Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-27
The Sheriffality.

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The Midland Schools, an education
al monthly of Des Moines, in its 2sth
year OF publication wisely says: mo
business man makes a change in
clerks or employees as long as the
present incumbents are giving good,
efficient service. A wise business
man raises the salary of the compe-
tent employee and keeps him in the
business" Wise communities are in
the habit of doing just as the wise
business man does, which explains
why the intelligent, independent vot-
ers of the ceunty, irrespective of par
ty preferences, have cast their ballots
for the retention of A. G. Campbell in
the office in which he has so capably
and efficiently discharged it's import
ant duties to the public.
A person in some one vocation may
have reasonable and perhaps excep-
tioral success and yet be total fail
ure where different line of duties re-
quiring entirely different habits of
thought and action are requisite.
Such examples exist in every COM
munity and in every phase of human
life in private and public station. No
oae human mind is fitted to discharge
with equal ability and efficiency every
office and duty that devolves upon
mankind. These are pertinent facts
that thinking, careful men will pom
der well when choosing a public ser
want who has we'll established rec
ord of efficient, honest and able duty
faithfully and zealously performed.
AT the present time there is every
incentive for the man solely solicit
Gus for his own interests against that
Of the public to be giving attention to
his candidacy. But instead of this he
cheerfully and steadfastly is giving
attention to his official duties at the
term of court now IN session.
In the pursuit of his duties as sher-
iff he has been an able and valued as
Sistant to the county attorneys, Will.
braham, Converse and Upton, in OBJ
tanning and ferretipg out the testi-
mony upon which convictions have
been secured, and especially effective
and efficient has been his work in the
Kreuger murder case just tried in the
, court resulting in conviction.
The harness thieves awaiting trial
were pursued and caught by him with
the stolen property in their possession.
Tho man pohipcnp- ,,oaor Sod{o%
ment for murder and whose trial is
| now in progress, was arrested by him
on suspicion and the testimony in the
case was obtained by his search and
investigation.
While he is not frequenter of
places charged by the laws of the
state with being nuisances, when the
papers for the search and seizure of
the contraband goods are placed in
his hands, be invariably secures the
goods and brings in the offender
against the majesty of the law.
We frequently hear men talk about
giving the office to some poor man,
and yet the one selected to contest
for the office against Campbell is we'll
fixed financially and far from the
class they demand the office for, and
SO far as the length of time they have
respectively been in public service,
there is but little difference. Mr..
White as street commissioner for the
city Of Cresco and as foreman on the
grader in charge of public work for
the county has drawn nearly or quite
as much from the public treasury as
has Mr.. Compbell. But both have
undoubtedly honestly earned all they
have received.
Mr.. Campbell's nomination came to
him not through any work or intrigue
or his to obtain 1T for he persistently
refuse d to do any work in that direc-
tion, but through the spontaneous
and almost universal demand of his
party and of the public, the vote for
him in the nominating convention be-
Ing almost 3 to l. Against such an
endorsement and demand he could
not refuse the nomination.
Henry W. Young has been in the
employ of the Bank of Cresco over
three times as many years as Mr..
Campbell has been sheriff and is re.
timed for the same reason that Mr..
Campbell is likely to be retained for
sheriff, because he is the person who
IS in demand for the position because
of the good and faithful service he
has renderen and for the ability he
has shown in the discharge of its
duties.
In the various offices of the politi-
cal ring that manages the affairs o
its party many times second term
has been given to person who has
shown himself absolutely unfit for its
duties, the service having been ren-
dered during the entire term by some
deputy; and when George Story, who
is a model and capable public officer,
from popular demand from men Of
all parties, became candidate for
third term the rotten ring sought his
defeat.
The Office Of sheriff is one of grave
responsibility. Its incumbent should
be a man of sound Judgment, of quick