The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-05
Oefaher Election.

Within week, it will be the duty Oh tne
people to elect a member of the Board OF
County Commissioners, upon whose Jude-
ment, intelligence and honesty, the entire
administration of the affairs Of the county
depends; all the important public improve
ments of the county, the safety OF the pub
lie tru,t-funds, the frugal and honest dis
bursement of the public revenue-and the
rates of taxation-a matter, which as 1t
fuctuates quarter or half per cent, affects
the rentable value of all the property in the
county, from to 10 per cent? these, and
many more deep interests, depend upon the
sagacity, ability, and honesty of the county
Commissioners
A Judge is also to be elected, by whose de-
cisions the rights, the character and property
of all may be affected-the principles and
doctrines he may lay down win become the
rule of law and the standard of moral and
civil rights to every citizen within the circuit.
No one knows how soon, or in what man.
ner, his rights of property may be invaded,
or some betrayal of trust by his neighbor
may compel him to appeal to the Courts for
protection or how suddenly death may
place the custody of his property in the law,
and make his children the wards of the
courts. Can a weightier public trust be
conferred, or a moro sacred duty be con-
ceived in the whole range of human respon-
sibilities? Is there any power entrusted to
human discretion in which every citizen is
more deeply concerned that it should pass
into pure, worthy, and able hands, 1t is
the bestowal OF an authority that pene-
trates and controls all our commercial, So
cial, and the hottest domestic interests.
The Judge is the interpreter of law and
right in every question between men in all
their relations-between husband and wife
parent and child, as well as between man
and his rival. Should not the character
and qualifications of candidate for such an
Office receive the seyerest scrutiny2 In the
organization of government the Judiciary
is made the special guardian of the individ-
ual-his refuge and protector from wrong
and oppression-his guide and director in
the discharge of his duties to others and the
public. Its power penetrates into the deep
est recesses of society and follows man in
every transaction of his life and the Judge,
like Deity, sits in judgment upon his secret
thoughts-the motives and intentions of his
conduct.
If the people had any proper conception
of the magnitude of the moral, social, COM
mercial and political interests involved in
the character of their Judiciary, would they
display the stoical apathy which now seems
to pervade the community on the eve of an
important Judicial election, and allow a
few partizan leaders to confer the honors
and powers of one of the most important
Judicial seats in the State on an adherent
for partizan loyalty? Is there any thing
that will arouse them TO q sense Of the i'm.
portance of a wise selection in so important
an election2
\ question is to be decided in regard tc
our constitution that is likely to have du-
Table effect upon the education of the
moral and intellectual character of the
State. In, it, too are involved the currency
and the future commercial welfare of the
whole State. On the decision made by tho
people next Tuesday will depend the per.
petuity of n moneyed monopoly, increasing
in power, that will bring under its control
the business and interests of every citizen
that can raise or depress at its viii, by the
DEGREES of secret and irresponsible star
chamber, the value of every species of prop
erty in the State that can, by its unSeer
operations, make one class of men bank
rupts to-day, and its fayorites millionaires TO-
morrow that can control the legislature
corrupt the judiciary-and dictate to the
executive. The powers they have con
ferred may be now in safe hands; hut deatl
and the vicissitudes of may, in year Oh
two entirely change the character of theil
uCpOSliOil III lut VI ullSNEupuiO0S aflC
sordid men a monied dynasty will rule tn,
commercial affairs of this State, that may
make the fruits of every mans industr,
tributary TO the inordinate profits of an ir
responsible corporation. We cannot re
leye ourselves of the bank already in exist
enee. The only way to reduce its power
to repeal the section of the constitution
which prohibits the creation of another
and charter two or three rivals, that will, b
competition, check and control each other.
While these vital home interests are treat
ed with such alarming Indifference and neg
lect, the papers TEEN with the abstract an
boOtless questions of popular sovereignty
and the struggles of the rival arch FEEDERS
demagogues to attain the Presidency. Th
election of county commissioner, and til
administration of our county affairs, is c
more practical Importance TO us than all III
practical results that will ever come out {