The Evansville Daily Journal

It only Costs a Dollar!

A Gavitt man has "counted the cost," and found the Sheriff's peculations and extortions will only cost a dollar for each voter in the county; and his opinion is, that that is a small sum to make such an ado about. Why, he says any man can stand that much—only a dollar! Our friend forgets that Gavitt is not the only officer whom the people have to support. And let them beware of the precedent they establish. If they say by their votes that the Sheriff can take a dollar, unjustly and without legal authority, from the pocket of every voter, they must give the same liberty to the Clerk, the Treasurer, the Auditor, the Commissioners, the Recorder, the Surveyor, the Judges, the Justices of the Peace, and all other officers.

We boldly charge, without fear of successful contradiction, that he has taken this money without a legal warrant for it. We have offered him, his attorney, and his friends the use of our columns to quote the law, and show its legality. They have not—they will not accept our offer.

Tax-payers, beware of the precedent.

LET THE PEOPLE REMEMBER that John Smith Gavitt has been offered room in the Journal and Volksbote, by a published invitation, that he might clear himself of the charges of peculation in office, or show law to justify himself in his extortions on the treasury. Neither himself nor his attorneys or friends have been able to do this.

Let the people reflect that he thus confesses his guilt by not pleading to the charges. Our columns are still open to him, if he has anything to say why judgment should not be passed upon him.