St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-06
STAND FOR THE PEOPLE
Why the Corporations and Monop-
olists Oppose Judges Buck
and Canty.
The Issue Is Between Corpora
tionS and the Whole
People.

Judges Canty and Buck are the
friends of the people, and not tools of
corporations.
And this is the reason that the monop-
olists and their organs assail them.
The attempt to influence voters with
plea for a n0n-partisan supreme court
is absurd.
With about one-third of the vote of
the state the Republicans have the two
hold-Over members of the supreme
court, more than their proper share.
But this is not the issue.
The judicial fight is over a greater
question than politics. 1t is
Corporation domination against the
rights of the whole people.
The fight made on Judges Buck and
Canty proves this. Every line against
them has been inspired by the corpora
tionS and monopolies. Read wnat the
Daily Iidende, the influential Scandi-
navian paper of Minneapolis, has to say
regarding the latest corporation attack:
The Election of Judges.
The Scandinavian ministers of Min
neapolis have allowed themselves to be
used by the Republican committee in a
campaign trick which they ought to
have been above aiding. That they
have acted in good faith is not doubted,
but it is strange that they did not at
once understand that they were being
used in an improper way.
Tuesday afternoon Ghe 1st inst) the
chairman OF the Republican executive
committee, George A. Bracket, met at
the West hotel, Thomas Lowry, owner,
and William J. Murphy, manager of the
Minneapolis Tribune. A fourth gentle
man was also present. Mr.. Brackert
then said TO Mr. Murphy:
THAT matter we have for you to print
about Canty is all ready. We want it
printed tomorrow morning sure, as we
intend to have it all translated for the
Scandinavian papers and spread broad
cast all over the state. We want it run
tomorrow morning, because we think
this Is going to be one of the greatest
cards Of the campaign"
Reports of this conversation appeared
i'll the GLOBE and the Times the follow
ing morning, and simultaneously it was
to be seen in the Minneapolis Tribune.
what constituted this greatest card of
the campaign" which was to be used
chiefly with the Scandinaylans. 1t is an
address to the Scandinavian voters of
the state signed by the Scandinavian
ministers OF Minneapolis. In this adj
dress the signers try TO make the voters
believe that it is necessary TO re-eect
the present justices of the supreme
court in order to prevent the supreme
court of the state from becoming a tool
of the saloon power in Minneapolis.
They say that the laws about the clos
ing of the saloons or Sunday and about
the patrol limits in Minneapolis are in
danger by reason OF the election of
Judges Of the supreme court. and it is
directly stated that lit is undoubtedly
the saloon power that has dictated the
nominations" of Canty and Buck, the
opponents of the Republican judges.
The meannesS Of this campaign trick
is especially that it is sent out so late
that the most of the Scandinavian pa
pers have already sent out their last
issue before election, so that there is
little or no opportunity to reply TO the
address. This the ministers ought not
to have given their aid TO. If they had
actually known that the laws in the in
terest of temperance and morality were
in danger by the possibility of the elec-
ton of Canty and Buck, it would have
been their duty to prove this at an
earlier date, that it might have become
known throughout the state. That
they did not do so shows that they
Had No Such Information
and held no such belief. 1t is simply
the Republican committees greatest
card of the campaign'-meanly played
because it comes so late-to which the
ministers thoughtlessly have lent their
names.
As to the matter itself, the 'card" is
based upon falsehood. MesSrs. Canty
and Buck are fully as temperate as the
present supreme court judges. and the
people can have the laws on the inter
est of temp erance and morality" in their
hands with fully as much safety as i'll