until ben hamilton threw the election and let that little idiot tom win the office of sheriff of stansbury - deputy marsters would never call him sheriff tom in his mind because in his mind he was just that little idiot who was always doing something stupid like running for sheriff and if ben hamilton knew he wasnt going to want to be sheriff anymore then he should have told deputy marsters , given him a heads up that maybe it was his time to be sheriff instead of leaving the town in the hands of a little idiot like tom .