Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1873 — Hammond for judge. [ARTICLE]

Hammond for judge.

8o far as we can learn here, Judge Hammond haS given good satisfaction. As Gov. Hendricks, by the appolntment.of Col. Hammond, gave tne people a precedent, for ignoring politics in Judicial officers, the people will no doubt aeeept and act on ft. It were better this way. The otficie of Judge is one that should far removed from politics as possible. Honesty, integrity, capability, are the requisites for the position. All these Judge Hammond possesses in an eminent degree. We second the motion of electing him without the formality of a nomination. Let all the papers in the District, who are favorable tq this, advocate it. It is very true that the District is Republican by a large majority, and Judge Hammond standing as he does at the head of his profession, his friends would not .feqr to pit him against any candidate that might be brought out, because there could be but one result, and that, his election; but the intention is to ignore the fact that there is a political majority of either party in the District, so far as the Judgship is concerned, and elect Judge Hammond on his merits as a jurist, and his integrity as a citizen.— To this, we think, a large majority of the people will say Amen. So far as we are individually concerned, we can say, that had GoV. Hendricks appointed one of his own party that was equal to Judge Hammond in. all respects, we would have favored the same course. We think we are free from party feeling in this matter.—Wiuamuc Republican.