The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04
Light Faxes and free ScaOois.''

Courier of LIGHT TAXES AND FREE
/ SCHOOLS IN every number Of that
paper.
Our exposition Of County levies has
demonstrated that the average rate
per cent. during the last six years of
( Democratic Management was ffty per
cent. greater than during the last six
years of Republican administration,
and that the taxation per voter, the
best test Of comparison, was with the
following result:
i Per Voter
Be5a9seratie eosnty TaxatLon (gad) ~ p g g
Mayor BAKERS exhibit of the
! City lgvies shows that the rate
Of taxation during the three Demo-
t1clstio years preceding his admin
fistrations were hoent,. foe per : cent
higher than during the nine years he
has been In Office. And yeti with
these undisputed facts so well known,
the c5ap:ier has the unparalleled as
surance to promise the people light
taxes if the Democratic party is re-
turned TO power in this city. The
past gives no such assurance, and the
voters Of Evansville will not be-
lieve it.
The " FREE SCHOOL " cry is even
more ridiculous, coming from the Dem
ocratie press and leaders,, than that for
Light lakes" During the past
twelve years the Democratic leaders
have done all they dared to injure the
efficiency and retard the progress of
the noble system of Public Schools.
1t will be remembered how persistent
ly they sought, by every artifce, to
take away our Special City Charter,
which enabled US to maintain our
Schools when a Democratic Supreme
Court had struck them down 10 every
other cityln the State; how they have
sought to injure them by seeking to
displace the men, who. by personal
and disinterested labors, established
and raised them to their present proud
position. And now their candidate
for Mayor proclaims from the stump
that our school houses recently built
are too large and too fac for our chill
dren, aud that they are IlOre than suf-
ficient for twenty years to come. Yet
these are the men who are shouting
the hypocritical cry Of Free Schools"
They are the wolves in sleeps cloth
ing who would rend and destroy that
which our people most highly prize
They cannot, they will not, be trusted
with the control Of our Schools
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SoME Evansville jackanapes writes
a column communication in the Cour-
Ter which he would have the people
believe came from Hopkins County.
We don't believe there is man in
Hopkins County who would write any
such stuff Among other things, this
fellow says there is great falling off
in the amount of business done here,
while Louisville is enjoying a splen-
did trade. This is news, both to the
merchants of Louisville and our own
city. The pitiful fool also chatters
about the influence which the Radi-
cal press and Radical party have
welded 10 the city affairs. If he was
really a resident Of Hopkins County,
he would know that the Evansville |
JOURNAL has a circulation In that |
very County three times as large as
any Democratic paper published in
this city. If any one doubts this, we
are prepared to compare subscription
books with any other office. In addi- I
ton to all this, it is notorious that the /
early completion of the Evansville, |
Henderson g. Nashville Railroad, in /
which the people of Hopkins County |
are so largely interested, depends IN a
great measure, if not altogether, upon
the success of what this nincompoop |
is pleased to call the Radical eaudi-
date for Mayor This fact is recog-
nized by the people Of Henderson, /
and the intelligent citizens of the in
terror Counties
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