The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-11
The Enquirer In a Erd way.

Our neighbors, in their paper OF Saturday
are in a s1terribIe stew" about divers mat
tiers that we published in our paper OF the
9Th They are sorely troubled about our
article showing the decline in Douglas
stock. Over a half column is filled in
showing that Douglas was not worsted at
Princeton, The fact that the Cincinnati En-
Quirer Ia Douglas Democratic organ) denoun-
ces the gentlemen of the Princeton Conven-
ton as being hollow hearted, J." hypOcrit-
ical," and enemies of Mr.. Douglas for in
structing for Ex-Gov. Wright for the Presi-
dency, shows better than anything that we
can write, that the action of the Convention
is regarded by Douglass friends as destruct-
i've to his hopes, so far as this District is
concerned.
The Enquirer takes US to task for class
ing Mr.. Shankln, jr., as a Douglas man.
That paper deems the idea ridiculous We
admit that Mr.. ShaGklin has been on both
sides in the Democratic luarrel-both with
the Administration and against it-yet the
time has been, and will be again should
Douglas be the Democratic nominee, when
the Enquirer men dare not talk that way to
Mr. Shanklin himself Mr.. Shanklin is
something of Parsee in politics-he wor-
ships the rising sun; and though now his
idol is eclipsed and his faith in its holiness
somewhat slackened, yet should the clouds
pass away, AID the fiery disk of Douglas
face emerge and shine again on its followers,
the neophyte will wish to be considered or
thodox, and will resent any intimations to
the contrary.
The Enquirer complains that we taunt
Messrs. Whittlesey, Shanklin, Gavitt, Dal-
rymple, and Hovey with being "cowed
down." &C., by their Administration masters,
and doesn't think this good way to treat
them, if we want their votes when
Douglas is defeated at Baltimore. We beg
our neighbors not to be uneasy, for we real
ly have no "dishonorable intentions" to-
ward the gentlemen in question. We con-
slider it hopeful sign, however, that the
Enquirer suspicious their fidelity to their
party iu case Douglas is defeated. We
gladly take the Enquirer's hint, and shall
have room made for them in the Lincoln
wigwam.
The Enquirer classes Judge Law as one
of the Douglas delegates to the last Demo-
cratic State Convention. We have a recol-
lection land memorandum, which is not
within our reach just now, giving the par
tiGulars) of Judge Law rising in his place
in the Convention and declining some
place or duty assigned him, which was
con sidered by some of the Douglas men in
the Convention as an evidence of uufriend-
illness to Douglas, and sign TO the vigilant
Administration men that the Judge did not
sympathize with the Douglas majority
We recollect also that the Judges de-
clinature was aid and comfort" to the
Administration men and their cause
If the other delegates from this county
would diVuigo the secrets of that Conven-
ton, we should be borne out in this state
ment. So much for Judge Law helping
the Douglas cause at the State Convention.
Our cotemporary says that "Judge Law
was clearly the choice of the Princeton
Convention from the beginning" 1t is
rather singular indication of preference for
Law for the Convention to give Niblack 65
votes and Law 40, as was done on the thir-
teenth ballot. We don't believe Law could
have been nominated, if Niblack had not
resigned, and the resign nation vas doubt
less the consideration for Laws desertion of
Hovey in 1853, resulting in Niblacks cleo
ton.