The Evansville Daily Journal

Fighting for the Local Offices.

Each day's observation convinces us that the sole object of the Douglas leaders in running their "forlorn hope" candidate, is to secure the local offices. This is all the object they can have in view. Here in Indiana, where Douglas was supposed to be popular, and Breckinridge "nowhere," the partizans of the former have been the most active. Gov. Willard wanted to go to the U.S. Senate, and turned Douglasite. Dan. Voorhees wanted to go to Congress, and did the same. Charles Denby wanted to go to the Legislature and followed suit. Judge Law wanted to go to Congress and imitated the balance of them. And so we might go on and show that the sole object of the turn-coats and political speculators was office. The "original Douglas men" like Gavitt, Whittlesey, Edson, Hicks, and Laird knew when they urged his nomination against all regularity, that he had no earthly chance of being elected, but Gavitt wanted to be sheriff, and Whittlesey representative, and Edson joint representative, and Hicks clerk of Spencer county, and Laird representative from the same county. So Douglas received the nomination at the hands of just such adventurers, not that it was thought he could be elected, but that it was hoped these political gamblers might win nice fat, cozy offices, where they could fatten at the people's expense for terms of years, and make it their chief business to perpetuate their lease of office. The result of the whole game will be, that they will discover that Douglas is not so strong as they thought him. The political Micawbers will look in vain for something to "turn up." Nothing will turn up but their faces to the sky (figuratively speaking) about the 9th day of October. After that time there will be a great many dead politicians. The "original Douglasites" will "go up or descend each to his appropriate sphere." The pretended Douglas men-Willard, Voorhees, Law, Frary, Denby, McDonald, Dunham, et al.- will desert the Douglas humbug, and join the genuine Democratic party-that of Breckinridge and Lane.