New-York tribune., 1872-09-21
INDIANA.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CAMPAIGN.

| DESCRIPTION OF THE CAMPAIGN.
r,spvpArr SCHEMES OF MoRToN-nIs WONDER
| FrrI ACTIVITY sCHURZ AMONG THE GEh-
| MANs-THE LIBERALS DOING THEIR WHOLE
| DurY-A VICTORY ANTICIPATED ,
ryRoM TEB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE fhibOHh'l
| INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1G.-Up to TINS tnne tle
rdr of the campaign has been intense III tbi state
that neither party has taken time, or had Oppol'uy
10 make a careful estimate OF Its strength iet 'hc &
erals here Repubicans and Democrats alike WORK Win
rb energy and determination that they cannot douOI
Of sweeping trumphs in october and November fro"
the day the Liberal Conventions adjourned last Juhe'
tbe general needs OF the campaign nave Dech Ioescn
and needed with the best OF judgment py 'nc NiuiS'
Committees John A. Finch. C. S. Donaldson ana IL T.
Kennedy on the part of the Republicans; and f. ;.
Alvord Thos Downing and T. s. sprOue, on the part o'
tbe democrats These two executive bodies, ID iac''
hear the burden Of the Liberal campaign ana IRON thel
ncadouarfers IN indianapolis inspire the action and
direct the canvass throughout the state
ACTIVITY OF MORTON AND THE offICEhoLDikS
THE Grant men, pushed by the lash Of Morton are
not less jealous or spirited Indeed it IL the marYel OF
nemocrot, and Republicans alike. the tremendous
energy infused into the campaign by the Inspiration OF
tis chief manager Of Grant. His labors are well mgh
incredible Apparently cripple, with his BODY larlany
nar,vzed he throws himself with characteristic energy
into the contest and If all the powerof nitless resO-
ton inexhaustible trickery and matchless audaclty
could in themselves force the peOpe NeIuict III NI"h
favor the Liberals might well despair. Senator Morton Is
to Indiana AT once what Chandler has been TO Michigan
| Copkling TO New-York State, and Tweed TO
| the Empire City and the State Legislature
He has never 10 be snre stolen millions Of the people 5
money but in all the elements Of political intrigue and
public debauchery, he is everpreemnent above the un
,ayory triad named above Having dictated the politics
OF the State for than ten years, like second wal
pole he has at created schism reparabe as the
gulf which separates the two wings of Repubcanism in
New-York There is however, this distinctions: While
| the Liberal Republicans of Newlork detest tho
! proscrptive measures Of the Custom-bouse fac
| ton, and refuse to act with them further
almost solely grounds of self-defense and abstract
Justice personal and oathng OF the character and
practices Of Senator Morton have here very much 10 do
with the enmity which exists toward that grand ecun
selOr Of an Imperial Administration. To this element
as you may well imagine, the prospect Of redemption
from such a despotism was most acceptable. Reform
and dsonslavement hand in hand and. as a very
natural result whatever may have been the force Of the
opposition sentiment the better portion OF the Repubi
can party at reinforced the Liberal advance guard
MORTON CoMPREHESDs THE SITUATION.
So consummate taccian Morton could not be mis-
led and the first ever heard him affect to
despe the coalition. The experience OF score OF con-
tests him that his term Of political dictation
drawing close. But he is not the stuff 10 accept de-
feat without desperate struggles and he instantly set TO
work and organized campaign OF thoroughness and
vigor never eQualed in this bitterly contested OF
all political fields. When Senator Hendricks nomi
mated and the lines drawn.tnere politician
OF intelligence in the State who did not c0ncede the
election to the Liberals by from anywhere from
10000 TO 10000 majority. Subsequent cautious
vassing put the figures specifically 1900, and
up TO within 10 days bets freely registered on
that basis But now comes curious change. It gradu
ally leaks in from the country districts that Morton
has secured new term in the Senate by the lavish
expenditure OF an inexhastible corruption fund. The
grounds of the above impression are somewhat various
In counties there is considerable Democratic dis
affection and under OF that mercenary horde is
supposed TO be ready 10 change coors at the last mo-
ment. No one can tell precisely how true these sto-
ries
BAD INVESTMENTS AT LOUISVILLE.
There intended, unQuestionably, some slight
benefit 10 Morton in the design Of the
recent bmlesque Convention OF "straght-outs"
at Louisville, for 1t is attested that the
strong workers in that inconguous commipgling
collected, instructed and paid by Morton and
Morton's Committee Among thernnen who hold up
Grants cause here, however there Is thought TO be
nothing unfair unjust In that and earnest pariots
have assured me that there was such Joke I'm
politics before; and that Morton was too ALFRED smar,
for you Greeley chaps because Duncan and his beats
were in the market from the first, and the Greeley
people ALFRED fools give them their price
This open-mhded man, found was not alone in this
easy morality and fairly expressed current sent
ments Of the Admins tration politicians here The
Grant from one end of the State 70 tho |
other were in a. broad grin at the ingenious
little =" lode put upon "Unele Horace by |
the astute @oliyer." came upon some of |
these pure-minied gentlemen my way from Louis |
vile, after the agony had ended, and there was less
jauny confidence In the result and eve TO say less
faith in the alconquerng manipulatons OF the great
oliver" as his subjects lovingly designate him. Indeed
through the Southern countless far could Judge
from passing comments and political demonstrations
the result at Louisville had boomerang effect and the
Wegested plan for the salvation to Grant and Morton
OF Indiana had not only completely failed but had |
worked serious mischief not only by the deyelopment
OF the utter weakness and mbecilty of the straich
notion but the egregous bunder in not fotstng Con.
gresham Edgerton on the "5raght ticket instead OF
Adams In order that the immense popularity OF Hem
bricks might In some degree be counterscted In the
strong Democratic Districts This purpose Il was freely
admitted inspired the Administration In Indiana and
in the failure TO accomplish this Senator Morton is com
PEELED TO resort to other measures less audacous
aud futile but far less original These measures ,bal