The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-20
The Brown Family---the Democratic Principle of
Office, &C..


cation published in the State Journal. The
writer is giving some facts relative to the can
didates for clerk and auditor of Marion county.
One of the Brown family of Old Liners is anx-
ious for an office in that county, and the au-
thor of the communication evidently thinks
the family has already been well enough pro-
vided for out of thepublic treasury. To prove
he has some grounds for so singular a belief, he
gives the facts and figures below, by
which it appears that Wind Brown has re-
ceived from the public treasury $40, 400; his
brother Joseph Brown, $4,000; and his son,
Austin H. Brown, $40, 0OO-all this exclusive
of 'stealings," which may be safely put down
as general thing with large Old Line office
holders, as just double their regular salaries.
Altogether, and without the stealings and per-
quistes, this interesting branch ofthe Old Line
family has received S104, 400; and yet one of
the Brown family is now in Office, and another
is a candidate for office These are fair speci-
mems of the leaders Of the Old Line Democrat
ic party in Indiana. The only ''immutable
principle" they possess is Office. For that they,
the leaders, are eternally struggling. For that
they are travelling over the State making
speeches. organizing counties and townships,
and abusing the American party as party of
scoundrels, assassins and murderers For that
alone, they are laboring night and day in glo-
rifying Democratic principles, and seeking to
make confding people believe that the Amer
lean party is warning against all true princi-
pies and honest instincts. For that, they are
constantly engaged in trucking to the foreign
vote, and elevating foreign voters over native
born Americans Point us to an Old Line
leader in Indiana, who is not an Office seeker
who has not either an office now or in plain
view. This Brown family is fair specimen
Of the whole class. One hundred and four
thousand four hundred dollars grasped by one
family-by three persons, and they crying for
more! Do you suppose these men and such
men as they, care one fig for princplesP Do
you suppose they in the success of their party
look beyond anything more than division Of
the spoils And yet hundreds of honest, well
meaning, and hard working farmers and me-
chanies in every county of the State, permit
themselves to be led by the nose by such dema
gogues, and cordially and heartily labor, as
they think for principles, but really to put in
fat offices these lazy political whelps, who as
long as they can make such willing tools feed
them pap, will never do a days manual work.
The American party opposes all this species Of
demagoguery, and for that reason these incor-
rigible demagogues abuse that party as party
was never before so slandered. Buthere is the
Brown family's official emolunent tree:
First William j. Brown was Secretary Of STATE
four years at $500 per annum, So, 400
50 900 per year, 10000
Then second Assistant Post Master
General four years, at SO 900 per annum, 600
| Then Post Office Agent four years, %
years veto expire) $4,000 per year, 10000
Making in all, :or VIM. J Blown, :, $50. 400
Next comes Joseph Brown, the brother
of William J. Brown, who was Assistant
Clerk to Congress Two sessions, 80 600
per session. - ~. $4,000
Clerk in the War Department ten
Years at s. 500 per annum $4,000
$1,000
Next comes Austin H. Brown, the son
of VIM. j Brown, and one of the candi-
dates for County Auditor, 10 was four
years Clerk in the Pest Office Department
at Washington, at $1,000 per year, = A 600
/ Also Public Printer to the State and se
United States three years, al, say $4,000
per year, IS 600
Making in all for Austin H. Brown, $40 OOC
i Amounting in the aggregate to the enormous