The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-10-05

Z A New GAME IN PoLrrICs.-The .ocofoco
capital-makers are most ingenious and in
ventive chaps-on..ch to discover an advan-
tage, and ready to goall lengths in quilting the
people. We give them credit for being wide
awake at all times, and just now, when their
prospects are SO cloudy, they are as nerv Gus and
as restless as it is possible for beaten party to
be-. They are never the last to discover the
situation of affairs, and hence they see that
Gen. Casss chance for the Presidency and theirs
for the Pap, is mighty small at present and
growing beautifully less every day, and they
feel that unless they can by some act Of leger
demain increase their party. is, to use home
| y phrase, call day with them" The tens OF
thousands of votes taken on steamboats,, in
stages and railroad cars, and at the numerous
gatherings of the people in all sections of the
country for the last two or three months, have
all terminated one way-Gen. Tay lor's MAORI
| ty i'm all instances that have come under our
eye being about two TO one over both his com
petitors. This shows which way the wind
blows, and, as was to be expected, it gals our
opponents to the quick. And then the "ras
cally Wing papers," as our virtuous locofoco
friends term them, keep these votes constantly
before the people-keep rubbing it into the To-
COS and keep the sore so irritated that they are
very like the boys little brother-''in bad
fix and long way from water" To counter
balance these, to them, distressing evidences OF
waning popularity, it has become necessary, as
we have limited above, for them to employ le-
gerdamain, ventriloquism, &c, BY which
means, added to their acknowledged powers OF
. imagination, they hope TO keep up appearances
lat least until the election. The Rochester, n.
Y. American has let us into the secret how Cass
votes are manufactured. 1T is quite custom
in the interior, to take the vote for President.
The result of all the votes given have shown
Gen. T. TO be immensely ahead of all competi.
tors-sometimes Cass not receiving single vote
, In order TO keep up appearancesth he locofocos
have engaged all the ventriloquists about the
country TO travel on these steamers TO flourish
their voices about for Cass, whenevera vote is
E being TAKEN The American then relates the
following:
On Wednesday night, as the packet boat
Cataract was coming into that city from the
West, alter the passengers were all in thei
berths, conversation continued quite lively
the temperature being considerable above the
I sleeping point. Some one threw ont the re-
e mark that there was not Cass man OH board
Immediately voice exclaimed, Il am for Cass.
Another from distant berth chimed in, Il too:
> Still another muttered, And here's Cass man,
q until twelve were counied, Thf-thj9g .ygss1al
venlriIoQuist, Winchell, was aboard!
d CHANGING over the columns of the Wander
f burgh Democrat yesterday, we for the frs
( time discovered three votes taken in differen
A sections of the country, each of which actu
ally report majority for Cass! We were un-
liable TO account for the anomaly until explain
ed by the American. We are certain tina
without the assistance of or two ventriloquist.
there is no crowd that can be gathered thai
would give Cass majority; and since our Lo
\ cofoco friends are on that tack we propose that
D they employ Herr Alexander, the celebrated
: magician. He can put small quantity OF
matter in bag, and after blowing in it once
or twice, produce any number of birds or ami
mails he may desire-and why not Locofocos
We insist that our neighbor shall give him a
trial.