Evansville Journal, Volume 19, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 2 April 1868 — Page 4

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f ITS M'-Tt FD IA TJ,Y PT Tie EvaasviLte JoarnJ Corapiiiy. Na.fi locust Street, Kvanstilte. Ind. &U:SCJil27IOX TEWS, v IN AiiVANU E. ' 4 rly Juansal. Oui year, fcy mall lo (xmouibs, )iynit:i. " 5 raxe months, by mall By th wwk, payable to carrier aI f- Irl-Wwhly Jonrnitl. One "year V 1 oo aliment ha. -. 4 GO Wc--kly Journal. On copy, oae year OO Fire copse, one year H TH Ten copies, one year 15 OO CITY TICKET. FOR 1AVOR, WILLUSI HIKER. FOR RECORDER, COL. ED. WEIILER. FOR CLERK. A. M. McGRIFF. FOR TREASURER, SAUNDERS B. SANSOM. FOR COLLECTOR, W. G. HAZELRIGG. FOR MAR-HaL. ALEXANDER DARLING. FOR SURVEYOR, CHARLES B. BATE MAN. FOR CITT ASHE-HOR-. CHAS. McCUTCIIEN, OTTO DURRE, SAM'L WYTTEMBACH. FOR OOUKCXLKCM. 1st Ward WILLIAM BUNNELL. 2d na 4th 6th 6th 7th 8th Rth JAMES STEELE. JAM EH DAVIDSON. FRED. W. COOK. WILLIAM HblLM N. charles schau.m. William kolle. john h. r(elkek. kolert rusio.n. TOWNSHIP OllUEKS. FOR TOWNSHIP TRUsTEE, ALANSON W. CHUTE. FOR CONSTABLES. GEORGE ROBINSON, SAM'L DAY, DAN'L B. GRAHAM, ORRIN B. CLARK. We hope to see a large attendance of the voters of the central part of the city to-night t the Upper Market House. The election uext Monday is of vital importance, and eveiy citizen should have a full understanding of the issues. Let tie Repub'ie ms of the Second, Third and Fourth WarJs pee to it that the people ie out in force. The toarici's Last Card. In its efforts to. either fthe people, the Courier admits that it has played its last card. A glance at it proves it to he the poorest iu the pack. With a great flourish it copies an article from the Evanville Journal ,-ofj June 19th, 1602, complimenting fhe County Commissioner a rxi.ij; ri'y of whom were Republicans for their efforts to reduce taxation, aud indirectly speaking a pleasant word or all the county officials. In copying the article, the Courier says that " it is an unqualified endorsement of Walker's administration of Couuty affairs np to the date of his retirement from office." We desire especially to direct attention to this statement. Now let us turn to the extract from the Journal of 1802, and see how far it substantiates the Courier's assertion. The gist of it is contained iu the following sentences : " Have the tax-payer- of tho county read the Auditor's (Walker's) report for the fiscal year en Sing May 31f, 1802? Every one of them should do so. The exhibit is a flattering testimonial to the fid .dity with which th? County CominW-don-Brs AND OTHER officers have d.scl -irfr'i their duties DURING Tin: YEAR." Drowning men :ira said to catch at straws. The above is confirmatory of the adage. If Mr. Walker and his friends can extra t any comfort from it, they had better organize a joint stock company :'or extracting .uube.uus from cueuiu'.-crs. i"h?y mo?t i as.-uredly could m ike a fortuiK- at it I Ju all our critieiias uf Mr.W.vLKEi:,. i we Lave not denied his ability to ni.tko j good " exhibits.''' He made a good I exhibit when he attempted to eucher j the county out of the uice little sum of sl.-OO, contrary to law. He made a fair txhiliCwhen ho did extract $700 for services ia violation of law, in Julge Parrett's opinion. We supo- i the exhibit was pretty goo 1 when he per.-.uaded the Commissioners to pay hiai twice for tba same services as Couu'y Librarian. He is good at cxhibitiug. His oratorical exhibitions are nan elously funny. Some people reinrd them a? silly, hut these, of. C v:::, a:e lac-iing in taste, and can- I

