St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-04
PROTECT HIS MITE.
The Laboriug Men Will Vote
for Judges Canty and
Buck.
Secret Of the Fight Being
Made Upon These Two
Men.
Judge Canty'S Views on Mer-
piam's Veto Of the Lien
Law.
The Laboring Man Should Be
Able to Secure His
Wages.

|
This is one of the issues of the pres
ent campaign. and the people, the great
| rank and file, know it.
Every workingman in these cities
knows that the corporations do not like
! Judge Thomas Canty, and they now
that this dislike is due to the fact that
he is not a corporation tool.
Every farmer III Minnesota knows
that the "Old Roman" of MankatO,
Judge Daniel Buck. is and always has
been friend of the people. of farmers
as we'll as laborers in the cities.
The records of these two men are be-
| yond criticism, and the silly yarns that
the corporations and the monepolies
have sprung as an excuse for the ac-
tions of people they have bamboozled
or bought will fool no one.
The issue is plain.
If the people want supreme court
elected by corporations. and run in
their interests, they Will vote for
Judges Dickinson and Vanderburgh.
But if, on the contrary, they desire
the highest court of the state to be a
| pldCC MuClO tiiC pOOlCol anu
beSt may come for justice and get it,
| they will
Vote to man for Thomas Canty and
| Daniel Buck.
There is not today an honest lawyer
in the state. Republican or Democrat,
who is not biased by corporation train
ing that will seriously make the claim
that the supreme court of Minnesota is
not owned body and soul by the corpo-
| rations.
And when the Republican managers
talk about the standing OF the supreme
court of Minnesota, they are doing
worse than ''talking through their
| tiles"
Any well-informed lawyer in the
state will acknowledge that there is not
supreme court of any other state IN
the union that approaches Minnesota in
Importance, the decisions of which are
less frequently quoted.
And this is true simply because the
| Supreme Court of Minnesota is not
grinding out law but corporation de-
ciSions.
Judges Canty and Buck were nomi-
mated by convention fresh and
straight from the people. No one could
have predicted an hour before their
nomination that either would be placed
on the ticket. Neither sought nomi-
nation, and the Republican organ that
Iclaims that either has filled the position
of an officeseeker
| PurpOselY Attempts to Deceive.
The files of any of the Republican
| papers of these TWO cities show that
every one of them expected Judge
Buck to decline the Peoples nomina-
ton. He did not because the people of
| the state demanded that he stand.
| If the attacks that have been made
upon Judges Canty and Buck by Tom
Lowry's paper do not result in giving
each of them majority of at least 80
| 900 votes, the people or Minnesota will
deserve to be branded as ungrateful
and unappreciative of the men who
stand by chem.
| The people of Minnesota have heard
great deal about mechanics lien laws,
| and the workingmen of these cities
| know that the supreme court of this
| state has made every manner of deei-
sion upon lien laws that have been
| passed, except one favorable to the
| rights of the laboring man.
| Under the present laws no laborng
| man can afford to fight lien FOR the
money he has earned.
With desire to make it possible for
the laboring men to get their money for
work performed the Hennepin delega-
tion to the last Legislature prepared
| bill that would hold water even against
| Vanderburgh, Dickinson and the chief
| justice, Gilfillan. This bill passed both
senate and house but was slain by Gov.
| Merriam. The fate of the bill was
| chronicled in the following paragraph
| which appeared in the GLOBE of ! pril
| "a. 1892:
Laborers Spurned
"A number of delegates of labor or
| ganizations called upon Gov. Merriam
urging him to sign the mechanics lien
| bill. introduced by Matt Gallagher in
the house. Up to the hour of Gov.
| Merriam had not placed his signature to
| the bill, and the indications are that the
hour of midnight sounded the death
knell of Mr.. Gallagher's measure"
This veto was a surprise 10 the labor
| ingmen of the state. Few believed that
Gov. Merriam would dare to take such
| action.
Where didge Judge Canty stand?
Two days later GLOBE representa-
tive called upon Judge Canty and asked
him his opinion of the governors action.
Here is the interview as printed in the
GLOBE of April 26. 1892:
The veto of the mechanics lien bill
by Gov. Merriam mas caused good deal
of comment in various quarters. Min
neapolis people are specially interested
| in the fate of the BILL because 1t orig
mated in the Hennepn delegation and
because the majority of the working
men of Hennepin county demanded
just that piece OF legislation. A GLOBE
reporter called on Judge Thomas Canty
yesterday to get his opinion on the veto,
since he has long been the foremost
champion of the labOring classes and
the most earnest advocate for more pro-
lection to their rights.
Judge Canty, what will be the loss
to the laboring classes on account of
Gov. Merriam's refusing to sign the
new lien law?" was asked.
WELL" replied the judge, sit will
amount to hundreds of thousands of
dollars year in this city alone. The
present law affords great opportunity to
dishonest men to steal the labor en-
plOyed in erecting buildings. Work
men have to settle for what they can
get when they work for such men. and
they generally get about 25 or 40 cents
on the dollar, if they get anything,
while the material man gets so or 80
cents on the dollar. The reason is. that
the workingman's claim is always too
olUdil w pay LiO CApClioC vi ulIuS anu
foreclosing lien for it. His claim is
generally from $40 to $40, while it is
worth at least from $40 to $50 to file and
foreclose lien. 1t is easy to see that
This Claim Is Worthless.
The clam of the material man is gen.
orally much larger, and besides the
large lumber, brick and other firms fur
nishing material generally employ at
torneys by the year. and il costs them
nothing additional to foreclose a few
extra liens. While our lien law has
always given the laboring man a right.
it has never given HIM any practical
remedy, except to foreelose his lien by
bill in equity, as mortgages are fore
closed, and this remedy is SO slow and
expensive that even mortgages are sell
dom foreclosed by it, but are forecIosed
by the more quick and simple method
OF statutory advertisement.
ITO file and forecl0se lien under
our present lien law requires a skill
full attorney, who cannot be employed
fnr apv taa which tha iahoripo