The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-09-13
perry Counry Politics, Again.


The small, uns-rupulous cabal that has
imposed Its tyrannical rule upon the honest
Democratic masses of Perry county, are
growing desperate in their efforts to relieve
infamous means, a blockhead upon the
counties OF Warrick, Spencer, and Perry, as
Senator. The more they struggle the
deeper they get into the filthy pool they
have dug for themselves; its efiiuvia threat
ems to suffocate them. The following para
graph appeared in the Canuelton Reporter
over week ago. We have waited for a
denial from those whose duty it was to con-
tradict it, and relieve US from the trouble of
its refutatien. As they have failed in an
honorable obligation, We are reluctantly
obliged to notice it. The Reporter says:
The editor of the Evansville Journal
makes new attack upon our,,Senator, John
C. Shoemaker; actuated, as the editorial
fully shows, by feelings OF personal hostility.
When political journalist prostitutes his
pen for purposes of private revenge, he is no
longer entitled to public confidence. When
Mr.. Carlile says that Mr.. Shoemaker is1a
man of no capacity, he states that which he
knows to be untrue, and which every mem
ber OF the State Senate will testify is un-
true. .sE- .a. -Irf -a
In reply TO the closing sentence of his ed
itorial, we are permitted by Ballard Smith
TO say that he never saw Mr.. Shoemakers
township bill until after il was introduced
into the Senate; that he aided in the prepa-
ration of a bill containing similarproviSions
which passed the House in the season of 81;
but he never compared the two aud knows
not how far similar or dissimlar they are;
that he discussed the provisions of the first
bill through Perry county, and Mr.. Shoe
max er carrietl,Int the wishes of his constit-
uents in this county, when he presented the
new township measure.
We did not ourselves, from any motives,
good or bal, begin the attack, or instigate
it, upon Mr. Shoemaker. We only publish
ed a truthful statement Of well known facts,
communicated by one familiar with all the
transactions, who urged their publication on
us as a duty To the voters in Warrick aud
Spencer counties who had been shamelessIy
deluded, by one OF the petty cliqnes that
control The political affairs OF too many of
our counties. They were communicated to
I our Correspondent 10y a member of the
clique Who had become disgusted and re-
/ pontant OF the part he had been made 10
play in the fraud. Ii was only when these
facts were denied with unblushing hardi-
hood by some members of the clique, that
We took any part in the controversy; and
( then we, ia seii-justi6cation, confirmed aud
proved them upon the tricksters. The quar-
! rel began with the conspirators themselves,
and did not originate from any motives
I with us we have only avaiIed ourselves of
J it-as men often do--when "rogues fall
out to'show honest people how they have
! been defrauded.
IL is false that we have from private griev-
i iances or offenses, any personal hostility to
i Shoemaker. Our personal relations with
him have been for fifteea years uninterupt.
edly the same. The man has been too tho
roughly appreciated to make them cordial
hut they have been ostensioly courteous aud
neighborly. The transaction, which, il is
alleged, awakened the Personai hostility oc.
CURED more than eight years ago. II ha;
Leeu fully stated in these columns. 1t wa,
50 perfectly characteristic of the man, tina
it excited no surprise, and never occasioned
. remark, or altered in any way our inter
course with him. Since that occurrence
we have had opportunities tooppose success
-, fully his nomination to county Offices, bu
never raised voice against him. Long
since that occurrence too, stood the po
litical gai-falher to this renegade from al
parties, and drew up the ritual of politica
faith to which he gave his VOWS, and trie,
To lead him into life Of political rectitude
But his oaths 10 us were rs Punic as the,
have ever beeu To Others. Ii. is not IN ou
= nature To harbor hostility against one, be
cause he acts from the necessities Of hi
>. moral aud intellectu ual constitution, ia az
corlance with. the most sordid and selfsl
instincts of humanity.