The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-07-21
Not rid Of him Yet!
JUST five years ago to-day, we wrote as fol

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will consent to richly. provide Lockhart with
food, raiment and the llxures Of life, by keep
ing him, in Office, And how much longer
will he thus desire to live a political pauper
on their hands !? These are interesting ques
tions. lie conesses to have been nine years
steadily in office, and his last complaint is that
the salary OF j udge is too small to support his
exceIlency, it. only being $500 per annum
y Probably his friends think BY sending
him. to. Washington they willget rid Of him
but there they are entirely mistaken. lie is
bound to be a,seeker Of Office, and there IS no
use trying to get rid Of him, except to vote
him down this election, and thus to tell him
in plain terms he cannot have all the offices,
or any more Offices y 'i<a4
Well, they didn't vote him down that eiec-
tion--he has been holding office ever since,
making just fourteen years Of his Office hold
ing existence, land he is still after office, His
friends did sef1dg him to Washington, and
doubtless thought they were well rid Of him
even at the sacrifice of their feelings and IN
terestsu They tried him two years, and then
determined to- be rid of him. They told him
this in plain terms, when at their next nomi-
mating Convention and their next again, they
refused, to place his name before the people for
reelection. But perseyering, we find LoclIhart
by the. aid Of packed Conventions, dirty trick
cry. and % shameless lthrustlng Of himself for
rbbefore the people in anuelection tour Of
weeks again a candidate for Office in spite of
the prot rootestations and known win of all the
more decent of his party, They are. again
called ouponz to- CROWN him with honors not
hisifeserts They are again commanded in
vile party allegiance to return to Congress a
man, who when there before only distinguish
ed himself by one iact-4-sliding down pillar
Of the House in the presence of the Repre-
sentatives Of the United StatesAand even in
Incorporation it was not the part of his per-
sonswhich contains the brains, that secured
the most prominent notice. oaH 9st
IF elected this time, Lockhart will have
been an Office holder just sixteen years, with
scarcgfya months interruption, a part of the
time holding two Offices, md receivingPay or
two offices while performing the duties of only
one. He haseEidently alife-claim forof on his
party, and is acting on the presumption that
so long as he lives his party is bound to keep
him in fat Offices whether it wants to or not.
What is more remarkable, he has not those
pre-eminent. abilities calculated to honor him
self or do credit to his constituency in posi-
tionSlike that to which he now aspires, nor the
private virtues and genu ne personal worth an
intelligent community delights in honoring -
He is claiming, that to the commonest under
standing and least real moral worth-to party
services without iinhuence-to life without
any higher aim than selfish sggFandizement-
to these things concentrated in himself, the
Democratic party owes such debt Of graft
tude, that it can only cancel the obligation by
keeping him in office for life We Shall see
whether. the patience of, that party is not
about worn out-whether they will again
confer official dignity and pap on man who
is despised by nearly every member OF his own
party, and to, vote for whom nothing but stern
party drill could force any but the very scum
of partizans
OF Col. Drew made speech at the Old
Line Convention at indianapolis. His prinei
pal topic was the liquor question! The Gel
onel,has an idea that there is no other mo
meht6us question before the people bat The
whisky and lager beer issue. He is deter
termined the people shan't forget there ono
toas ar. excitement or that subject, whether /
ean issue now or not. We are afraid tn
Celoners political principles lie behind his ban
Grin order to knock in the head an edi
torial in yesterdays Enquirer, it is only nee
esssry TO say that Veach is not the Fremon
Elector of this District He was elected t
that position by the Republican convention
but never accepted it. and of course will no
now do So 'ai,s1
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mr. The communication Of "C'' cannot ap
appear to day. We have readit carefully, an
while we, appreciate the motives of the write
and partfdllg the Justice of his observations
wearespnable to-see- any possible benefit like
lyto, accrue from its publication except to tn
candidate we oppose. ~
or Water street was all alive Saturda
morning with ladies' and gentlemen irol
sbroad. The steamer Champion Friday nigf
brought up-a large party of Kentuckians, II
sluding some young folks from Hendersol
They seem to be pleased with Evansville an
promised to call on us again.