The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-07-26
JUDGED BY THE FRUIT.

Our neighbor of the Telegram, gives
! for worIhiness and faithfulness in the
discharge of his duties as County Com
| missioner, and attributes to him great
credit for reducing the public debt of
! the county, and then, on this basis, he
builds the kopefW conclusion that as Mr.
Jones is the regularly nominated candi-
date, he should be still kept on the tick.
ct, that the people should not be asked
to replace him by the election of another
that the best way to get at the wishes
of the people, concerning this matter,
was to place ''the question of the build
ing of new jail before the voters, and
let them decide-requiring a pledge from
the Commissioners that they will abide
that decision, for or against All fair
enough, Mr.. Telegram. provided the
Commissioners would, in good faith, do
this; but, Judging from the pledge Mr..
JONES gave in his card which we pub
lished on the 25th of June, and the
manner in which he fulfilled that pledge
on the 9TH OF July, the people cannot
help entertaining very reasonable
doubt that the pledge the Telegram pro-
poses taking from him, on the result of
rotes will be quite as conveniently dis
peLsed with as were the remonstrances.
On the 25th of June Mr.. J. said: Il be-
lieve in the RICH. of petition and remon-
STRANGE, and the duty of public servants
to obey, when all things are done under
staudin Ilv," and that the Board would
'act together for the good of the people
He then manifested his obedience to the
wishes of the People (2S33 of whom
signed the remonstrances against the
action of the Board by paying no regard
to their wishes; and, we presume, he
would be quite as ready ne,c, in order to
insure his reelection to say. with equal
sincerity: Il believe in the right of
voters deciding this question, and, if
they decided against his project, he would
treat them with the same consideration
he had already bestowed on the petition
eTs and thus maintain his consistency in
the same way For re election, no one
doubts flor moment that he would
promise to "cheerfully conform his action
to the will of tue people," but having
been once deceived, it is not very likely
that they will permit him to try that ex-
pertinent, and play on them again the
confidence game"
h., IN
greatly distinguished as an index of
public sentiment on some things; but
on the new jail building and tax question,
we are happy to say that IT is a reflex of
the unanimous opinion of the people of
Wayne Township, and large majority
of the voters throughout the county, as
the utter defeat of Mr.. Jones at the next
election will clearly demonstrate. We
we have no malignant feeling towards
Mr. Jones' on the contrary, we freely
give lin credit for all that our neigh
Dor claims for him. in his official actions.
with this one exception, and that rem
ders him too unsafe. to trust further.
with the interests of the county. The
people are the masters of the situation in
this country, and they require implicit
obedience on the part of their public
servants, and they are determined to
exact it in this instance, despite of the
application of the cry of party and
the crack of the party lash That's SO.