The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-30

knowledge, be the deiinquents friends or
opponents; in this duty we are unbiased by
any personal feelings. We are glad that
Mr.. X. has Mt last been aroused to the neces-
sity of making a defense, and if our article
has been the Indictment to it, what we have
said Twill be, eventually of essential service
to him. While he is waiting for 50 men of
substance to repeat the charges, to entail
upon themselves gratuitous and~vexatious
lawsuit, Mr.. KS character may be made
odious by the Phillipses and Hesters; for in
this region Of country, poor mems assertions
pass sometimes for as much as rich mems
declarations.
PRINCETON, Ind, April 10Th.
Mr.. EDIToR:-In your Daily of yesterday
| find the following language:
60 One Of them newspapers in Princeton
has been auditor ten years, and is alleged 10
hare filled has pockets lcith a fortune. from
the public crib Of t,centy-fDe thousand 10
Jviy thousand dollars"
50 The Princeton L,didniaH says ohile
Kurtz, Of the Clarion, seds auditor he ros
also acting Treasurer, and that achiIe Che
Treasmers, icho entrusted their books 10 hiAa,
,oere made bankrupt Kurt accumulated a
fortune of thuy thousand dollars.
This is purely personal, and the reitera-
ton of a fabrication put forth over the sig
nature OF J E. Phillips, late Auditor, in the
columns of the Iadiaaida, near two months
ago. ' - - - - - - = L.
Before Mr.. Phillips retarn from Indian
apolis, he was met by Indignant men who
held receipts for money, never paid over,
and threatened with exposure it he did not
disgorge. Under these circumstances he re-
imbursed and satisfied a portion, amounting
To SEQ or $40, and left for indianapolis;
not, however, before suspecting that | was
instrumental in ferreting out the abuses in
the Auditors Office, and making the publi-
cation alluded to, and to which have paid
no attention, whatever, from the fact that il
was not sustained by sufficient character to
merit notice.
Your endorsement, az hiS tate date, leads
me to the conclusion that your article is the
result of malignant disposition, on the
part of friend of Mr.. Phillips, to do me a
gross personal injury Were candidate
for Office, or intended to be, | might think
otherwise
/ / have been engaged as editor of paper
for thirteen years, aud know with what III
cility editors are made to serve private NAL
ice, by having skeleton items furnished to
their hand, and how futile it. is to charge
editors with not writing, when they father
their own editorials.
Whenever charge, OF the character OF
that made 10y Mr. Phillips, is made against
me, by men of substance, they may be pre-
pared with the proper vouchers for they
wfff certainly have reproduce them.
For the information of your readers,
will state that was Auditor of this county
ten years previous to .65, aud that an inves-
tigating committee, costing the county $500,
have reported "a all right during that term
During the time the only Treasures were
4 Boswell, Reavis, and Hargroye The former
attended 10 his own business dit ire time
and died worth 81 600 | settled his estate
al las request. SIr, Reavis also attended &c
his own business, so tar as was concerned
for he and were, at one time, on the most
friendly terms Mr. Hargrove served a,
Treasurer during the 8 months of the latter
part of nv term, and during the greater por
ton of those ls months Mr.. Phillips wa.
acting rs his deputy and mine
=. After ! left the Auditors Office | did, fol
day or two at time in his absence, atten(
to Mr.. IFS business. He always SCENE,
satisfied al the account az prtt,sy that rem
dered, and so expresses himself now. As Il
my accumulated fortune of $4,000 lwel
take the third in CASH, think il nobody
busines but my own, so pay my debts, ant
come by ithonestly, and think | have.
! have lived and done business ofvariou:
Z Kinds in this county for nearly twelve years
and never has there charge been bredthed
disreputable to my integrity until M. Phil
lips, melted by malice md 90 hide has cwn
shame, made an effort 10 drag me down 10
his own level.