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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-03-18
OUR NElGHBORS.

The Cumberland Ne,cs is after the
school trustees with sharp stick.
Mr.. Horace Resley of Cumberland,
has invented and patenteda new car
coupling.
Mr.. John Davis, of Shepherdstown,
while hewing posts Friday week, Sc
yerely cut his foot, which will disa-
BILE him for some weeks.
The Register says, Capt. e. q. w.
Herr, of Jefferson, has eight ewes
which gave birth to nineteen lambs.
The lambs are three weeks old and
all doing well.
The editor Of the Williamsport
Pilot has been elected member of
the town council. The money trans
action of the office are not great
enough to afford any opportunities
for Belknaping.
Lula, a little daughter of Mr.. VIM.
Feldman, of Chambersburg, was
missed by her parent on Thursday
last, and general search by the
citizens resulted in finding her body
i'm the creek which passes near the
town, about 7 O'Clock of the same
evening.
The Spirit Of Jefferson says: A
lounge in the sitting-room of Mr.. G
j Fritts, who resides on the "Cat-
Tail'' farm, in that county, took fire
from spark during the temporary
absence Of the family Saturday week
and was consumed. Timely discov-
cry prevented more serious conse-
quences.
The Hagerstown Neaos has this
in reference to the last lot of emf
grants which left the Cumberland
Valley. 1t says:
Tuesday afternoon a special train
left the G.. v. depot for the West in
charge of Mr.. Timmons, the travel
ing agent of the Pennsylvania Gen.
trail Railroad, and Capt. Freise, of
the G. v. r. r. 1903 tickets were
sold from this place, 219 from Green
castle, Pa, and 81 from Chambers
burg, Pa. Between five and eight
hundred persons assembled at the
depot in the towns, to witness the
departure of friends; in Greencastle
fully $500 people were at the depot,
and also a large number at Cham
bersburg.
The train left the last named place
on time with passenger coaches and
4 baggage cars. The entire party
appeared to be in fine spirits. There
was one remarkable person among
this large number, an old lady 81
years of age, going to Illinois to see
her son; another exemplification. of
mothers love.
On the afternoon of the same day,
a special train left on the B. & O. r.
r., conveying from Hagerstown 65
passengers, and taking up passen-
gers at various points. After leaving
Martinsburg the crowd numbered $50
persons. This is comparatively new
thing, colonizing and transporting
large bodies of people and baggage,
sometimes including live stock, and
seems to be very popular, though we
wish we could turn the tables and re-
ceive emigrants instead of sending
them, and thus have places for all
upon their arrival.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-03-18
TIE KERDICT.

The coroner's jury investigating
the cause Of the death of the victims
of the Narrow Passage bridge disas-
ter on the Harper's Ferry Branch of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, on
Monday night, March 6, last night
concluded their labors with a verdict
finding that "the breaking of the
bridge was caused by the unsound-
ness Of the FINDERS in the said bridge.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-03-18
Adv ERTisINc RATES.
Terms for the Weekly.

One square no lines or less) week 81 80
Each subsequent insertion. so
One square, three months.......... 3 90
One square, six months.............. 8 90
One square, one ycar-.-............... 10 90
Legal advertisements at the published
rates.
w- All transient advertisements duo
and collectable aver first insertion.
Liberal deductions made for Quarter,
Half and Wholc colrmns for annual, seEai-
annual and quarterly advertisers.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19
Ch0nSR.

