The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-03-19
AN ELECTIONEERING DOCUMENT.


The Hon. G.. ~Julian, - las abeen~en~
gagged in electioneering in Wayne county
in a manner which we think isnot JUS 1
'tifiable, and which we think the people
will condem just before the meeting
of the Mass Convention at Centrevillel
he addressed a circular to his @friends,
of the District. and has received the re-
bul1e its malicious spirit merited. We
extract some of its most interesting sen
fences. He says: se&
sour success in the Congressional
nomination will probably hinge upon
the action of Wayne county lin April;
for can hardly expect to succeed in
the other counties, if start out with
defeat at home. The right sort Of men
should be chosen as delegates to the
State Convention, so as to influence the
general sentiment of the State in my ia
vor." .r sst
From the above it will be seen that
his idea of the duties of delegates to the
State Convention consists i'll their zeal
for him, and the urging Of his indiyidu-
al aspirations to the people oatsid e the
district The attempt was made, and
the nett result was that the 'speople Of
the State were intensely Disguised.
Again he says:
The contest, as usual, will be bitter,
but we can win, and we must The vic
tory will be worth far more than any
vet achieved. fort will be final victo 81
. ry, over desperate faction of malig-
nants, who, as last resort have at
tempted to leg;sldte me out of Congress-
It will be q shame, after SO many tri-s
umphs. if we fail to rebuke this coward.
! Iy conspiracy of demagogues, by brand
ing it as failure and disgrace. But
for this foul plot to Dust and degrade
me, l would not feel like struggling
further for the privilege of wearing out
. my life, as have done for the last seven
years in this weary treadmill CT Con
gress. Such a life has few charms and
very many burdens But I cannot volr
unfairly resign it now, in the face of
. the enemy - zs s-#@ .s'H -
:a He voluntarily predicts that the con
test will be bitter If SO it will be be-
cause of the slanderous and abusive
language used above by him, toward his
opponents. So far as Gen. Bennett is
concerned he publicly avows in every
speech he makes that he will not allow
himself'to say one unkind word of Mr.
Julian, although the provocation given
above is great, for he believes that Re-
publicans have enough to do in fighting
the common enemy without engaging in
q uarrels among themselves, and we
know, that he has earnestly requested
his friends and supporters to conduct
the canvass on the most friendly terms.
Mr.. Julian, as seen above, encourages
his friends, by informing them that the
victory will be final one, meaning that
hereafter he will be allowed to go to
Congress without opposition, as long as
he desires to do so. He speaks OF the
perso ns no dare to prefer another, as
a desperate faction of malignants,"
such charge needs no comment.
But the worst of all his bad document,
is that where he charges the Republican
members of the Legislature as ''cow-
ardiy conspiracy of demagogues." The
charge embraces the whole of the Re-
publican members, for the bill redis-
sricting the State was voted for by every
one of them, including the personal
frieuds of Mr.. Julian,t who represented
the counties of Randolph, Delaware and
Henry in that Legislature. The bill
can be justified upon every principle of
justice, and can be opposed by no one
except the Copperheads who desired to
coop up two thirds of the Republican
majority Of the State in one district, |
that they might carry the others, and
by Mr.. Julian who seems to think that
q district of eight thousand majority |
should be kept on purpose for his &C
commodation, while other districts are
represented by Copperheads. If Mr..
Julian thinks he can make friends or |
help the cause of Republicanism by thus |
siandering and maligning men whose.
lives have been devoted to our cause he
has made a great mistake. 1.-The designs
To iujure his opponent, Gen. Bennett, |
by such malicious and false charges, he
Eaay "a well learn now that the people
will compare the records of both to see
who is a coUard and who is a demagogue
1t certainly is not in good taste for
man of Mr. Julian's record to call a
soldier a coward, and especially is it in
bad taste to thus s-buse one who has in
every campaign labored day and night
for the success of Mr.. Julian, as has
6 en-. Bennett. 1t is needless to refer TO
the egotism displayed in the assertion
that the object Of the Legislature was to
must imagine himself a wonderful per-