St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-04

would be sorry to say that they were
representative of the business men of
the city l think the action Of each
one of these parties may be accounted
for. The attorneys whose names APP
pear have been in all of the cases
cited with the exception of the Com
ingS caSe) defeated, and naturally feel
sore, but whether or not the judge did
make wrong decisions in the cases
they mention in which they were in
terested, it comes with bad grace
from them to charge corrupt prac-
tice. These attorneys were partners
in business until the tine that one of
them was appointed city attorney, and
from what has transpired since their
dissolution Of partnership there is no
reason for the people to believe that
the partnership was actually dissolved,
but it has more the appearance of a
dissolution for revenue only, as they
invariably try cases together in all
matters excepting where the city is an
interested party, and then, if / mis-
take not, there are instances in which
they have appeared on opposing sides.
This does not appear to a man up a
tree to be strictly professional.
Z. l.
stand it, some of the East Grand Forks
parties who have fallen afoul of the
law, by engaging in business that is
expressly prohibited by law, and in
the case of officers, by failing. and neg
lecting to perform the duties i'm
posed upon them by law. This is suf-
ficient answer, and sufficient reason
for their conduct in the matter. AS to
other parties appearing in the matter,
without naming names, l can trace
their interest. One was a member of
the grand jury that was discharged
and cenSured by the court; one is a
liquor dealer, rents a saloon, and is
naturally interested in behalf of the
saloonkeepers and gamblers, and in
addition to that, has a personal spite
against the judge because of the fact
that the judge removed his office from
his building to another part of the
city. Another is a barber and rents
building for saloon purposes and is
naturally concerned in the interest of
his tenant, and If the truth were
known and published. l have no doubt
but what it would appear that there
was just cause for the party as well
as his landlord to fear an investiga-
ton of the grand jury into the doings
in that saloon. Another was a candi-
date for nomina ton for the office of
sheriff on the Populist ticket, but was
not supported by the judge, more par
ticularly, was opposed by the judges
son, and was defeated in the conven-
ton. Another was particularly inter
ested in certain woman in the city,
wi 1or.iny to
of the grand jury that caused all this
trouble, the keeper of what is known.
as a sporting house. Three other
names appear there; one a physician,
one clothing dealer and one a ma
chine man and coal and wood dealer.
They simply signed the petition to ac-
commodate their friends as l under
stand it. The one from East Grand
Forks signed it for reasons of his own,
which do not clearly appear, other
than that he is intimate with the
East Grand Forks gang.
LAS to the charges preferred, so far
as l have any personal knowledge of
them, l have no fear of the result of
the investigation for Judge Ives. One
of the cases cited, where it is claimed
that the judge abused his judicial office
and corruptly discharged the prisoner.
c. L. Comings, after the supreme
court had decided against him in the
case, 1 can say that the charge is ut
terly unfounded The records will
show for themselves that what the
judge did in that matter he had a
right to do, and was clearly within
his functions as judge. The Judge
| may have acted indiscreetly in some
other matters related in the charge
but L do not believe they can prove
that he had corrupt thought or did
a corrupt thing from the start to the
hnlSh. 1t may be and is undoubtedly
true that he is not as good a lawyer
as some other lawyers we have in the
state, but I do not believe that the
members of the bar of the Fourteenth
| district think that he is as incapable
as the promoters of this proceeding
claim. I think that he is equally as
| good If not better, as a lawyer. than
the two who are moving in this mat
ter. AS for his motives and his prin-
clples, they are so much higher and
superior to the motives and principles
of those two men that they are not to
be compared with him for moment.
| and you may be sure, in view of the
existing circumstances and state of
| affairs, that the judge will not be with
out friends ready and willing to take
up the cudgels for him when the
proper time arrives
/ Only two impeachment trials have
! occurred in Minnesota. The first was
| in 1874 when charges were preferred
! against Judge Sherman Page, of Now
| er couxty. He was acquitted. The
second case, that was the sensation of