Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-07-31
For the HawS-Eye.
Edward II. Ives,

\ convention packed BY few party wire
workers, by wringing in delegates from two town.
ships (Iinfon and Bcnton) who were never APP
pointed by the people of those townships. have
had the impotence to dominate the above gentle
man again to the voters Of Dcsmo;ncs county for
sheriff. No highmndei and honorable man can
regard this nomination with any thing bui disgust
and as an Insult TO the people when the following
facts are known:
At the last term of the District court an action
for trespass with force and arms was brought
against Ives and Levi Hager by Scion Whitney.
After full and fair Investigation before an i'm
partial jury, most OF whom were democrats. a
verdict was rendered against them of more than
Sl.I00.
A more outrageous trespass was never commit
ted in this county.
Without any writ or process, and without any
authority OF law o: legal right. the steam ferry
boat of Whitney. while he was absent in Illinois,
was seized and taken possession of by these men
and taken ont Of the possession of the agents of
. Whitney who had charge OF the boat. The CYL
inder head was taken off aud carried away cails-
ing the boat to sink and her hull to become total
loss. The boat was then stripped OF her machine
~ and engines, which Were disposed Of and never
recovered by the owner, Mr.. Whitney. For this
outrage no excuse was offered except that Whit
ney owed for the boa; "a small balance (which VIM
Walker had guaranteed to IIagar should he paid.
of an honest jury and The above verdict was unan-
imously given,
The conduct Of Ives in this matter was partic-
ularly censirabe. He was the CHI EFF peace officer
of the county-abovc all others bound to respect
the laws and the rights of individuals; bit lIa-
gar could not consummatc snch an outrage. with :
out his official Influence. lIagar and his clique.
who had brought Ives out of obscurilv and made
him Sheriff of the county, drafted him into their
service. made him go and take the boat and see
her tied up. The plan succeeded admirably. The
agents of Whitney, who knew Ives to be Sheriff
swore that they supposed he had writ to take
the boat, or they would never have given her up
that he had papers in his hand and acted so as
to make them believe he was acting as Sheriff
with process in taking the boat.
This verdict gave universal satisfaction except
to Ives, liagar Il Co., who went forthwith to
work upon the Jury, to get them to sign aiidavits
that they did moi understand the case. They on
" got three Jurors of the right sort to make the
foolish admission. The Judge was piled for ten
DAYS with all sorts Of gossip and influences which
they dared TO use, and then new trial was order
ed, to the surprise of every body, unless WHIT
new would consent to take $500 damages instead
of the amount of the verdict. Whitney spurned
the offer and a new trial was ordered.
Ii such official insolence and outrage upon the
rights of individuals, is tolerated by the voters Of
Desmoines county, there must be powerful
charm in the nomination of ''packed conven-
tion.'' That Hagar and his clique should be
anxious to have Ives elected Sheriff again is not
surprising, when you consider that another trial
of the Whitney case is to come off in the fall.
Let every wing, every honest democrat, whose
neck is not CALLED by the party collar, spurn this
nomination with contempt. Fortunately, can
didate of better capacity and qualification than
Mr. Ives is before the people for the Office of
Sheriff--one W , breaks the collar which cannot
be houorably worn-onc who cannot be made a
tool of the Hagar, or any other clique, to COM
init trespasses upon the rights of his fellow citi-
zens-who will not prostitute his Office to per-
sonal and selfish ends-who will not be govern
ed in assessing property by electioneering de-
signs. MtLLIcAN CLARK is the man. Let eve
ry Wing and every honest Democrat support him
and we will have no more Peace Officers who sell
themselves 10 break the Peace