Judge Springer

We print the following suggestions from a member of the Lee county bar with pleasure.  Should it be the wish of the people of the District to vote for and re-elect Judge Springer without the formality of a nomination and without distinction of party we shall certainly make no objection.

FORT MADISON, May 26, 62

C. DUNHAM, ESQ. – The District Court of Lee County has now been in session at this place for a week and the business is progressing well.  We shall get through the docket this week, leaving scarcely a fragment of it undecided.

The mingling together of so many lawyers, has naturally lead to much conversation about the election of a Judge, which is to come off this fall and I am gratified to find that the public are anxious to retain the services of Judge Springer.  He has for the last four years discharged his duties with such ability and firmness as to win the confidence of all.  He came upon the bench with reluctance at a time when the dockets were crowded in a manner never before known in this country, and in a district by far the heaviest in the State, he has succeeded in clearing up those dockets and the business is now done easily and promptly as it arises.

Having acquired an experience in the transaction of the Judicial business, which renders his services more valuable than before, I hope we shall retain him and I should be very happy to see him proposed and elected without distinction of party.  Why should this not be done?  He is eminently qualified to be useful in that position.  He has gone through four years of immense toil.  His devotion to the Government is ardent, and to turn him out now by party nominations even if it could be done, would seem unwise if not ungrateful.

Permit me to add that I think it is the desire of the bar and the people of this county, that he should be re-elected and that without reference to old party lines which have divided Democrats and Republicans, and we are all agreed that the office is one which should be kept out of politics.  I hope this will be done.

A MEMBER OF THE BAR.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 1