The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-13
District Judge.

impartiality. His integrity and his ability are
alike nnquestioned." The Champion then pro-
ceeds to pay very handsome compliment to
Mr. Perry. And then it goes ON TO state of Judge
HubDard. what Col. Martin knows is not strictly
true. He says that Judge Hubbard has given
more than usual satisfaction during his term
that his decisions are generally regarded as dis
eliminating aud just; that he has Herr been sas-
peesed Of being Influenced By corrupt or improper
motires.
| just what amount of mental reservation the
acute editor Of the Champion has in these state
ments, can never be known. But when he states
that Judge Hubbard has never been suspected Of
being influenced by corrupt or improper motives,
We undertake to say that Col Martin knows bet
ter. He knows that Judge Hubbard has not on
| ly been suspected, but that he has been boldly
charged, with favoritisn 6f . most shameless
kind.
He dare not submit his.case upon these charg-
es to the only earthly tribunal competent to
| Judge of its truth-the Bar of the District He
knows that Judge Hubbard has, from the time
| he first mounted the bench, been accused Of
making decisions and WELDING bis discretion for
the sole purpose of building up friends among
the people; and three -fonrths If not four-ifths,
of the Bar of the District will say, and do say,
that the charge is true, and that Hubbard's
strength is the fruit of this denagoguery upon
the bench The Judge has been heard by more
than one attorney of this District, to boast of
| this political power that be held. He has been
heard to boast that he knew he was not popular
with the lawyers, but that be could, by the use
| Of his Office, be reelected.
This sort of thing is not corruption" proba-
bly,, in Col. Martins meaning of that term but
most men would say that Judge who bartered
justice for popular favor, and to hold his place
over the known hostility of the Bar, was acting
highly Improper" But Col. Martin further
says, that Judge Hubbard has given more than
usual satisfaction. Is that so 7 Does the Colo
mel recollect the lively times that occurred in
the session of the Legislature of 1874, when Hon.
A Fl. Horton, of AtchisCn, presented petition
from the Atchison Bar for the creation of the
10th Judicial District : (House Journal, page
1851 Horizons Bill, as introduced, (page 23I)
coolly informs the public that sit was to provide
Judge therein" (House Bill 1881 This bill
sought to detach Atchison County from the I'd
Judicial District, and leave P. L. Hubbard as
Judge of the remaining Counties Horizons
movement was met by strong remonstrance
from the remaining Counties against letting
Atchison County escape the honor she had i'm
posed upon the rest of the District; but also at
the same time praying that, if the District was
divided, Doniphan, Brown and Nemaha be erect
ed into the new District, and that Atchison be
left with Hubbard as Judge of the I'd Judicial
District, and that she have him all to herself.
There was not lawyer in Atchison, except |
W. r. Smith and w. W. Guthrie, who did not
sign the Atchison petition. Every lawyer in the |
District outside of Atchison, signed either a re-
monstrance against a change at all, or petition |
to detach Doniphan, Brown and Nemaha. (See |
Senate Bills p and 2O5.)
If, then, Judge Hubbard has given such in
tense satisfaction, it is certainly since January,
1874.
The nomination of P. L. Hubbard insnres the
open hostility of more than half the Bar, and |
the secret hostility of nearly all the rest, who
are so situated with respect to official positions
and their cases in Court, that they dare not war
upon him openly. OF all the Bar of the District,
only one, w. r. Smith, his brother in law, has
lifted his voice in his defense. With respect to
Mr.. Perry aud Mr.. David Martin, no such objec-
ton can be urged. Neither of them will have
any scalpers their track either before or after
The Convention. Neither of them will hava any
vengeance to do upon anybody, if either is elect
ID. Why, then, should the peace and harmony
If the Republican party in this District be mar
'ed by bitter contest over the Jndgeshipi P.
L. Hubbard knows that his reelection is opposed
by too many of the older attorneys of the Dis
trict to render peace possible, if be takes the
nrasn natio 4. |
'calpins of attorneys who oppose him, aud they
are more than half of the whole Bar His Honor
has already been much accused of favoring, from
the bench, his friends, and furnishing his enc
miles, His treatment of C. w. johnson has been
observed by all the lawyers of the District, Civ
ing eountenance to the charge of favoring and
those whom he will. With the per-
sonal war that is made upon him, can he, from
the bench, "nete out justice fairly to all men 20
IL Is not possible. The cry of favortism, which Z
nas already filled the air, will be intensified and
The law business of the District be in an uproar
But another grave charge that is made against |
7. l.. Hubbard, is a lack of learning in the law,
and total want of that keen dscernment which I
makes the able jurist. The lawyers rarely speak &
ot 1t by any milder term than 'imbecility.D 1t !
~ 'ASiS 70 oohio truth IN tnis Charge, or {
us honor would not need to descend to the vul-
gar suOterfuge of jury testimonals-a practice (
nat Is utterly unknown before any Court whose q
'uuges inspire the respect of the bar or the cor
ldenee of the people. Judicial scallawags alone /
nave resorted to it in Kansas. If gushing jurors
nave presented such documents to the able d
Judges OF the State, they have only read them l
With smile, and put them away as waste on O
he fist occasion I;
Now, the Chief has been the only paper in the a
District willing to give hearing to the opposi.
ION 10 Judge Hubbard. w. expose his weak il
less, by the aid of many of the Bar who are not 1
and without favorites. We have
never assailed his private character, nor permit
ed it to he done in our columns. His judicial
areer is public property. We have a right to :
'old it up to the public gaze, and to call atten
ion to its weakness and absurdity. If this is :
'ersonal, within the meaning of the Champion,
hen the contest is personal, and must continue \
o. until his friends see the utter folly of trying
force him upon the District, over the will of ;,
BAR and people, by the skilled tricks of a few .
olitical thimble-riggers. While supporting Mr.. =,
erry, and doing what we can to elect him, we
lake no war upon Mr.. David Martin. Indeed. a
-e are disposed, upon a yery slight personal ac :,