Much ado has been made by Hubbard and his
strikers out of the fact that the lawyers of this
District are almost unanimously earnestly OPP
posed TO his reelection as Judge As a matter
of fact, to us it is the most damaging admission
TO him that could be made, and is of the
most logical arguments in favor of the election
of Hon. Alfred G. Otis, the Peoples nominee for
that position. 1t must be admitted by every
reasonable man. that the lawyers themselves are
more competent to give evidence upon a ques-
tion of this kind. As general rule, lawyers
court the respect of Judge, and Oftehtimes are
too apt to pay them more respect than their
abilities entitled to; and when the bar of
this District in an outspoken manner, say to the
people that Mr.. Hubbard is entirely unfit for the
position which he attempts to fill, and that we
are made laughng-stock of, both at home and
abroad, it is certainly poor encouragement for
any one to so far stultify his independence to
vote for Hubbard, and force him upon the people
Of this District for four long years, simply be-
cause, by low political trickery, he may have
purchased his nomination by one-balf of the Hi
awatha Convention. We state what is self-evi-
dent to all who are familiar with the unparalel-
ed wrangle which led to the breaking up of the
is no Republican nominee in this District for
Judge. The stauDch Republicans who nomina-
ted Mr. Martin can, with more degree of common
honesty, claim that he is the Republican nomi-
nee, than can the shoulder-strikers and Ward
bummers who succeeded in that branch of the
Convention in nominating Hubbard. Now that
Mr.. Martin has declined the nomination tender
ed him, we feel no hesitaney, as Republican,
in placing as we have done, at the head of our
columns the name of Alfred G. Otis for the Office
of Judge, and to earnestly urge every independ-
ent Republican, who has not the corrupt Atchi-
son ring in his nose, and who wishes to repudi-
ate the corrupt men of our party, and purify it
from the foul air emanating from the nostrils of
Hubbard's bummers, to work earnestly for the
election of Judge OTIS nominated, as he is. by
the avOwed declaration of the Troy Convention,
upon a non-partisan platform a gentleman
whose ability is admitted, and lawyer who
commands the respect of not only the entire bar,
but of the people of this District. We have
heard of but one expression to the action of
the Troy Convention, and that has been of
universal satisfaction. Let the people of Doni-
phan County sign their Certificate" that Hub
bard has, by his universal misconception of the
law, and his wholesale exhibition of imbecility,
fully satisfied us that he is entitled to a certf-
cate of discharge, upon the ground of general
disability, and unfitness for service"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19
Why the LAWYERS Oppose Him.

1t has been proclaimed by Judge Hubbard
that this is a fight between himself and the law
yers, and the reasons given, that the lawyers
oppose him because he will not let them bully
rag him, and because he gives his decisions on
the side of the people. But when the people go
into Court, they employ lawyers. There are
two sides to every ease, and if he decides at all,
he mnsi decide for lawyer and against the
other. How comes it, then, that the lawyers
are almost unanimously opposed to him' 1t is
simply because the lawyers know that the only
safeguard to justice and to the rights of their
clients lies in a strict observance of the rules
of law. When these do not serve judge as a
guide, but he decides at random, or according
TO a whim Ofthe moment, or to suit the popular
sentiment, no lawyer can enter upon a case with
any definite hope of securing justice for his el-
ent. His study and practice of years are of no
avail, and his strongest array of points of Law
are powerless. The legal knowledge of the law
yer is of no service, but the whole bar are driv-
en- to the necessity of retiring from practice in
disgust, of resortins to the verest sbystering,
in order to catch the passing whim of the Judge.
This is precisely the difficulty with Judge Hub
bard. The plainest propositions of law are dis
regarded he interferes, as an individual, with
his own orders as a J udge; and the ablest law
yer is of no more force in his Court than the
most common pettifogger. The lawyers cannot
depend upon him. When they are not certain
they have his decision when it is ren dered, and
when his open orders in Court arecountermand-
ed privately off of the bench. what lawyer can
have any confidence in him, or trust hint
And as was plainly stated to Hubbard himself,
during the recent term of Brown County Court,
by one of the oldest members of the bar, on being
asked by Hubbard his reasons for opposing his
reelection: Hubbard, to be frank and plain
with you, do not think you have that knowl-
edge of law and are familiar enough with the
principles of law, the possession of which are re-
auired to occupy and discharge the duties of
Judge. You may be good fellow, but as to be-
ing good lawyer, cannot claim that for you.
We have tried you for nearly five years, and it is
not saying too much when / state to your face,
that there is not respectable practitioner but
what pronounces you a weak man."
Now, voters, do you wish such a man as this
on the bench, to try and decide important mat
tiers, involving business transactions of your ownf
Why, lawyers are the mere agents of their eli
ents, and it is the clients themselves that must
suffer through the weakness and inability of the
Judge aud we think that when Hubbard ad-
mts that all the lawyers opposed to him, he
publishes to the voters the most convincing evil
dence of his unfitness for the position which he
occupies.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19
Don't Howl.

