The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-03-13
incon.istency and Corrupt,on.

ne Enquirer, fOlloWlog the eAaWPie SCI
it by the leaders at the Capital, has sudden
ly conceived the idea, that the Republicans
are responsible as much as the Old Liners,
for the Postponement Of election OF U. s.
Senator. This, to-be-sure, is very poor
tribute to the good sense of the editor, or
still worse one to his honesty, but it proves
how delightfully."- an Old Line editor can turn
and twist and dodge a. the nod and beck of
party leaders. Here is this precious neigh
Dor of ours swearing it is all the fault Of the
Republicans that the election did not take
place, and that Indiana will not have but one
Senator the next two years-when but few
weeks ago, this very fellow was perfectly
rampant that any Old Liner should think for
a moment Of permitting such election to take
place! zogrt.l trat fs ~ - = 90
fit needed any proof at all to throw the
entire responsibility of this disgraceful action,
this absolute perjury, upon the shoulders of
the Old Line Senators, we have certainly CIV
en- all proof necessary to fix that responsible
ty where il belongs. But at the present time,
while this neighbor is believing 80 loud that
the Republicans are to blame, and that the
Old Liners actually wanted the election OF
Senator to take place, we intend to expose his
Inconsistency. u.
1t has been but short time, adisagreea-
bly, short time we should think for man &C.
cupying the present position of our neighbor,
since he was loudly declaiming against. any
election Of Senator this session. He even
went SO far as to say Col. Drew had openly
discussed this subject on the stump, and "on
all such occasions he had fully and fairly
committed himself in favor of postponing
the election of u. s.. Senator" But we
want to make few extracts from the En-
qurer in this connections: &c -
But e have reason to be thankful for the
small majority in the Senate-it is large
enough to prevent the election Of a Senator
this winter who would have the power 10
misrepresent the State for the next six years
. The Democracy of Vanderburgh and
Posey have placed their trust in Col. Drew.
To him they look for the election of a Dem
ocratic Senator, or the election Of none at
all. His political friends may rest assured
that he will not betray that trust. Is.
And again: .,y,i,,-,ays,
In our judgment Col. Drew would be guilty
ola gross violation of his duty il he did no,
lend every effort to defeat a fusion Senator
for this is the only WY he can servet the
Democratic party. He is under no obligation
to the fusionists whatever. fiff HafI1A
And still again: ss-.. i5siis.y ssv.a j.
We repeat it, 10 is the duty ofthe Democrat
party to postpone this election. Postp one il
and then 60 home to your constituents ant
ask them to sustain you by eecting demo-
Gratis next time, and it will be done. No
thing would give us greater pleasure thar
the privilege of taking the responsibility o
postponing this election. We would do i
and trust the noble democratic State o
Indiana to sustain US. @ SSH.
These extracts are taken from leading edi
torials in the Enquirer, during the month o
January, advocating the postponement o
the election, and whipping in" Col. Drew
to violate that portion of his oath wherein
he swore to faithfully perform all the duties
of his office, and to disregard Whit he k',ea
to be the wishes Of the great majority of BIZ
constituents. aa1 ss,e
Now we make these extracts for two rea
sons. In the first place to prove how ludic
rous is the present charge Of the Enquirer
that the Republicans are responsible for tn
non-election of Senator, when the very ed
tor now crying out in this language, but I
very brief time since was glorying in thu
prospect of having "the pleasure" of takins
this responsibility. We intend that part,
shall have the pleasure of taking the res
possibility, although they do not just at th
time seem to regard it as such very pee
uliar pleasure as :hey did short time ago
And again, in making these extracts from
the Enquirer, and thus giving its position o
a few weeks ago, we are but telling just pre-
cisely the position of nearly every Old Lin,
paper and Old Line leader at that period. =
They were willing to assume the responsible
Iity-they gloried in defeating the will of thu
majority-they were determined Democrat,
Indiana should not be represented by ar
anti.Nebraska U. s. Senator. Kop look q
the poor frightened fellows! The RESPONSE
bilty does not belong to them-it belong
to the Republicans! They might have hat
Judge Blackford for U. s. Senator, but re
fusing him, the Republicans are responsible
for no-electiOn! But how sheepish shoul'
an editor feel, who having been but few
weeks ago so delighted in looking forward t.
his party taking the responsibility Of no
elections noD endeavoring with that party