. ftfc a ppT?i a "-fci"i ib oof vy" oratorical a?t. ,t ? r .IZ 0 l" So the Journal's s'a'erceot that Mr. Walker's " xhib'L was a flattering testimonial to the fidelity with which the County Commissioners and other officers -ha4 ' discharged "their duties during the tear," is, in the estimation of theCourier, " an unqualified endorsement of Walker's administration of county affairs up to the dateof his retirement from office!" The Courier presumes that its readers do not .possess ths ordinary riuteliigence to comprehend a plain English sentence, or., it would jjot make statement so reckless of IruthT Does anybody suppose that Mr. Walker would make an exhibit otherwise than flattering to himself? If so.he is badly afflicted-with the simple, and the sooner remedies are applied the better. In those days of burdensome taxes, it was a great relief to have a Republican Board of Commissioners reduce the taxes ten cents on the hundred dollars, and any one who read the "Journal's article will see

that this action onthe part of the Commissioners, was . the occasion of its compliments, and that they were given thacredit of the reduction. The High School Contract. The Courier makes a lengthy attack upon the School Board for the manner in which the contract was let for the low High School House. It is to be expected that the organ of the Democratic candidate for Mayor, who thinks the City of Evansville wauts no more school .'houses for twenty years, would do all it could to bring reproach upon the management of our City School but in this induce the attack only serves to convace tha people that the School Board did just right.- ThefBoafd, as it always does in such cases, reserved the right to reject a.n and air bids for the boildirig of the High School House. "When the bids were opened they were all decided toohigh, and tbe proposals- were all returned to the respective bidders. The Board afterwards entered into negotiations with the two lowest bidders, Allen & Clarke and Last Brothers. This Courier states that Allen & Clarke offered to take the job for $-16,000, but decline 1 toTmake any lower offer; and that the"Boarddid let the contract to Lant Brothers at $45,500. So that upon its own showing of the facts, Lant Brothers were tha lowit bidders, - and ALLEN '& Clarke had ""a fair chanc-e." It says that"the truth is that Allen & CLARKE d.0 not belong to " the Mayor and Trustees ring." " To prove the falsity of the Courier's insinuations, we would sUtelhat Mr. Allen has, during the entire pait year, been engaged in the erection of a State building at Indianapolis, under th& supervision of Governor Baker," and that his partner, MrrCLARKE, is now engaged, and has been for the" past year, as the Building Superintendent for the SchooLBoard of Evana.ville. By such tricks as these tLe Courier hopes to advanc'tits cause. . City lllmion Statistics. 1 The result of the past city elections clearly shows that Mayor Baker has always bee.n highly appreciated by the voter of Evansville without strict regard to parry predilections, The returns of the last three elections when he was chosen Mayor give us much encouiagement to believe that he will not only carry his own party strength, but much more than that, on next Monday. By reference to the returns in April, 1859, when he was first elected, it appears that the entire Djmoaratie ticket, with one or two unimportant exceptions, was elected. Pat. Burke was elected Cierk by a majority of 431; Saunders, Surveyor, by 232; McBride, Recorder, by 370; McAvoy, A:-se.or, by 275; making an average Democratic maj irity of over 3(R). And yet the maj rity for Baker for Mayor was just 300, miming more than 000 vote- ahead of iiis ticket. At his uext election, in 1802, the Democracy made a pretty clean sweep. It was the year of the Democratic reaction, wheu they swept the whole country by storm. Burke was elected" Clerk by 583 majority; Reitz, Collector, by 883; Mariin, Mamha by 771; Buime, Treasurer, by 225, aad McBride, Recorder, by 95. Notwithstanding there was an average Democratic majority of over 500, and the p.-.rty was well org-inlzed, aod with a popular nominee for M;yor, Judge Johnson, .Villiam Baker was again elected, by 50 vote;-; leading his own ticket again about 000 votes. In 1805, when Mayor Baker was