The claquers of Hubbard found one of their
grounds to meet the opposition to his reelection.
by deiantly asking that if all the things said Of
Hubbard are true, why don't those who are op-
posed to him publish them, and distribute them
to the voters. We have taken OCCASION in this
issue, to publish few reasons why Hubbard
shoull be bfaten. And now, when these facts
are put before the people, as they have been de-
family asked to be, don't howl, and cry persecn-
tion. wepublish only the facts, and snch rs
are warranted by competent proof, and have
spoken in language that cannot be misunder-
stood, and set forth facts and reasons which can
not be controverted. And in proof of our SINGER
ity, we demand from those who are found sup
porting Hubbard, to choose committee Of in
vestigation, composed of ten fifteen leading
business men and lawyers of the District and
name time and place where the proof shall be
presented. and the charges denied the commit
tee to send for persons and papers; and if we
cannot substsutste and prove that Hubbard is
not only weak, unlearned in the law, uneduca-
ted in the common branches, unable TO write
and spell one hundred words of common, ordna-
ry correspondence, political triekster, securing
his nomination by oue-halfof the Hiawatha Con-
ventiou, by corruption, whiskey and money, and
also that be has disgraced the position of Judge,
by making political de cisions to obtain votes,
neglected his official daties, obtained and paid
for political influence, and, in fact, shown him
self, in every conceivable manner, unfit to be
elected Judge, then will have no more to say
upon this subject. But when, by his silence in
the face of charges seriously affecting his
standing a citizen, but also by charges sub
stantiated by records and other proof which
clearly show him to be wholly unfit for the snp-
port of intelligent voters of this District: and
when we publish these facts and evidence, tho
simple howl of persecution will not satisfy the
voters of the Districts The intelligence of the
Republican party long ago dictated his with
drawal from the canvass, and the putting i'm
nomination a better and more fitted person for
so sacred position. 1t will be found that the
simple cry of straight ticket will not save him
from the verdict of the people against him. mt
the coming election. We pronounce Hubbard
incompetent for the position, ignorant of the
principles of law, ignoramus, uuacquainted
with his own language, judicial butcher of the
Kings English, partisan Judge, making use of
his position for private aud political advance
ment, and who threatens, if reelected, to use
the position to punish his enemies and reward
his friends. We are determined that the voters
shall be made acquainted with his incompe-
tency and utter unfitness for the position which
he is seeking by all the meanness of his nature.
to obtain.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19

PREcEDENT.-When the people are asked to
vote for Judge Hubbard for the sole reason that
he is Republican and Mr.. Otis Democrat.
without regard TO the notorious uutitness of the
one and eminent fitness of the other. we would
ike to call attention to what the people of other
States have done. Judge Isaac F. RediieId, of
Vermont, occupied seat upon the Supreme
Bench OF that State from 1535 to 1860 period
OF twenty-five years, eight years of which time
he was Chief Justice. He was life long Demo-
erat, and was elected to this Office by the people
at each term during that time, covering the most
bitter political period in our history He left
the bench only because of his refusal to serve
longer. Does anybody doubt the Republicanism
of the people of YermoDt! Yet they did not
scruple TO vote for Democrat who was eminent
ly fitted for the position. This was done, too,
in Judge Hubbarrl's native State. II it was good
doctrine there, it is good in Kansas
The foregoing facts we find in the AwericaR
La~ Register, of May, 1876.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19

