St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-03
j. w. Arctander Denies That
Judge Young Is Being OPP
posed Secretly.
Nothing but an Open, Hon.
0rable Fight Has Been
Made on Him. 'vli
He Offers to Prove Ev cry
Statement That He Has
Given Voice. -
That Young's Friends Have
Resorted to "Queer" Meth
DDS Is Charged. s5

Dear Sir: Allow me, Ough the
columns of your paper, to answer an
attack made by the Evening Journal
aturiay night in behalf of Judge
Young. candidate for reelection for
the Office of district judge Of this dis
trict. In that article Thomas Canty's
friends were accused of making still
hunt fight against Judge Young, As l.
to great extent. have charge Of this
canvass, allow ME to say that still-hunts
are not my speciality. The fight against
Judge Young has been waged openly,
fairly, and l think dare say, in manly
manner. To give you an idea of
what the Journal thinks is stili-hunt
ampaign. l will say that have made,
think. ten speeches in this cOunty,on
n An0ka and one in lSanti county. at
which 1 have mercileSsly but truth
uliy shown up Judge Young's record
In cases where workingmen came into
court and sought to recover claims for
their grievances against corporations
and monOpolS. At all of those meet
ings, except one. have addressed the
multitude IN the English veruacuiar,
and believe that am not much amiss
when l say that during the canvass
have publicly addressed over 10000
voters, both Republican and Demo-
cratic. and proved my assertions by the
highest authority obtainable, to-wit:
the decisions of the supreme court of
this state. These meetings have been
freely advertised through the papers, as
we'll as by handbills, and at least one of
the speeches has been reported in the
GLOBE At one of them. at least,
think Judge Young, or his friends, had
StenOgrapher present to take down
everything said. and stand ready to
prove before any court and before the
bar of public opinion the truth of every
charge l have laid at Judge Young s
door. have publicly. while expressly
disclaiming any corruption on his part,
charged him with tendency of lean
ing towards the side of corpora
tinns and capitalists whenever they
have been sued by wOrkingmen Or 9TH
er poor people. 1t is a fact known to
every lawyer practicing before the dis
trict court in Hennepin county that case
after case of poor wOrkingmen seeking
to recover damages for injuries, as
well as cases where their widows and
orphans, through an administrator,
sought to recover damages for the kill
ing of wOrkmen, Judge Young has de-
prlved these poor parties of their cOrsti-
tutional right TO a jury trial, and has, in
his autocratic way, refused to submit
their claims to the decision of a jury,and
decided the case in favor of the corpora
ton or capitalists who were defendants
in the case. 1t is notorious fact
that I'D the great majority of cases so
decided, on account of the poverty of
the plaintiffs their eases have, by such
action on the part of Judge Young,
been abruptly ended, and that they
have been sent our of court by him to
suffer and starve, and remedy in the
law has been totally denied them. 1t is
only in an INSIGNIFICANT per cent of these
cases where the poor WtTkingmen have
been able to secure the necessary funds
with which to appeal to the supreme
court, and in great number of the
eases so appealed the supreme court of
the state of Minnesota. by its decisions.
has established the fact that Judge
Young, by his unwarranted action, had
done wrong towards these poor work.
men.
Let ME cite you just a few cases of
this class taken at random from the
Minnesota Reports, and you, and any
one who is interested, can satisfy him
self that am right. ] cite as support
Ing my statements the case of Nash VS..
Minneapolis Mill company. reported In
Oath Minnesota, page SOL; Mark VS..
Manitoba Railroad company, 30th Mi
nesota, page 1913; Burton VS.. Manitoba
Railroad company. SD Minnesota, page
lS9: Craver VS.. Christian, Saith Mime
sofa. page 397; Eklund VS.. The Mime
apOlis Street Railway company, 34th
Minnesota, page "a; Bennett VS.. Syndi-
cate Insurance company, g. A. Pills
bury and others. 34th Minnesota, page
435: Harder VS.. The City of Minneap-
oils. 10th Minnesota, page 466.
Now. of course. it is human to err,
but it seems a strange coincidence that
while in the cases cited, and in many
other cases which could he cited. Judge
Young erred in favor of the capitalists
and the corporation and against the
poor man, not one case exists in the
books i'm which the supreme court has
decided that Judge Young made mis-
take in favor OF the poor man and
against the capitalists and the copOra-
ton. If this IL mere accident, it is q
very unfortunate accident, to say the
least, for Judge Young.
No wonder that corporations and cap
italIstS have for years insisted upon
keeping Judge Young upon the bench.
No wonder that they now, as is appa.
rent from the Journals article, are
moving heaven and earth to secure his
reelection. But, no wonder, at the
same time, that the workingnen of this
city have become tired OF such one-sided
justice.
So notorious have Judge YOung's
tendencies become that there are attOr-
neys practicIng at this bar who will
rather dismiss their damage cases when
they come up before Judge Young than
to take their chances before him.
The Journal goes on to say that
"Judge Young's well-known unselfish
efforts in behalf of the North side rail-
road crossings are being used against
him, but not among the North side citi-
zens. it is unnecessary to say" Allow
me to say in answer to this that the
only meetings in which / have referred
to the North side crossings case and
Judge Young's notorious connection
with 1t have been those held on the
North side. In regard to his action i'm
these crossing cases, which his friends
rely upon in order to ride him over
the tidal wave and upon the bench for
another term, let me say, that either the
action of Judge Young was one neces-
sary for any court to take upon the law,
anu Ill tlldt case lie Oiiiy ulScldTSeU Ills
duty, and can see no particular reason
why great barrelsfull of gratitude
should be showered upon him for dis
charging duty which the law and his
oath imposed upon him; or. to take the
other horn of the dilemma, he went out
of his way as judicial officer for the
purpose of serving either his friend
Tom Lowry or to serve the people OF
North Minneapolis at a convenient time.
shortly before an election, when he was
candidate for the suffrages of the
people. In either event, l can see
no particular reason for any public
gratitude. On the contrary, if the latter
is the case it seems to me that such con-
duct would be unworthy of man OF his
alleged dignity and of his supposed
sense of honor. One thing is certain,
and that is that whatever may have
been Judge Young's motive for his "trip
as messenger boy to New York city.
whether it was to serve the interests of
his friend. Tom Lowry. or whether it
was for the purpose of securing the
votes of thankful North siders, the rare
spectacle of judge so far forgetting
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