The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-16
rhe Late Republican Meeting at
IndiaRanOliS. -

f1ef0tO Tor information concerning
the recent meeting of Republican,
from various parts of the State at til,
Capital for the purpose Of counsel
ling together, and ascertaining tn,
views of the party with reference t.
the best policy to be pursued, anc
also perfecting an organization fol
the campaign next year. In com
menting on this meeting, the Herald
used the following language:
At the very opening of the meet
ing 1t was developed that there was a
difference Of sentiment as wide as the
poles. The assemblage was in fact
bolsterous. 1t could not reconcile,
and there was no disposition to
smother the inharmonious spirit. The
question up for discussion was as to
the platform of the party during the
canvass-the issues upon which the
great political battle of 1868 should
be fought. Here the Radicals and
Conservatives at once locked horns. .
Julian, and Orth, and Coburn repre-
scented the Radical ideas and policy.
They insisted with the eioquence of
their fiery and impetuous natures and
all the legic they could command,
that prohibition, negro suffrage, the
payment of the public debt in gold
both principal and interest-and the
exemption of bonds from taxation,
were cardinal principles Of the Re-
publican party.
Another paragraph of the Herald
is as follows:
" They expressed themselves willing
20 ignore these measures in the plat
form of the coming State Republican
fact, to stoop little
for success. They were willing to
humbug the Gerrans ON prohibition,
the tender-footed Republicans on the
negro suffrage question, and the dis
position that was manifested, even In
the Republican ranks. to pay the pub
he debt just as 1t was contracted, to
secure a partisan triumph, but upon
the guarantee that if they succeeded in
the election next Fall the measures
which they enunciated should be
maintained. :"
Accepting these statements as true
The Journal talks strongly against en-
grating on the next Republican plat
form temperance resolution, and al
eges that the day ter humbugging
he Germans, or any other intelligent
class of citizens, is past.
In another article the journal says
he Republicans met at the Capital
'or the purpose Of deciding upon the
platform of the party to be put forth
oy the next State Convention, and
hat the people viii repudiate the ac-
ion OF gentlemen who constitute
promulgators of doctrines
md 'faal judges Of expedients, when
.hese doctrines and expedients do not
seem sound and wise.
Now. we respectfully submit to our
Wabash namesake, that all such talk,
Notwithstanding it is gratuitous, can
10 no good, and may do much harm.
In the first place, every single item
hat it copies from the Herald, if we
except the statement that a meeting
vas held, is positively or insinuatingA
y false. The assemblage was not
ooisterous. While there was some
Inference of opinion on financial
andsother questions, The differences
we're stated clearly and quietly.
There was 40 desire, IN dch less any
necessity, to reconcile differences.
The ot;ect of-the meeting was ex-
oressly TO ascertain the character and
luality or the differences of opinion
IS they existed among the people.
There was no wish to fix up plat
form for 1863, much less any attempt
to construct one. There was no
locking of horns y between the
Radicals and Conservatives Messrs.
JULIAN, ORTIZ and CoBURN,, didn't
insist, with the eloquence of fiery and
natures, that prohibition,
negro suffrage, payment of the public
debt in gold, aud the exemption of
bonds from taxation, we're cardinal
principles of the Republican party"
Messrs. JULIAN and CoBURN did not
speak at all, and Mr. Darn was
neither fiery. impetuous, nor eloquent.
He made few remarks, which werei
appropriate, and disturbed nobody's
equanimity.. There was no talk about
humbugging the Germans, or any
other man, in order to gain success.
In short, the HerdId's pretended facts
were the coinage of its own disordered