The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1858-09-15
STAND FROM UNDER.
JUDGE fgOvEY A
KNOW NOTHING
From The Evansville Enquirer.
A Rusty Document.

~ Posey county has preserved since M.
canvass Of 1854. II was then published j,
the German know nolhines agaius, Judg.
!lovey because he was democrat the sam,
men are now supporting him for Congrez.
because he is not a democrat. These ara
old certificates, and some Of the men whose
names are sgned to them, dated as lar bac K
as lS45, will ieel bad at seeing iheis names
thus connected, aud at The same time have
The world know that they are IIoyey men.
We believe. hcwevcr, that Dir. Leonard is
The only Hoyey mon whose name is gneJ
10 the certificates. Poor Iloyey, he has
been on an sides Of all questions. and when
parties come % compare notes be viii b.
hcumsd in all sides.
TO The PEOPLE OF INDIANA.
On ,he ID cay Of August, ls45, Mr.. Tnr-
mr. Nelson, whu had been a long lime Clers
Of posey Circuit Court, was one Of the c,n
Jidates for reelection 70 said Office. He
deemed il necessary, in circular, 10 expose
70 The citizens os his county The opinions of
Mr. Alvin p. hoyoy, publicly by him ex-
pressed, to refuse TO aliens the elective fran
cAise, or II lelsi until the law required d
,wrniy-one years residence in the country,
and that neither ioreis ners nor natives should
be permitted 10 vote until they could read
aud write. 10 understand the constitution OF
thy United States. Air. Nelson succeeded
herein according 10 The following testimony
OF number Of the best men OF Poscy cvun-
~, who. witr the exception Of one. are All
residing IN Posey county yet, and whose
yeraci,y will not be doubted by any one; in
fact the state menls were neither coniradic-
ted nor denied by Mr Hosey. although at
opportunity had been offered 10 him. The
citizens of Indiana are respectfully reques-
ted TO compare the views then expressed BY
Mr. Ilovey with The course now pursued by
him, and, in tie language of the Evansville
ESeriEEE. 20 say whether i is possible lhat
the poor foreigner can get justice at the
hands Of judicial officer Of 80 high posi-
tion who eniertains such opinions:--
certify that shortly before the Presiden.
tai election, last November. | heard Alvin
l. IIovey sny il the Clerks oilice ID Nj Yer
uon, that according to his opinion no alien
should be entitled II vote, and hat nobody
should be allowed 10 vote who could not SUI
ficiently resd and write TO understand The
constitution Of the government Under which
he lives. and that Turner Nelson told MIN,
even il he (Hovey) thought - he should not
express himscli that way, as il would cre-
ate preiudlcia opinion against him at q
lime when he would hardly think of il--thal
10 had expressed similar words 10 him il that
xny.
Juy Q. 1915. RoREET WILSON.
/, Eli Aldrdge. certify that shortly before
he Presidential election, heard Mr. Alvin
? Hovey say. in the Clerks office il III ver-
ION, that the electors should have certain
amount Of property before they should be
entitled 10 vote, aud tha, no nlien should De
permitted to vote before lie Ind bean 10 the
country fweniy-cne years. liz had some
uriher conversation Of the same tenor, but
he above he said uncquivocalIy aud clear.
have heard that some persons, then present,
insisted his conversation had only reference
o foreigners. lie said Of course that aliens
hould not vote before they had been in the
ountry twenty-one years, but his assertion
. regard 70 the property qualification re-
erred also 10 citizens generally, and was BY
i'm repeated again.
In attestation whereof | sign this with
~ own hand this % dry Of August, A ID
el5. Ell, ALpRIpcE.
Witnesses: Peter Below, John Pearsons.
AZ the time Of the last Presidential elec-
ION IN November last, A p Hovey, was in
onyersaticn with Morris, teacher, in Mt
'ernon, and said, in my presence, that he
eleved no alien should have a vote, neith-
r anybody else, who could not read and
rite well enough 10 understand the cons,i-
,tion under which he lives. soon after Ho-
ey made The same remarks in the Clerks Of :
&c, and even since heard him further make
,e same expressions. WILLIAM AsDEEws.