Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-03-08
G lie telegraph.
c. L. ~HULES, EDITOR.
Friday, March s, 1850.
County osficers---Chartcr Election

County OSficers---Chartcr Election.
H. few weeks the election OF officers for the
new county and city of Keuosha, takes place.
We shall embrace this opportunity to express
our opinion on Il few points necessarily involved
in the Issue of those elections. And first, we
wish to say that no individual has any particular
ci4im on any Office whatsoever; also, that it is
not good policy to elect man to Office simply to
keep him ont of the workhouse there are chea-
per ways of maintaining pauPers. Further, we
because his Gerry-mandering, log-rolling
Iipe-Iaying, grocery-spkng system of tactics
has out-genelalled his bettors Neither are we
disposed to advocate the election of a man simply
because he has received the regular nonlinaiio1
of any party. There are good men enough to be
found in the ranks of our fellow citizens in both
the county and city, to fill all the offices with
honor to themselves and profit to the community
al large.
Then let no man present or prefer, or push,
what ne considers a claim for any Office simply
because by the division of the county he NAV
have lost an office, or because he has held par
ueular Office before, and thinks therefore that he
has the right to it again; the doctrine of rotation
in Office, which is sound in principle, would
teach him Of uncommon modesty would not to
stand aside and give the people a chance to select
some other one.
If there was ever time when vigilance was
necessary in the selection of county and city Of
iccrS, now is the time. This is the commence
mcnt of a new administration, both for the new
county and the city OF Kenosha, and if we make
= mistake at the commencement, it will not be
easy to rccUfy error. The first things we
should look for in an officer are capaciiy and in
tegrity. Ii these are wanting, we are worse off
than with no officers. Different capacities are
wanted for different services For the execu-
tors of the law, we need men who are in the ha-
bit Of drying la,cS, men who know the value of
law, and men that will resign their office
when they detect themselves wanting in either
dignity, independence, or irmness sufficient to
enforce the laws they are set to defend. We
have suffered great deal from this cause in
times past, evenitw we do not now. What is the
use IN eleCting men 10 discharge duties which
they either do not understand or have not moral
courage sufficient to undertake F? For Sheriff
tor Mayor, and for Marshal, we need men Of
considerable information, but they must possess
>i they expect 10 curb the unbrdcd spirit of ruff
haniSm and rowdyism which at present riots and
RACES unchecked and unabashed) an indomitable
VIII, untirng energy, unfinching trmness. and
an independence Of character which never va
cliiates men in fact, whom gold cannot bribe :.
WAom hopes ct pretorment or profit cannot Sc
dace How long would our streets he disturbed
and night made hideous BY the howlings and ri.
oungS and window breakings OF our nice vouno
men, II we had officers Of sufficient stamina, TO
arrest and fine severely enough, those who are
50 far iorgettul of what belongs to them as good
citizens as 10 suffer themselves to become mad
dened and intiamed by an Intoxicating draugh,2
For we are charitable enough to suppose thew
would not be guilty Of such base dongs in their
so52r moments. We know they would not.
For those, and all the other officers, we have
men amongst us capable and competent. Then
et them be sought without regard to occupation
or want of occupation, without regard TO the
cloth he wears or the circle he moves in. For
Council men, we need men of experience, pro-
bity and judgment, who will be iudicious in ex-
pcndltures and far sighted in their calculations.
and they certainly who have the disposal of the
funds and property of the CITY, should be at least
interested enoughin them as to have some share
IN the payment Of the taxes they are called on TO
dIsburse.