River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-03-06

Mr.. EDITOR: / see in your paper a
call for Republican Convention at
Eau Claire the 5th inst. to nominate a
candidate for Circuit Judge. / don't
understand this. / had supposed
judicial offices had for years been
treated as non-politieal in Wisconsin.
What is the matter with" Judge
Bundy! Again, by what authority is
this convention calledt Is Pierce
county to be represented init! have
seen no notice of a convention to elect
delegates for the county.
A REPUBLICAN VoTER.
Clifton, March l, 1890.
We are nearly as much in the dark
as the writer of the above. 1t is true
that judicial Offices are not now re-
garded as political in Wisconsin, a
condition of things that we most cor
daily commend. The members of the
Supreme Court are elected without
regard to politics, and we understand
it to be so in all the circuits. Cover
nor Hoard has just appointed Demo-
crat to fill vacancy in the I'd district.
There is nothing "the matter with"
Judge Bundy that we ever heard of.
He Is known as an honest man and a
just judge. "a Republican Voter"
asks us poser when he inquiries by
what authority the Fan Claire conven-
ton is called. Judge Bundy was first
elected IL years ago, to fill vacancy
caused by the resignation of Judge
Humphrey. No party nominations
were made. The balance of the term
was but a year, and the following
spring he was by very general express
sion of endorsement, but without
nomination, again before the people
for election. One Cousins of Eau
Claire aspired to the position, and his
friends called what they chose to
name Republican convention. He
was nominated but the people paid no
attention to him. At that convention
Republican Committee for the Sth
Judicial District" was in form APP
pointed, man from each county being
placed upon it. We think the persons
SO appointed were not in the main at
the convention, and never considered
themselves as having accepted any
such honor. Six years ago Judge
Bundy again came up for election in
essentially the same form as before.
This time no convention of any sort
was called. but one Bailey of Eau
Claire came out as candidate. We
don't recollect what his ''claims"
were. He was Democrat in politics.
Like Cousins he was, of course,
showed under" Now we under
stand some lawyers aspired to the
office, and '.sniff-d the air" in the
various parts of the circuit. The re-
suit seemed to prove disheartening.
They then hit upon the plan of getting
up a convention called Republican"
hoping thereby to compel the votes
of Republicans. The old outlawed
committee of II years ago was
exhumed, but majority of them could
not be got to publish the "call."
Judge Humphrey of st. Croix and t.
L. Nelson of Pierce happened to be
nominally on the committeeman both
fatty refused to favor any such pro-
ceeding. We see however that the
name of one Herrick of st. Croix APP
pears appended to the call. We infer
that Judge Humphrey repudiated be-
longing to any such committee, and
the name Herrick is put in to fill the
blank. Our Republican County Com
mittee called no convention to elect
delegates, evidently regarding the
whole matter as farce. They are
all, as we understand, warm support
ers of Judge Bundy. Pierce county,
not being represented in the conven.
ton will of course pay no attention to
its action. We may not be literally
correct in all above statements, but
are essentially so.