The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-04

which is shown ON my account rendered
him. was deducted Mr.. S. has the account
which shows the deduction.
wrote Mr.. Shoemaker's denial of Hicks
charge of lying. / did this at the request
of Mr.. Shoemaker. | prepared for publi-
cation his affidavits showing that he did not
lie as Hicks charged. These services were
all performed at the request of Mr.. Shoe
maker; but Mr.. Shoemaker thinks they are
of no value. So much for Mr.. Shoemaker's
talents and sense of obligation for services
rendered.
His Legislative ability is another question
quite as easily disposed Of; it hangs upon
the township bill, introduced by Mr.. Shoe
maker, and which became law at the last
session of the Legislature. | doubted its
authorship, and in a conversation with Hon.
Ballard Smith, he Smith informed me
that the bill was his. 2
Without comment, have given you GER
tain facts within my knowledge, and which
are susceptible of the most abundant proof.
Respectfully, ]. B. MAYNARD.
The other addresses of Shoemaker we
have proven were written by the predeces-
sor of Mr.. Maynard.
In one of the slanderous articles which
Shoemaker procured to be written by
member of his clique, and published in the
Canuelton Reporter, he attempts to avert
the effects of our exposures, by asserting that
the attack on him was prompted by motives
of personal revenge, for defeat by him OF
ga trick" to get reduction of taxes by
the county board of equalization, eight
years ago. AS the matter was conducted
by an honorable attorney-familiar with
county business, when we We're thousand
miles distant, without consultation with his
client-the charge Of trickery could have
no personal application to US. The following
letter from the attorney, will show the JUS
tice and propriety of the claim, and the out
rageous usurpations by which it was defeat
ed, by the clique who Cypress every one in
the county who does not coalesce with
them, or submit to their infamous suprena-
cy in local politics. The same vote of the
board that reduced the assessed value of
Carliles property, made corresponding
reduction in Shoemaker's. Carlile's prop
erty was, in spite of the order of the board,
restored to its original extravagant valua-
ton, by which he was made to pay annu-
ally SlOO excess of taxes for nine years,
while Shoemaker was permitted, without
any assignable reason, to enjoy the full
benefit of the reduction upon his property
for the same period.
CAyyELToy, Sept. %, 1859.
| F. Y. CARLILE, Esq,-Your note of this
date is before me. was Attorney for you
in 1851 and 1852, and subsequently APP
peared before the Perry county Commits
sioners, for reduction of a very unjust and
excessive assessment Of your property in
Cannelton; you were absent at the time, in
New Orleans, and the proceedings were con-
Quoted wholly upon my own judgment,
without consultation with you. They were
fair, open, and strictly professional. The
claim was admitted by the Commissioners
and Board of Equalization, and reduction
of about 81 1000 made in the valuation of
your property. This reduction was subse-
quently defeated, and the first excessive as
| sesSulent rcstorcu, ny the dctiOn OF w llilm
Van Wrinkle, and other county officers, who
assumed powers in the matter, in my opin-
ion, wholly unauthorized by law.
Yours truly,
j. j. b. HUcKEBY,
attorney at Lar.
We could make disclosures of the conduct
of this nest of official rats, still more dis
creditable and infamous; but having done
enough to awaken the attention of the true
men of the party to their misconduct, we
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