Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-09-02


he asks no such questions, but wants to know what
he thinks of Pierce, or Scott, or slavery in Utah,
or New Mexico, or the fugitive saw, or the noun
tains in the moon, something else equally per-
tinent to his specific duties, which questions, if
he passes muster he is duly installed. Now, most
excellent "Wheatland, tell us what ground there
is to hope that this functionary, so chosen, will
perform his duties properly. If he does, is it not
the mcrcst accident? and tell us too how long it
would take every individual in the nation 90 TO
rack, ruin, and hopeless insolvency, if he conduct
ed his private affairs in that manner. Then just
make the applicatonto the various departments of
government, and in our opinion, you have good
share of the mystery solved.
The men who 90 up to Madison entrusted with
your governmental interests, are not selected with
The least reference their capacity to perform the
work allotted They were not taken for their prac-
teal good sense, for their habits of economy, for
their Conscientious character, their love of human
/ ity and human interests. BY no mcans;-thcy
pulled tbs wires, frgcd Caucuscs, packed cOnvcn-
tons, and got nominations, and you all event it
blind, and entrusted them with your interests for
no other reason than because they were nominated.
How then can you expect fruits different from
what you havea Why should these men not Gin
kcr" your laws, spend your money, and run up
your taxes? 1t is the only thing for which they
have talent, and do You expect them to bury the
only talent they have. Nay, verify; they are bet
ter christians improve their single talent vastly
I Our democratic brethren have recently held Il
. in Nd
nomination democratic candidate for County
Judge. We all know q judge has nothing to do in
his official character with politics, and that demo
cracy or wliggery or free soil, has no kind of rel
evancy to his duties, yet it is expected that because
of this nomination, men who hold the same faith
with him about the fugitive slave law, or some
other equally pertinent point, will come up to the
polls and vote for him to sit upon the bench to adj
Judge Of law and administer Justice. And was ho
nominated because of qualification for the place.
Nay, the very nature OF the convention prccludcs
the idea. 1t was not convention to hunt up and
nominate the man with the best qualifications for
Judge. 1t was demo :ratic party convention, TO
nominate democratic party candidate the first
important qualification for which is, that he has
done the party scryicc-that he has gone it blind
through thick and thin without regard to truth,
conscience or any other manly quality and as this
was the necessary purpose of the convention, we
will not insult its sagacty, by any intimation that
it has failed in this instance. Yet g the party
arc expected to 20 it and make the man Judge.
And after Il while, when the widows and orphans
wall over their substance squandcrcd, themselves
hcggarrcd, and justice outraged fees from its pro-
per home and abiding place, tho "party will ut
ter dismal groan, "Whcatand" or some other
curious citizen will inquire about the of the
trbulaton, and at the next election the same folly
will be re-cnactcd.
This is partially a republican government. The
male citizens twcnty-onc years and upwards OF
age, of orthodox color, arc the source of power
and if there be faults, folcs or rascalitcs in the
government these citizens need not 60 far out OF
their tracks to find the source of them.
I And now excellent friend and qucrst, if we have
given any insight into the cause of the difficulty,
is not the remedy apparent? If we would have
sensible servants VIC must be ourselves sensible.
five annually enact the tom-foolcry of cccting
men to office without regard to their qualifications
and for no other reason than because few dema-
gogucs and wire pnllcrs, commandus to do it, can
VIC expect any thing else but quackcry and TOM
foocry from them
! We suspect however, from the character of
Whcat!and's " queries, that he knows quite as
much about all this profess to, in which case
he can leave our advice for those who need itmorc
than lie does, in which category we fear, there are
quite u number.