The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-10
Il BAD SELECTION.

Il BAD SELECTION.
Editor of the Republican.
1 am Republican and would like to
see the Republican candidate for presi-
dent elected this fail, but when the Re-
publicans of this district nominate
man for presidential electOr, such as Mr.
Madden of Cottonwood Falls, think
it about time to teach them lesson.
In this district there are a great num-
Der of representative Republicans and
it speaks very poorly for the party
when they nominate such man. Be
cause Kansas is strongly Republican
it is no reason why dead beats and
scalaWags should be nominated. 1t
would teach the Republicans of this
district lesson if Mr.. Madden should
be defeated and he certainly should be.
The rest of the state, where he is not
known will give him large enough
majority to elect him and thus save the
state to the party. 1t would teach the
Republicans that they must nominate
good men for Office. In 1880, in Cali
fornia, Judge Terry (the man who
killed BrOderick) was one of the Demo-
cratic electors. He was so unpopular
that while the state went Democratic
he was defeated, thereby giving one
electoral vote to the Republican party.
| do not want to see the Democrats get
one of the Kansas electors, but l do
want to see tins district give Madden
the smallest vote on the ticket, if not a
| total defeat. REPUBLICAN,.
Emporia, May s, 1888.
COMMENTS.
| The views expressed in the above
communication are substantially cor
rect. The selection of Madden as
presidential elector for this district,
was a mistake and when he appeared
before the convention to declaim his
little piece, the mistake was apparent.
The convention, towards the close,
lost it's wits and elected for this high
position person who is regarded in
what is known in business circles as a
dead beat, person whose name nc
decent newspaper should float at the
head of its columns for any position
whatever. The congressional commit
tee should investigate the integrity anC
standing of this pretentiouS stripping
and, if possible, correct the mistake the
convention made. That a union sol
der of strict integrity and spotles!
character, who had left a limb on thu
battlefield, should be defeated in thu
convention by thing like Madden i!
! simply a disgrace to the convention
and an outrage on the people. Ad
Jutant General Campbell placed him
self on a level with the ''dead-beat'
class of small politicians when he en-
, dOrSed the nomination. The time ha
come when the Republican part
should place none but men of homo
and integrity at the front, and failin
to do this, it should be held to accoun
by the press of the country. The Re
3 publican is not a personal or VindiC
; tive paper. 1t has looked over man
things that deserved to be rebukeC
! but. when a convention does a thing S
unjust and reckless as did ths conveI
ton yesterday in electing a ''deaC
n beat" over veteran union soldier {
character and standing, we feel it
} be our duty to enter an earnest PR
d test against the Outrage.-Repubiic
II If what is charged in the above con
8 municatiOn and editorial remarks
q true, then both the writer of the con
is munication and the editor of the RI
e publican are doing but small pieC
e of business in exposing MIR. Madden
b this late day, after action has bee
taken by the republicans in this di
trict in convention assembled. If the
charges are facts, and if Mr.. Made
m is a dead beat" with all that Il
le name implies, the editor of the Repu
y lican should have let the public kno
G. it long ago, for it has been well-knov
that until the very last moment he w
tS the only candidate in the field for t
n nomination to which he has be-
chosen. During the last few wee
rs nearly every paper in the district b
Ie had more or less favorable CONNIE
nt on the young man, WI
s. not word against him
his character to our knowledge. A
Pc now, after the selection is made a
,SS the work can not be undone, come the
nd charges, with nothing to substanti;
he them, which, if they be true, doul
ur imperils republicanism. For a man
-. such character as the Republic
nd charges Mr.. Madden to be would !
n hesitate moment to sell his vote
of the electoral college or elsewhere 70
III paltry sum, let alone the fortune
al might make were the count as close
en- it has been heretofore on occasion
Again, these gentlemen imperil the
n publican selection of a president by
n nf wishing republicans not to vote for I
rs man-simply because they say he i
"dead beat" Voorhees, called Ings
let "a liar" and brought as much evider
. to prove it as does the above to PR
re- Mr.. Madden to be ''dead beat,''
no one believes Voorhees, charges W,
ny true. And we believe that tn
q charges against Mr.. Madden will !
mr. be believed until more than sim
nd roiteratinnS of them are mada
UT Urtil the Republican brings m
"a than an anonymous communication a
n its own simple assertion that Mr.. NJ
ia den is '-dead-beat.n we doubt mt
whether the public generally will g
credit TO the story.
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