Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-07-05
For the In llama STATE Sentinel.
Clerk of The Circuit Court.

Whom shall we elect for the Clerk Of our circuit Court
You say Dir. Duncan, as he has already been serenteen years
in the office. Well. suppose he has, is not that enough 10
all conscience : Would you keep him in Office for LIFE Z
He has beoOme rery cealthy in the qfce. and has 6Hht large
fdUsrn stands Uith his veaith. and il Ue ran keep him an
another term no wW be one If me Wedhthiest men in the
county. Well, what Of that? Should he be preferred 10
Mr. stewart because one is a. wealthy as nabOb and sports
his dangling gold chains, and the other is a ppor young man :
Is that any reason why Mr.. Stewart shall be rejected, il
equally well qualified ! Would not your principles exclude
every poor man fOm office, however well qualified, and
however meIitoious, and would il not keep in office for life
every uab0b in The Land He is connected Nth the rich and
aTist0cTatic. Yes | know that, but should he be preferred
by the people because Of his high connexions ? Shall a
young man Of humble connections in this couutry, IL meTi-
toriaus, be cast aside, To keep in Office for life a man because
he is rich, and allied 10 tn arisccracy IL the land You
must REMEMBER that Duncan is a Whig. aud the nominee of
the Wig Convention, and Of course all Of the Wigs wHH
hare to rOte fr him Dont tell me that dit he not refuse
to submit his name to a Wing Convention, and then ride all
over the county TO pack a convention that would nominate
him ; Did he not support Banner Lawhead against Colonel
Russell for sheriff, and is not Lawhead now supporting him ,
No bargain Of cnUTse, Ell he says he DiH get, through
LaUheod, a great many Democratic rotes. because he rOted
against the Whigs for sheriff. He does. And because II
supposed he has been in The habit If speaking so highly II
the lamented James X Polk Did You ever hear him tell
the Wings what he thought of the Democratic marty He
is violently opposed TO III. iacyers, he tells US, in the country
Does it follow that because the men whu know him bes', and
see his manner of doing business are opposed TO him, that
he should be elected again !? The lawyers are ce tainly not
The worst judges Of a clerk but why does he tell you that
he is opposed by the lawyers Don't you think that il is
because the lawyers have not as many rStes as The other
voters II the lawyers had a maj riiy Of votes, do you
think he would say a word against the lawyers? They OPP
pose him because he gires Gdrice to the people, he says. II
this be so, will he lawyers gain any thing, or the people
lose by eIecting MIR. Stewart, as he i a good lawyer, and as
clerks always advise without charge, as do the most of the
lawyers. The advice Of Mr. Stewart to the people will be
none the less valuable in consequence Of his being a lawyer.
He gare the aduice from disinfTested notifies. merely TO keep
the iaUyers from getting The fees He did ? Had he not
an Office worth over $4,000 a year? Try him without the
office, and see how much advice he will give gratis I lire
ia the country, and Duncan has a'tcays told us that he is in
faU0r Of the country against the foecn, and he nour says that
he UH get a great many rOfes by pulling that string. Do
you think that it is right in any man TO ty and array the
town and country against each other ? But do not The coun-
try people understand him Don't they know that if there
we're more votes in the town than in the county, that he
would go in decidedly for the town II has been limited by
a friend that il is 50 600 a year that Duncan is after. Yes
but Mr. Duncan is so rery friendly tCiih the people tchen he
comes out amongst us uchy he uas so kind tchen a candidate
before as TO cdTTv sugar in his s~addlebags TO stpeetea the ID
q1or for US to drink! Well, he don't furnish YOU liquor
and sugar when he is not a candidate, does he And did
you not know that after the election he boaSted he had
bought votes enough to secure his election by treating , He
says that the old men are compelled 10 UOTk the roads by the
net1 road laD. Well, Stewart offered ,hree amendments to
the law, which were not adopted and he then voted against
il. Does Duncan tell you that He is opposed 10 The nep
court, and is going 10 hare The ldU creating IL repealed
Yes. and 1 hear The 'sason, are-hist. he was not consulted
about creating il 2dly, 3dly aud lastly, he don't get the
clerks fees. lie says that the court IS useless, and q hedug
expense 10 the county. Did he say that? WHY did you not
tell him that a number of causes were continued at the last
term Of the circuit court, TO the ruin Of parties, in costs, be-
cause The court had not time 10 try them Why not tell
him that the Gusts of doing business in the new CONT, where
as in The cilcrit court 7 Duncan says he wiH lose no Wing
roies, because he 1iH compel all Of the Wigs 10 rote for
nm. ana 10 insure az ne mas procured SereTuf WhfgS J IN
diandpOits and e~lsetchere, to see all Wings opposed to him
and by some means force them 10 vote for him. Well, Mr..
ID. aud his advisers may hd themselves mistaken the vo-
tiers If Marion county are fTeemen, and will suffer no man
nor class of men TO dictate 10 them. He says that he can
beat Sietvart t1tth ease. Does be ? Well, il brigging can
do il. he certainly can but we can tell better after the
election but il he feels so safe, what takes him away from
The duties Of the clerks office to ride over the county in
ficfing upon the people his stump speeches. After the cleo
ticn is over he can enJoy the consolation of knowing that he
can retire to private life, or to the practice Of the law, as he
thinks seriously Of, as rich as a lord, and live the balance Of
his days in ease, quiet and luxury, on the money he has al
ready drawn from the pockets of the people.
A YOUNG WING.