The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-09
What the Editors Say

A rumor is current to the effect that
the four judges of the supreme court
that stand for reelection this fall have
formed combination to support each
other for denomination in the Re-
publican convention. We trust that
this report is not true, as it is bad
enough to have ordinary machine poll
ticians form combinations to defeat the
will of the people. Men who hold posi-
lions of dignity on the highest judicial
tribunal in the state should be above
such perniciOuS political jObbery, and
it is our opinion that if there is any
foundation for the rumor the people
will resent the attempt to thus rail
road through the convention a scheme
OF that kind. Such an attempt would
work its own defeat, as the people
always have frowned upon any attempt
to drag the judiciary into politics.
There are some very good men among
the four judges whose terms run out
this fall, and we would dislike to see
them weakened in this way. Let each
one stand on his own merits, and if
there are any that the people do not
care to elect, let them be Weeded out.
Fair play is right, and the time will
come when it will be insisted upon
New Ulm Review.
The brand Of law dealt out by the
higher courts, in which technicalities
count for so much that plain justice
is given back seats.is we'll exempIified
by the recent decision Of the United
States supreme court which cOmpels
the town of Alden, Freedom county, to
pay $4,000 railroad bonds voted some
years ago for a railroad that was never
built. The effect of the decision is the
equal of robbery and the court in de-
Gliding the case in favor of the innocent
purchaser of bonds could with equal
fairness have assumed that if the pur-
chaser was innocent it was his own
fault-that he could and should have
informed himself whether the people
who voted the bonds got value received
for them When law ceases to be JUS
t1ce and the courts strain every point
in favor of those who get on in the
world by trickery and fraud, it is time
for the public to get its eyes open and
order change.-FairmOnt Sentinel.
Senators Nelson and Clapp were
elected to the national convention last
week, and Tom Lowry and his man
Friday Of the executive office, Van
SAINT for short, was elected to go with
the senators at large. Just why the
state should send a railroad president
and street car monopolist to the ma
tiOnal convention is not plain.-Win-
dom Reporter.
Brother Huntington is just like the
rest of the fellows who run Republican
papers f1fty-twO weeks in each year.
Nearly all the year they kick about the
rotten way the party is run by lot of
such fellows as Shev1in, Jones, Lowry
and every time a state convention is
held these same fellows control things.
1t Will always be sO.-Sleepy Eye Her
aid.
Every farmer is paying 50 per thou
sand more for his lumber than he
should, and he will continue to do so
until the tariff is removed or reci-
procity is established with Canada The
farmers of the Seventh district seem
unanimous in their opposition to reel
procity through fear that it will bring
them into competition with Canadian
wheat. So long as the American farm
erS raise a surplus, competition is i'm
possible with Canada, because the price
of both American and Canadian wheat
is fixed in Liverpool. 1t is an absolute
impOssibility to protect surplus, no
matter what that surplus may be. But
so long as lumber dealers can make
farmers believe it can be done, so long
they will charge them more for lumber
than they should pay.-ROchester Post
and Record.
we have learned something the past
few months from the fierce fight of the
Republican press and politicians on
their two candidates for governor
Dunn and Collins. Heretofore the Re-
publican newspapers and speakers had
told the people the the only really bad
men were the Democrats who became
candidates for Office and the Demo-
Gratis generally. Now we know from
Republicans themselves that they have
two of the worst men in the country as
candidates for governor. the highest
Office in the state.-New Ulm News.
The next Republican state conven-
ton should adopt a platform that
would need no dictionary to explain its
meaning relative to the tariff and reci-
procity. Minnesota believes in the
reciprocity advocated by President Nc
Kinley, and should speak out upon the
subject in a way not to be misunder-
stood, not even by the standpatters.-
Blue Earth County Enterprise.
OF course there are people who can
get along without a daily paper. There
are those yet living who could probably
get along without railroads. the electric
light and other modern conveniences,
but when they pass away no marble
shaft shall be erected to their memory
-Faribault Journal.
Tyner Will Be Tried May 2.
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