The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-05-21
The State Sentinel.


The State Journal thinks the Sentinel was
for the purpose of advocating the claims of
Gen. Cass. The Journal says:
"Gen. Cass is determined. If possible, to be
the next Democratic candidate for the Pres
idency. Mr.. Brown is one among his most
devoted followers. The Messrs Chapman
are opposed to the nomination of Gen. Cass,
and 1t became necessary that they should not
be at the head OF the most influential Dem
ocratfc paper in the State. 1t is thought, by
the managers for the next Presidential cleo
ton, that Mr.. w. j. Brown is, of all others,
the very man to transfer the vote of this
State, in the NaIional Convention, to Gen.
Cass and hence the recent arrangement, so
advantageous to the Messrs. Chapman"
From all we have heard, this statement ap-
pears to be correct. The Chapmans, if they
have not sold their principles, have certainly
sold their man. And what is to become of
Gen. Lance The General halls from this
county. The Democracy Of Indiana has
nominated him for the Presidency. Are his
claims to be thrown aside for the indefinite
claims of Gen. Cass =? What says Bob Owen,
who was to write the biography of this Ma
ron of the West 90 The Journal to quote II
again, says:
Twill the managers succeed What is TO
become of General Joseph Lane, the gentle
man SO strongly urged for the Presidency, by
Gov. Wright, Mr. Owen, and other distin-
guished Democrats. last winter Mr. Owen
was selected to write the life and services oil
Gen. Lane, for the purpose OF setting his
claims for the Presidency before the Ameri-
can people, in a fair light. Will that enterprise
be abandoned, and will Gen. Lane be per
mitted to pursue his lucrative speculations in
land and lumber in Oregon, are questions
only to be answered by the movers of the
political wires, under the new order of things
as loreshadowed 10 the transfer OF the Sent
mel to the special friend Of Gen. Cass."
We feel indignant at this maneuvre of The
Democrats to throw aside Gen. Lane al
worthless political rubbish. We should thinl
that the manner in which Cass was licked ~
by Gen. Taylor, would entirely crush his as
pirations for the Presidency in all time t.
come. But to treat Gen. Lime in this style
after vaInly urging him to return from Orego
to run for the Presidency, does not suit on
ideas Of good manners as connected with De
mocracy. What is up? Have the Demo
Gratis all at once discovered that Gen. Ian
cannot succeed? Or have virtues been dis
covered in Gen. Cass, which the late Presi
Dental canvass did not reveal2 Something
is in the wind which we do not like. w
had hoped that Vanderburgh county woul
be represented in The next Presidential cleo
ton. Our local pride was up, and it was
strong desire in our breast, that if a Democra
were elected as our next President, he shout
hail from the immediate vicinity of Evans
vile. But Gen. Cass appears to have sect
red the leading Democratic paper in the State
and Indiana Democracy may now hang u
de fiddle and de bow, T" so far as Gen. Lane
concerned.
Billy Brown may make good editor, bt
we think with the White River Standar
that she had better return to his first occupi
tion-selling whisky and keeping jack"