St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15

more. while the Fillmore delegates
to the judicial convention were in
structed to vote for O'Brien for the
judicial nomination. Houston and Fill
more together had twenty-one votes in
the judicial convention, while Freeborn
and Mower had twenty. The con.
yention met at Austin with a formidable
popular revolt because of the manifest
trade between Fillmore and Houston.
The result was that c. NJ. Lowell, of
Chatfield. refused to vote for O'Brien,
and Judge Farmer was renominated.
Mr.. Farmer has now declined, and the
probabilities are that Judge II. r.
Wells, the nOn-partisan nominee, will
be Endorsed by the committee.
But this will not help Senator Davis
out Of the aperture in which he placed
himself by indorsing Judge Bassett.
The Houston Valley Signal, speaking
of the deal, calls it boomerang, and
says:
Last week we published an open letter
from Hon George F. Potter in regard to a
judgesh1p 'deai'' for this district. Had
George F. waited the result of the Austin
convention he never would have written that
letter, much less given it the wide publicity
he did
AS matters turned out, the epistle leaves
Potter in the same predicament as the man
whose gun was too heavily loaded and went
OF at the wrong END.
The Sage of IaCrescent in his letter does
not deny there was "a DEAL" but simply. The
wassnot i'll it,
That there was "a deal' events have proved
to be a fact, and since roundly denounced,
even by the Republican press of this district
as the ounce OF judge should be free from in
trigue, and if possible. from politics
The contamination of the deal was only
thWarted by the vote of one delegate from
Fillmore county, Mr.. Lowell, who refused to
be party thereto. and cast his ballot for the
honorable man and upright judge. John Q.
Farmer, who, upon that single ballot was
made the nominee
The conference in Caledonia. the resigna.
tiou of James O'Brien as chief justice Of
New Mexico. the recommendation of Judge
BaSseLt by Senator Davis for the posltion to
be vacated by O'Brien, the bare majority of
IN the two counties of Houston and Fillmore
all point to the grandest political judicial
scheme ever conceived within the memory
of the Oldest inhabitau: and still Potter
wasn't in it, was not engaged in slate
making, never was"
In the name of goodness. what was he
about all this time? Was it possible that
such things could take place and he not be
in it," Had he lost his head, his cunning?
We surmise he knew every detail of the
deal, even TO the extent OF being the
mouthpiece. or letter writer between O'Brien
and Davis, in the interest of Judge Bassetts
New Mexican mission.
We further surmise that Mr.. Potter was the
brains of the whole business, although it re-
uectS on MIN 10 credit ana puts In the shade
all or MS former political sagacity; but, per-
haps. he goes on the principle that every
thing is fair in politics.
Be this as it may, we will give George F.
credit OF possessing that good quality OF
heart which constitutes true friend and
fair enemy, two of the noblest requisites that
go far to make the man and citizen: he
means well. but politics have checkered am
otherwi useful career.
In summing up the whole matter, it seems
to US that Potter O. F3rieD RasSett even Sem
ator Davis, ard perhaps Arch Gray, have
stuck their foot in it so deep as to wreck all
their future political hopes; deprive Potter
OF his power as leader of this county o Brien
of his position i'll New Mexico. BaSset in his
renewed aspirations for the judge>hip of this
district, and Davis of the office of SENATOR
Although O'Brien may be saved from being
turned adrift through the magnanimity Of
President Harrison. who, we believe, is free
from any knowledge or ENHANCEMENT in this
most notorious deal of modern times.