The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-28

late Township Board, to recover back be
money they had plundered from the treasu-
! ry, one of the chque--who, though not yet
in office, has managed, NTH help, to make a
very pretty living upon what he has been
able to pick up about the Court House
Granpee W. Hardin, as by order, occupied
the Enquirer for the four several days that
was away in heaping upon me volumes
of vile sIanders, filthy abuse, andIgulgaF cpl
thets, such as never before since knew thcm,
disgraced the columns of an Evansville news
paper. In the first of these articles, he assured
the editor with Il great flourish of 'trutnpets,
/ that he might safely predict that Dr. Hal
/ lock, one week hence, viii not he a eandi-.
date 1T the ensuing election" declaring
substantially, in such billingsgate that
will not repeat it, that, he would shame me
off the track. Now see how a plaIfii tales
will put him down, and show. who asham =
ed, the slandered, or I he slanderer. asiag I
| arrived at home from aBoouVfll on FRI
DAY, after the whole Of his four articles. had
in my capacity of overseer of the. poor, to-
find II refuge for poor, unfortunate female,
who had just given birth to a child, without
home or friend in the world Ills Honor, the.
Mayor, and other gentlemen, accompanied
me We borrowed IA lounge to bear the
woman upon Immediately opposite the
office of Mr.. Hardin. One of the gentle
men stepped 10 his office door and asked
him to come aud assist It's, and as he ap-
preached, another gentleman remarked that
they must put Hardin and DIR. Hallock to-
gether to carry one end and no sooner
did he hear my name than he turned tail
bslu 10 cba cd fc. artsa
the man lie had so buseiy sandered, and
every gentleman present saw and knew
that this was the cause of his disgraeefula
retreat. Now, " whos afraid p t- .'-
EM This Mr.. Grampee w Hardin is Il c;lnd-
date for the The Office hold, and disnterest--
edly proposes to write himself into it 10y
wholesale Misrepresentation and lying about
me- To show how worthy he is of the con
fdence of the people, he admits but attempts
To gloss over, the fact, that he Is lie man
who claimed and received pay both from the
/ Township and County treasury for acting
as Inspector of ElectiOns-" double pay =
and in trying 10 cover this very petty larceny,
he is guilty OF at least q dozen gross and
! pslpable lies. They are too numerous for
| special mention, but must give an exam
He says he received " no more and no less
than 81 per day" paid him, as the Town
ship records will show, S3Sl 80 per day
| calling the election day, and the part of
the night engaged in counting the votes two
/ days. This was full ample pay for the
amount OF service, and all that the law en-
titled him to, as ke knew. But he after
wards claimed pny from the County Board,
as if he had never received any thing, and
| took all they would allow him, SS2--thus
receiving So for what was, in fact, little
more than a day's easy service s-4
! He says " tbs wages OF ofInspectOrs, &c, is
s. per day-the Trustee of the Township
paying 81 of it, and the Commissioners the
other. Such has leen the law and sprac
tice since 1882 There is no such law !;
and the practice has been strictly confined
toigentlemen of the school OF Mr. Hardin,
who, when they get their hands into the
| public crib, are always D." n law unto them
selves and never, fail to take at least
''double pay" Sometimes they have the
grace to thank God for it. and twill bless
it and approve it with text, such as " the
laborer is worthy of his hire But | be-
ieve it was long since decidedly our courts,
in the case of one of shls, old -heighbors in
the Bayou from whom he doubt less got his
rnorals), that custom could not be pleaded
r ass "A Justification of stealing.
Again, he attempted to use my language,
the custom paid them, &C., as 4 vindica-
ton Of his act in receiving pay a second
time from the board of commissioners AS
the law is not clear whether the Trustee OF
Commissioners should pay, / invoked the
CUSTOM of my predecessors to back my con-
struction of it. This is, j think, legitimate
Mr.. Hardin Claims that The custom OF hjt
!. predecessors viii answer his purpose aswelL
~ At all events, as there is II question which
"a should pay he very promptly decides to run
, no risk OF making a mistake, and so take;
!. pay from both. . fIe has precedent, in the
case of the man III Tie grocery line, whC
: asked his Two helps: sJim, did yon water
S that W hisky2 y" Bill did did youa water
r that whisky ?" and, being ans swered "a yes y
by both OF them, DECLARED that nc believed
4 they were both liars land would ~water il
e himself, -.si5 -- el''-l-t
0 Now a man who can so easily demonstrate
Ito his own sltisfactioH--that he wa
right in taking ''double pay" for one ser
. vice, all will admit, is just The man It
n have the management of. the peoples money
. especially when he shows SO Keen an ap
preciation of how it might be made to pay
n now leave this branch OF The subject, " it
# the further remark, only, that take it yer
unk ind and ungrateful of Mr.. Hardin, afte
y soliciting of me the privilege of acting as In
$, Spectof as my SUBSTITUTE, 10 NlllIS anu anus
IS me. in the manner he does Tor not holdn
. it myself t s..s '.- sr.,'sa
= Now, MIR, Editor, propose, briefly, an
by way of example, to show up SOME ofith
IN legion of lies and misrepresentation tha
this man has so Wantouiy flung tt me
= though the Office Of Township Trustee, hon
80 estlv administered, will not compensate q,
% % traordinary trouble in securing it. -
III ~ is net to be endu ed, =
ld To yield qIr trotden paths and turn aside,
Giving our place TO knavcs. --ls.E ....
rs, - And first of the purchase of the scho
de lot: The statement that "AIlen G. lIalloc
he and Beniah Moss, together, called upo
- Judge Law, and together negotiated f
that property like every thing else NJ
Hardin says about me, is unquaiifediy fails
to ! was inquiring of divers parties for prope
on ty in that neghborhood, it being regard'
the most central aud suitable location f