The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-26

showed that he at least was actuated
by no spirit of fairness That we were
justified in our comments upon the
annin,us of L." note the sentence
which follows the citation of the
figures from the books of the Secre
tary of State: " People aciU figure on
these returns, and if no more promis-
ing candidate can be found than one
who runs over four thousand behind
the head of his ticket, and over two
thousand behind the least candidate
on ii, J then they say he is not the
man for the place
It will not be expected = that
such figures will arouse much
BAKER enthusiasm, without some
explanation.p When the writer
stated that the figures were obtained
from the returns on file in the Office of
the Secretary of State it was plainly
his duty to have assured himself of
the correctness Of them before rushing
into print. When the figures were
copied for specific purpose, and the
error so plainly to be seen, We were
justified in our conclusion of the
spirit with which they were used.
That the shot fred has missed its
mark and the gun recoiled with
damaging effect upon its owner, is the
explanation of LIS rage. It ought
to teach him more discretion here
after. We commend to him the we'll
known saying of Davy Crockett for his
future guidance.
This accurate Statistician charges
us with "a base attempt to create un-
due prejudice against Colonel CUM
BACK Rather let him bear the
odium of such an act, ON account of
his untruthful charge against Govern
or BAKER He does not know us any
better than he claims to have under
stood the election figures. We claim
to bethe friends of Colonel CUMBACK
We admire his consistent and ardent
devotion to the principles of freedom
and loyalty. We recognize his serv-
ices to the party, his eloquence, and
the brilliant future which is before
him as public man, if hesis prudent
and avoids the advice of such unsafe
counsellorssas "a" We will cheer
fully and enthusias tically support him
for Governor if he should be nomi-
mated by the Republican party. We
regard him. as our personal friend
although we see proper to advocate
the fitness of BAKERS nomination.
We have studiously avoided the cir
culation of the stories against him |
which have appeared in the press or
are current In political circles We
would not resort to such impolitic
methods to prevent his nomination,
any more than we would stoop to the
unwarrantable tricks with which the
Statistician is familiar. go sfsla Il
IL" ingeniously seeks to divert
attention from his laundering assault |
upon Gov BAKER by preferring a
false charge against us. Disguised
with g figures, which contrary to the
general belief, sometimes do lie, he at |
tempts to manufacture a controversy |
between us and the Methodist Church.
We are unwilling that he should play |
the role of the .Artful Dodger." He
alleges that we INDUCED in 'ssevere |
structures upon the preachers, teach |
ers, and students " of .Asbury Uni |
versity. in our notice of. an incident at |
the last Commencement and even
Icondescended to the use of the Cop-f
perhead argument that preachers |
must not NEEDLE with politics. We
are constrained to say that a. L. |
is as much in error in this charge as
in his citation of the g figures" We
did no such thing. We copied a
couple of paragraphs from corre-
spondence in the Indianapolis Jour
nal, from which it appeared that Gov.
BAKER and Col CUMBAcK were
present at the Alumni supper at |
Asbury, and that a toast to - The
neat Governor iiof Indiana IT was |
offered, to which Colonel CuMBAcK |
was called upon to respond. We did |
term the act an " indiscretion, (cer-
tainly a mild term and made the |
suggestion that the preachers and
beardless students" might be better
employed. And upon tn s, and this |