Year: 1860

Mr.. BIsCHoF:-In our excitement a6ou'
the presidential election fear we are over
looking another election of more import
ance to u.s. individually, and as citizens,
than that or any other we are called upon
to decide. 1t is not at all likely that the
Felection of one or the other of the Presiden-
tial Candidates will affect me or any of my
neighbors, personally or pecuniarily, to the
amount of one dollar while the election
of a competent or incompetent Judge of the
Common Pleas Court may affect any of US,
and at any time, to the amount of hun
dreds of dollars and it is certain that once
at least in each generation our entire es-
tates are liable to go to that mill to be
ground through, and whether anything
shall be left to feed the children after we
are dead and gone, or all shall be kept for
toll, as has been too Frequently the case, will
depend in a great measure upon the man
we have for Judge. think, therefore, Mr.
Editor, that you would be rendering more
service to the public if you would devote a
portion of the great space you so freely be-
stow upon the advocacy of your candidate
for President to the awakening of the peo-
pie to the importance of making q wise
choice for Judge.


Perhaps your Indifference upon the sub
ject is owing to the suppos;tiOn that in a
matter of so much Importance to themselves
the people are prepared to vote intelligent
| ly. If so / can assure you ofmy own knowl
| edge you are laboripg under a grave mis-
take. In the great excitements of this po-
litical campaign many of the voters have
almost forgotten that such an election is to
be held, and are as likely as not to go to
the polls and, without reflection, vote for
any name they may find on their party tick
ct, when if they could be induced to weigh
the consequences they would scorn to give
a mere partizan vote for Judge-and especi-
ally for Judge of that Court. | beg then Mr.
Editor that you will lend your assistance to
arouse the people to a sense of the deep in
terest they have in this election and en-
deavor to prevail upon them for once to dis
card politics, and select a fit and capable
man for SO important place.


We have a choice between two candi-
dates. One of them we know to be COM
petent. Judge Pitcher is one of the oldest
and best 1awyeEs7in the State. He is also an
honest and Independent man he thorough
ly understands the duties of the office, and
will be impartial and fearless in the dis
charge of them. He has been Judge of the
Common Pleas Court of Posey county for
some six or seven years, and has given so
much satisfaction that the people of all par
ties in that county are going to vote for
him again. | know this is the case among
my neighbors in Robinson township. l
am acquainted with great many of them
of different parties, who declare they would
rather lose their vote for President than
fail to vote for Judge Pitcher. They say
that when poor man has something to do
in court, such as getting tract OF land di-
vided or settling an estate, they can go into
his court and have it done without being
I. Al.
knows exactly what is to be done and how
to do it,-while in this county you know
you have always to go to g lawyer and pay
him at least ten dollars to teach the court
how to do what you want. Again, they
say that when a man dies, leaving Il few
hundred dollars worth of property, Judge
Pitcher cOmpels the administrator to settle
up the estate in a reasonable time, and not
waste it all in clerks and lawyers and
sherifs sand administrators fees, so that some
thing will be left for the widow and children
That is the sort of Judge we want and
now that the people have chance to get
such a one, they will be crazy if they do
not make the most Of it.


The other candidate, Ben. Stinson, Esq,
is said also to be lawyer and to have been
one for fourteen years, but never heard of
his having a case in court, and everybody





If ne knew enough law to make a living
at it, | guess he would hardly be a
justice of the peace. And if he
don't know enough law to make a living
as a lawyer, I guess he would make a very
poor judge. But | know n little about his
capability. When the old clerk, Jenkins
died, Mr.. Stiuson held his place by appoint
ment for about year, and when the election
came on was candidate for it and [, and
several of my neighboTs, were willing to
vote for him, but when we went into town
and asked the lawyers and others who had |
business in the clerks office whether he was |
a good man for clerk, they begged us for |
Gods sake not to vote for him, because they |
said he was such dolt- head he never |
could learn to perform the duties of the |
office that he did nothing but make blum |
ders; and if he was elected the public rec
ords would be ruined, and nobody's rights |
secure. We found this was the general /
opinion of those who had Il chance to |
know, and that was just the reason he was
not elected the clerk. The people were |
disposed TO give him the office, but when |
they found that in a years trial he had /
proved himself utterly incompetent, they |
refused to vote for him, and believe he ran |
behind all his competitors-L Lunke nheimer, |
Sorenson, Holden, and all. Now | submit, |
if man has not brains enough to be Clerk |
Of a Court, has he enough to be the Judge !
of the Court.


This question of competency is the only |
one that ought to be considered in this cleo 7
ton. a+


AN OLD RESIDENT OF VANDERBURGH Co.
Six Reasons for Not Supporting Hem