The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-15
FROM INDIANAPOLIS.
Correspondence of the Journal.
TyDrANAPOLIS. Jan. 10.

1EDIANAPoLIS, Jan. II, 1891.
EDITOR JOURNAL biennial session
of the General Assembly of Indiana is now
under full Roadway. The organization is
as you have been appraised; and
now the business Of the winter is being
planned; the expectations of eager expectants
for office, are waxing intense; and the wire |
workers, whose name is legion are plotting
out all sorts of combinations in order to &C
if possible, the realization of their
eager longings. The thousand and one seek
ers after the minor offices, who infested the
city prior to the organization, have dispersed
to all points of the compass; and now the
hotels and lobbies swarm with as persistent
and importunate-if not SO ungenteel-a set
of aspirants to the higher grades of honors
which lie, not within the gift Of the Legisla-
ture, but of the Republican Senate. The
anxiety of these aspirants is wrought up to
the highest point. Before the organization,
the Democrats counted confidently on bring
ing on all the elections; but since they wit
messed the Spartan obstinacy of the Republi-
can Senators the first day of the session, their
selEconfdence has forsaken them; and they
now acknowledge, the most sanguine OF them,
that it is exceedingly doubtful whether there
will be any elections at all, this winter.
1t may be, that down your way, the Re-
publican Senators are blamed for their reso-
luton to dispense with the elections this win
ter, unless they get their share of the offices;
up here, they are justified in all they do.
What revolution in affairs has taken place
since last session. The political complexion
Of the two houses is exactly reversed. Last
session, the majority in the Democratic Sen
ate lorded it over the Fusion minority. Not
only so, but they euchered the people Of the
State out Of a Senator in Congress, and sun
dry other officers, and failed to fulfil their
sworn duty in the passage Of an apportion-
ment law, thereby throwing the State into q
virtual revolution. Now the Republicans and
Americans have a majority in that Senate,
and have it in their power to take most ex-
emplary satisfaction for their past wrongs.
They are a determined and we'll organized
body of men, goadod on to desperation by the
| ill-trcatment they have received from the
party in power Under these circumstances,
should they see proper to disappoint the eX-
pcctations of some men who have boosted
that they could Lribe theIn-bTagSed that
they could cOerce them-into measures; why,
they will be sustained by their constituents.
An interesting "skrimmage' is in progress
between the Democratic brotherhood of the
tripod. Some dozen or fifteen editors are
down on the Sentinel, and particularly so on
Mr.. Garfield, the principal proprietor. The
Sentinel at this time does not occupy a very
enviable position. Abused and berated on
every hand, the position must be very hor-
nets nest for its publishers. 1t does not en-
JOY the respect even of it's own party, and
were it not for State proyender which it ex-
poets to enjoy through the State printing
and perhaps some from the Governmental
would come very near making die Of it
! There are two formidable competitors in the
field against its prOprietors for the State
Iprinting-John b. Covington and John g..
Doushty-and, judging from the sentiments
that hear expressed by prominent Demo-
Gratis, it is not at all unlikely that somebody
else than the publisher of the Central Organ
will enjoy the benefits of the State printing
always provided that the Republican Senate
says SO. There is no telling what they might
do to defeat the scheme Of corruption by
which the Sentinel received the recent ap-
pOintments to the State printing at the hands
Of Gov Wright. That appointment was
made to gain over the paper to the Wright in
terest-a QH'd pro quo-to say nothing Of an
other consideration in the shape of material
aid,'' which the Sentinel gave in return.
| understand that the Democrats will make
their nominations this week, and offer them
to the Senate. hey want to throw on the
Senate the responsibility of refusing to elect
If they desire the Senate to go into joint con-
vention, they may just take it for granted
without trial that the Senate will refuse
If the offer to elect by joint resolution, so
that the Republicans may have share, there
is a probability that the places will be filled.
The officers to be elected are, two United
States Senators, State Agent, State Printer,
State Librarian, Canal Commissioner, Com
missioners of the Benevolent Institutions, and
perhaps some for the new government Of the
State Prison. Yours, sc. q