The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-10-15
TINE WASTED.

| 1871 ~ No
We closed our article in answer to the
Democrats attack on Mr.. Madison in last
weeks issue with the inquiry as to
whether or not Mr.. Hendricks and his
friends desired to carry on campaign of
personal abuse and mud-slinging. If the
Democrat of last week Is to be taken as an
INDEX the answer to our inquiry is GER
tainly In the affirmative, AS we failed to
notice anything in the issue that was not
besmeared and covered with coating of
sickening and disgusting filth. II will
be noticed that the campaign thus far
with the single exception just referred
to-has been free from personal abuse
and misrepresentation. but Deardoff and
Petition. the present editors of the Demo
e'af, are so DESTROYS of bringing every
one else on Il par with themselves that
they will not stop at anything to accom-
plish their end. and so have seen hit to
charge corruption i'm office to the county
attorney. knowing at the same time that
what they said was untrue. We do not
believe it can be truthfully asserted that
MIR. Madison ever accepted bribe or in
any way acted in bad faith in the dis
charge of his duties in prosecuting liquor
cases, but we do believe that his every
official act was just. honorable and up
right. In two instances where Mr., Madi-
son prosecuted viOlators of the prohibi-
tory law the sentence was suspended up
on promise that they would never again
engage in the business in this city and to
this date the promises have been kept.
That they were shown this lienency no
one denies, and that it had a salutary eff
feet in enforcing the law so far as these
two cases are concerned is a fact. and
every citizen commends the county at
torncy fol his action.
The appointment of Mr.. Frankey as
assistant attorney general is also laid ut
the door of Mr.. Madison. Now if the
editors of the Ecmocyat were rs eager to
state the truth rs they are to falsify. they
would jog their memories and 60 back to
the spring of 1888 and find that Mr..
Frankey received his appointment before
Mr.. Madison ever anticipated running
for any county Office. and ut which time
he was Il resident of the city of Ford. and
that the appointment was made at the
request of citizens of Dodge City after it
hn1 hnn, c1o,rl,- t,1
of the statutes of Kansas could not be en-
forced while Mathematics was county at
tOrney. Now we have cOncluSivcly shown
that DeardOff and Petition in their at
tacks upon the county attorney have mis-
represented and perverted facts; that they
have commenced Il campaign of abuse
against him. They are somewhat known
to the citizens of Ford county and their
reputation is anything but savOry. and
are only here to-day through the suffer-
ance of the people whom they are at
tempting to gull with their editorial rot.
These are facts and every one knows
them to be so. We are now forever done
we consider it time wasted to further
notice their mouthings.
The record of the county attorney is
before the people; the citizens of the
county should examine into it. but they
should be sure that charges against his
character come from men whose hands
are clean before passing judgment upon
the individual charged with dishonesty.