The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-04-02

The Erection To-day.
We have no passionate appeal to mi

We have no passionate appeal to Make as
in old Political times, to our fellow citizens
on the occasion of the election of city OH
GERS to-day. We have treated this subject
candidiy and independently, and have sought
more to impress upon our readers the impor- .
lance of choosing the best man Tor every
Office to be filed, than to influence their pas |
sions or to arouse party feelings. 1t is true,
we have ridiculed the course of the Old Lii
uers here in the formation of their ticket,
and declared it not such ticket rs the citi-
Gems of Evansville should support-simply
because we honestly believe it is not the
right kind of ticket, nor formed upon the
right principles. 1t is ticket "cut and
dried" BY few Old Line leaders and dema.
gogues in Evansville. Knowing that put
out under their own endorsement and direc.
ton alone, and run as an Old Line Demo-
cratic ticket, it could by no possibility sue
coed known and marked in this community as
these clique leaders are-they called to their
aid other elements, which they fused in an
~anti-Know Nothing" meeting as they term
ed il, and had their cut and dried ticket intro.
duced to the community as the voice Of the
~apti. Knop Nothings" of the city, instead
of the production of set of men despised
as politicians by their own party. Pretend
ing that a secret order in our midst was try.
ing to subvert the liberties of a portion of
the people, and actually by their operations
effecting serious injury upon the interests of
our city, they got up an issue upon the single
question Of Know Nothingism, and upon the
excitement and false glare Of it, rode their
ticket through the meeting. and secured its
endorsement, or the endorsement of those
present who were not gagged and prevented
from voting. BY this course of deception,
they have placed regular Old Line Whis-
ky ticket before the citizens of Evansv lille,
as the production of this meeting, but which
was concocted before the meeting by certain
Old Line politicians. And now, they are
claiming the vote of every man opposed to
the American party, for the ticket of an Old
Line clique, who are the warm supporters of
oil tuc iuiouy VI Oiu Atucism 10 IcPfCsCuI-
ed in the late State Legislature, and who
look to nothing but the election Of men Of
their own feelings and destitution of prin-
ciples to the control of this city. If the
people of Evansville choose to be made tools
of by such political things as these men. let
them vote the Old Line ticket-otherwise
let them prove themselves Americans, not
by name, but by that independence of feel
ing and action which every American should
be proud to assume and to exert. There is
way Of exhibiting their disgust al all such
hypocrisy and deception, and that is by vot-
ing against the Old Line ticket. There are
good men opposed to this ticket, for every
Office on it, and tickets containing all the
names of candidates may easily be obtain.
ed.
We hope every man will exercise his free
judgment and the independence of an Amer.
lean citizen in voting to-day. Be not misled
by unprincipled demagogues, by men who
make Office seeking trade, and wish to FL
every Office with their friends and toadies
which they cannot secure for themselves
And see that these men be kept from intro
ducing illegal rotes, as they will most GER
tainly try to do. Guard the purity of the
ballot box, preserve order and decorum a
the polls, but be firm in the discharge o.
your duty.