The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-13

they said the Democrats were fighting
and the leaders We're attempting to nom
mate Ries and Sheperd.
'Griggs denies that he told his opinion
was a bluff? Well, that is exactly the
term he used. 1 called his attention 10
his opinion, which he handed down sew
eral Gays previous, and said that if
thirty days residence was required un-
der the law, 1 could see no reason for
tampering with it. He replied that his
opinion was bluff. The next day he re-
neWed his argument. and at last broke
INTO open threats. He left me with the
statement that if I did not introduce the
ELL they would know where to place
the blame. | am quite ready to shoulder
any blame that may attach to my posi-
tion L do not wish to charge Mr. Griggs
with making the erasureS, but | do in
slst that, as a lawyer, he must have
known what he was doing when he drew
the bill. Perhaps he is sufficiently good
natured to lend himself to the schemes
of the enemies of law which places the
ballot box in the hands of the people,"
So far as Mr.. Griggs is concerned the
question of the attempt to beat the law
by trick may be laid aside for consid-
Grafton of his methods of filling the post
of responsibility with which he is in
trusted as first assistant corporation at
torney. Is he the willing tool of men
seeking to set at naught the laws which
he is hired to preserve? What is the de
gree of honesty of public servant who
gives the public a construction of the law
which he tells a fellow lawyer is
bluff? 2" Is it probable that the defeat
of the primary law was one of the con-
siderations of a bargain which contem-
plated the nomination OF Corporation
Attorney Markham to the district bench
and his succession as corporation attor-
ney by his Suave assistant Franklin
Gr1ggs? Mr.. Griggs, in this instance, as
in every other where his motives have
been in question, fees behind the stock
statement: Il referred the matter to
my chief" The character of the whole
transaction gives the public more than
right to doubt any claim of it's hon
esty, and Mr.. Griggs very doubtful
claim to the confidence of that portion Of
the public he has managed to bamboozle
so long
The Republican machine operators have
more troubles In the turbulent Fourth
| Hart N. Cook, their forlorn-hOpe candf-
| date for the aldermanic nomination, has
proved even a greater gold brick than
| the most skeptical of the old Windsor
hotel crowd believed possible. To add to
| the woes of the veteran whipper-in, the
| two anti-machine candidates seem to be
| in a fair way of getting together. ia
| down the ma chine beyond question The
| manipulators Of the Fourth ward or
| ganization candidates campaign were
| forestalled in their efforts to secure state
| administration interference in their
| game, and now it is announced that c.
| j. Sund will throw his strength, so far
| as possible, to Shepherd. Mr. Sund's
/ friends If ba i
| will Issue a circular asking his support
| ers to vote for Shepherd in preference to
himself Sund cannot get off the ticket.
and will probably receive a fair Repub-
lican vote that neither Shepherd or Cook
| could hope to get. but his friends claim
that he can throw enough votes to Shep-
! herd to insure the defeat of Cook