Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-12
Erectson ian MARION County,

smart for the wing leaders in indianapolis, on the
present occasion, have at last completed their county
ticket, by adding to their list Doctor Evans Of Wash
inctou township, who, in connection with Obadiah
Harris. Esq, may he fairly considered in the field as
candidates for Representatives, and the authorized
opponents of wing principles for Marion county. The
contest now promises to be a spirited enc, as one of
the qualifications required of the whig candidate re-
Gently selected was a talent for stump oratory. DR..
Evans is a regularly built wing oficc-seeker, having
contended with much earnestness last year for NOM
nation as the wing candidate for county treasurer
but being unsuccessful, his eye was next directed TO
the Office of county auditor but being again unsuc-
cessful, and having that patriotism so essential IN
wing aspirants, he has consented to serve the wings
in the next Legislature, should the people think pro-
per to elect him.
The Democratic candidates for Representatives
have already canvassed two townships and have twice
addressed the people, and We are gratlfed in being IN
formed, that their speeches, on both occasions, were
highly satisfactory to the entire democracy who heard
them and many of their wing auditors
Mr.. Weber, who we are told is emphaticallY a
self-made and self-educated man, but having few SUI
periors in some of the sciences, reviews the great
questions of National and State policy in a clear and
Ineligible manner. On the subjects of our State in
debtedness, the apportionment of representation, the
policy pursued by the wings in gerrymandering the
State in 1910 Al, to meet the election Of two United
States Senator's; the reasons which operated upon the
minds Of the democratic Senators in putting off the
election last winter the justice there is in the argu-
ment that Indiana should be represented in the United
States Senate by a Representative that should reflect
the will of the majority of the people clearly express
ed at the ballot-box, rather than one who would b,
elected to throw obstacles in the way of the present
administration and the necessity also Of having a
Senator from the democratic State of Indiana, who
would stand by the President, in resisting the unjust
claims of Great Britain, who now contends that Ore
gOn is theirs, in the face of the clear title to the coun-
try possessed by the United States, and which is in
ducing thousands of our countrymen, actuated by that
spirit of adventure which is Characteristic Of Ameri-
cans, to cross the stony mountains to make their
homes in the beautiful valleys on the shores of the
Pacific. No man, we are told, in or out of Congress,
has a greater collection of facts than has Mr.. Weber,
on the great questions Of Oregon and Texas, which
are ~agitating this nation, and few will be able to lis
ten to his connected chain of reason, argument aud
facts on those subjects, without at once being con-
WINGED of the justice of the positions he takes, and
which is the British and which the American sides of
these questions. Governor Whitcomb and Judge
Wick, the Democratic candidate for Congress in this
district, attended the appointment of Weber and Will
son at HOSES Cross Roads, in Lawrence township, on
Saturday last. The democratic candidates, with the
exception of Mr.. Wells, were all present. As an in
PRODUCTION to the speeches, Mr.. Bolton. tie democrat
ic candidate for auditor remarked, that although he
had received the nomination for that Office unsolicited
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back the recommendation of the convention by his
election. His competitor, who was the present in
cumbent of the Office, had five years ago been nomina-
ted by the Wings as a party candidate and had again
been nominated by a Wing Convention, two weeks
since, so if there be any opponents of convention can
didates for Offices of that description for which he
was competing, the objection would apply to his OPP
ponent more strongly than to himself. He hoped the
one term principle, so warmly contended for by Gen.
eral Harrison and President Polk, would be made to
apply in the present case, which would ensure his
election. If elected, his whole time and talents
would be devoted to a discharge of the duties of the
Office. In conclusion, he remarked, that it would be
received as a mark of the greatest favor should the
people of Marion county suffer him to occupy one Of
the rooms in the public Offices in indianapolis. The
building belonged to the whole people of the county,
democrats as well as wings; all having borne an
equal portion in erecting it but its occupants were
at this time, all prominent members of the wing par
ty-the clerk, auditor, recorder, treasurer, &c. &c.
He thought there would be nothing unfair in permit
ting one room at least to be occupied by a democrat.
These offices were entirely unconnected with the par
ty politics of the day, and his efforts, if elected, would
be to do justice to the people of the whole county.
He had resided twenty-three years in Marion coun-
ty. Had seen her emerge from a wilderness and saw
age state to her present elevated position presenting
to the eye cultivated farms dotted over this whole
beautiful country, which was destined, ere long, TO be
He therefore thought it would not be considered pre-
sumptuous in him in urging his claims upon the peo-
pie, when those claims were strengthened by the re-
commentator of a large number of his fellow citi-
zens who thought him qualified to discharge the duties
of the station to which he aspired.
Mr.. Weber followed Mr.. Bolton, and spoke at
length, ON the questions noticed in another part Of
this article. Mr.. Wilson followed in a brief address,
in which he remarked, in connection with the evils Of
too much legislation, that if he was not able to pro-
mise much in the way of benefits, he would at least
promise to keep his hands off the people in the way
of oppressive legislation. He believed, that, under
o present circumstances, the people were unable to bear
: any increase in the way of taxation. Some might be
a able, but others were not. He spoke at considerable
n length on the subject of our State Indebtedness and
!, the various plans that were under consideration for
e the restoration of the public credit. He was opposed
e to rcpudiation In any shape. and said If was an insult