The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-02-08
Correspondence of The Tribune.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ia, Jan. "a, 1913.
The election for United States Senator
j. over, and EDWARD A. HANNEeAN, of
Fountain County, Loco-Foco, is elected TO
represent Indiana for six years from next
March 10 succeed Oliver H. Smith. The
deed is done! OF the causes which led to
it need rot now speak--suffice it to say
that it was caused by the barefaced misrep-
rescntation ofthe Wing counties of Marshall
and Fulton, Cass, Steuben and Dckalb, AL
len. Putnam, Rush, Union, Switzerland,
Marion, Bartholomew. Knox, Miami and
Wabash, Kosciwsko and Whitley, and ma
ny other counties. by the Loco ocos in one
or tho other or both branches of the Legis-
Iature, who have got into the Legislature by
local questions, divisions or apathy in the
Wing ranks. and who voted every one of
them without exception for Loco-Focos-
and the unexpected detection of the Wing
Senator from Switzerland County, Daniel
Kelso, who, to the dismay of oil his poiti-
cal friends, voted for Hanegan every. ballot.
The result of the different ballo.ings was as
follows:-
LIST. Cd. Sd. 4th. 9Th. 9th.
oliver III, Smith. w az 10 10 20 ~ W
T. A. Howard, IA IA 70 10 10 l
E. A. Hsnnegan, L 8 79eiected.
Jonathan McCarty, w
Joseph G. Marshall, W
VIM. Hendricks, L
You will see that at the second ballotIDg
Smith came within one vote of being elect
ed, and the scattering vote then given was
that Of TIE recreant Wing Senator above
stated. The remaining Wings, those who
had been impracticable and all, together
with the Loco-Foco Senator from Wayne,
who was pledged to vote for Wing Sena-
tor, all voted for Smith, and his election
was defeated by this Kelso, representing
constituency of 200 Wing majority. The
faithful Loco Senator from Wayne Co
which gives 800 Wing majority, became
scared at the state Of Smiths vote, and
went over instante. 10 his Loco brethren;
and by voting for and thus electing Hanne-
gan on the last ballot, very fairly redeems
his Wing pledge and represent his conStiiu.
ents who will doubtless feel much pleased
with his votes. You will notice, also, that
Hannegan was elected entirely by accident;
and if you had been present when the voting
on the sixth ballot was finished, THE vote is
piue uoce,) you would have seen that the aP-
plause Of those Loco Focos disappearing
decided and acknowledged Wing Counties
was the most tumutuous. You will notice,
further,tha, had it not been for the highland
ed and flag rant act of the Loco-Foco House
in ejecting Beall, the Wing Representative
from Steuben and De Kalb, from his sea-,
without hearing, and placing Loco-Fo-
CO in his stead, the election of Mr. Smith
could not have been prevented, even with
all the treachery and misrepresentation
which have been exhibited TO day.
But we are beaten, and it is useless now
to repine. BY the act of the House of Rep
reese natives, and by the treachery of man
elected as Wing, Indiana, Wing undeni-
ably as she is. will be represented for six
long years in the Senate by Loco Foco;
and thus is the Wing ascendency in that
body, fer two years at least, destroyed.
The news of this Loco-Foco triumph will
be dispiri,ing in the extreme to the Wing
party all over the State, and measurably so
through the Union, and will have an unprop.
itious bearing on the contest into which we
have just entered.