The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-22

knows that something must be done
to change the current of popular
opipion or the State will be carried
for GRANT and ConFAX by a majors
ty of thousands of votes. The Re-
publieans are united and enthusiastic;
the Democrats are discourse I'd and
demoralized. Hence the committee
must sag something. if it can do moth
ing to inspire the Democrats with
fresh hope and zeal. To this difficult
task. Mr.. J. J. BINGHAM, Secretary
Of the Committee, applied himself
with commendable earnestness and
skill. and an Address to the Vo-
tors Of Indiana" is the result. 1t
Is N of the best specimens of dismal
whistling to keep up the party cour-
age to which we v e had the pleas
ure of listening.
The Address starts out by con-
graduating the Democratic and Con-
servative voters of Indiana on the
noble struggle they have made. It
then proceeds to enumerate the won
derful results which have been ac-
complished, notwithstanding Congress
sional and State official patronage and
influence were arrayed against the
party. 1t wisely ignores the fact that
the patronage of the National Execu-
tive, which is more than that of Con-
gress and the State put together, was
arrayed on the side of Democracy.
The picture to be painted by MI.
BINGHAM must contain nothing but
bright and cheerful %colors, and the
fact that the party had failed in spite
ST Presidential aid and favor. was a
sha1ing too dark TO be in harmony
with the general design.
Having enunciated the great gains
made by the party since 1860 and
1867, the Committee, through Mr.. j..
j. BINGHAM, goes on to prove that
the same rate of increase from Octo-
Der to November, will give the State
to SEYMOUR and BLAIR. Figures
will not lie! The deduction. is as
logical and plain as a pike staff
But this is not all. Not only did
the Republicans succeed by the skin
Of their teeth, but by the most sys-
tematic aud atrocious frauds. Voters
were c~olOnized, aud money was Law
ishly used to corrupt the ineorrupt-
lille Democracy. Democratic voters
were prevented from casting their
ballots by a failure to provide the
necessary faeilities for voting" Isn't
that interesting reading for Evans
Vile Democrats, who did all they
could against providing the "necss-
sary facilities for voting?" Bat this
paragraph Is so good, so applicable to
this latitude, that we will not be do
lug our readers justice unless we copy
it entire:
Voters we're colonized by then
from the surrounding States where
no elections were held, and many
were no doubt voted. In many locali-
tics large numbers were disfranchised
In this city. at one precinct, fully
three hundred Democratic voters we're
prevented from casting their ballots
by a failure to provide the necessary
facilities for voting, with a full know
ledge that such would be the case.
Wherever the enemy had the control
Of the ballot box, every impediment
was placed in the way of a free vote
Of the Democratic voters. In several
Radical counties the vote of Demo ,
cratic precincts have been thrown out,
and in others the Radical inspectors.
10 defiance of law, took home with
them the ballot boxes on the day of
election, and the result was largely
increased Radical majorities.
The Courier has already establish
Ell a reputation for joking, but il never
perpetrated a better one than when it
published Mr.. B~INGHAM's address as
an incentive to Democrats in this To-
eality. When it is remembered how
voters just from Kentucky swore in
their votes ia this city, all of whom
voted the Democratic ticket; when it
is remembered that the Democrats
violently opposed providing " neces-
sary facilities for voting" when it is
still further remembered that the
only case in the city where the ballot
box was taken home on the day of
elections ~ defiance Of ld0, was
where a Republican Inspector aud
Judge gave the box In charge of the
only Democratic Judge on the Board !;
when all these things are remembered,
the magnitude of Mr.. BINGHAM's
joke can be the better appreciated.
Seriously, every allegation of his adj
dress is a condemnation Of the Demo-
Gratis 10 this part Of the State. In
every county on the Kentucky border
the Democrats increased their ma
j~orities enormously. In every Repub-
lican county on the border of Michi-
gan there is no corresponding increase.
This fact gives the lie to all of Mr..
BINGHAM's assertions. Z
The address does not fail to wind
up with an earnest appeal. 1t says
the names ofrSEYMoUR and BLAIR
will float on their banners until the
Presidential election ends In victory
or defeat. Perhaps so. But the last
dispatches from Tammany don't look
like it. Democrats are urged to
march on-press forward They
must not let go Of the pillow to look
backward" The light breaks be-
fore US" cloquently says BINGHAM.