The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-10-08
FOR COUNTY CLERK.

The only county officers to be
elected this fall in Cedar are Record
er and Clerk of the District and
Circuit Courts. There is but one
name before the people for the for
mer position, but for the latter there
are two candidates-the incumbent,
VIM. II. Van Ness, nominated bv
the Republicans, and David A. Diltz.
nominated by the galvanized De-
mocracy. To Mr.. Van Ness, after
an occupancy of the position of near
ly two years, We have already chal-
lenged the slightest. valid objection,
either as man or as an officer, and
found no takers. All the county
knows that when he entered that
office January LIST, 1873, he found it
in shape which required of him al
most double work for the first wear,
and yet it is the universal testimony
that its multifarious duties were
never discharged more promptly,
accurately or courteously. The
whole county knows that previous to
the administration of Mr.. Van Ness
the fees of the office never much
more than onehalf paid the salary of
its occupant, while in his hands the
fees for the eighteen months ending
July LIST, 1874, paid the entire Clerk S
salary for same period-s3,O0O-and
left balance of :i42.l9 to be turned
into the county treasury. Everyone
who was in any way in Arrears on
the books of the Clerks office knows
how those old matters have been
looked up and set to rights, SO that
fines and judgments were collected
and paid into the proper county
funds amounting in 1873 to 81, 144.36,
against s404 in 1872 and s342 in
1871. Do these facts do any thing
toward answering the questions
which our reforming friends, the
AntiMonopolists, were going to
make all important? (but which we
fear they have forgotten) viz: "Is
he honest? is he capable!
As for Mr.. Diltz, in the very first
place it will have to be admitted
that he is wholly without the practi-
cal experience and information which
alone could render him competent to
discharge properly the varied and
trying duties connected with the po-
sition to which he aspires. The
Clerk of the Circuit and District
Courts handles everybody's money
parties litigant, witnesses, jurors, and
everybody else, including the widow
and orphan--and this in sums vary
ing from ten cents to thousands of
dollars. Nothing but business abil-
ity and experience of the highest
order can keep all these things sep
arate and straight, and we opine
Cedar county has good reason for
refusing to take any very great risks
in this particular.
Again, we hear that it is whispered
around in certain quarters that "you
must vote for Diltz because he is q
granger" While we maintain that
this in itself is no reason for voting
either for or against any man, we
wish those intriguers who are trying
10 use it in favor of Mr.. Diltz to re-
member that Mr.. Van Ness is in pre-
cisely the same boat.
One of these men is TO be our next
Clerk. The choice is with the peo-
Pile: and look the matter over rs you
will, there can be no possible reason
why any man should vote for Mr..
Dillz over Mr. Van Ness except that
the former IL the nominee OF the
party, and he (the voter
who would vote for Diltz) always
axes his'n straight.