Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-09-08
Gov. Willard
EXTRACT FROM An fNNASafWIs LETTER TO
TIE CINCINNATI GAZETTE

THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE.
1t is probably settled thing that VIII
lar'l will be a candidate for the U. S. Sen
ate when Fitch's fraudulent term ends.-
SO far as his own will can control the mat
ter he certainly will be. He has no notion
of dropping out of the Governors chair
into the gutter though such an accident
might befall him. His "sspiring blood"
won't sink into the groud. although he is
frequently disposed to put it where it
wouldn't have far to go if it did. But we
fancy that he can hardly go through with
such impediments as his administration
will fasten to him. To say that he has
been the worst Governor the State ever
had, is saying very little. for it has had
3 or that were good ones, and no bad
one at all till now. "A bull in china
shop," that proverb of misitness, would be
well-pleased and agreeable animal beside
the ignorant but conccitcd meddler who
has somehow got lodged among the del
icate and important responsibilities of the
Executive chamber His administration
began with that shameless fraud which
took Bright and Fitch into the Senate, and
it has happily verified the indications OF
that suspicious beginning. His personal
habits, too, are in admirable harmony
with his official qualifications. and since
the days of Hellogabalus, we doub, if any
body has maintained so happy balance
between public misconduct and personal
depravity. And his character is pretty
well appreciated by his own party. The
better part OF them have as little desire as
the Republicans to see the State measured
by such representative. Ifhe gets to the
Senate. it will be by skilful handling Of
the party machinery. and not by the favor
of his partizans.
1t is questionable if any man in tho
State is so universally dcspised. both for
incapacity and dishonesty, as Gov. Will
, lard. Yet he has one quality that even
his enemies must respect-hardihood.-
He will do the most dishonest act, a man
can do IN his office, with perfect indiffer-
ence. and even with sort of defiant con-
tempt of shame that would make him q
hero If he wasn't knave. The new PEN
,itentiary case illustrates this trait. He
urged the Legislature to build new Pen
itentiary, instead of charging the old one,
both in his special and general message
He presented it as one of the three things.
which made an extra session necessary
Yet, now that the Legislature has granted
it, he openly declares that it shant be built.
because it is not located where he wants it.
that is where some Of his intimate friends
have large lot of land, which he is
rather more than suspected of having an
interest in. And he is doing this with
'bated breath" and distinct suggestions,
or with roundabout practices that might
appear to lead to something little less
shameless but openly, and with perfect
indifference to contempt, and an apparent
inconsistencies that there is anything
remarkable about it, that almost astonish-
es censuIe into silence. This case illus
trates the Characteristic in question fully.
Such man will hardly get into Office
again after he is once happily out among
Democrats. r- ff1a