The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-02-06
lille, INDIANA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915.

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ided! Nhen American Interests shall cringe
10 foreign policy and a~varice; when the great
objects OF the revolution are surrendered:
when d-emagogueism shall, ~unopposed, press
the seat of craftsmanship; when every CON
servatiye tie shall be fired by the flames of a
la~w-regardless incendiaryism, and our pure
government shall no longer light the way for
lother lands, a beacoa-fre of freedom, then,
but not til then will the Wing Party be dis
banded. MOI even then disbanded-the last
hope of the institutions Of the coantry, then
will be buried beneath the ratnsi-Oar pol
icy is that of America! our strength is in
that policy and our supporters now number a
majority of the voters of the United States.
Our destiny must be onward while that Of
the Country shall prosper.
Indiana of right belongs to the number
who sustain the Wing policy. Rightfully, it
has never passed from US. Although, thro'
our own supineness, the Abolition diversion,
our over-c~onfdence, and the extraordinary
ACTIVITY and misrepresentation of our oppo-
nents, Governor Bigger was defeated and
the vote Of Indiana cast for Mr.. Polk, yet
the present condition of our Legislature and
| cur past history furnish abundant proofs Of
the ahlity of the Wing party TO control the
State government. And of all other periods
in our history is their not abundant reason
now that the control shall be asserted!
The leaders of the party who with Mr..
Whitcomb at their hand, game into power
promising the payment of the State d~ebt,and
relief, and better times for the people; have
utterly falsified that promise. Times are OPP
/ n "a. ~ az, IoL4 - IL g. -
gage upon our lands and our honor, presses
heavier, while the interests in daily acc umu-
lating.
Nota single measure beneficial TO the in
~teresls of the people has been adopted under
their administration.
No substitute for the distribution of the
land fund has been, as was promised, furnish
ed to Us.
The promises of employment and high pay
10 naturaiized aud native laborers, made by
that party, have not been redeemed.
And, during the present winter, what an
Outrage has been perpetrated upon our Con-
stitutionl
The modern democratic leaders, holding
a tie in the Senate, have by the casting vote
Of Jesse D.. Bright, The President of the body,
refused 10 60 into the election of a United
States Senator This they have dared 10 do
in defiance Of their oaths and the Constitu-
ton which required that election, and which
In4aadaspresence-theV- were sworn to sup
port.
This outrage was thus committed because
such election would have resulted in the
choice of Wing.
The subterfuges TO which these leaders
resorted TO Save of that election were as I'M
worthy and unmanly as is the act itself high
handed and revolutionary.
First, as the published debates show, the
excuse of the leaders was that the Revised
Code had provided no Law for such election:
alleging, in their places, their willingness to
90 into it, whenever such a law should he
passed. This excuse, ii is clearly obvious
was utterly untenable. The same law ex-
isied under which former Senatorial cleo
lions had been held. The office is one Gre
ated by the Constitution of the United
States, and a legislative resolution TO elect,
when adopted, furnished law enough. New
ertheless, that no hiding place might be aifor-
ded, the excuse was tolerated and the law
was passed; yet the consideration OF the sub
ject was again postponed! When once more
1t became the object for the action OF the
! Senate, it was again postponed without ex-
cuse or the show of excuse!-And finally
indefinitely postponed for the avowed rea-
son THATA WING SHOULD NOT BE
ELECTED
And so the very question which had agita-
ted the people during the August Canvass,
was deliberately decided against them by
their delegated and sworn agents!
To what extent will not such precedent
If the people sustain it-carry our Coun-
Try?
If, next year, the Polk party have the Sen
ale and the Wings the House, and the Wing
House should ieiuse-as the Senate have
now done-to 90 into the Senatorial cleo
ton; and il The next year should witness the
same result,& the same result should attend
the year following, what will our government
be but an anarchy ;the victimof mobocracyand
revolution! Yet such is the precedent es-
tablisbed by the Polk leaders ofthe Indiana
Senate!
If the same course were TO be taken in re-
lation to the offices of State Treasurer, Au-
ditor, and Secretary of State, Officers eqnlr-
4 ed 10 be chosen, as the Senator, at constltu-
tional periods,0 what, let us ask. would be-
come of US as a law-abiding peopIea Yet
this is The precedent set before US by the
Polk leaders of the Indiana Senate! Say
ihey-"The Governor may appoint, says the
Constitution-"The People, through the
Legislature, shall elect.
These is the first example Of the kind
known 10 our State. We call upon all the
people, without party distinction, TO RE
'lBUKE THIS REVOLUTIONARY spifitin
TIME-to rebuke it before it shall grow IN
10 a nrecedent and be forever too late! II