HyBBARD's TEMPERANCE DoDGE.-while it
may be said that many good men are in the haI-
1t Of visiting saloons, and it may be claimed by
many that it is no business of a public journal
to note every time person may partake of a
drink at the request of friend; still, when a
man like Hubbard, who, when in Atehison, is in
the habit for political purposes, of visiting sa-
looms, drinking with black and white alike. and
when at this place, going into saloons and treat
ing to beer, for the purpose of gaining votes, aud
then, in Brown County, claiming to be strict
temperance man, we think it is our dnty to state
the facts, as We have done, about this trckster.
who would thus attempt to ride two horses going
in opposite directions. We have before publicly
charged these facts, and rendered proof, and the
charges have never been denied by Hubbard, to
our knowledge. If these charges are not true,
let him come ont, over bis own signature, and
publish card denying them, and We will furnish
testimony to show that be would not only be a
hypocrite, but liar. He does not deny them.
and if any temperance man in Brown County, or
elsewhere, supports Hubbard because he is strict
ly temperate, then he is the greatest fooled and
deceived person alive.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19
Oyer.AuxiOUS.

One of Hubbard's chief fuglemen, and right
bower of the "GREAT JURIsT," in the City of
Atchison. is one 'Doc." Strngfelow. All who
attended the Hiawatha Convention, recollect
him well, as the person who wanted to hurry
through with the farce of the semi-nominatOn
of Hubbard, for the reason that pressing profess
sonai engagements required his attention at
home and the great lobbyist has ever since neg
lected his large ~ practice, and for days and
weeks, amid sunshine and shower, and even to
the small hours of night has been engaged in
button-holing every person passing on CONNER
cial Street, and beseeehng Republicans to vote
the straight ticket. Every htching-post has
been nursed, and every dry-goods box roasted on
by this great public benefactor. Well, the other
day, he attacked a well-to-do farmer residing in
Missouri, and commenced urging him to vote the
straight ticket, supposing that this gentleman
a Republican, and resident of Doniphan
County. The Missourian stood the argument
for about one hour and half, and in silence left
the great lobbyist, but subsequently remarked
that "'Doc.' Stringfellow used to run Missouri
ans into Kansas TO carry the Territory for the
Border Ruffians. and it looked id queer TO see
him urging them to come from Missouri to
vote the straight Republican ticket" Ha! ha :!
the idea of Doc" Stringfellow being Republi-
can, and working for Hubbard's election. The
more such men as that are found opposing Mr..
Otis for Judge, the better
But why is Stringfellow for Hubbard This
is why: In early Kansas days, Stringfellow was
a leading Rorder Ruffian and at the outbreak of
the Rebellion, he was a rebel in sentiment. Dnr-
ing the war, at Democratic meeting in Atchi-
son, at which Stringfellow was leading spirit,
resolutions were offered denouncing the Govern
ment, and declaring the war failure. Mr. Otis
was present, and made strong speech against
the resolutions, in the course of which he scored
Strngfelow numerically, and ventilated his
past history. Since that day, DIR. Stringfellow
has not been an Otis man. And this is why he
is anxious to have us vote the straight Republi-
can ticket, and re-elect Hubbard
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19

PREMIUM ON MIsREPREsENrATION.-We snp-
posed the people Of Brown County had heard
enough of the gobbling disposition of the Great
Jurist, to know, long before this, that when he
talks of getting any majority in the vote ofAtch-
ison, Donphan or Nemahs Counties, it is all
bosh We have received information from al
most every voting precinct in these Counties,
and we can find no person who is informed, and
wishes to tell the truth but what is frank enough
to admit that Otis majority in these Counties
alone will exceed l,5O0, at the lowest estimate
and we do not believe that Brown County will
let the matter go by default. If ever we felt
confident of Mr.. Otis election, it is now. Fig
ures and facts can be relied upon, and Hubbard
has justly won the first premium at the Brown
County Fair, for his skill in misrepresentation of
facts.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19

