Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-13
The WadesVilie Convention Farce and
the Mount Vernon Clique-NO, 2.

lerreu 10 was not SOtteH up Dy one person
only, but by several, and that the fact:
therein stated were furnished by Demo
Gratis who attended the Convention
Those who attended the Convention
know whether or not it contains the
truth. have been told by number oi
the most respectable citizens of Posey
county, who were there, that it does; and
the same issue of the Mount Vernon
Democrat that denies it, contains the
| withdrawal card of DR.. Barbrich, &C
knowledging the honor conferred in
nominating him for Coroner, &C., which
is an admission of one of the principle
facts stated in the handbill '17
The reason there are no signatures to
| it, is because the facts therein contained
speak for themselves, being of such pub
lie notoriety, that they need only be men
toned to be recognized and known as
true.
The clique and their followers may at
tempt to avoid the full force and effect of
these facts and their legitimate conclu-
sions, by resorting to ridicule or raising
side issues and qnibbling about unimpor-
atant matters, but they cannot escape the
record they have made There are too
many living witnesses to the broad farce
of their pretending to submit to the will
of the Democratic masses at Wadesville,
when they juggled one candidate out of
the nomination for Recorder, and delib-
erateIy repudiated and bolted another af-
! ter he had received the nomination for
Coroner,-violating the record by leaving
| t,rc &c hA l.1Ha
ceedings of the Convention, thing un-
heard of before, and unsurpassed in i'm
pudence and effrontery, which they had
no right to do, even with the consent of
DR.. Barbisch, unless, indeed, they are
higher authority than the Convention,
which they hypocritically pretend to
abide by.
1t is true that Dr. Barbisch is not
now candidate, but his having received
he nomination, and that fact not ap-
pearing in the published proceedings OF
the convention, coupled with his subse-
quent withdrawal, only makes the farce
more apparent. Their having forced
him to withdraw by misrepresenting to
him that he was Ineligible to the office,
is only another manifestation of their
dexterity in political thimble-rigging.
The Constitution of the State (Article
6, Section 4 ), makes every voter elligi
BILE to county Office Dr. Barbisch
having resided in this county more than
year, and having declared his intentions
to become citizen, is therefore voter,
and eligible to the Office of Coroner.
Consequently it is not for that reason
that they bolted his nomination, nor yet
because he had been surgeon in the
Rebel army, for that fact was vel
knowns both before, and at the time he
received the nomination, and Judging
from certain proceedings of the conven
ton, that was his greatest recommends
ton, but more probably, as some of the
Germans think it was, because he was &
German.
Among the facts that the clique and
their followers cannot deny, withou
convicting themselves before the people
of further and gross inconsistency, il
the manner in which they slaughtered
Major Forth, who had fought bravely ant
well against the rebels; using tha
against him to defeat his nomination fol
Recorder, by sneering at shoulder
straps " and talking about "old men fol
Office and young men for the army" ant
yet in one Of their resolutions they pre-
tend to endorse the officers and men o
the Indiana regiments and Posey county
Volunteers. Oh, consistency thou arr
indeed jewel
: The only consistency the Mount Yer
non clique have shown in the whole mat
ter, is in their repudiating and boltin,
the nomination of DR.. Barbisch, which
is in accordance with their former ant
oft repeated acts, for there is not one Q
them but what has bolted Democrati
conventions, run against the nominees
or brought out and supported men VIII
did
1t is part of the political history c
PoseY county, that one of the cliqu
bolted Convention and run against tn
Democratic nominee for the Legislf
ture; that another, whose name has bee
substituted on the ticket for that of D.
Barbisch, for Coroner, once ran again.
the Democratic nominee and was electe
to the Legislature; that another, in e,
act imitation of his predecessor in Office
!. ran against the Democratic nominee fc
Sheriff one election, and was himself til
l. nominee the next, and that anothe
: though often elected to office, never r
: ! ceived the domination of his party, bt
always ran independent
y 1t is also part of the political histol
: of Posey county, that nearly every OF
: of tee Mount Vernon clique, (includin
G. w. Thomas), who were Breckinridg
J, Democrats in 1860, brought out an
. warmly supported Aaron Lichtenberge
for Sheriff, against Joseph Showers, WI
: was the regular Democratic nomine
le r and the fact that scarcely any of the bs
ance of the nominees that year succeede
any better than Showers, shows, wi
= other circumstances, that they did n
support the balance of the ticket eithe
= 1t is also well known fact, that b
" few of them either supported Hendricl
for Governor, or Law for Congress,
Il 1860, notwithstanding they were the re
ular Democratic nominees, and yet t
id clique now ask the Democratic mass
n to vote for their ticket, because they a
Mt the nominees, and that, too, after th
have repudiated part of the ticket
- 1t seems it is actually necessary to
either bolter, in order to have any inf
= ence in the party, or to belong to t
, Mount Vernon clique. 1t will do for I
rank and file to vote the unseratch
g ticket, but the clique only are entitled
es, vote for whom they please.
rd Among the most significant faC
,s' which transpired in the Convention, a
IT these: that Vallandigham was repeated
1s, cheered In the Convention, and that o.
es, man was knocked down by soldier
es. that reason; and that Whittlesey said
[ nd .his speech that the hearts of the Demo
racy of the county were with Vallandi