The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-26
Chaplain Lozier,s Explanation, !.

Chaplain Lozier's Explanation. q 4
| FIJI ON the indianapolis Journal, Aug. %. ]
To the Editor of the Journal: .if.asarsf1.,
My attention has been called to an
article in. the Journal, of the Doth
copied from the Evansville JOURNAL,
wherein my communication relative
to the vote for State officers in 1864
is criticised in terms that demand
some notice. ~, srraTf3E f,,,se's
Twas satisfied to let, the correc-
ton made by Fair Play" go to the
public as a fair. explanation of the
cause of nay mistake, The writer
seemed willing to give me credit for
honesty in the matter, and from the
statement made by him it is apparent
that the same mistake would easily be
made by any person who would ex-
anime the books of the Secretary of
/ State. The aggregate vote as given
by the Secretary of State would be
received by any gentleman as unques-
tionably correct, without stopping to
overhaul the items that make UP that
aggregate This explanation would
furthermore satisfy any gentleman as
to my disinclination to falsify the re-
cord. or to wrong Governor Baker.
| The harsh and unbecoming language,
of the writer in the Evansville jour
NAL demands, however, that / make
some further, statement of the facts.
The Journals of the Legislature of
1865 show that. al. the time fixed by
the Constitution, the votes for Gov,
ernor and Lieutenant Governor were
canyassed in joint convention. The
result of that canvass shows that
Morton received 152.0S4 votes for
Governor, and Baker 147, 795 votes for
Lieutenant Governor. These figures
were undoubtedly thought to be ;eor-
rect by the members of that General
Assembly, and their actions there
upon is shown in their public journals /
scattered all over the State The |
Secretary of State furnished these /
figures to the Legislature, and UNI
doubtedly thought they were correct.
Furthermore, when gentleman of !
my acquaintance, who desired state.
ment of the vote for the fall Union !
ticket, applied to the Secretary of
State for the same, the Secretary sent |
him certified copy of the aggregate
vote for each candidate on the Union /
ticket for 1864. This certified copy I |
saw, and from it the figures given IT,
me were copied Uer6qtina. Up to thai |
time, the error, so palpable to the
editor of a newspaper published down
in " the pocket" had not been dis
covered by the Secretary. himself
With the above facts before them,
the public can not fail to discover
that the publication made in the
Evansville JOURNAL, so far from
being a fair and truthful vindication
of Governor Baker, was a malicious
onslaught on myself, and a base at
tempt to create undue prejudice
against Colonel Cumback, in locality
where his friends could have no OPP
portunlty of indicating his character
through similar channel. Here I
desire to distinctly say that Colonel
Cumback never intimated to me his
desire that | should publish that or
any other communication presenting
in any way his name to the public as
a candidate for Governor; neither did
he know who was the author of that
article until told him so myself after
its publication. Any ipsinuation of
the Evansville JOURNAL to the con-
trary is simply gratuitous. . sss baa ~
The efforts OF the Evansville jour 4
NAL, to make capital against ,Cumback
are as shallow as stheyaare sungener-
Gus. When, at the late commence
ment of the tAsbury University, the
toast, Our Next Governor" was
given, and Colonel Cumback, "a former
trustee of the institution, was called
on to respond by the assembly (who
enormously supposed be was presently
that journal made it the occasion Of
severe structures upon the preachers
and teachers aud students concerned
and even .condescended to the use, of
the q Copperhead argument that
preachers must not NEEDLE with
politics" During the great struggle
for the nations life the Methodist
preachers have occasionally had some
thing to do with politics, and with fifl-
ing the ranks of the defenders of the
Union. If the Evansville JOURNAL
or any other newspaper thinks that
its abuse will awe them in silence, or
frighten them into the support of .
any candidate it may choose to make
for them, il will probably recover
from its hafiucination before it is /
many years older. Any such ami ;
mosities as those sought. to be en-
gendered by the Evansville JOURNAL
against Methodist ministers are GER .
tainly not to be desired by the Union
party, and would be deprecated by
none more than by the friends of Col.
Cumback; but such abusive language
as that used in that paper, viii make
no friends for its candidate3 neither
party. =
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