The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-07

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be be able 80 do SO the Record may
rest assured that he win not
squander any of it in paying
his debts. But the substantial and
specific charges We bring against Mad
den are sufficient at least to govern US
in the manner of treating his nomin-
alton. He is before the people for an
important Office. His vote might, pos
sibly, aye, probably be decisive. It is
not improbable that the Republican /
party may succeed without New York. |
In such an event the election would, at /
best, be very close. Electoral votes
would be in demand. But suppose
Madden should be elected, is his repu-
tation such as to justify the belief that
he would prove true to the great party
he was chosen 70 serve? If the charges
made against him are true, it appears
to us that people should have the priv
ilege of voting for some one else. They
have not been denied and some of
them cannot be. To say Madden is
good man and a proper person for
elector in the face of his record viii
not do. To review this record, briefly,
we viii say in the first place that we
know him to be a dishonorable Lnan
from our own dealings with him.
We know he plead the statutes
of limitation to avoid the
payment of just debt, even before it
had out-lawed- We know that he is
reported in the Quarterly Mercantile
Report of the Creditors Protective
Association of Missouri and Kansas
on page SO as being unworthy of cred
it. We know he is, also, reported in
Scott's Commercial Agency, Kansas
City, Missouri, on page SO as person
unworthy of credit. 1t is proven that
within the last four years he has coop
Grated with three different political par
ties and we are, also, reliably informed
that he joined three different churches
IA one year. We have heard numer-
GUS reflections upon his official integri-
ty. And all taken together make up
the character of the man. His ability
is nothing. He does not even make a
good pettifogger, and if honest, does
not know enough law to tell when a
debt is out-lawed. We therefore ask
if a man with such meagre ability and
with such record and reputation
is fit to lead the Republican
party in this district in
such an important presidential
campaign as the one upon which we
are now about to enter? Nobody is
responsible for this record but Madden
himself. The people are certainly not
and they cannot afford to carry him
Such an avalanche of ridicule and con
domination will be Numbered down OF
the party in this district on account o.
! putting up such leaders as Nader
that Republicans everywhere will turf
away from the just but merciless ex
, coriatiOn, chop-fallen and ashamed
If a mistake has been made it shoulC
be corrected. If the best interests o
: the party in this district and State re
quire man of ability, integrity ant
character, the congressional COMMITTEES
should be equal to the emergency ant
: have the matter Strengthened out a
r once. The Hutchinson Call. referring
= to the action of our convention, says
2 'HThe Emporia REPUBLICAN, is making
strong and just fight against Madden, the RI
publican elector from the Fourth district
But like all other efforts toward reform IN tn
Republican party, it is a failure. Better Civ
. it up, Bro. Eskridge where trixters and deaC
beats are so plenty, tits hard to miss them"
= ALI the reforms ever mad
l. in this country were mad
. in and by the Republican part
y and the present case viii not prove a
3 exception, we hope. We want enthus
70 iasm all along the line, from the count
n to the presidential ticket, in on
q strong unbroken current. But to shav
: pthIs we must have the great prime
" pies of the party for an issue mot tn
la reputation of insignificant and VI
worthy candidates. We must go fo
the enemy without stopping to apolt
St gize for our friends. A man who's
reputation needs defense, in a confli(
- like this, should stand aside and b
content to show his devotion by SCI
vice in the ranks. There is too niue
. at stake to take chances. We war
= men with fixed principles and stron
- convictions-men above faint and SUI
e picion. Such men we can follow
such we can respect. But STRIPPING
= with no principles or convictions, til
, creatures of moments folly, shoul
not ask too much even of a patient an
= forbearing party.
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