Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1858 — TO THE REPURLICANS OF JASPER COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

TO THE REPURLICANS OF JASPER COUNTY.

[For the Gazette.

Hanging Grove, July 31, 1858. Having been urgently solicited by numer-ous-friends to be a Candidate before the Republican Convention to be held at Francisville on the 7th of August next, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Representative in our next Legislature, I, with considerable reluctance, consented thereto; but since having given my consent, on examining the Constitution of this State, probably I am constitutionally ineligible, as I am acting as Justice of the Peace, and the time for which I was elected, will not expire until next Apriil. Section 16 of article 7 of the Constitution of the Slate of Indiana reads as follows: “No person elected to any judicial office shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be eligible to any office of trust or profit, under the State, other than a judicial office.” I take this method of announcing to my friends and fellow-citizens that, under existing circumstances, I think I had better not be presented before the convention, and beg leave to withdraw my name from before the public; at the same time, I would return my sincere thanks to my n ighbors and friends for having so much confidence in my ability and integrity as to have spoken so favorably of me in connection with so important and trustworthy a capacity; and hope, by no act of mine, to lessen that confidence. I have no object in view, other than the good of the cause and its success; and will give my hearty support to any judicious, nomination that may be made. Respectfully,

WM. E. MOORE.