Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-05-21

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ocrats of this county was held at the Court
House to nominate Clerk and Commits
sioner. Considering the opportunity, as
Mr.. Pecksniff says, svery eligible" Gov. |
Wright's friends introduced and passed
series of resolutions endorsing him all
over and under, in aud out, IN manner
that will make the Bright Democracy stag
ger like buckeyed cow The party is in
fair way to follow the illustrious prece-
dent of the Khan of Thibct who was blown
up by swallowing box of soda powders !
and letting them mix in'his stomach 1t
has got two hostile elements IN Its interior
some how. and the first etfervesence which
promises a happy explosion, has just APP
peared The only remedy now possible to
relieve its tortured bowels is big dose OF
submission on the part of Dir. Bright's
friends. If he and they come down grace
fully and early, acknowledge Wright's SER
vices and pre-eininent claims, and repair
that dirty cheat by which Mr.. Bright kept
the Governor off the track for Senator, and
then kicked him out of cabinet appoint
ment, they may cure the present arrangement
of the Democratic system But not other
wise. Tn. proclamation IS coming up
from the people that Wright is the pet OF
the party. if he was cheated into an admis-
sion of Bright's superior claims, and the
people are not as easily managed by mon
ev and Offices as a few score of Rcpresen
tatives and politicians. MIR. Bright must
come down, and the later he starts the
lower he will have to descend. The De-
mocracv of the metropolis, and of the larg
est county in the State, have declared them
selves for Wright, and that just as plainly
as if they had paraded the divided banners
of the party and made their choice boast
to all the world and the Democracy of the
State will follow We put the prediction
on record now, that the county conven-
tions all over the State, where the Bright
men have not influence enough to shut out
all resolutions, will resolve exactly as the
county convention at this place did. Read
the resolution:
Resolred, That it is just and proper, that
we should on this occasion bear testimony
to the distinguished ability and strict hon.
esty with which Joseph n. Wright las dis
charged the duties of the Executive Depart
ment of our State government for the last
seven wears; that we, in general, approve
his policy and con'iuct as such Executive;
and especially do we approve his efforts to
save the pockets of the producing people
from the rapacity of banking corporations
that we approve his course towards the Sc
called Bank of the State of Indiana, and
in the language of that high-toncl organ Of
the true Democracy of the Northwest, the
Cincinnati Eayuirer,-''thc Democracy o,
Indiana should sustain him"
There is pill for Mr.. Congressman
Hughes whose open contempt for the Gov
ernor AMI his friends was SO ostentatlousl,
obtru,lcsl in his letter to the New -Alban.
Leiger. 1t will do
But this is not all. The stiff necke
Marion county Dcmoc acy want to shove o.
the new Bank Whether they dislike
because Mr.. Bright and his friends were tn
originators of it, or dislike him because h
was so intimately concerned in It's orlgina
ton. we can't very we'll determine. Blu
there Is no mistake about their desire to b
rid Of one or both. We can appreciat
their anxiety, and we pity their embarrasi
ment. but we can't help them. The Ban
is of their begetting AMI they can't wra
it up in resolutions and lay it at some
boly clse's door. But they try. The
say:
Resolred. That banks Of issue are ant
Democratic and unnc .cssary; that til
banking institutions of this state are in ii
habit of exercising an nnwholesomc lntil
ence upon our legislature; that the Ban
II ~f I,lr shar for
against the wishes of the people, and with
out consulting them: that it has obtaIne
dangerous powers, and has exercised an
is still exercising corrupt in luences VI
on the politics of our State; that it is til
creature of conspiracy and corruption, an
will end in calamity to the producin
classes, and disgrace to the State.
Now hear the opinion of Gov. Ashb
p. Willard, srorn 10 before the Bank Con
mittee, given on Wednesday the 18th
FEBRUARY, at o'clock z. NJ, as appears
the Committees report: IS =
Question. Had you any interest in al
stock taken in any of the branches?
Answer Yes, / had this interest, / Il
lieved that it was essential to the welfa
of the State that State Bank should
chartered And / said to all men wi
whom talked on the subject, that in II
opinion, Indiana would be injured, if h
citizens were required to pay the debts tin
owed to the State Bank, without an o
portunity offered to extend their negoti
tions In the new bank. And, as Dem
crat, felt that we were avoiding questi'
which would ruin the party, unless ,
availed ourselves of the accidental diff
ence between the majo,ities in the hous'
and got clear of the State Bank question.
And am willing, notwithstanding Gt
Wright's message, that time shall test |
correctness of my judgement.
Rather contradictory these declaratio
Gov. Willard sacears that "as a Denoert
ne thought it the salvation of the party
get the charter passed at a time when {
party had majority in the Senate and
other in the House, and thus prevent
Democracy from acting en- masse against
cit would ruin the party the Cover
swears to array itself against the Bank
He further says that "Indiana would
injured if the Bsnk were not establishes
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