St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15
"GOOD DAY, JUDGE"
Which Salutation Several Mime
apOlitans Are Hustiing After.

Which SalutatiOn Several Mime
apolitans Are hustling After.
The GLOBE has information from a
trustworthy source that F. B. Bailey,
ex-judge of the municipal court, will be
appointed by Gov. Merriam to fill out
the term for which the late Judge Won
Schlegel was elected as judge of probate
in Hennepin county. If Judge Bailey
secures the place it will be wholly be-
cause of political influence. One prom
inent attorney said yesterday:
Judge Bailey is looking for the pro-
bate judgeship with keen eye. Ii he
gets it it will be through the influence of
Boardman already. and seems likely to
owe more.''
"Uncle'' Loren Fletcher, while not
classed among the lawyers, yet comes
near knowing what is going on in Re-
publican politics. Yesterday he said:
Il don't know much about who is looking
for that job, but suppose some one of these
fellows who are interested in sending dele
CATION to the state convention for Bill Mer-
riam Will get it. guess it lies between
Bailey and Scott
Should Bailey receive the appoint
ment there will be several disappointed
attorneys, who have been getting a
three-ply hustle onto themselves. G.
B. Leonard is one of them. He was out
yesterday with little piece of white
paper in his hand, and several of the
district court judges were approached
with the request to attach their sigma
lures to the petition setting forth G. B.
Leonard's qualifications for the vacant
judgefhip.
S. w. Botkin has been putting in just
a few good, strong licks in his own in
terest. He wants the place. and he
wants it bad. He does not intend to let
it get away from him for lack of work
being done to secure it. Judge Ue-
lands cognOmen has been spoken in
probate court, but he had the place for
a long while once before, ard it is
scarcely probable that he will be
named.
One lawyer was found yesterday who
alleged that on Saturday Gov. Merriam
had as much as said that the next judge
OF probate in Hennepin had been Sc
lected, and intimated that the job would
90 to Scandinavian. John F. Peter
son, register of deeds, says that, so far
as he knows, the only Scandinavians
who could get it do not want 1t, and are
supporters of G. B. Holmes, the present
probate clerk. The appointment of
Scandinavian would bar Bailey, but it
is not at all probable that Bailey would
be barred.
The re is any number of lawyers who
would like to see G. B. Holmes get the
place. They think he deserves it. He
has done all the work of the Office since
capacitated through illness. lie has
had the added labor of preparing a new
system of blanks under the new law,
has had to revise the practice for the
same reason. and has looked after about
the same amount of business in Henne-
pin county with one clerk as has been
done in Ramsey county with two. He
has worked hard, and his friends be-
lieve that he should be given the re-
mainder of the term. Added to this
comes the statement that Judge Won
Schlegel wrote to Gov. Merriam just be-
fore his death, asking the appointment
OF Holmes. However, it is more than
likely that politics will defeat Holmes
candidacy. sssS&
There is another candidate for that
$4,000 per year in the field. He is at
present an alderman, and his name is
Jim Bradish. Bradisb is working, too.
| He is allowing no grass to spring up
backing politically, and, more, there is
said to be a solid wall of gold behind
him in the person of T. Lowry, street
railway magnate.
Bradish has been of good deal of
service to Lowry in the council cham
| Der, and believers in this theory say
that the red bearded millionaire is not
man to forget his friends. Hence
Bradish's candidacy and prospects.
There is another contingency to be
considered. 1t is just possible that
there may be so many candidates in the
field that Merriam will hesitate before
making an appointment through fear
of making political enemies. In such
event he would probably leave the
selection of the probate judge to the
Hennepin county bar. Then a man
who has not been working for the place
would be selected. Dark horses are the
fashion. Verify it is warm race.