The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-27
A summing Proposition.

IT. u;.uatba Dispdtch, of June 18th, spoke
of ,b. heat of the Judicial contest, and congrat-
nlated itself upon keeping cool, and pursuing
,bo aven tenor of its way, giving itself no con-
oa-, .bout the matter. But in its issue OF the
Doth. Judge Hubbard having, in the meantime,
Ian nm that way,) it came ont in an article Of
over half a column, shutting its eyes, opening its
month and swallowing Hubbard without o
orimace, but even declaring that his most unsav-
orv parts were really excellent. In the article
occurs this remarkable language:
.we acknowledge that 1t must be very embarrassing
and dsadvantageous for lawyers to practice before
Judse who is either incompetent uDfriendly lacks
ns hut thew must get over these things and learn to
take things as they them there strange things
ana tSs% When they are in the interests Of
the people and the public welfare"
Here the Dspatck admits Judge Hubbsrds Sin
competence" and the "strange proceedings" in
his Court, which We have all along charged.
We have charged that he was incompetent, up
on the judgement of the bar of the District. The
Dispatch admits this judgement to be correct.
We have charged, in our columns, that parties
had to buy justice in Judge Hubbard's Court, as
in the Harris case that he turned a man charg-
ed with murder loose, on the payment Of one
dollar and costs, while the jury were deliberat-
ing upon the question of the truth of the charge
of murder, as in the Gray case; that he sat in
Judgment on case in which be had been coun-
sci, and where he was disqualified under the law
to sit. We have charged that he had cases un-
der advisement for years, until he had forgotten
all about them, and parties were unable to get
them decided. The editor of the Dispatch has
read the evidence of these things, which We have
presented to the public, and admits that they
are true-that they "are strange things and Un-
usual proceedings" "But the lawyers must get
over" these strange things, and unusual proceed
ings, and incompetence, and educate themselves
up to them, especially when they are in the in
terests of the people, and the public welfare"
1t would be impossible to believe that the
Dispatch was not joking in its advocacy of Judge
Hubbard, if just such arguments as the above
had hot been used in his favor all over the Dis
trict. Capacity is usually considered one of the
essential qualifications for Office; but now, for
the first time with Judge Hubbard's friends,
Incompetence has become rare qualification.
Lawyers claim that there should be no strange
and unusual proceedings in Courts of Justice
that right and justice is subserved only when
the law is administered with certainty, and by
no "straRge and unusual prOceediRgs"-that the I'M
certainty of the law consists mainly in its applica
tion to the new and varied circumstances of life
and business. But the lawyers of the District
are called upon to "edacate themselres up" to the
plane of incompetence; to throw away their
books, discard the wisdom of ages, and the meth
DDS and proceedings that have been devised for
the protection of suffers in Courts, and of socie
ty, for "strange and unusual proceedings" No
one but an imbecile would put such arguments
a. the above in the mouths of his friends.
'Wheu they (the incompetence, and strange things
and HHusHal prOceedngs) in the interests Of the
people and the public tcelfare" The people want
an incompetent Judge! The people want justice
sold, as in the Harris case! The people want
the price of human life fixed at the sum of one
dollar! The people want the decision of their
suits to be determined by the number of votes
that it will make for the Judge on election day
The people want their suits determined without
regard to law or justice! The people of Brown
County may want this; but in Doniphan Coun-
ty, they want justice sold to no one, denied to
no one, delayed to no one.
The shove, as sober argument, (and it must
have been so intended, for we suppose Judge
Hubbard furnished it himself is an insult to
the intelligent people of Brown County.