Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-03
T3E WADESVILLE Uum
VENTION FAR Il
Mount Vernon Clique.

It is fact of public notoriety that for |
weeks before the notices of the late Con-
vention at Wadesville were posted, the |
Mt Vernon Clique, who fatter them
selves that they carry the Democratic
party of old Posey in their breeches
pockets, had fixed upon the parties who
were to receive the nominations in that
| Convention, and determined, as the Sc
quei shows, to defeat all other aspirants
by fair means or foul Enoch Thomas,
who had been candidate for Recorder,
was by them induced to Withdraw from
the track, in order that his father, Mr..
G. w. Thomas, might come on Major
Forth, not being under their control, per-
sisted in being a candidate, but his hav-
ing been in the Union army was to him
a sure harbinger of defeat.
The Convention met. Mr.. q. W.
Thomas announced himself as a candi-
date for Recorder; telling the Conven-
J ton, among other things, that he was in
, favor of old men for Office, and young
men for the army-thereby making a
fling at Major Forth, who had beenin the
Army.
: Another aspirant announced himself
r as a candidate for the same Office, and
, proclaimed, as q recommendation of his
claims, that he had never worn "shoul-
: der straps" another fling at Maj. Forth,
, and showing that gallant conduct in the
4 Union army was to be an object OF rldl-
! cule and no recommendation in that Con
vention 1t was publicly stated on the
ground by one person, that he would not
b vote for Forth because he chad been in
a the army fighting against US! and by an
o other that he would support no man fol
office who had been in Lincoln army.
The voting by Townships commenced
y and after it was proposed by the friends
,r of Mr.. Thomas, in the Black Township
a delegation, that the vote of the Town
ship should be cast as unit for the mai
who should receive the largest vote, the.
III stubbornly refused to let the vote be s.
a cast for Major Forth, notwithstanding b
in received the most votes, thereby defeat
Ia ing his nomination, and juggling hin
- out of what was justly his due. Nh
e Thomas was nominated, and the othe
IS, aspirants most egregiously sacrificed an
so slaughtered by the wire-puling an
trickery of the Mt. Vernon Clique.
Il; After defeating Major Forth, for n
- other reason, as the proceedings shov
er, than because he had served his eountr
.rs in the Union army, they nominated fc
is Coroner DR.. A. NJ Barbisch, who ha
80 been Surgeon in the Rebel Armyl
: l"' The concluding part of the Convel
ne ton farce was the speech of A.
Try Whittlesey, who stated that the hearts
of the Democracy of the county were vii
;,b Vallandigham, which sentiment W;
c"- m loudly appIauded by the clique and the
lor followers. He also asserted that Va
< is landigham was Union man, in the fat
will of the fact that the said Vallandigha
Of proposed an amendment to the Cons
- tuition dividing the United States in
FOUR separate aud distinct Cover
ced ments. See Congressional Globe, q
'uit session, 36th Congress, page 794
are Wbittlesey also said Vallandigham w
onr patriot, Notwithstanding the Chat
o"i nooga Rebel nominated him for Gov,
ier- nor of Ohio, with the remark that I"
pre- is OUR SORT OF MANI The Ric
ope mond Enquirer the ablest of the rel
me newspapers, in its issue of the 26th
-. July, says: The success of Valland
eci- ham and the Peace Democracy genera
are throughout the North, in the coming
red, elections, will be of more practical bt
,roe eft to US, (the rebels) than the most b
liant victory that any of our arm
&c" could win" What do you think of su
we're a patriot, Democrats of old Posey?
we YOU prepared to endorse the men v
verv, say their hearts are With such a trait
.n;os oy voting for their nominees? Do !
'rioi wish to assist in giving the rebels a y
card tory of more importance to them,
cording to their own statement, than I
own they could win with their armies?