The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-03

TIE GrandvieW Monitor says large
portion of the Democrats throughout
Spencer County are displeased with
their county ticket. The same paper
thinks if every Democrat in that
county, who has sworn that he would
suffer death before he would "vote
beside a Niger" should make good
his word, it will be a fine speculation
for some one to lay out a cemetery
there and call it the white mans y
burying ground.
THE Democracy of Dubois County
seem to be in a disturbed condition.
Green A. Kemp has come out as
an independent candidate for State
Senator, in opposition to Mr.. Cave.
The Jasper Courier, the county organ,
supports Kemp. 1t charges Cave
with all kinds of meanness, including
whipping, and wants a respect
able and thoroughly honest man" to
represent Dubois, Pike and Martin,
in the State Legislature. This is
pretty broad intimation that the Cou-
rier does not regard the Hon. Cave
as either honest or respectable. If a
Republican paper had given express
sion to such an insinuation it would
be denounced in unstinted terms.
The Courier is about out of soap.
We exposed the terrible bungling of
which the Democratic Council had
been guilty in assessing property for
the purpose Of taxation. The only
reply that paper could make to our
exhaustive exposition was that it de-
clined to discuss city matters until
some more convenient season, that
for the present it intended to confne
its attention to State and county pol
ities. Well, we didn't take any ex-
oeption to that, and. with our usual
good nature, we proceeded to give sew
eral chapters on county politics, re-
futing the Courier's pretended state
ments Of facts, and demonstrating
chat under Republican government
taxes were lower than when
the Democracy were in power. We
also published few facts on the
Wabash Canal question, and endeav-
Ored to have the Democratic candi-
dates for the State Legislature
Messrs. Isaac Kean and j. G.. Shank
lin-place themselves on the record
against that swindle. Inasmuch, how
ever, as they persistently refused to
commit themselves against the swim
die, we suggested that the "only as
surance the people had that they
would not vote for it, was their
well known Indifference to money
and their heightened integrity"
Furthermore, We respectfully init
mated that the people would feel bet
ter satisfied to have some more tangi-
bic evidence than an assurance of
this kind, good as some might regard
it. Now to all these suggestions the
Courier replies in the following choice
and characteristic style:
The JOURNAL, when it intimates that
Messrs. Keen and Shanklin, If elected to
the Legislature, could be induced to do q
dishonOrabie act, lies in its throat. If 1t
has no throat, it lies through John w. Fos-
ter, It's editor, through F. NJ. Thayer, its
associate editor, through VIM. Baker, Vic
tor Bisch, Gen. Veatch, Soren Sorenson,
and its other associates. A pretty set to
impeach any mans honor!
We do not know that Messrs. Keen
and Shanklin regard voting for the
assumption of the old canal debt as a
"disbonorable act" They might vote
for it on principle. It is barely pos
sible tkat they think the State, as a
matter of justice and equity, ought to
take back the canal and agree to pay
the little debt of near SIT 100000 for
which the bondholders once agreed
they would look to the canal only for
payment. 1t is just on this point that
the people would like to hear from
Messrs. Keen and Shanklin. Gentle.
men. are you, or are you not, in favor
of the State taking back the Wabash
canal and assuming the debt for
which it is held in trust?
The Courier manifests some un-
easiness lest Mr.. Decker. when he as
sumes the duties of Auditor, will not
be able to add up the duplicate, or
write it out, in one half as good form
as Joe B. Elliott, one of the present
Auditors deputies. That may be
true. Neither can Mr.. Joe Reitz, the
present Democratic candidate for
Auditor. Joe Elliott is number
one scribe, aad does his work most
artistically. Auditors generally don't
add and write upItheir duplicates.
and Zoe Reitz wouldn't do it if
elected. The Courier is still further
exercised With the fear that Messrs. !