The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-02-23
FOR TIE MASSACHUSETTS, SPY.

We feel no small degree of surprise at witness
ing the course pursued in relation to the candidates
for the office Of County Treasurer. We did not
think that gentlemen would find it necessary to
tell the people of the County that one of the com
pettors for this Office was a near TeLatiUe of the
Clerk OF the Courts, that another was paid more
than Slr hundred dollars of the peoples money for
the honest service which he performed as clerk
in the same office. Surely, Mr.. Printer, to say
nothing of Mr.. Jennson or Mr.. Prentss the for
mer OF whom is accused Of having slved little
property by his industry and economy and the lat
ter of belonging to \" lucrative profession, the
case OF Mr.. Bgelow is rather hard one To the
sin OF being in the receipt of enormous sums of the
peoples money it must be added that he is
the uncle of one of the candidates for the office of
County Treasurer, and that he employs another
for such sum as he may agree to pay as clerk in
his Office! But this is not all Mf. Allen tuas a
clerk to Mr.. Bigeloto. Great as these offences
may be in the estimation of " An Elector," we are
unwilling to believe they will be accounted as such
by the intelligent yeomanry of the County. Was
1t ever contended that Samuel Allen, Esq, in his
office of County Treasurer was subject to the
Clerk fthe Court? Yet he was clerk in the Of
flee Of the Clerk Of the Courts for great number
OF years, standing precisely in the relation to
that Office as Mr. Jennison now does We have
ever heard that it a subject of complaint dur
ing the time the Hon. Jos. Allen was Clerk of the
Courts, that Samuel Allen, ESQ, theTreasurer, his
Clerk of the Courts for more than forty gears and
we do not believe that the former Office has ever
been considered " a mere appendage" of the latter
We think it also could as easily be made such if
the two Offices located in different corners of
the same building as if they were kept IN the same
room. We take pleasure, Mr.. Editor IN recon-
mending to the electors of the county of Worces-
ter WILLIAM JENNISON, ESQ.,, for the office of
County Treasurer. Feeling for many of the can
dldates much personal regard, we are induced to
give Mr.. Jennson the preference from our knowl.
edge of his acquaintance with the business of the
office, and from belief that his claims are SUI
peror to those of any of his competitors. We are
able to add for the benefit of those who may have
no personal knowledge of the fact, and who might
have been deceived by the labored efforts that have
been made to miSiaJorm on this subject that Mr..
Jennison has filled many Offices to the entire salts
faction of those interested, both of appointment
and by the election of his neighbors among these
have been that of the clerk of the Court Of Ses.
sions; Treasurer of the Bible Society of the coun-
ty of Worcester, and Clerk of the Parish to which
he belongs in this town. We do not consider any
of these offices unimportant ones, and we do not
think the man who has filled them all and many
Others acceptably can be Justly considered as hay
ing done nothing to merit the confidence of the
public. We believe the interests of the county.
far they are connected with its Treasury, will
be promoted by his election as Treasurer.
ANOTHER ELEcToR