The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-26

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court has written a strong letter of
centnal com n5lfEee.
MRHa IN his letter of acceptance,
calls the attention of the voters to the
principles involved in this campaign,
and especially does he speak in strong
terms Of the principle of non-parti-
san judiciary. He says in part:
Until within few years past it has
been the wise and uniform policy of the
people OF this state to keep its judiciary
free from partisan prejudice or influence,
Republicans and Democrats alike, and to-
gether have filed the positions upon our
supreme bench almost during the entire
period of our statehood, even in the lurid
days of the great rebellion, when par
tlSansh1p was most intense and bitter.
last resort in Minnesota was during all
these years the recognized peer of all
similar courts in the other states of the
Union. 1t and the distinguished jurists
VINO composed 1t have at all times in a
marked degree commanded the conf
denee and respect of all the people of
stne state. Never in a single instance, as
far as am aware, has the ability or in
tegrity of its personnel been the subject
of reproach or suspicion.
That this high standard should be
maintained in the future as in the past
is. self evident. A tainted or suspected
judiciary is the greatest evil which can
afflict state. 1t is the parent of busi-
ness Generalization, of disorder and law
lessnesS among the people"
Referring to the defeat of Justices
John A. Lovely and w. b. Douglas for
denomination, he says:
THE recent Republican state conven-
ton, or rather the triumphant and I'M
scruplouS faction which manipulated and
for the first time in the history of our
state has dragged the nomina ton of
candidates for our highest court into the
arena of factional partisanship, to be
scrambled for bargained and traded off
as best suited the schemes and profit of
huckstering4 politicians and corrupting
corporations. I know of no language too
strenuous in which to properly character
iZe the methods motives and influences
which dominated that convention in de-
feating the denomination of two of the
present justices of the supreme court
I am informed that Judge Lovely was
unquestonably renominated, but during
the half hour which, for some mysterious
and undisclosed reason, was allowed to
elapse between the casting of the vote
and the announcement of the result, the
dealers and manipulators traded off the
judicial office for railway commissioner
ship, and thus changed the result of the
ballot"
Continuing, former Congressman
Hall says:
In my Judgment this threatened demon
alization of the judiciary of the state is
the most important and serious issue in
the pending election. 1t should be met
at its inception with wholesome and
decisive rebuke by the electors of the
state. 1t is easier and safer to prevent
the injection of the poison than it is to
expel it after it has saturated the entire
system.
1.-The action of the Democratic state
convention in placing in nomination for
justices of the supreme court Justices
Brown and Lovely is not only just rec
ignition of the eminent fitness of these
gentlemen for the positions now occupied
by them, but it emphasizes and was in
tended to emphasize the principle of a
non-partisan judiciary. The selection of
Judge Otis as the Democratic associate of
these eminent Republicans was equally
justified by his long experience upon the
bench and his well recognized ability and
integrity.
so far as the people of this state are
concerned, 1 deeply regret the inability of
Hon. John Lind to accept the nomination
which by reason of his declination your
committee has rendered me. Personally,
however; I hold myself hQnored and for
tunate in being ASSOCIATED VIII SUCH us
tinguished jurists in cause so nleri-
torious, and so-well deserving Of the sup
port of the people of Minnesota
If my personal candidacy shall have
no other result than to enable the voters
| of the state to enter protest against the
evils have mentioned and to manifest to
some extent at least an approval of the
principles of non-partisan Judiciary /
shall feel that have done the state ss,ff1e
EeE4lce and rest content