
The Muse shall tell an incident she saw.
+ - After Crabbe.

Inc Dig room at The court HOuSo was
never crowded more since the famous
Barrett murder trial than it was vest err
day afternoon, when the members OF
the Hennepin county bar met to nomi-
nate a Judge for the district court.
Every available foOthold was occupied
by an attorney, and in many cases two
or three attorneys were engaged in a
wOrdy war to see who should hold a
particularly advantageous point. If
there were any attorneys absent no one
would have ever known it from looking
at the crowd. They began to arrive at
3o'cIock and gathered i'll small parties
and went into executive session with
themselves.
Gen. w. j. Hahn called the meeting
to order at precisely 4 O'Clock. he
stated the object of the meeting In a
few well-choSen words, and explained
that it had been called by the executive
committee of the Bar Library associa-
ton, as there was no other organization
to call it. At the conclusion of his re-
marks, Frank Healy was nominated for
e chairman.
Before the motion could be put E. NJ.
Wilson took the floor and said he
thought it was unseemly haste 10 nomi-
nate Judge at the present time, as
there was at yet no occasion for nOml-
mating one. He said that it seemed to
him that the best thing that could be
done would be to adjourn until there
was an object for which it could be
called.
l.. r. Than stated that he was also of
the opinion that the meeting was pre-
mature. but as it was always difficult to
get a meeting, he moved that chair
man be elected and an adjournment
taken until the Saturday following the
passage OF the bill providing for the ap-
pointment of another judge.
Charles j. BartlettSOn was also nOml-
mated for chairman. A vote was taken
on the two candidates by counting
raised hands. This provoked a good
deal of merriment and some rather sar-
castle remarks in reference to Gen.
Hahn's ability to count the upllfted
hands. Mr.. Healy won by
A TREMENDOUS MAJORITY.
and was greeted with wild Outburst
of applause when he took the chair. E..
II. Croker was made secretary.
A. D. Smith moved that the meeting
proceed to nominate two candidates for
lllC ttEO 0SOaSN AeOOiioNsi
amended to adjourn. This was lost,
and George H. White then moved that
the meeting adjourn subject to the call
of the chairman. Tom Canty worked
hard to get in a few words edgewise,
explaining his vote, but he was
promptly howled down by call for a
vote on the motion to adjourn. This
was carried with yell which nearly
lifted the roof off. For few moments
there was scene cOmical i'll the eX-
IRENE, everyone bowling like a mad
man, and gray-haired men and beard
less youths alike, throwing their hats in
the air. For an hour the attorneys
loafed around the room discussing the
situation, and gently guying the gentle
man who had presided as chairman.
That knocks out the caucus held
Tuesday evening"" remarked one OF the
attorneys, as he left the room. ''The
issue between the silk stockings and
the. 'commoners' was drawn clear and
unmistakable, and the 'commoners'
won by a vote of 147 to 50 in the selec-
ton of a chairman"
This adjournment said another at
torney, "means that Hooker and Smith
will be nominated at the next meeting"
THE ACTION OF THE MEETING
is looked upon aS dtlcdb U! tie SelcCG
coteries of attorneys who have under
taken to control the bar for the past six
wears. This coterie had held meeting
in the Boston block Monday afternoon,
which was organized for the purpose OF
knocking out Hooker, and it is under
stood that it was seriously cOntem-
plated at that meeting that the
votes at yesterdays meeting should
he limited to members of the
Law Library association, which
numbers about 10 members. There is
no real organization OF the bar as a
whole, which numbers over 500 attor-
news, so the meeting was called by the
president of the library association, and
then the attorneys captured the organ
ization, and the next meeting will be
called by their chairman and not the
president Of The library association.