Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-10-01
The Probate Judgeship-Again.

rropate Judge into consideration, and
~endeavored to show the capacity, or rath-
er tacopaciy, of the poolen headed as
pirant of tho opposition party for that
Office, we have been paying some atten-
ton to the papers published in other
portions of the State, with the view of
as~certaining, ifpracticable, whether they
were disposed to attach as much impor-
lance to the subject, as we have done.
We find that in Hamilton county, the
moral, intellectual and legal capacity of
the candidates for that Office, are elicit
ing more discussion in their columns,
than those of all the other candidates
for the peoples favors. From an edi-
torial article in the Cincinnati Daily
Times, ola late date, a paper occupying
a neutral position as between the two
great parties in the field, we have taken
the following extract, as being applica-
BILE to this, as well as to Hamilton, and
indeed all other counties in the State,
and invite the careful attention of the
voters of Preble county:
I'VE are aware of the fact, that there
are many persons in our vicinity, who
are ignorant of the responsible duties
attached to the office of the Judge of
the Probate Court, and of the opportu-
mites that position will afford an incum-
bent who may desire to subyert real
justice to any especial channel in which
his own opinions may lead him. 1t will
be we'll for such to examine into this
matter previous to casting their votes at
the Fall election, and ascertain how
it is that the position should
be filed by n properly endowed, and
in all respects qualified to discharge its
duties.
For the benefit of those who may de-
sire to become posted in regard to it,
we furnish the following as the cases
wherein the Probate Judge has erclu-
sire jurisdiction:
/. To take the proof of wills, and to
admit to record authenticated copies of
wills executed, proved and allowed in
the Courts of any other State, Territory
or County.
2. To grant and revoke letters tesla
mentary and of administration.
3, To direct and control the conduct
and settle the accounts of executors and
administrators.
4. To enforce the payment of the
debts and legacies of deceased persons,
and the distribution of the estates of in
testates. o.. '
5. To appoint and remove guardians:
to direct and control their conduct and
settle their accounts.
6. To grant marriage licenses and Ii
ccnses to ministers of the Gospel to So
lemnize marriages.
Z. To make inquests respecting lu-
%natics, insane persons, idiots and deaf
and dumb persons subject by law to
guardianship.
8. To make inquests of the amount
of compensation to be made to owners
of real estate when appropriated by any
corporation legally authorized to make
such appropriations.
9. To try contests of the election of
Justices of the Peace"
We are aware that it would be use
less, if not even wrong, to underrate the
of party ties and trammels. Par
ties grow out of the very nature, and
are necessary and proper institutions of.
our form of government. 1t is right
therefore, that their measures and their
men should, as a general thing, be ap-
preciated and supported by their respec-
tive adherents. Every party however,
and every individual member of a par
ty, by becoming institutions and mem
bers of the social compact, have taken
upon themselves a still higher allegi-
ance, a more sacred obligation, to coun-
try and to kind. Now, it would be fall
ing far short of the truth, to say merely
that Mr.. Cans was nominated through
mistake. His nomination is something
more than believed to have boen brought
about by the adroit manipulations Of a
small central clique of political wire
workers, one or more of whom have be-
come, to some extent, interested in the
an0ull accumulation VI uIo OlulSS. lax
portion of the Republican
party of Profile county, could scarcely
feel otherwise than insulted, to be told
such a man was their choice for an of
flee of so much Importance. Just ex-
anime him for a moment, if you please.
His sir name auglacized, is said to be
Goose, and the volume of his brain but
proves the correctness of the transla-
ton. For the first few years of his re-
in this county, he ished for lit
tie offices with Wing bait-he then
joined the democratic party, but catch
ing nothing he returned to the Wings.
He next became a most ardent Know
Nothing, but being equally unfortunate
in that association, he left it, and, by
performing a fifth political somerset,
became all of a sudden, a most uprori-
Gus and loud-mouthed negro-worship-
ping freedom shrieker," and Black
Republican generally. Moral honesty
heinz as irr~econcilable with these gyra-