The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-07-30
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Hints and Suggestions From an Ols CasizsA.

Hints and Suggestions From an Ole C11tzeA.
EEsIroE NEFs.-@1 have been thinking
for some timle past, that we might soon
Sxpeetthe usual s'bpring',s to commence1
ihat necessarily precedes our biennial
'electioas yon know nearly every man
in the county feels as though he were
the man to fill an important Office =
Why can't our elections (for county
Ofiicers) go off without SO much OppO-
sitiOn? 1t appears to me very easystol
see who the proper men are. provided
we have ever transacted business with
them. We Row have 4 competent set
of men round our coIFt house. They
are all very attentive to business, gentle
manly and accommodating. Necessity
however suggests slight change, not
such as to turn any of them out of the
court house bat u change to keep them
there. go -
First Spicer is now clerk of the court,
but he is needed in the TreasureF's
Office. and will here say that he is one
of the best accountants in Lyon county.
lie is attentive and earnest in business
is in fact al business. Who ever saw
Spicer sitting round town as though
hard up for something to do? He is
not like some of our Einporia friends,
whose clothes and faces too, have a
dirty experimentation Haynes? We
cannot do better than elect n. Spicer
Treasurer of Lyon county. This will
leave the District Clerks Office vacant.
think it high time o. Y. Hart had a
change lest the man be moss grown. He
has been in the Recorders Office so long
I can scarcely remember back to the
time of his first election. 1t is true he
has proved good man for the place,
but that is no reason he should remain
fixture, appearing to the community
Washington on the Boston State House.
Turning him over and placing him in
the District Clerks office, would make
room for some other man who has per-
haps held Office SO long that he is ruined
for any other business. What think
you Mr.. editor of the change? think
it would be splendid. This year we
carry Bancroft beyond the reach of the
Sheriff's Office, having served the full
time allowed by law for the same man
to hold that position. Why not elect
Bancroft Register of Deeds !? He is a
good penman anu a gentleman so far as.
1 know. i believe he would be the
very man to fill that Office and hope the
voters will believe the same this Fall.
Williams makes a good Clerk. He
might occupy. that position for another
term, without being so completely
over that his friends could not recog-l
miZe him.
My idea in making these Suggestions
is, to keep these men in the Court House
as they have been there SO long they
would not make good farmers and their
offices have not been lucrative enough
Ito have supplied them with capital to
go into mercantile bushes. One thing
certain we do not want to elect any
more producers to office for the number
of consumers now is too great in pro-
portion to those who work the ground.
| Now for man to fill the office of
Sheriff. Where is the man in EInporia
aside from Bancroft who would make
a good Sheriff? The name of those who
want it is Legion, but who is fit for it is
the question. That Office should be
! filed by man of energy and one who
will not abuse nor starve us poor fellows
who fall into his care! A man to best
fill the office of Sheriff should possess
acute perccptive faculties. He should
be able. to tell thief by the wink of his
I eye. He should also be man of cOur-
| age and at the same time not abusive.
Armstrong l suppose will be on the
track again as usual. Mr.. Editor sup
pose you suggest the man for Sheriff?
One thing do seriously hope, that
when we find man who will permit
his maine to come before the public, as
Sheriff, his recommendation will be
something more than, He i$ u RepMbii-
can. My opinion of a man with no
other RECOMMENDATION than that, is like
my friends opinion of man who pos
sesses no other merit than Honesty. II
is rather small capital for a large bust
ness. hope this will drum out some
useful suggestions from others in the
county. UNCLE Tom.
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