The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-30
,nmhleness PersnnIlied.

We copy from the Courier the fol-
lowing report Of the little excitement
at the Democratic meeting on Satur-
day night. We do so that our readers
may understand the full merits Of the
case:
Mr.. Walker said he had found it
very difficult to make a financial re-
been closed when he commenced, and
he had, therefore, been compelled to
make up the report item by ITEM His
administration was ushered IN under
very embarrassing circumstances,
and, to add to the difficulty, the
JOURNAL had advised the people
not TO pay their taxes. NOtWlth
standing this, however, the
taxes had been collected, and the
present city officers had done as we'll
az could have been expected Of them.
The Mayor then entered into a review
of the controversy which had sprung
up between the Courier and the
JOURNAL touching his report. and
proved conclusively that the JOUR
NAL, in the absence of any facts
damaging to the present administra-
ton, was resorting to misrepresenta-
tiOns and personal abuse. lie then
referred to the expenditures OF the
city during his administration, claim
ing that they had been less than those
Of his predecessor in Office. For in
stance, In the one item OF gas, the
city had saved $4,000 this year.
Mr.. Heilmau, from the rear part Of
the hail, cried out, that is lie" In
an instant every man in the house
was upon his feet ard serious trouble
might have onsued, but for the firm,
dignifed aud manly bearing of the
Mayor. He shouted to the audience
to keep their seats. He had been
taking that word for the past week
aud it could not hurt him now. The
excitement which could not be al
layed, prevented the Mayor from con-
tinuing his remarks, and after few
words from DR.. Morgan, the meeting
adjourned.
Mr.. WALKER says he found it
very difficult to make financial re-
port as the Clerks books had not
been closed when he commenced. "
The Clerks books were fully posted
many days before the Mayor made
his report, and had been compared
and found to agree exactly with
the Treasurer's books. Therefore the
Mayors difficulties existed only in
his Imagination.
The Mayor next entered into
review Of the controversy which had
sprung up between the Courier and
the JOURNAL touching his report,
and proved conclusively that
the JOURNAL, in the absence
of any facts damaging to
the present city administration,
was resorting to misrepresentation
and personal abuse" But why don't
the Courier give the proof? Why
does it omit that, the most important
part, of the Mayors speech? We
have been calling for the proof for
more than week, and still it is
not forthcoming Mayor WALKER
charged that Mayor BAKER did not
give the full Indebtedness of the city
in his report OF April 18th, 1868, by
over $37 600 This we have repeat
edly and emphatieally denied, and
called upon Mayor WALKER to sub
stantiate his statement by specifying,
item by item, the character of
this Indebtedness. This he and
his friends persistently refuse to do
The only reason why they don't do it
Is, because they can't. No such in
debtedness existed, and they know it.
Mayor Walker asserted that part of
that Indebtedness was notes due in
bank June I'd, amounting to S14, 4O9.-
10. We have denied the existence of
such notes, and challenged the Mayor
or his friends to specify them. But
the challenge is disregarded. We
suppose it will be disregarded Whv2
Because the Mayor knows that no
such notes we're In existence ut tho
time he took possession of the Nav.
er's Office.
Now, because of these things, the
Mayor says-with the meekuess of a
Uriah Heep-in response to Mr.. He'll.
MANS assertion that the statement
he LWALKER] was making with re-
gard to his reduction of the city ex-
pense for gas was lie" that he had
been taking that word for the past
week. and it could not hurt him now"