The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-06
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! II has DGCn DIOOcNS DJ hhO -
statutes that Mr.. Gavitt has no just right tc
some twenty-three hundred dollars that he
has drawn from the County Treasury. He
has made no valid defense against this
charge. All that his reply amounts TO is
that if he is guilty others have been also.
The people of Vanderburgh county-the
tax x-payers who have to loot the bill and pay
the fiddler while Mr.. Gavltt and his Clique
dance-have heard both sides of this ques-
ton. They are the jurors in the case, and
will give IN verdict on his official course
next Tuesday.
This paper, and number of citizens who
desire these public peculations stopped,
have exposed the Sherif's official depreda-
tions We think his wrong doings have
all been made plain as the light of day. If
any persons have failed to see his
conduct in all its deformity, it has been be-
cause they did not want to see it-because
they have wilfully blinded their eyes TO the
truth.
1t rests with the tax payers to say whether
the Court House Clique, with Gavitt at its
head, shall longer live sumptuously and
grow fat on the hard earnings of the people
of the County. without rendering just
equivalent The taxpayers know what is
hest for their own interests.
1t wont do to say that the Gayitt exposi-
ton is an electioneering scheme" The
persons making it, claim to he actuated by
disinteresled and honorable impulses, and
are willing to wait for the verdict of the
people on their conduct, in future, when (if,-
Gavitt be re-elected) an. exhausted treasnry,
a heavy floating debt, ordss at an enor-
nous discount, and taxes unhearbly high,
shall have awakened the taxpayers to a
realizing sense OF the impositions that have
been practiced upon them by corrupt official
leechcs.~
If John S. Gavitt is successful next Tnes-
day over as competent and honest man rs
George Violin, with the weight Of all his
official sins on his (Gavitt's) shoulders then
we and the public generally viii consider
that carte 5Iaache-a check si6ped but un-
fned-a complete license -iss gASen TO Mr. !
Gavitt, permitting him to dgR his drafts at
pleasure, and for any amoSfn1s he pleases, |
on the County Treasury, without warrant
of law or right He should so consider
verdict in his favor and will be greener |
than we take him to be, if he does not use
his permission to its fullest extent.
Let the tax payers once say, after fair
hearing-as they will if Gavitt is reelected
to a candidate who has been guilty OF
sxtortion on them, We overlooked your
past betrayal of our confidence; we will
not punish you, but will re-elect you and
-e-invest you with our confidence ; we tell
you to 90 and do as you please"-let the
people of Vanderburgh county once do this,
md we shall not envy any property holder
his possessions. The man who has the least
property to be taxed will be the most favor
ID individual in community.
Now is the time to rebuke this unflith-
ul, peculating official; now when he ap-
plies for a renewal of the trust he has be-
rayed If lie be approved instead of re-
a fair majority ofthe legal voters
IF Vanderburgh say, Well done, good and
aithful servant" instead of " Depart, ye un-
aithful steward, into obscurity," then, we
iay, John S. Gavitt will have received an
license to deplete the treasury at
will, and other officials will consider them
,elves secure in the perpetration of the most
enormous frauds on the people. And some
IF them will not hesitate to profit by their
privilege.