Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-16
The CITY Election.

ghe Courier OF yesterday distinctly
announces that the Democracy, or Cop
perheads, Of Evansville are afraid to
make an issue with the Union party at |
the ensuing April election 1t pretends
to favor workingmen's ticket. Every
person acquainted with the managers
and hangers.on of that establishments
kucws that iss workingmen's dodge ID
she merest sham. We should like for
the Courier to designate who are the
wofkingmen OF Evansville. What does
1t mean when it talks about working
menu Does it mean to include ell
branches Of labor, and ell departments
of life, where men are industrious?
Does it'mean that caly certain Kinds of
labor should be put in Office, or include
all that labor-those who toll with their
brain, 90 well % those Who labor with
their hands7 A little specific informa-
ton on this point will be acceptable. II
the Courier takes the position that only
certain kinds Of labor-Copperhead Ia
Dor, for instanca-should manage the
aGAiEarof orr City, it ia time the people
sAodsd undsrst4pd H. ksEH a.
The JOURNAL takes the position that
every variety Of interest and population
should have voice in the management
Of the affairs OF the city The manufac-
turer, the merchant, the mechanic, the
lawyeF--the rich, the poor--all should be
represented In the. government of the
city tits In pursuance Of this policy
that the Union party has been so sue
ceasful, during the past four OF. Eve
years, in administering the affairs ofthe
city OF Evansville. We challenge tho
Courier, or any other Copperhead paper,
10 cite single instance where any, city
of the dize OF Evansville has been com
srolled blythe Democratic party the same
length of time, whose public interests
and finances have been 20 skillfnlly and
prudentIy managed; whose public inn
provements have been az great In ex-
tent or 90 durable ia eharacteri sChose
public debt has been 80 largely zdinsin-
dshed; whose expenditures to aid the
GensrAl government in it's war With reb-
els have bean 30 large; and al the time,
whose taxes have been so UNIFORMLY
Low. Now here 10 simple PROPOSE.
ton. II can BIO discussed plainly and
candidly. If the city can be found,
which, under Democratic management.
has done better than ours, we are anx.
ious to know it. Facts are wanted-not
surmises Or insinuations. Facts are
easily obtained, and within the next two
weeks We propose TO demonstrates 10 nur
citizens that they have never fully ap-
preeiated the great work that has been
accomplished in their midst since the
affairs Of the city were taken out Of the
hands Of the Democracy. We will en-
daavor 70 show how matters stood when
the last Den acratic Mayor retired and
how they atand now. We will also endeav
or to specify few prominent improve
ments that have been made in the mean
time.
After examining all the facisin the
case, IL win be for the people To- say
whether the representatives ofthe Union
party, 10 whom they committed their
municipality, have discharged their duty
faithfully and proGtably to the city, and
whether Il will be best 10 change and nc
back 10 the old order Of things, when
Democracy reigned and ruined. ~
We say the success which has attended
the Union party 10 attributable largely
to the fact that all phases Of labor and
capital have been represented upon its
tickets. He IN no friend to working m en-
or capital either, who tries to array the
one agsinat the other They m ust CO,
operate; and thu more harmoniously
they act the greater the happiness and
prosperity to All s
We trust and we believe that the Union
men will have candidates on their ticket
Representing oil shades Of industrial par.
suits. If not, they will have lost the
wisdom which bias characterized their
political operations in other years. We
want aoldiers, workingmen and mechan.
icslcn the ticket Above all, We want
shoronRhly reliable Union. men, who
have never been suspicioned of sympa-
thizing with treason or rebels. +