The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-07
From the Emporia Republican.
MALICIOUS MADDEN.

mis- friends could clear up or explain
away the charges showing him TO be
unit and unworthy to be entrusted
with the high and important position
OF presidential elector. So far, not one
of the charges has been proven false
nor even denied. a great deal has
been said about Us by that little dead
beat snide sheet published at Strong
City, in which it is said Madden has a
part interest, but this is all 'sfuss and
feathers" and amounts to nothing. 1t
has nothing to do with Madden's hon
esty. integrity or qualifications for
presidential elector. If Weller would /
pay US that little bill he has been ow-
ing US for about four years we would |
give him liberty in writing to say what |
he pleased about US, as his unprinci- /
pied tongue is no SANDER. But it is q
credit to him to be noticed in the Re
light. He has everything to gain and
nothing to lose. We will dispose of
him and all he has said about us
in his poor apology for a.
paper as briefly as possible,
by proving him, here and now, to be
an unmitigated and malicious liar. A
liar, according to Webster, is one who
utters a falsehood with an intention
TO deceive, and to such q person is at
taehed the highest dishonor. 1t is an
old maxim that sfalse in one Thing
false in all" Therefore, while there
are many falsehoods uttered and
things stated and limited, in that IRE
sponsible, unprincipled and worthless
scab paper-things that we never
heard of or dreamed of before-if we
accept the wisdom of the maxim, it
will be only necessary to fasten one
lie on him to throw everything he has
said or may say, hereafter, in this
controversy, aside as amounting to alb
: soiutely nothing. And all honorable
men who are capable of exercising the
least fairness of judgment and who
wish to see right and justice prevail,
6 can come to no other conclusion but
] that Madden and the kind of men
; that are actively backing him, are not
5 the stuff that presidential electors
? should be made of. In the Strong
3 City Republican, of the 18th of May,
: Madden's organ, claimed to be
g conducted by Weller, whose champion
9 ship of Madden is enough, of itself, to
0 cause honorable men to drop him, if a
3 man is to be judged by the company
s he keeps, we find the following positive,
!, unqualified assertion, false to the
t very bottom, not very complimentary
i and uttered with a boldness to carry
t conviction to its readers:
e ITO bolster up his nefarious course he haE
n twice printed letters from alleged reputable
citizens of this county, containing statements
derogatory to the character of John Madden
The first we traced home to his brother-in-law
4 Bob Evans, land he dare not deny the author
q ship.v
9 Just to show how baseless this bold
# brazen-faced assertion is we here insert
the affidavit of Mr. Evans, and chal
" lenge the author to make counte
y affidavit, in which event some bod!
n will go to the penitentiary from Stronl
n City for perjury, if not for common
70 lying.
! STATE OF KANSAS, I
l. LYON COUNTY I
IT not the author of the letter dated ''StrOn
City, May 9th. 1888, /" and signed ''More Anon,
. relating to Madden's unftness for presideT
u tial elector; that he did not write nor procur
" any one else to write it; that he never at an
If time in his life wrote a letter from Stron
i, City, Cottonwood Falls or Chase county 10 tn
editor of the Emporia REPUBLICAN or any on
Ia else In relation to John Madden's nominatio
s. as candidate for presidential elector, an
De he further solemnly swears that he kne'
= nothing of the existence OF any letters hers
tofore published In relation TO this matte
until he saw them printed in the Empori
REPUBLICAN,. H. B. EVANS.
es STATE OF KANSAS, I
V LYON COUNTY. (
n Sworn to and subscribed before me this 81
day of May, 1883. 1T. WAY,
ne Notary Public, Lyon county. Kas.
81 We unqualifiedly declare that th
us letters we have heretofore pull
" lished, dated respectively Stron
ne City and Cottonwood Falls, II
h. ferrinS to Madden's unftness an
b. unreliable character. were written b
at persons at those places, who resid
on. there and whose characters are irrl
lie proachable, so far as we know. An
n we will further say in this connection
VI that several, persons whose names al
ne pear as endorsing Madden have give
DE- us pointers against his integrity an
9s, standing as man. And many Othel
al who are acquainted with him, relai
he many things which we will not mel
ton at this time, because the partiC
do not care, publicly or privately.
have anything to do with him. BI
one thing is sure although they al
u good Republicans, they viii not vol
NC for him. We have several letters
aS our possession from citizens of Cha!
les county, the publication of which "
he shall withhold, at least, fl
ne the present; as notwithstan'
~ ing the fact that we deem the man,
n, such we may call him, totally III
N worthy of the position to which, unto
an tunately for the party he was elevate'
~ we wish to do him no harm, being a
I'M tuated only by desire to have goC
sir men in high positions to represent I'll
n grandest party ever organized in tn
aV or any other country. 1t is the on
ICE way to save the party from defeat an
be ruin.
ne Madden is a renegade from a
h n parties and entitled to the respect
ral none. To show something of his polit
of cal record we here insert the followiI
- afidayit:
0l STATE or KANSAS
cd LYON COUNTY, -
nm J. A. Smith, being duly sworn, says that
&c resided in Cottonwood Falls from April 2n
lat 1888, until December, 1884: that he
ate acquainted with John Madden. the prese
on candidate for presidential elector, nominab
%, by the Republican convention of the Four
congressional district, at Emporia. on the 8
Dy day Of May, 1888; that when afiant first I
ne came acquainted with said Madden. he, INA
b. denl claimed TO belong to the Greenbai
YES party: that during the summer of 1884. 50
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