The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-03-20
COMMUNICATION.

| In about two weeks it will become our
duty to cast our votes for some person for
the office of Probate Judge. One of the
most important Offices in :he gift of the
people, and one in which mere political
&C nslderations should scarcely be allowed
TO enter. Nevertheless, under our system
and in the very nature of things. We are
all of US more or less governed by our
political sympathies, in the expression of
our opinions az or through!the ballot box,
but at the present time there are reasons
attending the ensuing spring election
which am led to believe will not receive
the careful thought of the people that it
requires.
Mr.. Dresser the other day received at
the hands of his party the unanimous
nomination OF the convention for the Of
fee of County Judge, and, although feel
more than ordinarily friendly toward him,
[ know of no claim he has to my vote,
other than the claim that attends and
pertains to any particular fitness he may
DE possessed of, for the proper fulfill
ment of the duties Of the office.
l looked with some anxiety over the
papers last week for call for democrat
ic or liberal or peoples convention, and al
though have but little faith in the ex-
preston of opinion through caucuses
and conventions, yet deemed it to be in
accordance with the fitness of things that
those who fought SO galiantly for fraud
and against fate last fall, who did so
much to aDrihilate the Democratic party,
should do something, commit some other
act of folly this spring. But I looked in
vain, and so far as I can learn now Mr..
Dresser is to be unopposed.
There has been flying reports that the
present incumbent, Judge Webster, would
be brought out or would bring himself out
in opposition to Mr.. Dresser. But sup
pose the id ga is abandoned, and if it be
abandoned through the perspicacity of the
Judge himself, and that decision be I'M
alterable, for one congratulate him, and
would pray that he keep this new role
inviolable.
There are many reasons why Judge
Webster should not be candidate for
any office now, and not only not candi-
date, but should not be allowed to take
the lead in the formation Of any party
that might come up out of the present po-
litical chaos. He belongs to class of
politicians who, blind TO every patriotic
impulse, have yielded up to cormorants
and designing knaves, their individuals
ty; whose prejudice and passion have
blinded them to the necessities of the
moment, or the desires of the people,
and have done more to disgrace their fol-
lowers, and to curse the country with re-
publican rule-which has ultimated in
the most unseemly state of things in con-
gress and elsewhere, that ever fell to the
lot of any nation on the face Of the earth
than all the republican leaders put to-
gether. Hence in my opinioa the voters
of this county should be very cautious in
their action, so that this class OF men
shall have no other opportunity to mar
any efforts for reform, that the honesty
and intelligence of the nation may strike
for.
Il is only short time now, before we
must take our several positions as parti-
sans, hence, again say, all of us are in
terested in keeping back and RELOCATING to
other fields, and pastures, all new old
party hacks, and efete Office seekers,
without regard TO "race or color or
even to which party they have acted with
in the past.