The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-07
Bright for the Presidency.


for the Presidency There are some among
the wise men of the party, who cannot shut
their eyes to the fact, that Senator Brightis
not a very. eminent statesman at the best and
not precisely the man wanted in the Preslden-
tial chair, unless as a proper successor" to
Pierce. One of the most sensible articles we
have vet seen in allusion to Bright and the Pre-
sidency, is published in the BrUwnstown Demo /
crat, a rabid anti-AmerIcan paper protests
in the most emphatic terms against the course
of those old line sheets, led by the Indianapo-
lis Sentinel, that are endeayoring to create the
impression abroad that the democracy of In
diana are for Bright for President. The wri- 4
ter very forcibly states the objections of 'thou-
sands and tens of thousands" Of his own po- /
litical kidney to Bright. He says that his
party requires for Presidential nominee man
of energy, of integrity and of talent. mere
man of muscle won't do. A man who has ev-
er faltered, finched or dolgeA, won't do. 4
mere third rate politician who. for almost
twelve years in Washington, has shown his
talent only by political trimming, won't do.
The democracy of the nation want different
sort Of a man. They want man of enlarged
views; Of an unselfish fixedness of principles;
man of strong well cultivated intellect, and
/ of far reaching, all-sided intelligence. There
fore the writer is astonished at the efforts of
/ Bright's friends to made capital for him, in
side and outside of Indiana. And after very
pointedly rebu1ing the indianapolis Sentinel
he proceeds to state, besides the above general
CD, ections the following special ones to Bright's
nomination:
Il He has been almost twelve years in the
Senate of the United States, and has never
nude speech or originated an important measure
in that body-showing conclusively to me,
either that be has grossly neglected his duty,
or that he is below mediocrity in legislative
ability.
go. | cannot resist the belief that Mr.. Bright
is a dodger of important votes. 1t seems that
he lodged the vote on the fugitive slave law,
his name appearing on the journal immediate
ly before and Immediately after that vote.
When the Nebraska bill came back to the Sen
ate for final action-while its fate was yet I'M
certan-Mr. Bright was at Indianapolis, man
aging our State convention for us. | think
am not mistaken in asserting that he lodged
: the vote on Miss Dixons insane bill, and the
final vote on the bill to increase the salaries Of
the district judges. He voted against the la
: mented Armstrong-the bosom friend of An
drew Jackson-for public printer-joining the
a5o2itio1istS to defeat him, and battling against
: such men as Douglass, Cass and Dodge. He
voted for the Collins line steamer bill; for the
: French spoation bill; for the Texas credit
or's bill.
In all these instances he has mal-represent
u ed or misrepresented our State and our party
S -pervertiDg the talent entrusted to his care
by the power that has made him all that he is
80. respectfully prot stagainst Alr Br1ght's
political taetics-against his methods of max
ing and using political influence. There are
S two systems of tactics used by politicians
one honest. open manly-the other secret
|. covert, hidden-its existence being known
i only by its results. The latter system has al
! ways, | believe, been practised by Mr.. Bright
e | am forced to say this by conviction of it:
y truth, and it being true | am not AFRAID to say
y it. lie has held his golden-headed cane over
the leaders Of the democratic party in Indiana
{ and said
IS 'Kiss as you please, or not, the rod,
o But ifyoudont, I'll lay it on by Cd"
"True he has not often, in his own propc
q person, perpetrated these outrages; but through
= his plant instruments In every part OF tn
1t State, he has done more than this. He ha
II practiced a system of espionage upon our poll
y teal leaders. which has become ALMOST intole
g rable 1t is useless to refer to details to prov
this. Indianians do not need them. The.
are familiar to all minds.'
= The writer says that the democratic part
u in Indiana has men who are qualified for tn
"a Presidency And he ventures to add:
IL "That dozen-twenty-yes fifty of on
n, leading democrats, if they had pack of vena
to letter-writers subject to their nod, and a it'll
senatorial patronage to shine in the eyes of ha
a a score of country editors-might have bee
~ scrubbed into prominence for that lofty pos
u ton. But few of them have received, and W
ID trust few Of them wish to receive, the nausea
is ting sops of fulsome fattery. to which NJ
- Bright is indebted for his present notoriety.
IN Corruption in the Democratic Party.
is We respectfully refer the extracts below
IN made by the Vim, Gazette, from Anti-Ameri
es can papers, to the "bone and sinew'' of '.th
rs party"
BIT The Fort Wayne Sentinel, a paper who's
1T democracy has never been called into question
b. says:
There is and has long been at the Cap
III tai set of small beer politicians, who in col
junction with few seIfconsttuted guardian
- of the democratic party in other parts of tn
State-men ofsimilar small capacity and gres