The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-31

in Office the Democratic candidate for
/ Mayor with any ground Of hope that
he vii be able to reduce the taxes.
Il appears by his own statement over
/ bis own signature, that under his ad-
ministratioa Of affairs it was i'm
possible 10 obviatc the necessity Of
higher taxes than our neighbors.
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Attacks upon Mayor Baker and our
/ Public schools.
! The fCous5er Of Sunday has a
lengthy article which purports to be
an expositios of Mayor BAKERS ad-
min s.vation. but it is so covered up
by inDuendoes and strained attempts
at sarcasm, that it is hard for a plain
man to comprehend the authors in
tent. The whole thing is fat and in
sipid as sarcasm, it is false and sean
dalous in its innuendoes, and its only
effect will be to create a feeling of
pity for the creature who compiled it.
IL does not give single official date
or record, and makes no pretence to
a citation of facts. 1t is pointless and
harmless agai nst the man whom it
was tended to malign and injure.
We copy one of the paragraphs from
which our readers can form a good
idea of the whole. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
O.. sf-troor rrorrsts
Look az the school houses built by the
Mayor. Some fguoramuses are contend
ing that the thIrty-five or forty thousand
dollars expended in the erection of the
splendid building beyond Eighth Street,
might have been used for building two or
three plain substantial houses, instead of
this superb structure. It is also limited
that the Mayor owns real estate near this
school house. And here we have anOt her
proof of the disiuterestednes and self
sacrificing disposition of His HonOr. Who
wants a school house near their property?
Is It not well known that the daily noise
ana pranks OF the school children must
have the effect OF reducing the value Of
all property in the neighbOrhOOd? Who.
then, excepting our worthy Mayor, would
nave submitted to such a sacrifice? The
least that can be said Of these fault-finders 1
j
OF taste, or a fair appreciation OF hashy
concentrations, and would grudgingly
refuse to spend the money necessary for |
this very useful style of Improvement.
such people are too practical by halt No
we cast all such p7rsimony behind our
backs; let US have a splendid Mayor, /
splendid public buildings, and a splendid
city.
We confess the sarcasm" con
tanned in the above, is so deep that it
is hard forus to comprehend its mean
ing But if there is any point in it
whatever. it is that the Mayor has
done too much in the way Of build
ing school houses. It exaggerates
the cost of the Ninth Street School
House twenty FIVE per cent. The
fling at the personal interest of the
Mayor is unworthy of notice. The t
whole intent Of the article is to rem
der the people dissatisfied with what
has been done by our City authorities
towards placing our Public School
System upon foundation of per-
manence and usefulness. It is the
same spirit which actuated WILLIAM
III. Waller in his declaration that
we wanted no more school houses in
that quarter for twenty years to come.
1t is the old spirit of opposition to
our Public Schools, which would, by
these insidious attacks, render them
and finally break down the
system altogether.
We stated, yesterday, and are pre-
pared to prove, that the majority of
the men who will vote for VIM. II.
WALKER for Mayor do not send their
children to the Public Schools of this
City to-day. More than this, we as
sert that this same majority would, f
they had the power, abolish our Free
Schools altogether. If WILLIAM BA-
kerr not to be our next Mayor, it will
be because of the opposition Of these
special champions of Democracy, who 1
are not only opposed to good school
houses, but to all free public schools