Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-09-18
The County Iudre and tho office Of Recorder

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The County Judge and the Office Of Recorder.
The public have learned with feelings OF sur
prize and indignation quite as great as our own
that the County Judge has taken upon himself to
settle the questions arising upon the tie vote for
the Office of Recorder, between Mr. MADEIRA and
Mr. Johnson, by appointing John w. Webber TO
fill the vacancy made by the resignation OF Mr.
Tallant.
We are Informed that Mr. Johnson refused 10
receive the Office by appointment from me Coah-
ty Judge; il this is so, his refusal does nm cred
il as an honorable man. The Office, doubtless,
had no charms for him if it was to come IN that
way. But the question presents itself-why, at
ter the refusal of Mr. Johnson to accept, was it
not offered TO Mr. MADEIRA? He had received as
many votes from the people as Mr. Johnson. lie
was equally qualified to perform the duties. His
claims We're in every sense as strong. That he
should have been entirely forgotten, IN seeking
for some one on whom to confer the office, seems
to us, as it does to many others, little strange,
to say the least.
The conduct of the county Judge han, indeed.
been most extraordinary. There has been no OH
cial or authorized amour cement as yet. OF the
appointment of John w. Weber. The people
have been kept in profound Ignorance of the con-
elusion 10 which the County Judge has arrived
in relation TO the tie between the two candidates.
and as to how or when it is TO be decided. We
think that Mr. Medara was at least entitled to
| some information as to what disposition was TO
be made of his claims, and of his right to have the
tie vote decided in legal and satisfactory man-
ner The movements of the County Judge have
been wrapped in profound MYSTERY, or at any rate
oaly lisclose, 10 those whom he has taken into
his confidence as his special consellors.
| 1t is given out that Weber is only to hold I'M
til the April Election; and that the County Judge,
| If he orders new election at all, will not do so
until that time. We have before informed our
readers of the state of things existing in Flint
| River township, where two ballots were rejected
| as double. We cannot understand the law ap-
| pcable TO the facts as permitting any other
1 course to be pursued. bat the ordering of a new
| election There are some thugs, then, requiring
| an explanation IN the first place: Why has not
| the County Judge before this time, ordered the
new election2 Why has he decided that it shall
be postponed until April next? If new cleo
ton is to take place, the people as ready and
willing 10 decide it now, as they will be next
spring.
| In the second place. if the county Judge has
any right to decide the tie between the two can
didates, and If he has rendered the office to Mr.
! Johnson and it has been refused BY him. did not
! decent respect FOR the wishes OF the people of
the county require that ii should be rendered 10
/ Mr. MADEIRA? We do not know that MIR MADEIRA
would have accepted 1t. He might have spurned
!, it. as ii is said Mr. Johnson did. But common
deccncy required that if il was offered 10 one.
aud refused, it should then be offered TO the 9TH
or. The people have decided by their votes tia,
| Mr. MADEIRA had equal claims 10 itwith Mr. John
son. The county Judge, il seems, thinks other
wise. He takes it upon himself to say that The
~ freemen of the coants who voted for NJ,
MADEIRA, did not know what they were about
that they were mol voting Cor the proper man.
| In every light in which we can view the con.
due, of the county Judge, we think it is an out
rage upon the people of TIE eountv |, is an in
salt TO them, and TO their expressed WILL Ii is
asurpation OF authority, which should arouse the
Indignation of every honest citizen. If John W
Wehher had hecn the best qualified nan in the
county, for the otice--if he hat been The mos,
popular mantle Outrage and insal; woa,a have
been 10 less. But we believe tia, he is the las,
persea whom the people of the ceants, or even
his own party, woald have selected FOR the office
BY wha, combination Of circumstances he has
obtained the appointment, we are unable to sav
Time viii perhaps determine, lmpaaence and
importantly can effect aeseat deal, and the hlint
infatuatSon Of party zeal does not often lock be
fore il leans