-j'ivrj t!"?"thir"d time. the" l't,rc,J3j racy, discouraged by their attemp to

aeieat r.tci oetore, made no opposition to hi;j election. With this record before them, we are certaia the Democracy have very little hope of defeating Vim fw. The varus of his services have been so apparent, heretofore, that he has been able to secure tie support tot onlyof his own party, but a very large number of Democrats. And so it will be now. As-stated by Mr ORR, at the Convention, a good many Democrats will be found voting for William Baker, because they know that finaccially they ara interested in his elect! j and the '"pocket argument" was one readily understood by ther.. ' Bistba.rglns his Obligations. Vi'alke ft has called to his assistance Willard Carpenter, and together they are haranguing the people nightly in behalf of the declining fortunes of tbe Democracy. It is highly appropriate that Carpenter should do what he can for William H. Walker, for he owes him a debt for valuable services which it will take him a long time to repay. Our people reuember something of Willard Carpenter's alleged failure several years aro, but they may not all know that William H. Walker was chose a by, him as hU. assignee and confidential agent ani adviser; and fr m that time to this Walker has bet a engaged with all his well known ingenuity in helpiug Carpenter close up his business to the discomfiture of his honest creditor", amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property. Aud Walker has discharged the duty well. It is kind and appropriate in Carpenter to come to his assist, ance cow that he is sorely pressed. But it is very doubtful if the advo cate will materially help the cause. 'The Toor Han's candidate." With all the disgusting appeals of a demagogue, Mr. Walker, in all his speeches, boasts that he is the "poor man's candidate." What, we mav ask, has he doae for the poor men of Evansville? On the otlier hand, William Baker, in the nine years of his official service, has done more to give employment to the workiogmen of this city, and furuish their wives and children with food and clothing, than any other, score of men. The improvements, he has pushed forward, the school-houses built, the street and wharf improvements, the sewers, &c, have given a vast deal of work to the laboring men of this city, while the rich men pay the taxes. And yet he does not offend the intelligence of the people by boasting nightly of what he has done, and appealing to the prejudices of the voters. Th; Old Sons Again. t ( t , Mr". Carpenter has in tli e Courier a lengthy communication on ( the Straight-Line Railroad : controversy, in which he abuses Mayor Baker, Samuel Oe.r, John Inule and other citizens, ac.d produces quita a formi dable array of figures. We think the reputation of these gentlemen in this community is such that Mr. Carpen-! ter will hardly be able, by anything he may say or write, to injure them in the estimation of good met. His figures and projects have troubled our people too much already to their pecuniary damage, so that his statements will require no refutation from us. Our City Cedlt Then and Now. Durjng the Democratic administratiotwspf City affairs there were times when the credit of the City was so low that Orders were absolutely without any market value. A gentleman told us yesterday that he sold thousands of dollars of City Orders at that timat from 00 to 05 cents, and that frequently he could find no one willing to invest iu them at any price. The average price of City Orders during Mayor Baker's administration has been about i5 to 0-5 cents, the bulk of the Orders selling in tax-paying time at almost tfreir par value. Do our people want a return to the old Democratic days? We insist that the Democracy shall keep Walker on the stump every niyht until the day of the City ejection. With Peter Maier as " xi.s man Friday," and Willard Carpenter as next in command, we predict that this carapaigu will not be without its lesults. Walker is -uch an admit able success as a " speakist," that he. ha? placed those brilliant lights of the party, Sproule, Willard and Whittlesey, entirely in the shade. Be; ore the rising sun they pale their ineffectual fires

f 'fci'WEOt "think ' that "our'T.re"sent ! .Mayor erer visits Latnaso to ee ; what you do wan! snd what you j need. Wnlker at tlie Seventh Ward. This was epoken almost within sight ' of Mayor Baker's residence. ; He talks like, a simpering fool who

