William G. Swan published this broadside to assure voters that he was a candidate for the Second Judicial Circuit. He had been appointed by the governor and had been public with his intentions to run, but his opponents were telling voters that he wasn’t campaigning in the hopes of persuading his supporters to vote for them. These same opponents also had held a secret primary in an attempt to focus all opposition support on one of their candidates. Judge Swan was not able to actively campaign because he had been home with his dying brother, and he couldn’t announce in the local political papers because he wasn’t friends with either editor, hence this broadside.