Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-02


ut,ve Committee aud Democratic
Candidates for cay and ward Dr.
....stthava,.I os the Ticket-Ad-
49,. so the Citizens OF the City and
state.
A meeting Of the Cry Democratic cellirsl
Commlttee vas held pursuant TO previous notice.
on Thursday. April 30, 1863.
lanes b RYAN, Chairman called the meeting
20 order, vhereupon Mr. North was appointed
Secretsry W4Hf
A seiden-tIcker presented The following COM
nunica;icn from the candidates on the Demo.
cratic city ticket. VIA:
That the Democratic candidates on the City
an Ward tick ets reported that they unanimous Y
agreed 70 Withdraw from the canvass.
On motion. Mr.. BUglicher and J Null were
appointed a committee q act with the candidates
committeeto draft MI address 70 be laid before
the people Of the city aud Site.
The said committee reported the following adj
dress which was unanimously adopted
JAS. b RYAN,
Chm Dem. City FL. Com.
NJ. NeKrH. Secretary.
To the Cihs<ns Of Indianapolis and the State at
large:
The undersigned. being the Democratic candi-
dates nominated for the respective City and Ward
Offices 70 be filed AZ the city election ensuing on
the 18th day of May. 1863. respectfully announce
20 their Democratic friends and the citizens gene
ralv. that. with the concurrence of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee. We have unanimous
ly resolved to withdraw from the canvass and 10
advise our friends TO abstain from any participa
ton in said election.
In taking a step. which - so unusual and so
much at variance with the trusts assumed by US
In the acceptance OF our respective nominations
we feel that IL il due to ourselves. our party and
the community generally, 10 publicly assign the
reasons which have forced u.s. reluctantly, TO
adopt this course.
Within this city Ii is well known. but outside
Of il, perhaps but little understood. that the Dem
ocrats of city and township have for years
been excluded from fair representation in Eec
ton Boards Such thing had not been heard
Of before the Republican party got into power
For more than thirty years. Wings, Democrats
and other party denominations. succeeded each
in power. but at no time was the minority exciu-
ded from a fair representation on the Boards OF
Election Does il. indeed. need any argument tn
show the vital importance of this practice 10 the
permanency OF republican institutionsl Alas,
that in our midst il does How republican
government exist except by general acquescence
In the will of the majority? And now can such
acuuiescence he expected. obtained. unless the
elections ordered To ascertain the decision OF the
reasonable certainty that fair majority decision
will and can be obtained2 And how can there be
such confidence. if the minority party il systemati
cally excluded from all supervision of the ballot
boxesf What does such exclusion-not for
once. or twice-not in consequence of accident or
passion, but persisted in for years-practsed
Systematically. in violation of numberess pledges
and promises-what does such exclusion argue
but that the party In power means TO maintain It's
4. & hat
il is necessary for them. and that they will and
do tsmper with the purity of the ballot box. to
attain this object.
The Democrats Of the city and township have
not failed tn use all the efforts nj their command
to remedy this dangerous abuse and outrage upon
the riyhts Of the people. They have remonstra
ted. argued and duplicated: they have appealed
privately and publicly. TO obtain a representation
uron the Election Boards. and to put down the
impression that the ballot boxes were polluted fo,
partisan purposes; but every effort to that END
has been frustrated by the party in power. Wher
we appointed committees to confer with and ar
range for this purpose with Republican commit
tees. and an arrangement was effected, IL wa:
broken under the pretence that the Inspectors o
Election had TO arrange this matter under the
law When our candidates. or representatives
appealed TO the Inspectors, and obtained theil
promises and pledges for minority representa-
ton. they were broken because party committees
or party friends. had objected to the carrying on
of the promise. five attempted to insist mon
or enforce our rights we were told they would
I not yield to dctaton, or menaces; when we sup
plicated and spoke mildly, we were haughtv in
formed that the community satisfied with tbs
arrangements, as they were We cannot repeat
the numerous. various and shifting pretexts anC
preteuces by which efforts were foiled. bu
the result was the same; no Democrat in whoS'
vigilance and frmness his party friends confided
was allowed place on the Election Boards; anC
in the latter wears. all but such as acted with th'
party IN power, were excluded theretrom. Thes
are the facts. and we ask again. what deduction
can be drawn from them, unless that corruption
was necessary, and has been freely used in all on
late contests. to maintain the present party il
power?
The contest in which we were engaged. wa
unequal and unfair; but still we carried il on
We hoped for areturn Of reason. or at least ofhon
estv: and the shameless partisans in power scenes
to fear what We hoped; for. not satisfied with al
the appliances of corruption in their hands. the
fostered. and called out mob violence to maintain
their power.
At the April Township Election. the violence
of an armed mob gned supreme Before noon
nary every Democrat who distributed DemOcrat'
tickets. had been driven OF the ground Demo
the streets rs though they were wild beasts Mel
either had tn flee for their lives or TO be abused
beaten and kicked nv n merciless mob, aided
ahetted and melted nv the entire police force o
| the CITY. The Military Commandant of IN
/ State found il necessary to cover the election
/ ground with bayonets. to prevent murder AM
l other crimes. bv the Infatuated mob.
/ Only one thing was necessary to complete III
similarity of the scenes in citv with those en-
acted bv the Infamous Know Nothing mob. oil
the memorably blue Monday" in Liusville, o
with the election riots in Baltimore. under tn
auspices Of plug ugly" and blood tubs"-an
that the resistance on the part of the victims
Does any one suppose, that if anything like re
sistance had been shown. the virulance Of III
I mob here would have stopped short of the out
RACES in Louisville or Baltimore? And il resist
ance had been made another point Of compa riso'
would have arisen. as in the cities nam med. the or
gans Of the party responsible for the mob outrage
attempted to show that the prosecuted and mur
! dered Germans and Irish had been conspirng 4
drive their assailants from the polls; 80 in on
case. Long editorials. full of shameless ssser
tons and columns Of aidavits Of puriured wit
nesse>, would no doubt have established the fac
that the beaten and oppressed Democrats wer
solely responsible for all disturbances
Fortunately for our CITY tpls climax was no
reached, Democrats did not offer any resistance
+ Their rights were gel. their persons abuse
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