The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-10
From tho Indianapolis Journal
Tho Spring EIectI0ns-HOW the De-
mOeracV TriuuDhed.

street on Thursday, the Sentinel, yes
terday morning, attempts to avert the
damage done the citizens" scheme
in the summing up of the Republican
gains made IN this city last Tuesday,
by claiming that in the Fifth and
Sixth Words, where the only contest
occurred, the result really has no po-
~litical significance. We refuted this
absurd claim yesterday. by showing
that, while in the Fifth Ward, for in
stance, Dir. Reagan pOlled even more
than the full strength Of his party,
tho Republicans still made a clear,
Lindisputable gain of fifty one. The
fact of the Republican victory is so
patent that it is useless to further ar
que it. The Geatinel only bewilders
itself in its lame and pitiable effort.
One sentence of the editorial, the
closing one, we desire to pay a little
attention to. 1t is as follows:
THE city elections throughout the
State give evidence Of the decline and
overthrow of the unhealthy and cor
rupt party organization that has added
so largely to the public burdens since
it has been the ruling power In our
municipal, State and national govern
ments."
In order to bring the question to a
direct issue, we assert that the city
elections throughout the State " show
no such thing, and and we will give
the evidence to support the traverse.
On Wednesday morning tho Sentinel
paraded its rooster at the head of dis
patches from Madison, Peru, Column
bus and Terre Haute, at which places
it was trumpeted large Democratic
victories had been secured. We care
to say nothing about the Madison city
election. The Democracy are well
come to all the comfort they can ex-
tract from it. We think the Repub-
Leans have been made we'll aware of
what caused their defeat, but not
their Reorganization, as the Couri4r
we'll charaoterizes it.
The Peru victory" will bear invea-
tigation. About two weeks before the
day of election, the Democrats called
a meeting for the selection CT eandi-
dates to fill the various city offices, to
the complete surprise OF everybody,
as the general understanding up to
that time had been that politics should
not enter into the municipal contest.
The Republicans were unprepared-
caught sleeping upon their posts; the
vote was light, the election being left
very much to the Democracy, and, of
course, every ward went Democrat
ic," as the dispatches very promptly
stated.
The result of the Peru election can
be taken just as much for a Demo.
cratic GAIN" as that in Indianapolis
could for a Republican one by count
ing the Wards where non other than
Republican votes were cast. Ia this
city the result of the vote shows the
Republican majority to be 1859.
How would the Sentinel treat it we're
we to herald a Republican gain " of
elevea hundred and thirty hreel Yet
that is about the way the Demo
cratic gain is figured up 10 Peru.
The gain" liz Columbus must have
been perfectly stunning. Mr.. Sey-
mour obtained a majority In Column
bus township of 267. Now the DEM
ocratic ticket has III. 1t so happens
that the ScntineL's city editor has been
holding the Office of City Clerk in CO.
lumbus, devolving the duties upon
the City Attorney for q consideration,
while he was engaged In business in
Indianapolis. The BaIIetiR, the Dem
ocratic organ of Bartholomew County,
has this paragraph:
by a majority of two hundred Of
all the votes cast on Tuesday the peo-
pie of this city determined to have a
new Clerk and another City Attorney,
by condemning the action of the
Council 10 not declaring the Office of
Clerk vacant, and by permitting the
D.k~. A ..-1 Al haI1 -LNtl IT -
Let us see whether the will of the
people shall be obeyed."
We are pleased to see the Sentinel
extracting comfort from this.
We have heretofore revealed the
extent of the Democratic gain" in
the city of Terre Haute. The can
vass of the votes shows q gain of
just four hundred and Sicty- seUcR for
NE Republicans. This is n glorious
Democratic Cd triumph, over which
1t Is we'll for the Sentinel to beat the
hewgsg.
Having disposed Of this quartette
of victories" to herald which the
poor rooster was rudely torn from his
slumbers OF twelve or fifteen years,
we desire to call the attention of the
people of Indiana to a few other of
the elections throughout the State .
which herald the overthrow of the
Republican party, as the s. ntine7
reads their lesson.
In the town of Sullivan, Sullivan
County, although the Democrats ner-
mitted no member on the Election
Board of opposite politics, contrary
to the State Election law, and under
took generally to run matters with n
high hand, the Democratic ticket was
defeated by msjorities ranging from
twenty to thirty. This is one of the
glorious Democratic victoriesp
In the city of Terre Haute, the Re.
~publicans gained four hundred and
sixty seven. In two wards of the
city of Indianapolis, they gained two
hundred aud two. These are two
more of these Democratic victories"
In Fort Wayne, three out Of seven
of the Democratic candidates for
Councilman were defeated, in a city
Overwhelmingly Democratic. OF the
election, as a whole, the Fort Wayne
Democrat says:
THE election, yesterday, though
far from being all that the Democracy
could wish, has in it some features
awakening considerations which will.
undoubtedly, prove beneficial. The
great mistake We find, is the too an.