ec" tuts such glaring errors to the ue'iors of William Baker. In the Second Ward tbe argument h vigorously used that Mayor ji. i-h has no interest whatever "uptown." that all that he does h for the benefit of Lamasco. For once the Republican party of Evansville has the good wishes of our neighbors at lleudersoa. The Reporter of that city strongly approves the position of the Journal on the Railroad question, and object to the course of the Q)urier. AvC promioeut -itizeos of that pla?e, who have been iu Evausville the past few days, express an earnest desire that our people should elect Mayor Baker. They say he is just the man to help them push through to successful completion the Nashville Railroad. ' Modesty, Mj tloy." In his lucid speech in Lamasco, on Tuesday evening, Mr. Walker repeated the falsehood about Mayor Baker's connection with the Longworth purchase, and then with characteristic modesty said: . "This is a npeclrnen of Mayor Laker's fine flna ncieriog. It I don't do better baa that, you can tap me for the H.mpiex." This from the man who bought the County Arms of the Philadelphia " sharpers," and under whose auspices the Fulton Avenue and other County bridges were built. , About the only evidence-we have of his financial ability i in Library charges and other official fee matters. -- The Courier produces as its last and best Card, a. quotation from the Journal of June, 1802, to support Walker's drooping fortunes. That extract only proves what we have been asserting and establishing by the official figures, that as soon as a Republican Board of Commissioners came into power the taxes were reduced. The point in the whole article is that the Commissioners reduced the tax levy ten cents the first year alter the County passed out of JJemocratic hands. When that editorial was written, Mr. Walker had gone out of office, and the Board of Commissioners and Auditor's office were under Republican control. Mr. Walker's Last CarJ. In another place we give the Qur ier's last Card. The fc'lowinir eems to be Mr. Walker's last Card. It was played out in his Lamasco speech on Tuediy night: Now, that is not the way to levy a dog tax. It ought to be levied according to the amount that a man is worth. A man who is worth $20,000 of property ouht to pay a great deal more dog tax than a man that is , worth but .jU0 or 5200 of property. - i The idea of, assessiag. a dog ia proportion to thewealth of-tho owner, is e n tire !y drigi nal with ' M r' WALKER,' and we cheerfully give hiin all the credit of .it. The Democratic Investigation into City, affairs promises to be a broad farce.- Richard Raleiuii and Tuos. E. Garvin, according to th? Courier, were not fitted for the work, but Willard Carpenter and Peter Maier are just the men to examine into the integrity of Mayor Baker. Lots of Cards, but A'ary Trump. Editors Journal : Yeterday I noticed some of the opening plays ia Mr. Walker's interesting game for the Mayoralty. I showed how he led off in his Ninth Ward speech, by enjoining upon the newspaper men the duty of giving cloe and undivided attention to the "record" of the present Board of Commissioners and county officers, and how the adversary party had trumped that trick, (old as Alcibiades and his dog's tail, from which, i. e. the t ile., Mr. W. probably borrowed the idea), by goin a little deeper into the record than he proposed to restrict them. I then, for convenience, grouped together the next 'our !cidof the party of the other purf, an 1 am now to show the manner in which Mr. Walker played his cards in re sponse. The strength of the came on either side will then be la'ny ueveloped. i The first point attempted to be established against him, it will hi remembered, is that he received $700 S 1U1 SCVl'U I.'LII3 CA.IICI fCl VlfL'S as I ! t i : i ! . i. .1 . i i .auai or, vtiiiou lutau was no law to justify, but winch lie has never reI funded to the County. By his card, No. 3, published in the Courier jof March 2t, it will bo seen he admits he received the 700; and I the only defense he offers ii that the fCounty Board allowed it. "The Board I of Commissioners," he says, " consid-

eled the law plain "t.noueh to uutl.orzo the allowance of $100 per y ar, making $700 for seven yeirs extra services ;" add, therefore he received it. This is the only defer) ; !n has evjr made to his taking tin: 700, and refusing to refund it. But tliis is very poor play. Doesn't he o that if itjustifies him, it justifies al - Mr. Auditor Bisch for cv ry doll r he has M.Sren from the County Treasury, b -vtvet wrongul!y? For in 1p cue, a 1 -o, " the Board allowed it." Yet he denounces Bisch on all cessions, and after procuring him tor- be iudiefed. gets up a petition demndins: that the County IJoard ca'jse civil proceedings tn he instituted against him to force him to refund the money he has illegally taken from the county. In thi-i name card, he further admits that the decis'on ( of Ju Ige Parrott

