Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
from 1850 till 1850. Durins this ioue

rom 1850 till 1880. During this long
period he has habitually trafacked In
justice, defrauded his clients, basely
plundered his partner. and insulted So
cicty by his degraded and fiagrant TIM
morality. He has never made prom
ise he did not break, nor had friend
whom he was not willing To betray.
In this political judge these frenxied
conspiraters found q willing accomplice.
Freely protesting that he was not q
candidate, though everyone knew that
for five years he had trodden every do
vious path that led toward the capitol,
that he took his seat on the bench mere
ly as stepping stone to the senate, he
descended into the mire of personal pol
itics, accepted the nomination In . cal
luminous speech, and then attempted 70
secure success by the open purchase of
votes.
Much has been said about the purity
Of the ermine. The traditional fur was
never dragged through q fouler puddle.
The very seat on the bench that was to
be vacated was promised 20 two shxious
aspirants, and the entire political ward
robe ofthe statc was divided In antici.
patton Of my defeat, like apparel of
Joseph among his brethren.
: Had the chief justice Of the supreme
court, withdrawn from the contest at
its close, this indecent participation
might have been condoned and forgot
ten but he became the copidetial ad-
wiser Of the conspiritors in their final
effort to invalidate my election.
Whether he contributed thirty or six.
ty dollars to assist in defraying the ex.
penses Of the missionaries of this refor.
nation is yet undetermined. Guthrie,
who had already betrayed his constitu-
ents, says 1t was sixty on the first Of
April. =
Horton. in q published letter, writes
that he never contributed anything, and
was never consulted on the subject. In
October he swears that he sent thirty
dollars two months previously, which
would be In August, several weeks af.
ter the apostles left Washington, and
therefore could not have needed it.
This would be dubious record for
any one, but a moraiist and purifier in
politics. Horton and Guthrie subse.
quently attempted to patch up the rag
ged discrepancy by writing letters to
the committee in order to bring the
dates nearer together, on the principle
OF the newly married couple who had
their certificate dated back to cover ac-
cidents. It did not occur to these emf
nent lawyers that the most obvious
method Of determining both the date
and amount would have been the pro-
duction Of the check or the entry on the
books Of the bank. 1t was mean and
base enough to give the money for such
q purpose. It was meaner and baser to
lie about it. 1t was meanest and basest
OF all to apologize for it under oath, and
swear to another falsehood about the
date OF the paltry contribution. No
fouler exhibition of cowardice and men.
dacity ever disgraced the most degraded
epoch OF the English judiciary which
witnessed the fall of Bacon and the in
fatnies Of Jeffries and Scroggs. Instead
Of sitting in judgment on the lives, the
liberties and the estates of the people,
the criminal should be summoned to
answer for his crimes and consigned to
the felon's cell.