The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-01
LETTER FROM INDIANAPOLIS.
The April EIectiOns-The Congress
siOnal DIstFicts-Candida and
MajOrlties.
INDIANAPOLIS. March 30

and before the close OF the month,
the campaign will have been, to a
great extent, opened. Unusual at
tention will be given to the Spring
elections, and very properly, too, for
Republicans seem to have been rather
slow to appreciate the importance of
minor elections and thorough or
ganization in townships and road
districts until recently. For the
improvement in this respect, this
season, much is due to our State Cen
trail Committee, which has, through
their Chairman, Mr.. A. III. Conner,
given their first attention to this mat
ter, and has already accomplished a
work that is highly creditable. Dur
ing the next month, nominations of
candidates for Congress In nearly all
the districts will be made, while in
several of the districts the question
will be virtually settled at the cleo
ton, a week from next Monday, at
which time many counties express
their preferences by primary election.
Perhaps a brief review Of the Con-
gressional Districts will be of in
terest now.
The First District you are supposed
to know all about, and are antici-
pating warm fight when the time
comes.
The Second District is so over
whelmingly Democratic, giving a ma
jority in 1866, of 4,381, that Republic
can candidates are not striving for a
nomination, and none have been yet
proposed. The Democrats will prob
ably nominate and elect Hon. NJ g.
Kerr, the present member from that
District.
The Third District comprises about
equal portions of the old Third and
Fourth, the counties giving a Repub-
lican majority of l ,450 in 1866 But
little is said here, as yet, about candi-
dates. Hon. John r. Cravens, of
Madison; Gen. Ben. J. Spooner, of
Lawrenceburg, and Gen. Ira g.
Grower have been mentioned, and
there will probably be others before
the meeting of the Convention, which
will be at LawrencebUrg, June I'd.
| The Democratic nominee will doubt
| less be Hon. VIM. S. Holman, of Au-
rora, the present member from the
/ old Fourth, as he is undoubtedly their
strongest man.
The new Fourth District is COM
posed of part Of the old Fourth and
| Fifth, and it was said at the time the
new apportionment was made, it
would defeat Hon. George w. Julian
! for the nomination. He is a candi-
date, however, and stands, from pres
ent indications, about as good a
! chance for the nomination as any one
/ The other candidates are Gen. Tom.
| Bennett, of Liberty, and Hon. John
III. Farquhar, of Brookville. Either
one Of them would make a good Con-
| gresham, and all three of the candi-
dates have many warm friends, who
are working hard for their favorites.
| The nomination will be virtually de-
| cided, unless the vote should be
close at the primary election on the
| 9th of April. The Convention will
! be held at Connersville on the Both
/ of April. The majority In 1866 was
l, 637.
The Fifth District is mainly the old
Sixth, now represented by Gen. John
| Coburn, Of this city. There will prob
| ably be no opposition to his nomina-
ton, as this is his first term, and he
has done very we'll and given entire
satisfaction to his constituents. The
/ Democrats do not seem to have a can
didate yet. Hon. Jos. Z. Mcdonald
has positively declined a race Lewis
Jordan, who is a bondhOlder, and
therefore an available candidate,
would like to have the nomination,
and is working for it. Republican
majority in 1866, 2,435
The Sixth District now includes
Bloomington and Terre Haute, both
places being full of great men. Gen.
| Washburne declines a nomination,
and the strife will be between the
northern and southern portion Of the
District for the place. The District
is very awkwardly shaped, being
about one hundred and twenty miles
long, and oUe-fourth as wide Mon
roe County will probably unite upon
Gen. Morton e. Hunter, the present
Congressman from the old Second
District, and ne viii have the princi-
pal struggle IN the southern portion
of the District Judge Hughes and
Elk Governor Dunning had been men.
toned, but they will go to the Legis
lature instead. Hon NJ. E. Mclean
of Terre Haute, aud Major Carter, Of
Bowling Green, are also candidates
The Democrats propose William
Mack. John T. Scott and Thomas
Bowling. Of Terre Haute S. H Bus
kirk. Of Bloomington, Jessie l. Alex
ander. Of Owen County, and Andy
Humphreys of Green County. the
Son Of Liberty. The counties of the
District gave a Republican majority
of III in 1866.
The new Seventh DISTRICT is the