The Evansville Journal

DAILY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY THE EVANSVILLE JOURNAL COMPANY,
No. 6 Locust Street, Evansville.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1870.

CAMPAIGN CHAT.

The Courier seems unable to comprehend—much less to appreciate—the manliness that will confess a mistake or correct an error. This is not in the least surprising. Brought up in the political school whose guiding axiom is "a lie persisted in, is better than the truth"—it would be very strange if it did fully understand the actions of those whose conduct is based on the very opposite principles—“Be just and fear not." Therefore, the Courier's confessions on this point are nothing more than everybody thoroughly understood before.

THE CORPS D'AFRIQUE.—The Journal is served in Africa! Frenchmen on. But we respectfully ask our neighbor if a visit by him to Europe would make him an European? Otherwise, why would a man going to Africa make him a negro? We pause for a reply.—Courier.

The first reading of this precious paragraph would incline one to believe that, contrary to custom, the Courier was absolutely endeavoring to perpetrate a joke. A second reading, however, enables one to see that the paper is as solemnly in earnest as when its editor so persistently insisted on having Mr. Fred. Douglas enjoy the hospitalities of his house, and mingle in the socialities of his family and fireside. It says Frenchmen are not complimented by alluding to the Corps d' Afrique. As the Frenchmen have given this name to the corps, and regard it as the pride of the French army, we are really unable to fathom the stupidity of the Courier's paragraph, the only sensible sentence of which is that in which it "pauses for a reply." Going to Europe don't make a man a European, or going to Africa make him an African, any more than scribbling for a newspaper makes a blatherskite an editor—an impossibility daily exemplified in the columns of the Courier.

The Journal, with its characteristic stupidity, continues to attack Mr. Van Riper on account of the sale of the Water Works bonds, and at the same time acknowledges the sale to have been a good one; and even proposes, in its way, to elect Mr. Keen Mayor of the city, as a reward for his success in finding a market for the bonds. We wonder whether the editor of the Journal would vote for Mr. Keen, if he was a candidate!

Certainly, as between Mr. Keen and Van Riper, we should prefer Mr. Keen. According to the Courier's own showing, Mr. Van Riper was unequal to the emergency of selling the bonds at anything like fair rates, and Mr. Keen was called in to do the work of the Chairman of the Finance Committee, which, hampered as he was, he seems to have done well. Yes, indeed, as between Van Riper and Keen for Mayor, we are keen for Keen. Dare the Courier say as much? Let us hear from you.

The paragraph from the Courier-Journal, which we copied the other day, reading the Evansville Courier, and all other papers favoring the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment, out of the Democratic party, seems to have escaped the attention of the Courier. We copy the paragraph again. We regret that the organ of the Evansville Democracy has "written itself out of all national Democratic fellowship:"

In answer to the question put by the Memphis Avalanche, "whether it considers an open and endless war against the Fifteenth Amendment the test of Democracy" the Memphis Appeal says flatly "yes." Thus, by one word and without the help of dictionary or spelling book, the Appeal writes itself out of all National Democratic fellowship. The Bourbons hereabouts claim that they do not seek to organize a "White Man's Party." The Appeal claims that it does. We submit that, if they mean to get up a party, they ought to harmonize.

The Vincennes Sun, the organ of the opaque Democracy of Knox County, quotes liberally from the Courier-Journal, but somehow or other has overworked the paragraph in that paper, declaring that Democratic papers of its description have "written themselves out of all National Democratic fellowship."

The editor of the Owensboro Shield seems to be delighted with the fact that the District Convention is to be held in Henderson. The reason for his gratification is well calculated to warm every Democratic heart, and we anticipate a large attendance. He says "Starling's Rosebud Whisky will be furnished at ten cents a drink with crackers and sardines thrown in."