The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-05

lHc lohoWiuS CONTAMINATION, as IL pur-
ports to be, is from genuine, influential
Democrat, who has never wsvercd in his
devotion to the principles Of the party:
Iconmmicated.
Mr.. EDIroR:-On next Tuesday, the peo-
pie of this county will be called upon to Sc
lect one of their number as their agent to
conduct their affairs, and guard their inter-
ests for the term of three years. There is
no officer elected by the people, whose acts
more Immediately and to a greater extent,
affect their interests, and there is no one
strange to say-in the selection of whom
they manifest so little care and concern
They seem to leave the nomination to a few
hangers on about the Court House, who
usually select the greatest dolt, for whom the
people can be induced to vote. The men
who are capable of discharging the duties
of the office, are reluctant to accept the Of
| fee and give their time to it for the petty
compensation attached 10 it.
| They will not serve, unless urged to it by
the popular voice, to which they may be in
duced to yield, as public duty No man
will, of himself, seek it; and if no public
demand be made upon any one, the Office
falls, as matter of course, into the hands
of some imbecile, put in nomination by those
who have axes to grind, and for whom the
incompetent Commissioner is made after
wards to turn the crank 1t is time stop
was put to the schemes of these wire work
ers. Party politics should have nothing to
do with the selection of men for these inn
portant county trusts have been a strong
partizan Of the Democratic school all my
lite, but have never allowed my party
prejudices and convictions to control my
vote for the choice Of men for important
pecuniary trusts in the county. have
treasured up the advice of Gov. Wright in
a speech to the citizens Of this county some
years ago. He told the people to select their
best men for CommissiOners-th next best
for Trustees-then if they had a man too
lazy to work, send him to the Legislature
if they had rogue or fool let him go TO
Congress.
If we had taken Gov. Wright's advice
in selecting our Commissioners we should
not have been expanding $50, 900 annually in
building bridges that slip into the water in
less than twelve month after they are paid
for we should have had no monuments O.
blunders and folly in unfinished, worthless
abutments, that have absorbed $4,000 of
the hard labor of our citizens.
We have been blessed or cursed for the
last four years with a Court House clique
that we tondly hoped had recently been
broken up. But it is recognized and is
again maneuvering to re-eStablish its pow
er. can see that the officers and deputies
are all laboring against the election of Mr..
! Parrett. You can hear them objecting to
his age-his intirmity-and even to his
strict religious character. Now believe
that he is the only man in any wise quail
fed that is running for the office. | can
. see plainly that it is the determination of
certain county officers to bring Mr.. Hogue
into the Board. They are planting their
stakes TO produce such q result. You can
tell this by their half hour speeches at the
corners Of the streets and in the bar-rOOms.
1t is high time that the taxpayers of the
county took the charge Of their own affairs
into their own hands, and relieved these Off
| ciol tlamap ohont he. (,ourf
= the trouble of making all the county off,
GERS. They don't engage in this kind of la
Dor without motive; and the certainty OF
good chance at the public treasury if they
succeed F rpIfF
Let every voter so to the polls on Tues
day, and vote for sound, honest, competent
man, who will do something to ar rest the
squandering of the public revenue. Let the
citizens of this overburiened county make
an effort to reduce their taxes, or get some
improvements for their emo rmousoutlay
: that are worth at least part of their costs
= The busy opponents of Mr.. Parrett say he
is too old. Let every Democrat recollect
that these objections to Mr. Parrett's az,
: were no objection to Mr.. Cass nor to Mr.. Bu
: chanan to govern this great Republic, both
$ OF whom are seniors of Parrett In conclu
n sion, let me urge on every fellow-Democra
of the county 10 rebuke the dictation of 4
' little clique of men around the Court House
who have so long parcelled out the offices O
: this county, and selected those who would
; serve their selfish interests rather than tn
d interests of the people. That tribe must b,
:, broken up, or we shall have no abatement
il OF our taxes and no improvements in our
e public works or the Administration of OIL
e public affairs.
e DEMOCRAT FROM THE CRADLE.
he IL, /.