Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1845-1851, 1847-03-27
To the Democratic Electors Of the Fifth
Congressional District.

FELLOW CITIZENS " our delegates will before
long meet In convention to nominate candidate. to
represent the fifth Congressional district I'm The M
tional legislatures and since it is already known 10
many among you, that DR.. Cook of Madison comfy
Judge w lex and myself are spoken of IN connection
with that nomination, have thought proper to address
to you n few words through the medium of the press
feel myself called upon to take this step by an aim
sion contained In Judge Wicks circular lately pub
shed and circulated among you, which allusion some
OF my friends think, refers to me and my present Do
sltlOn ; circuit Judge.
Colncidlng with tins opinion of my friends | may
be permitted to remark that, had the Judge been will
ling to rely upon your action and the action of your del
cgates alone, without attempting to Impress upon vour
minds that 1t was highly improper my part to seek
the nomination before resignlng the office which
now hold, would have been content to leave this
matter altogether open for your decision. We are
both known to most of you. having resided amongst
you for considerable number of years. We might
therefore quietly have waited for the action Of a dis
trlct invention.
But the Judge thought differently, and in the por-
ton of his circular mentioned above he observes that
he does not ''thnk that gentleman, holding one
office, ought to be permitted seek nomination for
another until he shall first resign that which he holds
except in very peculiar cases"
1t appear rather strange, that objection like
the foregoing IN relation to myself should be brought
forward by Judge WICK, it being known to almos,
every in the district that he has himself twice
been L candidate under Ike circumstances: that when
running the first time against Mr.. Herod he held on
the office filled by during the canvass and
for several years after his defeat and that the
cond time he resigned but few days previous the
election.
Certainly d" statesman" who is capable Of repre-
senting you "wscly and well" would not expect to
gam much by raising this objection; since if II was
right for him to be candidate TO- Congress, whilst
holding udgeship, ii cannot possibly be considered
to be very wrong on my part if am now sollcious
Of obtaining your sutrages for office, the honor
and emoluments of which my Hon competitor has
been already enjoying for four years.
There other passages III the circular with re-
spect to wire pulling which may to deserve
notice, but pass them by for the present merely OBJ
serving that my competitor appears to have hit upon
the happy expedien Of the thief, who to escape being
caught, joined in the cry, stop thief. stop thief.
After saying this much IN reply to the Judge rela.
ting to the position hold before you, suffer Il
state TO you, that shall resign the Office of Judge
previous to the August election, in receive the
nomination. If however, your delegates see proper
to select another individual the democratic candr
date for Congress, pledge myself to abide by the
decision, and in event will | become candidate
against the Will and wishes Of my democratic fellow
citizens WILLIAM J. PEASLEE.