St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-08
TO SUCCEED LOCNREN
Half a Dozen Men Who Are
Seeking Gov, Nelson's
Favor.
Objections OF Considerable
Weight Found to Nearly
All Of Them.
A Deficit OF $755 in the Fire
mans Relief Association
Books.
The Inhabitants Of the Flats
Drink Crude Petroleum
for Water.

question or succession OF interest IS tudI
Gov. Nelson Will have two Judges to
appoint in the Fourth district this year.
Judge Lochrep's successor will un-
doubleday he a candidate for reelection
in 1894, and this point adds further in
terest to the question.
1t can he sci down as settled that
Gov. Nelson will not appoint a Democrat
to succeed Lochren. The Democrats
have had some slight hopes that the
governor would appoint Democrat 10
succeed a Democrat, but a Republican
who stands close to the governor, and is
one of the ''bosses" of his party IN Hen
nepin, assured a GLOBE man yesterday
that a Republican would be appointed.
He had it from the governor himself. he
said. When he comes TO name sue
ceSSor to Canty the governor may APP
point Democrat.
In discussing the probabilities yester-
day well-known lawyer and Demo
cratic politician sized the situation up
in this way.
II have no doubt" said he. "that the
appOintee will be a Republican. When
ever it occurs that one in power has to
exercise his official functions by select
ing and appointing a public officer 1t is
most natural thai he should be inclined
to favor those OF ms own political COM
pleXion. unless some inSurmOuntaDle
reason is suggested "a change this con-
ditiOn. 1t Is therefore safe TO assume
that Gov. Nelson VIII naturally he in
clined to select lawyer from tne Repub-
lican ranks to succeed Judge LOchren.
The circumstance that the appointee
is to succeed a Democratic judge is Of
no significance whatever. In that con-
uection it must be remembered that the
Judge was seated by Republican gov
ernOr in the first place, and has subse-
quently been returned to the bench as
non partisan, so that he and the Demo
Gratis are indebted to the Republican
party for his elevation and detention as
we'll The argument that he is Dem
Ocrat will consequently fall fiat when 1t
is urged as a reason for a Democratic
successor. When the successor to Judge
Canty comes to be selected there will be
great force in the position, but with
Judge ochren it is wholly DaSeless."
"WhO will be the lucky MANI"
at is very easy to decide who | would
like to see his successor, but it is not so
easy to predict who he will be. 1t Will
certainly be the man who has the longest
pole.
NO. [ do not think Judge Young
will be in it at all. IL is hardly likely
that the governor will overlook the fact
that the Judge, after being on the bench
for eighteen years, was turned down
very severely by the people. 1t would
be bad politics to replace a man in such
a position whom the people, after a full
acquaintance with his course, had re-
jected.
The Hennepin bar will doubtless
name the man. The present indications
are that the plum lies between Robert
ID. Russell and ". E. Hale, with the
chances in favor of the former. Mr..
Russell has q larger personal following
than his competitor, and the younger
anu more active members of the bar
seem to lean more strongly toward him.
This is especially true of the Demo
cratic class, and probably on account of
the partisan spirit Mr.. Hale has been
known to exhibit in some previous
judicial contests which have occurred
in the history of the bench. On the
other hand, at the time of the selection
of Judges Hooker and Smith, Mr.. Rus
sell was one of the foremost leaders
who advocated q non-DartiSan move
ment, resulting in the selection of those
two able and popular judges.
''Yes, Mr.. Russell ran for the place as
the nominee of his party and went down
with it. | take it that some weight will
be attached to that circumstance in his
favor Judge Pond was hOnOTed with
second trial before he was successful.
Mr. Hale, of course, is a good lawyer,
but he has posed as a sort of repre-
sentative of the silk stocking class, and
will be opposed by gOodly number of
the bar on account of his sociability.
You know, a man can be dignified with
out constantly reminding you that he
classes himself above you, and if he has
adopted the latter course he will dis
cover that when he seeks Office that it
doesn't add to the strength of his claim.
Mr.. Russell is fully as able man, and
while always a dignified gentleman,
everybody likes him, and some of his
friends call him by his given name. He
is one of those fellows who always make
the best of judges, and if 1 was going to
predict at all should say his pole is
nearer the perSimmOn than any ones at
present"
Henry E. Gjertsen, is, OF course, a
candidate, too.
1t was learned yesterday that two
other men have been urged upon the
governor at this early date-tWo men
who seem to have as little claim on the
office as any one in the state. The first
is Daniel Morgan. In the first place,
Morgan has been in the city less than
five years. He is lawyer, but is best
known, even among lawyers. as the
partner of William Henry Eustis, now
mayor of Minneapolis. That is the
direction from which his strength
comes. The other is Judge Elliott, now
of the municipal court. Elliott has not
HAD much general law practice in Min
neapOlis. Most of his experience has
been passed in the role OF adviser 10
building and loan societies. He has
been on the municipal bench a couple
of years, and that is his strength. But
these men have hackers vino are not
idle.
Russell is the lileliest candidate in
the lOt-wOuld be, that is, if it were not
for certain things. The adherents of
the other candidates will urge that Rus
sell is in bad odor with laboring classes,
because of his position on the transfer
question when it was before the council
last fall. However much truth is in
that assertion cannot be told. But il
will be used against Russell with the
governor, and il is well known that the
governor is making play for the
good will of the organized rkingmen.
If the bar association recommendation
were to settle the question, Russell
would probably be the man; but it is
not certain that Nelson would be gov
erned by recommendation from the