I was auver-e to estra allowances, and "certiiulv should hive settled ! the matter, atDast so far as this couaty is concerned " There seems to be n very general agreement with Mr. Walker upou this point. The ouly wonder is, why he don't see its application to his own case! Why he dou't permit thedecisio i to settU the matter so far as he is concerned! In other words, why ns don't refund! The uext charge, that he attempted to make the County Board allow him $1,838 93 for the same "extra services" for which he had already been allowed the S'700, and to force it to do so by a suit in the Circuit Court, he admits without qualification, in his Card No. 2. What is tbe effect of that admission? Why, plainly, that he was willincr, and a littl anxions, illegally to take pay a second time for what he admits, in his Caid No. 3, he had on?e already illegally taken pay. That " card's badly played." Then as to the "Real Estate Registers. " It is charged that he eot flGG 90 from the county for the labor in making them out. In his Card No. 5, published in the Courier of March 25th, he concedes this also. True, in the same card, he claims that the registers were his own private property. But the reason he gives for the cliim is a most remarkable one. He says, "the book1 thrmw.lor were my own property. I bought them and paid for them with my own money!" That's a foul play a clear "revoke!" He refuses to follow suit. Suppose he did buy the books, and pay for th em with his own money, when he afterwarls put upon them labor for which the County paid him $100 90, all he demanded for them, whose property were they? It will take a bold man to claim they were not the County's but Walker's, because. forsooth, he bought the books with his own niouey! But again, it is charged that the ltt-gisters were made up by his deptlty, Brauns, and in his hand- i writing; that these were the Regis- i ters the county piid him for, and the Registers he carried off from the Auttor s office, and still has possess:oi I have ea:-efu'!v x amlud ' all - i 1 1 his Cards, individual and edit trial, and all bis speeches, and can't find that he anywhere deuies, or even notices this charge.. Upon this poiut he seems to play dummy. It is the same with reference to the charge that he took pay twice for acting as Librarian. , What could ba more convinn? than the proof upon this subject? The Record his owo record, in his own handwriting shows that he received the full salary allowed hirn by law. " for servieci as - Librarian." It also shows that by the shrewd trick of itemizing theso ser vices in his bill, he succeeled in getting pay for them a second time. Is it not plain that the entering on the Library Register the books taken out was the very &irv' for whioh the salary was provided by law? What right had he,' then, to take the salary and specific pay for entering the books also? It is Just as if one em ployed a gardener at so much ,a I montn, ana alter payim? nun his month's wages, should be presented with a bill covering the same time " for services in hoeing pota'-oes'.te. Mr. Walker has never even alluded to this charge. II finds it a very dang' rous lead, lit h'ts no Curd f'r it in all hU handful of Card-. It can't be refuted or denied, for there is the proof in his own writing, on h's own record. It can't be explained, either, or he would at leat attempt it. Now, (in his own s'yle.) what ' must be thought of a man who is compelled to play mum. when Fuch charges as these are made against him,darinir to ask the people of Evansville to elect him its M.ivor ! ! ' It would be taking up too much of your space to examine the last card played by Mr. W. Those n"iced. I think, sufficiently demonstrate tbe weakness of his game. In fact there are strong indications that he knew from the start that his chance was a do-perate one. His main dfort, and that of his par!n-i (toe Oti, i- i ) ha j been tir-t, last and all the time, to divert the attention f his antagvtiists ' from the game itK-if to some1'injg entirely our.-iue ol the game. Ileoce they have constantly advised, coaxed, begged, and insisted 1 that the Journal -hoult cease its investigation into his record, and pitch iuto that of his successor. It the -Journal will take mv a ivicv. i lys Walker, in his Card No. 3, it will let me alone if ictit Una ncu-r nugg ts nf'trer trie trji e til the Auittor s V'VS .t fit . So the tour or of to-day: sault upon the Democratic J he a candidate lor Mayor was brilliantly conceived, and but lor one trivial circumstance, might have resulted iu a brilli iot success IT Was NOT MADE UPON THE RIGHT MAN." Of course not; Bi.-ch is the man; he is the candidate for Mayor; it is his record we are concerned with, not

