The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-16

ON account of its very limited cir,
culation, it is much like hiding light
under bushel to publish a commu-
nication in the columns of the Cowr-
Ter. We copy, therefore, Mr.. p.
MAIER's communication, in that paper
of yesterday, that it may be seen by
most of the residents of the city:
sss0s- "a CARD.
M. -KIERoLF:: In your Sundays
issue, | noticed the following item re-
lating to myself: nss aslsIe.
"We learn that Mr.. Peter Maier,
attorney-at- law, at noon yesterday in
| formed Democrat that he had
secured the consent of the majority of
stockholders of the old Times office
to vote our lease null, and thus re-
claim their printing material from us.
Mr. Maier is quite energetic.
In order to set myself right before
the public, [ ask, as an act of justice,
that you give this place in your pa
perrin explanation of the charge made
against me. If any such report has
been made to you, it is not correct, as
/ have never used any such language.
Again: You say, in speaking of Mr..
Gfroerer, that 8 his cousin, Mr. Peter
Maier, attorney att law, has asserted
within the last four months that Mr..
Gfroerer was a Republican. This,
too, is incorrect. Several gentlemen
informed me that you had told them
that Mr.. Gfroerer was a Republican,
and wanted to, know, of me why [ sold
| the DeD1okrGt to the Opposition, when
| invariably stated that Mr.. Gfroerer
had beenEnot l0Gs,-a Republican;
that he was an out-and out johnson
man; and that, if he could have voted
| in the election of 1864, he should have
cast his vote for General Mcclellan.
Mr.. Gfroerer and |, in 1860, held the
same views upon the slavery question,
both believing that it was an evil, and
ought not to be extended over any
more territory-we only differed about
the remedy to be applied. zdi ~
Again: You say, Mr.. Gfroerer, as
we understand from unquestionable
authority, was such a sound Demo-
crat when Abraham Lincoln ran the
first time, that he was one out of only
ninety men in Jefferson County who
were strong enough in their convic-
tiOns of right to vote for the Lincoln
and Hamlin electors IN Kentuckyl
! He polled his vote, we are assured,
4 In a county where there were then
over 10000 votes. all except the ninety
sustaining Douglas, Breckenridge or
Bell" (?) You have made many RI
! diculous and false charges against Mr..
Gfroerer in your. zeal to injure him in
this community and for the purpose Of
showing you how easy it is to be mis-
taken, let inferm you that, at the
Presidential election In 1S60-being
the one referred to-Mr. Gfroerer was
a citizen of Evansville. Indiana, and in
the employ of Mr.. VIM. Chandler,
and never moved to Louisville, Ken
lucky, till year or so after the cleo
ton of Mr.. Lincoln You say this is
a private matter between you and Mr.
pGfreerer, and that you are not trying
to injure the Demokrat. Why is it
| then that you are making such Her.
culean efforts to prove that Mr.
Gfroerer is radical and abolitionist,
unless it be. to. ALLEVIATE the confidence
| which the people have in the Demo
krat. | shall say nothing about the
ungentlemanly fling against myself in
your Fridays issue. Perhaps you
think you have made friends by the
operation. sal stA
You know very well that Peter
lsGfroerer sand I did Jas much as any
two men in the city to get your paper
started; that | went around among
our citizens with different members of
your firm to get the stockholders to
| give their assent to let you have the
| use of the printing material.A We
gave up part of our Office for your
| benefit, until you could get another !;
in fact, [ took nearly as much interest
in the success of the Courier as in the
/ Demokrdt. There are those who can
eel obligations with insults. Whether
you are among that class, | leave the
/ public to judge IF the controversy
i between yourself and Mr., Gfroerer is
of a personal character, then why do
you fill your paper with abuse of him.
Why those long TRADES of abuse, if it
be not for the purpose of creating an
j i'll feeling against Mr., Gfroerer, which
must necessarily injure the paper?
| Mr.. Kierolf, can bring fifty instances
to bear, showing that you design to
ruin the prospects of the DenaOh7ut
Take, for instance, your conduct
towards the. Demokrdt when Mr.
Deitz was discharged and DIR. Lowen-
stein employed as its editor. You be-
came the champion of Mr.. Deitz, de-
claring you would publish your paper
Ipartly German, and employ Mr.. Deitz,
in order that the German Democrats
could have something to read; the in
/ ference was very natural that Mr..
| Gfroerer would not publish a Demo-
cratic paper. - 4g,