The Evansville daily journal., 1859-08-08
aEA. The New Albany Ledger has, after


sm. The New Albany Ledger has, after
three weeks quiet, stirred up frtid mat
ter, which regard for truth and facts COM
pels US to mingle in. A Perry county corre-
spondent of that paper asserts that the
statements of our Rome correspondent,
ssWarrick," are false and malicious, and that
the editor of this paper, in publishing them,
was insuenced by personal hostility towards
Mr.. Shoemaker, who unworthily represents
the important State Senatorial district above
us. He says Mr.. Shoemaker never engaged
Mr.. Maynard to ''write a certain letter or
"address for him, for which and other SER
"vices he refused to pay, &c. Now l am
" fully in possession of the fact that the ad-
"dress alluded to was wholly written by Mr..
IS himself, at his home in Rome, copied
"there for the press by friend, and shown
"to several other friends before sent or
"brought to the Reporter Office for publica-
ton. So much for Mr..
"Maynards writing, correcting, sc. The
"other charge of refusal to pay is equally
"untrue. Be this as it
may, nothing is more certain than that 5.
"dOes not owe Maynard farthing for any
services whatever. The
"contemptible sneer and labored effort at
"insinuation to make the impression that
as. requires assistance to write such n let
"ter or address as the one alluded tc, is so
VIGOROUSLY untrue as to require no notice
whatever TE.5. ....- .-s.ss.,.
The audacity of such assertions as the
above would astonish every one but those
who have been familiar with the conduct of
"A class of unscrupulous demagogues like Mr..
Shoemaker, who has been a hanger-on to
every faction of every shade of political
opinion, as it rose to power, from an ultra
Wing and Know-Nothing to an unscrupu-
lons Lecomptonite. Our correspondent is
one of the staunchest and ablest Democrats
in the Second Congressional District-has
known John Shoemaker thoroughly, both
personally and politically, for the last fifteen
years; he has a full appreciation OF his
character, his requirements, and abilities,
and knows all the circumstances attending
the canvass in the Senatorial District last
year, and especially the facts attending the
publication of the address. Every word he
asserted in regard to it is strictly and liter
ally true; and in proof of his statement we
can produce the manuscript both Of Shoe
maker and Maynard, to show that Shoema-
ker did not write the address or anything
like it. 5...,- VI
His own paper, if published as he at
tempted to write il, would have made him
and the party who supported him, ridicu-
lous, if not infamous To prove the man is
wholly incapable of penning a decent para
graph, we can produce beside, the manu-
script of the heads of his address, when a
candidate for County Auditor, to the people
of Perry, which he hired ]. NJ. Beatty, Esq,
then editor of the Reporter, to write out
and print for him, and for which he paid a
round sum. On looking at the manuscripts,
any one can make an estimate of the proper
compensation for the labor and tear of con-
science in putting such crudities, contradic-
tions and absurdities into plausible form to
be presented to the public; money in any
sums would be poor reward to conscien-
tious man for such service, -
The assertion of Shoemaker, that he does
not owe Maynard for his labor, is undoubt-
edly sincere with him-he has no sense of
obligations, and feels the weight of no debt,
except what the law imposes as Maynard
holds no written contract, and put forth
the address before Shoemaker had even seen
what his name was attached to, he has no
legal remedy, and to Shoemaker there is no
existing "debt. "
The article in our paper was not pub
lished to crafty any personal feelings, or
to destroy John C. Shoemaker politically
This journal has higher game, and better
motives; its Editor has no prejudices nor
hostility against the man, except what a
disinterested observation of his personal and
official conduct for fifteen years would Gre
ate in any honorable mind The motive
for publishing the communication of War
rick was simply to expose to the honest
voters OF the Senatorial district, the gross
imposition that had been practiced upon
them by packed caucus, that nominated
and induced them to elect Il man wholly
unworthy the place he holds; man who
palms upon them rs his own, productions
which he is rs incapable of writing as he is
of comprehending noble and worthy ae-
tiOn-and when he has passed his bogus
and spurious stuff as genuine upon honest
and credulous supporters, is too mean and
dishOnOrable to pay for its manufacture
The only reason for referring to it aghin
and confirming the statements of our cor
respondent is hope that the example may
have an influencein breaking up the power
of caucuses and packed conventions.
Shoemaker was nominated per contract