The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-03

unders God me, and can't imagine
how he can see it no be to his In
terest 20 pqrposely umisrepreseat me
as 70 so plaIGn matter. What I
said in 4 Gard from tie Gas Of
fee, published Just one. week. ago, 3
was that dessfs4 Eleilmau, Capelief
and myself, stockholders and direct
ors,) with the Secretary. foreman and
six or eight laboring hands, "ogfre the
only pers0Hs IN EVANSVILLE, a1hO had
any pecuniaTy interest an the Gas Com
Pany." Upon what principle Except
the COurier's) can Mr.. Walker make
this plain statement the foundation
for his assertion that Mr. j. j.
Chandler had published a card to the
effect that he and two other gentle
men composed the Gas Company2i 77
can't conceive why Mr.. Walker
should seek to draw the Gas Company
and myself into his canvass for the
MayOralty. unless it is for the purpose
Of tntintdtiag Gas the JOURNAL re-
porter understood him. that his op-
ponent has some secretin interest 10 the
Company. IF that be his purpose, L
feel free to say he knows the intima-
ton to be false. And while [ confess
my surprise that VIM. II. Walker
should stoop to such an act, 1 see ia
1t nothing but the customary demoral-
izatiOn Of candidacy for Office, and
the natural consequences Of his pres
ent associations, The whole stock 10
trade Of his party in this canvass
consists Of low, sneaking. cowardly
insinuatiops, without a single direct
charge that any man can put his
finger on. Mr.. Walker knows that,
in the Summer of 1866, the Gas Com
pany appealed from Mayor Bakers
unjust exactions in favor of the
city and citizens, to himself and
four other gentlemen, arbitrators,
chosen by the Council, and agreed to
by US, Notwithstanding they were in
terested against the Company as gas
consumers, and that it was through
him and them that we were relieved
from some of the troubles In which
Mr.. Bakers one-sided view of the
matters In controversy had involved
US. He knows that the arbitrators
had possession of the Company's
journal, stock and general ledger, and
the opportunity of seeing just who
were our stockholders, what were
their profits, and everything else per-
tanning to the Company. If he look
ed at them he saw that Mr.. Baker was
not a stakeholder, and had no inter
est, and that Capelle and Heuman
became so In June, 1863, one of them
Investing $4,000 and the other less
than 81, 900, and that they had never
received one cent Of return from those
investments, as.they have not 7 even 4
unto this day
In conclusion / would say, that if
DIR. Walkers assertion that he knew
that there we're more than the three
named who were members of the
company. did not mean to infinite
what the reporter understood it to
intimate, it was neither a very wise
Or very deep remark. The names Of
the stockholders of the company were
published in the JOURNAf. In August
last, In connection with the new ar
tTcles of assoeiationo OF the companY, 81
as follows: George Peabody, J s.
Z. Goode, Of London; Geo.
d. Morgan. e. ID. Morgan. and X ID.
Jr, of New York John A.
Brown aud Mrs. Mary Cotton, Of
Philadelphia; William .CApelle, Will
liam Heilman, Herman Junker, aud
j. j. Chandler, of Evansville. al lD
Il republish the names for the bene-)0
BE- Of the Courier. It will see that y
most of the stockholders are nom
So it. can pitch in, and
mt en- again. they've got no
friends. JNO. j., CHANDLER -.rs