you, a i '.hi '.-li.it a me Wi 1 for M-ivor? r vv - .1, tnat l-.l-5 rn -ove a l-i. If it U iz this fH t;o dif- ' doe.4 it certain! P th, c -.rt o; fer no c,rd--poi.ti - ! tint ' . at do .1 IM! t n i n'l. x-t a 1 1 al of i; o. ' First Ward Republic;! ns, At nifon. J Messrs. Ixlitorn: It is Important that the Republicans of tho First Ward be put upon their guard against the electioneering tricks cfthe Democratic candidate for Councilman. Mr. Blemker, with the modesty which characterizes the Democracy, is busily engaged in importuning Republicans to vote for him, upoa the ground that he is no pirtlij.ii, and thaVhe has always been accustomed to scratch his ticket. Let it be remetnbere J that he is the regular nominee of his party; that during the entire war he was an ardent Copperhead, aud never had a pood word to say for the Government; that since he has been a member of the City Council he has always voted with Muhlhauen, Reitz, and Kraft on all party questions, and agaiut the administration of Mayor Baker; and that he will do so again if ele;ted. The Republicans of the First Ward are in the majority, and they will not ba true to their owa interests nor to the success of Mayor Baker, if they cast a single vote for Blemker, who i at heart an uncompromising Deniojcrat, and will do anything for party I purposes.' We cannot afford to risk the control of the City government by tne election oi such a man. First Ward Republican. A TRUMP "CARD. WALKER ANSWERED BY ONE OF THE SACHEMS OF THE DKM0CKACY The FacU About tbe Tract. Lonsworlh From the Courier, April 1st A Card. Editor Courier : In a late number of your paper, in an article iu which the .management of the affairs of the city was discussed at some length, there was a statement in relation to the "Lougworth Track," which I wish to correct. In tho article to which I refer, it was stated that about a year since, this property was offered or could have been purchased for the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. This statement is not correct. The Longworth property was never offered tor stile at any j price less than two hundred thousand i proposition for its mircha,e at a nri ... .. . considerably in advance of one hundrel thousand dollars was declined by the proprietors. The off r that the city sliouM become the purchaser of this valuable tract for the purpose of a public park, was submitted by the owner of tho land to me as their Attorney, to bo presented to the City Council for their consideration, and it is but justice to jMayor Biker to say that he had no cgeney or interest direct, or indirect, iu the matter, and knew uothiug of the proposition or its terms, until it was handed by me to him as the presiding officer of the City Council, with the request that he present it to that body for their action. It is to be hoped that whatever, may be thii political character -of the suooeeditig Council, its members will confirm the wisdom of the people in this election by at ouee securing, on the terms proposed, this beautiful territory for the euioymnt and recreation of tbe present aud future fenerations. I UOMAS Ij. (iAHVlN. . AlfNOUNCEMENTS. FOU CITY KE' OKDi n. We in e inn hoi zt-d to announce Colonel Kkwaku Wehleic hk i chuiI i1hu for 4'ity Iie-ortte,-, In me cnniinif Ueell'tii, ou'jec.t totliK nominal ioii ol the Repuoiio m ouveullon. fleliM Messrs. Editors: Ilea- annoutic-' tU name of JOHN IIEWON a an independent ciiiid diite lor th olliisi; oi City tl corder at th? April ei-clion. Maut Votkus. CTTr roM.EOTult. W. O. IIAZEl.KPiU is a candid lie for re-elei;i I'm to t he oflloe of City Col lector ftt the April e'eclion. MiiliJct to Ine d-cisioa ol the Union Convention. Editor J iure:il : I'iesise announce my rinme ai an Independent candidate for Couucilni.i n in the .-fco.'id Ward, ut I he en xti i nij April election. Isaac kkkx, VO A'SI-SOR. (II A K I KS A. Me- 'UK JIKN Is a cundldxle lor I ho ollice of Am(" first the nsunii! April eo-el .n, subject to i ho deriMion U till- Kt-puuliiaiu Convention. KiK COS-TAB - E. Fit v.MC .MOItiUH is a candid-tte for re iciion lo th oi.'ice of on-t.ibln of Pigeon To tisli If), a rid wniiW ic--ie tiully solicit vote h i.tu it iit lo elect him i;VAsvif.i.r;' t 15 it n i n e s h L7 o 1 1 e g ?, ANDInstltulc of Peniaauhip, Nos.47aEd49 Kaln Street, EVANSVILLE, I.VD. . N. WKI.I.S, - - - - I'rlix-lpat 8EHHION DAY AND EVENING. All the depart mer t Book-keeping Penmxiihhip, C'joiinerclHi Lmw, Comttierc;al A ritiiinet 1, Buslne (Virn spondence iinvL.n, &.c, thoroughly tauhtand UIuktriited. (Tuition payable on day of entrance.) Scholarship t i me n nlimlted. J40 0C Looks and mationery for comjilota course - 10 For specimens- of I enmansliip and College Circular, adJre-H WELLS S K LINER, "ebiVUlia Proprit-toru.

Walker's!! "Wi:v7 has his record to i! j