The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-07-29
THE JUDICIAL CONVENTION.

q The Judicial Convention at Hiawatha, last
!, lThursday, resulted in the nomination of David
Martin, of Atehison, for Judge, on the 26th bal
4 bot. The candidates voted for were Martin, of
, 7.Atehison; Perry, of Doniphan; Wells, Of Nemaha
3 and Falcon, of Brown; with now and then
dseattering vote or two for Webb, Of Atchison.
tDoniphan and Nemaha stuck to their candidates
from first to last Brown was not earnestly for
theirs, but scattered different candidates un-
Htil the sign was right to do what they had pre-
meditated from the first, and gave Martin enough
votes to nominate him.
4 Mr.. Martin is an honest and upright man, and
IAN able lawyer, and will receive the full Repub-
llican vote Of Doniphan County. Of course, we
refer to the regular Republicans as have no
authority to speak for the little squad Of spite
fellows. If they see that the "Ring" are sup
porting Martin, they will be apt to find an oppO-
sition candidate TO vote for.
We are not at all disappointed at the result,
/ for it was what we anticipated all along. Ten
I days before the Convention, we told Mr.. Perry
that Mr.. Martin would be nominated by the aid
of Brown County, no matter how positively they
may at that time have protested that they would
never go with Atchison We called his attention
fore, and had never favored Doniphan County.
We told him that even if leading and influential
men of Brown had promised to favor him, they
/ would get out of it, by having man of their
own come on the track, and claiming that they
felt under obligations to support him, and would
continue to do SO until such time as the thing
was fixed TO beat the DOniphan County candi-
date. Even so it turned out If anybody i'm
agines that Brown County had a candidate in
earnest, and that her delegates did not cOntem-
plate from the beginning going with Atchison
County, after a proper amount of make believe,
. they must he easily fooled by very thin appear
ances. But some people may be unable to see
why Brown County withheld all aid from Nema-
La County, with which their interests seemed to
be identical. They are linked together for Sen
atorial purposes, and Brown has always received
the lions share of that honor in the District, es-
peeially in years when the SenatOrship was of
unusual importance. Yet Nemaha got no aid or
comfort from them. To fully account for the
milk in that cocoanut, it is only necessary to re-
fer to the fact that in the recent Congressional
contest, Nemaha acted according to the senti-
ment of her people, and refused to tumble to the
cat's-paw business got up for the especial
venge Of Senator Ingalls, and Col. Phillips.
But the most ridiculous feature connected with
the Judgeship, was the issue that was sprung
and harped upon, that Doniphan County, and Mr..
Perry, had started the bolt, four years ago,
against Judge Hubbard, and deserved no reward
for it. Yet the men who used it, nominated Mr..
Martin, one of the leading men in opposing Hub
bard. Perhaps the most bitter man in DOniphan
County against Judge Hubbard, was j. P. john
son. He paid no attention, that year. to any
other feature of politics than the anti-Hubbard
part He is made Chairman of the Judicial Dis
'triet Committee. After appointing member
of the Committee from each County, a member
at large was appointed. What the need of such
a member is, except to give Brown County double
power in the Committee and why she is entitled
TO such consideration, over the other Counties,
lis net quite clear; but that member is C. W.
johnson, who was n mOnomaniac in his opposi-
tiOn to Hubbard. He did not sleep during that
campaign; never did anything but write, speak
and work against Hubbard, spreading himself
over the entire District, and writing enough for
the press to fill many large volumes. Making an
issue against Doniphan County and Mr.. Perry
on that old Hubbard affair." which should have
been exhausted long ago, and then taking the
action that the Convention subsequently did,
descends below the ridiculous.
We would like to ask, also, how Mr.. Webb
stood on the Hubbard question: This issue was
made principally by his adherents. AT the time,
Ihe was counted on both Sides and both sides had
treason TO claim him, if they took his own ex-
pressions rs an Indication according to the crowd
lie 1ras in