The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-30
COpperhead Lying By one OF the
Leaders.

COpperhead Lying By one OF the
Leaders.
The manager of the Democratic
Market House meeting, on Friday
night, was man of whom the read
ers of the JOURNAL have heard in
these columns before. We have had
occasion in the past to hold up PETER
MATER in his true light to the people
OF this city. His advocacy of the
Democratic cause will not have a ten
dency to advance the success of the
ticket any more than his abuse of
WILLIAM BAKER and WILLIAM He'll
MAN will iniure them in the estima-
ton of all good men. He is an Ish-
maelite in his profession, a more than
Uriah Heep in society, and a ven
omous Copperhead in politics.
He has been ready at all times to re-
sort to any thing however disreputable
to serve his private purpose or his
party gain. We were inclined to lash
him with the singing whip of bitter
invective, but the game is hardly
worth the powder. We cannot, how
ever, in justice to those whom he
seeks to malign with his mendacious
tongue, pass by in silence some of his
known falsehoods. Ia his speech at the
Market House, 10 his abuse of Mayor
BAKER and the Council, he had the
audacity, in the face of the general
knowledge of the public, to assert
that the Council on the very night
or the next following the application
for the Street Railroad Charter.
granted the request, before the people
had a chance to have voice In the
matter. 1t is hardly incumbent upon
us to enter upon defense of the
Street Railroad Company, as the
Democratic candidate for Mayor is
one of the leading stockholders; and
it is only necessary for us to assert
what the Journal of the City Clerk
will show, and what all our citizens
know, that the question of the pas
sage of the Charter was pending in
the Council for FIVE OF six weeks.
He repeats the old lie, which we
most positively denied. about the
raising of fund of $4,000 to secure
the election Of Mayor BAKER. And
in that connection, states that after
the Council had let contract to the
LIANT BROTHERS, for the Sycamore
Street sewer up to Sixth Street, they
let the contract for its extension to
Eighth Street or beyond, where the
sewer is much nearer the surface of
the earth, at the same price paid for
the first six squares. where it was
deeper, and, of course, costs great deal
more to build it" The City Records
show that July IS, 1866 a contract
was made with LIANT BRos. for the
of the Sycamore Street /
Sewer to Sixth Street, at $40 per
linear foot, and that june IA, 1867,
second contract was made with the /
same parties for its extension from
Sixth Street to the terminus at s. per
linear foot-being, on the whole I
work, $4,000 Ie than any other bid.
So much for that malicious lie.
He also charged that the Seventh
Street School House was not let to
the lowest bidder, and that ALLEN &
CLARKE were the lowest bidders.
The contract with LIANT BROTHERS
was one thousand dollars less than
the lowest amount named by ALLEN
&'CLARKE, and they had an equal
chance for competition before the
contract was closed. And with that
assertion, utterly without a fOunda-
ton in truth, this apostle Of Democ-
-acv closed his mendacious aud IN
scrupulous harangue, and with the
foregoing fat denials and citation of
lates and figures from the records,
We dismiss this specimen who claims
10 be a nan.
The enumeration for 1867 shows that
here are 1907 children within the
school corporation Of Evansville en-