Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-06
WEEKLY SENTINEL.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6.
Withdrawal OF the Candidates Upon
the CITY Democrauc Ticket.


As win be seen by a card which we publish in
the Sentinel of this xeek, the Democratic
candidates for the offices to be filed at the muni-
cipal election to be held on Tuesday next have
Withdrawn their names for the positions which
they had been nominated by their political friends.
They give the reasons for the course which their
sense of self Prospect has induced them 10 adopt.
The Democracy have been refused BY a Repu0li.
can Council any representation upon the election
boards. Feeling, under such circumstances, that
they had no chance for a fair election, in fact
that none was intended by the dominant
party, they thought it useless, a waste Of
time, to 60 through the farce of an
election. A refusal of all or any rep
resentation upon election boards to an oppo-
site party, especially at a mere local election, is
a most extraordinary proceeding. What other
inference can be drawn from such a course but
that dishonesty is intended We would not sit
upon a board where suspicion could thus justly
be attached to our integrity. However honestly
the boards selected may intend TO conduct the
election, the fair inference is, that dishonesty is
intended by forming them Of one sided partisans,
exclusively. At Fort Wayne and Lafayette.
Democratic cities, Republican representatives are
allowed upon the election boards. and in the lat
ter city the boards are equally divided. When
this CITY was under Democratic rule, we under
stand that the opposition party were always
allowed a representation upon the boards.
The Republicans have been charged with
ucfun nOrrunf IN arr tho alapff0n
in this city and township for the past
six years. whether justly or not, we do not pro-
pose TO say. As we are informed. after a careful
canvass Of the city the Republican leaders enter
tanned some doubt, with a fair expression of pub
lie sentiment. whether they can carry the munich
pal election. What then is done? Is it not a
fair conclusion that the Republicans intend to
make a sure thing of the election by placing it
entirely under the control of their partisan friends2
This they have done. If they intended a fair
election, why did they not permit their opponents
to have a representation upon the board, to which
hey were entitled upon every principle ofeqaity?
The Democratic candidates fearing that thew have
no chance whatever for a fair election, have with
drawn from the field. and BY so doing relieved the
members of the election board and the leaders of
the Republican party from the motives, induce
ments or responsibility for wrong doing. They Sc
cure by this course a quiet and peaceful election,
relieve the Republicans from all necessity to com
nit fraud. and hand over 20 them the entire con
srol of our municipal affairs. But the Republicans
are not even satisfied with this act of magnanim-
ity upon the part Of the Democrats. They are
hard to please. If the Democrats vote, it does
not satisfy them, and it they do not vote, they
are equally dissatisfied. We should not care
about filing an elective Office where a large por-
ton of the people stayed away from the polls,
for the reason that they believed the election a
m~ockery- Under such circumstances, there is a
quiet censure and rebuke Of an election so held,
which every honorable and sensitive mind can
not fail to appreciate.