Year: 1876




note from Judge Hubbard As it was sent
through the Clerk of the District Court, we sup
pose it is to be considered an imperative order
of the Court


ArcRIsox KANSAS. July "a 1s76
HoS. Sol MILLER EDITOR OF THE KANSAS CHIEF:


Dear Sir-I have read the publications in your paper
for the last several weeks concerning Official and pr
waite character and you that far as they
prejudcal thereto they are one and all false Your
attention has been before called to this fact by other
pers In this District and particularly in the Champion Of
June 10th but instead Of correcting these state
ments you reiterated them. ask and expect IN the
rst issue Of Chief correction Of every untrue sate
eHt made BY you against my official private character
Giving you and the world the fullest liberty to publish
any thing injurious to myself it is based upon truth
by every consideration you afford to deny this act
Of justice. FraternaIy yours,


p. L. HUBBARD.


Here he makes the sweeping statement that
one and all the charges prejudical to himself are
false. and asks us to make q correction of every
untrue statement that We have published We
are always willing to correct erroneous state
ments which may make against any man
and if Judge Hubbard will specify the false
charges which we have made against him, and
back his claims by reliable evidence as we
have brought to sustain our side, we shall
cheerfully make all corrections. But he makes
the wholesale assertion that one and all Of our
charges are untrue. This we emphatcally deny,
and shall not make any retractions upon such an
assertion. His simple word is not as good as ev-
idence from the records. Whenever he gives us
the specifications We shall try to work to them;
but until then, we do not propose to stake back,
upon his personal charge that they are one and
all untrue.


We have said that be fined murderer one dol
lar and costs, aud have given the statement of
Mr. Glenn, County Attorney, showing that this
result was brought about by "strange aud un-
usual proceedings" Is that untruei


We have said that he granted Harris new
trial upon condition that he paid the accrued
costs. Is that falsef


We have specified two cases which he took
under advisement, and kept them there so long
that he had forgotten them, while the parties
interested were patiently waiting for decision.
He applied to the District Clerk for a certificate
showing that we were wrong but instead, got
one showing that We were right. Is that un-
truei


We have said that attorneys complain that
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tions. Is that falsef Have not attorneys made
this complaintf


We have said that large majority of the Bar
of the District are opposed to Hubbard's re- elec-
ton. Is this untruei


We have said that Judge Hubbard procured
and published testimonials from juries, got up
at his instigation, recommending his reelection.
Is this falsef


We have said that be has held up his decisions
upon the bench as reasons why the people should
re-elect him, thus creating the impression that
he made decisions for the purpose of catching
popular favor. Is this untruei


We have said that David Martin, acting under
authority, reported from the law and the record,
that Hubbard, as County Attorney, had taken
illegal and unauthorized fees. Is this falsef


We have said that be was vain and weak. Is
this untruef


Judge Hubbard refers us to an article in the
Champion, evidently written by himself, as con-
elusive evidence that our charges against him
were false. In that article he makes the mis-
statements, instead of correcting ours. He
claims that be has had only nineteen cases re-
versed, whereas put it at twenty-three.
Without acknowledging the correctness, let us
admit that three four of the cases were decided
by other Judges-is that the only error he can
findi He refers to the Sd Ohio Report, and says
that only three case in it were affirmed. We
have shown, from the book itself, by naming the
cases, that this was a gross misstatement, in
tended to make it appear t hat he was as able a
Judge as those in Ohio.


But Judge Hubbard says We have assailed his
private character. We say we have not touched
it, unless reference to two three matters, not
at all private, can be so construed.


We have charged that he was member of a
Lottery association. We have shown, by an off,
cial copy of the charter, that he was a member;
and by their advertisement, that it was lottery
There is the charter, and there are the records
Are they uutruei


We have said that since this Judgeship con-
test began, he has treated men in saloo ns and
to cigars, which he was not in the habit of doing
before. Is that falsei


We have SAID that the pro TEN. editor of the
Atchisen Champion, w. R. Smith, was his broth
er-in.law. Is that vile slanderf


We have now covered about every charge that
We have made against Judge Hubbard, that we
can think Of Will he sepcify wherein they are
falsef Or, does he refer to charges that CORES
pondents have made against himf They hold
themselves responsible for what they say; and
if he will point ont any falsehoods they have
stated, we shall call their attention to them.