He GUARDS THE PEOPLES INTERESTS !-Evi-
dence of Hubbard's peculiar ways comes pouring
in upon us from all directions. The latest is the
original copy of mdRdamHs issued by Hubbard,
in August, 1875, commanding Coe Holly, Direc-
tor of School District in the south part
of Brown County to appear before his Court and
show cause why he refused to accept the boRd of
Timothy James, rs Treasurer of the District.
The reason why Holly refused the bond was,
that it was only for 81 900, while the money that
would come into the Treasurer's hands was
double that amount; and besides, the surety
on the bond was a man who, the Winter before
had applied for State aid. Holly determined to
law them on it to the bitter end, and they back
ed down. James was a Granger; and if he could
make capital with the Grangers, Hubbard did
not care cent whether the people had any Sc
curity for their school funds or not.
But when the Atchson and Nebraska Railroad
applied for an INDUCTION to restrain Doniphan
County from collecting its tax on the road, and
Hubbard determined to grant the Injunction
without hearing both sides, and threatened to
disbar Mr.. Webb, our County Attorney, for in
sisting upon his right to be heard, Hubbard for
got his Granger principles, and sought to do the
bidding of Railroad corporation.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19
Hubbard as a Reforincr.

When Hubbard accepted the left handed nom-
ination on which he bases his claims for support,
he Informed the Convention and the audience
that he proposed to take the stump, and disprove
all charges affecting his fitness for the Judgeship.
1t a touching scene Rnthlessy butchering
the English language, he then and there, as fore
IDLY as bad English could express it, declared
that he had been maligned and assaiied without
cause, and tha. he proposed to go from school
honse to school house, and put his enemies to
flight. by proffering full proof of his innocence.
He pledged himself also to withdraw from the
canvass, if he did not fully answer all charges
made against him.
Right here allow us to remark, that we will
pay 50 for the photograph of any man who has
inspected'proof heard any evidence from the
lips of Hubbard or elsewhere, dfsproving or tend
ing to disprove any of the numerous serious
charges that have been proven against him. We
call upon him to redeem his pledge, and retire
from the canvass.
Not only has he failed to disprove the charges
heretofore brought against him prior to his NOM
ination. 1t is notorious that, ever since the ad-
journment of the Hiawatha Convention, he has
wallowed in the quagmre of political peculation,
support from Ilcu Ol I'll anu AL
classes. The church he has visited with sancti-
moniOus countenance- Shaking off the dust of
the sanctuary from his feet, he has gone straight
way, of Sabbath afternoons, and mingled and
participated in the orgies of the beer-garden and
the tippling shop. When in localities of tenn
perate population, he has advocated temperance,
and seemed saint; when among people less alb
stemiOns, he has WED with them in quafing the
aromatic cocktail and the effervescent beer. He
has prostitated his Court to electioneering pur
poses. He has guessed at the law in important
cases, and, as usual, guessed wrong oftener than
right. He has lied and slandered decent lawyers,
by claiming them as his friends: all this, and
more.
Now let him step down and ont, or attempt to
purge himself of the charges brought against
him, as he promised TO do, when he accepted the
nomination. Any other course will leave the peo-
pie to infer that the pledges he made to the Hia-
watha Convention are to be redeemed by wallow-
ing around in the filth of the basest elements of
ward politics, and within the same day, by desc
Grating the sanctuary for political purposes.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-10-19

THE UNITED FAMILY.-We understand that
"Billy" Smith, who is a candidate for County
Attorney in Atchison County, and brother-in,
law of the great legal lumnary who adorns the
Bench of the Second Judicial District, is making
a family canvass, and says to the voters of Atch-
ison County, that she expects and wants no man
who is mean enough to vote for Otis for Judge,
to vote for him for County Attorney" Billy has
thus adopted the family platform, the first and
last of which plank is Office, OFFICE, OFFICE.
with Henry as Councilman, Hubbard for Judge,
Billy for County Attorney, and "W. c." who has
just returned from the Mountains, as bottle
holder. the thing looks extremely disastrous to
Hubbard in AtcLisOn County, and Mr.. Otis will
receive over 500 majority in his own County,
notwithstanding the cry of the family to ''ad-
heer' to the straight ticket.