St. Paul daily globe., 1893-04-22
BACKING UP MORGAN.
Democrats Will Aid Him to
Secure Loehren's Place
on the Bench.
1t Is Now Enormously Made
Anything to Beat Out
Russell.
N. Z. HiekcoX's Checks Put
Him in a Fletcher Of
q Fix.
How the Storm Is Still Work.
ing--NewS Of the Court
House.

The contest for the appointment to
Judge Lochren's place on the district
bench has taken new turn. In Mime
apoliS, among the partiSans of the vari-
Gus candidates, it is now case of any,
thing to beat Russell.
1t is said among those OH the inside
that the Democrats are now pushing
the case of one of the opponents of Rus
SELL
The Democrats knOw-have been as
good as told-that it is useless for them
10 think of getting a Democrat
on the bench of LOchren. The Re-
publicanS of Henrepin county. and
the governor as well, have an eye
TO the future. The reason, as the
GLOBE has pointed out before. that
Democrat will not be appointed Is that
the Republicans want to get a popular
man on the bench before the election of
'94. 1t will be easier. they think, TO
elect a man who has served a few
months than to elect a new man. So a
Democrat will not get Lochren'S place.
For good reasons, which it is not
necessary to recapitulate, the Demo
Gratis are not favorable to Russell.
Wfile he was city attorney he made the
Democrats his enemies almost to man.
He is considered by the Democrats,
without reason, PERHAPS, the strongest
candidate whose name has bppreen
Sented to the governor. Hence the
change Of front of the Democrats.
Yesterday GLOBE man was told by
a gentleman who is thoroughly informed
of what is going on in this connection
that the Democrats have decided to
support ID. F. Morgan. Morgan is not
ev$l the next strongest candidate for
Lochren's place, assuming that Russell
is the strongest. Morgan is, compara-
lively, a newcomer i'll Minneapolis.
He is not generally known, either to
lawyers or to the public. He is not
supported by any wide-reaching reputa-
ton as a JurIst. But he is the law
partner of Mayor EuStis and his name
has been mentioned several times lately
in connection with the quo warranto
proceedings against President kiichli,
of the city council. 1his is all that can
be said for Morgan in strict justice. He
may be the most capable man in Hen
nepin county for the position, but his
comparative neWneSS as a citizen Of the
county and his limited reputation mill
tate against him. He looks like win
ner, however, now that the Democrats
have decided to support him. What
bearing, if any, this contemplated act
ton of the Democrats for Morgan may
have upon the councils sQuabble with
Mayor EuStiS cannot be told. 1t is prob
able that it has nothing to do with
the case whatever. The Democrats
are supporting him, probably, be-
cause he is man of good
character and of good ability. Morgan
will have hard battle to win the prize.
He must encounter the forces of Rus
sell, which are greater than those of
any other one candidate, the strength of
Hale and what little influence Elliott
may have. 1t seems to be generally as
sumed that Russell is the strongest can-
didate. That appears to be the case on
the face of the returns. The facts to be
found deeper down do not justify the
assumption. Russell may be the strongest
man with the Minneapolis attorneys
who are doing most of the hustIing in
this matter-undOubtedly the strongest
with the Republican attorneys-but
that does not mean that he is the
strongest with the governor. As the
GLOBE has pointed out before, the gov
ernor knows how Russell stands
with the labOring men of Minneapolis
OIL account of his rulings as city attOr-
ney OH several street railway questions.
For that reason the governor is opposed
to making him judge and leading him
up to the slaughter that is bound to
come in '94. While Russell is not the
strongest man with the governor, 1t is
still possible, though, that he is strong
enough to defeat any one of the other
three mentioned. What the governor
wants the Minneapolis Republicans to
do is to find some other good man, a
young man preferred, and push him for
LOchren'S place.
1t looks very much as if the Repub-
licanS could secure the appointment OF
John NJ. ReeS il they were to try it. MIR.
ReeS has everything in his favor. He
is young man, good lawyer, popu-
lar mau and he enjoys the friendship
and high regard of the governor. These
are qualities that count in fight of this
kind. The only bar to a large boom for
Mr.. ReeS is that he has steadily refused
to 20 into any kind of contest against
Russell. He is a Russell supporter and
will stay out of the fight as long as Rus
sell has any chance to win. Should it
become clearly apparent that Russell
cannot be appointed it is possible that
the friends of Russell will turn in for
Rees. 1t would seem that that would
be only fair Many men who have moth
ing at heart except the appointment of a
Republican who can be nominated
unanimously. and who will make a
strong run in '94. have been urging that
Kees be appointed. This would proba-
bly, be as good an appointment as the
governor could make and would heal all
factions. Mr.. Rees would be favored,
too, by many Democrats.