St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-07
HERE IS 4 SCORCHER.
A Well-Known Lawyer Gives
the Enemies Of Rea a
Turning Over.
What a Lot Of Federal Office
Gums" Say Of an Hon
orable Man.
The Tribune and Journal At
tack Rea While He De-
tends Their Business.
How a Lot Of Small-Fry Pol
itieIans Can Make Them
selves Ridiculous.

| papers and few persons who seem to
hope to gaiu some advantage thereby,
have been assiduously hurting upon
him the accusation that his alleged
change of front is not the result of hon
est conviction, but mere fabrication and
hypocrisy, caused by personal diSap-
pointment; and to suggest that he has
no right, after having been a Repub-
lcan for thirty-five years, to do other
wise than follow the doctrines and pur-
poses of that party, as it today sees fit
to declare them.
Judge Rea has not digniied his
maligners by attempting to refute them,
and it may be out Of place that |, who
am associated with him in business,
should say anything upon the subject;
| but knowing the facts and some OF the
persons engaged in this scramble of I'M
| founded accusation, | cannot refrain
| from speaking for one who has proved
to be to me friend, as he has also to
some of those who are now evidently
trying to gain capital and notoriety by
aSsociating themselves with his enc
mics.
Although do not share the opinions
Judge Rea holds, and although l do eX-
Tuesday, | consider, nevertheless, that
! every man is entitled to liberty of
thought and speech, provided he does
no injury to his fellow. | am sure that
it Will not injury any party to look into
the actions, character and motives OF
the persons engaged in thus accusing
Judge Rea of duplicity and treachery.
1t is presumption that what a man
thinks and says, he thinks and says hon
esty. We may differ with him, but
without clear proof we have no right to
impute bad faith to him, and if the per
son with whom we differ has been our
friend or associate, that proof should be
the stronger and our efforts to obtain it
the more strenuous.
70 those persons who personally know
Judge Rea, it need not be told that his
statement is his honest convictions; but
for the benefit Of those who may not
know him personally, [ will say some
thing of the gnatS who now seek to Will
fly him, in order that their pertidy may
be known and their own lack or honest
purpose become the more apparent.
Tie Tribune and the Journal, Mr..
Torrance and certain members of
club known as the Union Veterans
league, have repeatedly charged Judge
Rea with being a disappointed office
seeker, and have given that as the real
motive and reason Of his alleged change.
The Union Veterans league on Thurs
day night passed resolutions declaring
it to be its deliberate conviction that
Judge Rea's reasons are not sincere,
political detection had no signif
canoe or weight with his com
rades in this state, where his his
tory is intimately known. If that is so,
l ask, why this great howl and waste of
| valuable newspaper space for the past
two weeks? If any one of these same
gnats should declare privately to his
friends land that is the only way Judge
Rea declared it until forced to do other
Wise) that he did rot favor the present
Republican protective measure, what
newspaper in the land would waste its
print in seeking to traduce him?
Do the Tribune and Journal and the
Union Veterans league believe their
own charges of lnsincerity and infidel-
ity, or are they in any way fit persons
TO make such charges?
If the Republican party were in any
degree dependent for its organization,
support or continuance upon any one
or all of the persons or papers named.
then its destruction would be speedy
and certain. The Tribune in this and
in other matters has proved, under Its
present management, to be the tool of a
distinctively Republican corporation,
and to be so utterly devoid OF all fair
ness, truthfulneSS or respect for the
rights or feelings Of others that it is
disgrace to any party with whom 1t
claims to associate. The Journal upon
its front pages shouts for the Republic
an party, and upon its last pages prints
the pictures and good records of the
Democratic candidates, declaring their
fitness to hold office, and promising
| efficient and faithful public service If
elected; may it not as truly be charged
| that the Journal purSues this course of
| doube-dealiRg for the money there is
in it? At the time when both these
| sheets were engaged in denouncing his
alleged treachery and unfaithfulneSS,
| Judge Rea was engaged i'll attending to
| his business in the district court, and
was defending the Tribune in the suit
of Chadbourn against The Minnesota
| Tribune Company, which suit the Trib-
une, on Oct. 81, won; he was also at
that time prosec uting the case of The
| Journal against The Northwestern Flour
Receptacle and Sitter Company ct al,
which suit the Journal won. 1t appears
very clearly that Judge Rea did his
| uuIy DIS ludIl dHu lawyer ny bLOS6
papers at the very time when their
| bowls of treachery were loudest against
| him. The action OF the managers of
| these papers, who for period of a year
| intrusted to Judge Rea the conduct of
| all their legal business, in the absence
| of their regular attorney, and who dare
| rot impute to him any dishonesty in the
conduct of that business, in traducing
man with whom they come into daily
| business relations, sufficiently shows
| that their motives Ill thus vilifying
him are as sordid and base political
motives as have ever been charged to a
whisky ring, or to Fammany hall; no
Intelligent vOter will be influenced by
such glaring infdelity to an associate in
business, and To one for whom, a month
ago, they could not say enough in praise.
They print letters from Judge Rea'S
alleged friends, who are as intolerant of
free thought as they themselves are,
condemning his course; but they fail to
print the scores of letters aud kilograms
from his friends and old comrades,
which have been pouring upon him, APP
proving of his course and his fearless
expression Of opinion.
The statement of both papers, of pub.
lie offices sought after by Judge Rea, are
absolutely false and untrue. They,
themselves, have been among those
who have suggested Judge Rea fol-
offices, but they cannot show any efforts
made or directed by him in that behalf
If man who will accept a nomination
that may be rendered him is a candidate
for office, then every man may be calico
a candidate for office; but, in its cor
rect sense as used, of personally seek
ing the Office, Judge Rea has never beef
candidate for any Office that he hat
not held. and has not even beer
candidate for all of those
he was appointed assessor Of interna
revenue without his knowledge or re-
quest: he was nominated for probat,
judge without his knowledge and whil
in the midst Of the trial of a law suit
when appointed to the district bench
it was upon the recommendation of tin
L bar of this county, and when elected /
: the same Office later, it was as the nom