Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1845-01-28
NEW sERIEs.-VOL. v. No q.


iiOn Of justice thus, TO . great eHissts
been put into the hanSs Of this family
clique.
We cave no personal objections 10 AfE.
John Kay. further than his want OfquaL
iicaIIOn TO discharge the duties Of ths
Office Of Associate Judge, and this WHt
Of qualification will compel bin 70 take
advice al every step, which will throw
him into the hands Of those Who had him
appointed. Thus will The Office Of Asso.
ciate Judge be exercised By George w.
King or Hanson l.. Penn, his son,ia'laW,
as occasion may require.
II is also rendered morally certain, IN
der this arrangement, that George w.
King is TO be reinstaIled into IhSloGiee Of
Clerk Of the Common PIeps, Ss bOIhAfar'
Tin and Ysy are known 10 BE- his fast
friends. II is against rhs sppOinimsnF
Of this defaulIingCIeFk, George W. King,
by your honorable body, indirectly, that
we manly enter our protest.
We further believe that your honorable
body acted without having all the facts
before you, upon an e1 pGrte PFesonia-
tiOn OF the case, made By interested peg
sons: and we therefore ask your bOBOIa~
BILE body TO reconsider the appointment
made on the 9th uIiimO, and 10 GIL tbo
same in accordance with the prayers Of
the petitioners, that will be laid before
you in few days.
Georgetown, Brown Co., Jan. 6, 1645.
Mr.. LOudon said, this was tho 6rst %.
ti:iOn be had received on the subisei Of
the Brown county Judges. The names
attached were familiar TO him; some oF
them he had known for moro than thirty
years. They wero gentlemen, and lead--
ing wings in Brown county. Hey there
fore, conceived il 10 be bis dSty, O. . FOp~
resenlaIiVe Of the whole people Of ~
county, to lay their wishes before the
Legislature, on this or any other subject
in which they may think themselves =
grieVed. 1t may, however, be too late
for them now. He bad taken occasion
to inform the Senate, on the passage OG
the resolution for the election OfJudgsSs
for his county, that great excitement pre-.
vailed among the whig parry Of bis cOun-
~ on that subject-thAt If the matter
cCud be delaytda a day or sO,ha eOuldgiVo
the majority of the Senate Information
that they probably could not get from The
sources upon which they had to rely, iW
regard 10 the wishes Of their party IN
Brown county. But this request Of his
was ndiculed and put down with a degree
OF haste and feeling not usually exhibits
ed in legislative halls. The result is,
what he then predicted. an upsPriHg Of
the un i've rsal whig party Ofihe county
And there were, continued Mr.. LOVdOn,
rumOrs among his whig constituents, thaS
some 1000 petitions we're forwarded to
certain wbig Senators, for the appoints
ment of other than the successful eandi-
dates, and that they we're suppressed
He did moi know that it vas true. He
knew that he had received none, and
that no member Of the Senate had pre-
senled any such petition TO this branch
of the Legislature. He scarcely knew
what direction 10 give the petition, but
as there seems 10 be Z legal question
involved in it, he would move its reIsrA
ence to the standing committee on the
judiciary.
Mr.. Anderson moved that the peiis
iion be not received. He said the Peti.
tti1ners wanted TO acquire nOtoriety, or
to insult the Legisla,ure-in either case
it ought not to be received.
Mr.. Cox was in favor of the petition
going to the Judiciary committee. H6
was in favor of the right OF pslilisn, and
thought this committee The proper one.
Mr.. Anderson said, in order TO save
time, and not give the signers undue i'm.
portsnce, he would Withdraw bis motion,
The petition was then rOferred to the Ju-
dietary committee.
The speaker said he was in possession
of petition signed BY many names, pree
cisely of the characie: Of the one prosens
ted by The Senator from Brown, and on
the same subject.
Mr.. LoudOn called for the reading Of
the names attached TO the petition. He
said the names were familiar to him, and
among them he recognized many prOmi.
nent wings Of Brown county. He wsuld
mave that the petition take the same
direction as the one just presented By
himself.
1t was accordingly so referred.
Mr.. Barrere presented the petition OF
a large number Of citizens ofBrowR coun-
tv, approbaling the election Of the Judg-
es in that county. recently appointed