The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-18
Prosecuting AttOrney-A Ca from
Gen. Harrow.

-~-- 4 ne artlcle In -your-lSSue -eI-tffe
roc 10th inst, headed : Prosecuting At
:. torney and Common Pleas gadge."
r,ycompels this .compunication. You
e say the g Unidn men of Marlborough
County feel committed by the action
- OF the eounty Convention, to give
/ 20 their united support to Capt Har9
grave" This assertion is gratuitous,
in not being based upon any sufficient
authority The notice forEyour Coun-
! = xty Convention, sighed by the Chair
man of the Executive Committee, did
* not inform any ode that such Con-
vention would recommend or indorse
candidates. other than for the County
offices. No one who was candidate
for Prosecuting Attorney, orc who
may have desired to become such,
~s - had any sufficient sreasonsfor supposi
ing your Convention would go OUT
Fns4asss side of the cal, and in aaJ yiell
&c take to control the action of
9s gss the people, in, reference TO Prose
cutor for this judicial district If such
go notice had been given, T. might have
gasid y attended your meeting in person. to
s1a-1 present my claims or pretensions, ard
f also have taken the necessary steps
ito secure, fat least, impartial action, if
X not favorable result. In this (Posey)
uLaO' County, the Convention did not. una
dertake to endorse, because of a re-
quest to some of my friends not to do
SO, there. being two candidates before
the people, and the call not INFORM,
Z ing either candidates or people ofany
purpose to act la reference to district
G ma tiers. Had the like course been
+ pursued in Vanderburgh, there would
have been no necessity for the at
tempt in yonr paper, the only Repub-
llcan daily in the Circuit, TO : commit
+ Union men to my prejudice"
< You may do much to bias public
H,4 sentiment, but your authority to con-
'' vert the Union men OF this District
+ to the support OF any particular indi
l wa idual, by the action of meetings
-. vention, is denied ssa2
4 You, also, further, gratuitously say
in your issue of Monday, that Judge
- - PARROT expressed himself highly graf
49, fled at the recon mendation of prose
cutor Hargrave. While the Judg e's
sympathy may be fairly attributed to
7 the recollection OF former party asso-l
/ Citations. Services and ties that exist
/ e. Va ed between himself orc his prrty and
.ssTio Capt. Hargrave, it will have but little
iTs !. influence in committing UDion men,
IsGen unless 1 greatly. mistakesthe Union
Sd g sentiment of this District. My
9 esa6 S e. name was 6rst 3 announced as
krerv-rlv a candidate ac and 5notwithstand-
e 59.3 3i..s ing the pretended Willingness of
A7sSel the Captain aud his friends to make
some adjustment. neither he or they
have ever approached meep the sub
.2jecta but,on the contrary, the rumor
- had reached me from several sources,
that Hargrave intended to run under |
eTEany circumstances,8 and moreover |
have been told he said, he wouldr,
beat Gen. Harrow two to one" This
latter sentiment sounds much like the-i
storv IF the hov who tS III 10 h. va L
KA9t whistled In passing aIgraveyard." T
Two weeks or more since did indi- |
cate my willingness to comply with |
80 - - party custom and usage, In a letter |
addressed to Appointment citizen of /
Your, CITY, but have heard nothing /
-, from it.. So far as the Republican,
party in four of the six counties COM
n, posing the judicial Circuit, ha ye by the |
yad ew authorized action of .eoavas ton en-
m ls, nlozldorsed any one, / may .fsFly claim
soabes such endOrseme nj, when it is remem-
rsH 10 bered that twelve months uce they
W az rendered me the noni nation for Cor
gress, when it was we'll nnderseoeds Y
sought -desired-it- brief
Areference to- the record of the Cap T
tain and myself may be pa rdoned /
SOaGFrom the fsst, hour d. the prganiza-
ton of the Republican party none
have supported the party moreVzeal-f
ously than myself. Can Captain III ,
HT say'as much can ,lthe p0pRNAL asayI
as much for him? While | was en- 4
deavoring to build up, Captain Haf 7
grave was; trying, or at least acting |
with and Supporting those whor-wege
trying to break down. Will that re1 7
u commend him to Union men?"
sl2 SsWken Ijoineds the ffstAthree years,
regiment organized in Indiana, to
fight the enemies of the Union cause,
Captain Hargrave was identified with |
land acting with the party opposing
the war.
~ = when nearly half of my regiment /
'sislosh had been killed or wounded BY the
.ofa enemy CAPTAIN Harcravea cwaso still /
in the ranks of the "not-a man tor
Il notrardollar party When he ceased I
to act with them I cannot say. Dur
ing his con nexionJ with the army if
he heard the whistling of hostile bull
n3 lets 0rwItnessed the flowing of Union 7
blood shed by rebels In Par arfnsI L am
,Tr,f1y not advised of the time and place. i
enos - am not salts fed tina 1.-THE Union aparsl
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