The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-03-12
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The OLD Liners and the People.
The Old Line minority party in indiana
having achieved time serving triumph over
the people Of the State, by Perfdy and mac
ton in the upper branch of the Legislature
are now making desperate effort tojustify
their own conduct and shuttle responsibility
upon shoulders where it does not belong
This specics of tactics, although peculiar to
I,ocofocoism, and to no other party, is too
desperately absurd to avail its authors in
any way, except to make their unenviable
load weigh the more heavily upon them
selves. Their conduct in the Senate during
the late session, has been a deliberate and
determined system of triaing and disregard
of the interests and wishes of large major
ity of the people. From this charge there
is no escape, and inasmuch as many of its
leaders, and especially the giant mouth
piece Of the Senate (Willard), has acknowl-
edged the charge and assumed the response
bility, any defence or attempt at justification
before the people, must necessarily be of
the most reckless and desperate character
Why now do the smaller wigglers of the
cess-pool try to remove the responsibility
of defe atiDg and staving off the elections,
while the greater toads of the puddle court
it and coyet it, with all its honors or its oblo-
guy! Once before the Democracy Of India
ma played the same game, an event fresh in
the memory of every politician of the State,
but the entire party then had the honesty
and courage to avow the act and assume the
responsibility, as Willard and Humphreys
do now. There was no shutting nor finess-
ing then, but they made bold breast of
their infamous trickery without lodging.
The Evansville Enquirer, after charging
the blame of all the short comings of the
Legislature upon the lower House, with its
usual unscrupulousness, lets off the follow
ing bomb into that body:
The honest truth of the matter is, that
there never was assembled in House OF
Representatives SO corrupt body of politi-
clans as the past House of Representatives
of the Indiana Legislature.
Such a miserable and paltry charge as
this needs no comment-even if it were true,
it will In no degree relieve the Old Line Sen.
ate from its treacherous betray al of trust
and confidence of the people, and the utter
disregard and violation of solemn official
obligations. While we are not disposed to
lavish undeserved praise upon the House of
Representatives, we do insist, and without
fear of contradiction, that in the matter of
the elections, its position is above reproach.
The House was at all times ready to dis
charge its duty in accordance with the con-
.sttution aud the universal custom governing
such elections not only in Indiana, but in al
most every State in the Union. This policy
was adopted by the House and honestly adj
hered to throughout the session. Why then
did the elections not come off! Why is it
that our noble State is to be but half repre-
scented in the u. s. Senate for the next two
years! Mr.. Willard and Mr.. Humphreys
have answered these questions with that
courage and candor which forbids any other
conclusion than their own. Mark Gov.
Willard's answer!
"GentlemeD," said he to the convention
on the evening of the 22d of February, "you
have come up here to see US put the final
seal to the senatorial election. There were
twenty-six good and true men in the Senate,
and they have settled the matter now and
foreucr."
Now, we would ask, what becomes of the
Shiny pretence to bring on the election by q
concurrent vote" and the nomination oil
Judge Blackford, when weeks before the
people had been called up to see the Old
Liners put the SINAI sealupon the senatorial
election" Why offer the concurrent vote''
system and Judge Blackford, when the ques-
ton was settled on the 22d of February the',
and forever. Such silly maneuvering as
this is too transparent to win. The Old Ii.
ners, not content with their operations in
the Senate, had on the last day of the ses
sion to show the cloven foot further by break.
ing the quorum of the House. They would
not risk the most latent possibility of the
elections being brought on, and the wishes
and wants of the people and the interests Of
the State subserved.
The charge now made, that the Republi
cans in the House desired to elect officers tc
fill places not to be vacant before the meet
ing of another General Assembly, is but an
other of the vile falsehoods of q venal Or ess
having no foundation in fact or reason
These precious renegade and recreant Sen
ators will find too much intelligence an,
honor among the masses of their constitu
ents' to make their paltry and pointless de
fence else than addino insult to ipiurv. The,