The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-29

The October state Eleetloas-The Great
Excitement In Penasyivsnia.
On Tuesday. the 9th day of October, will
come off the all-important and all-absorbing
State elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio Indiana
and Nebraska. In each of these States the
administration and the opposition parties are
working like beavers, and over all of them
rousing mass meetings and stump speeches
and torch light professions, in every city,
town and hamlet, are the order of the day on
both sides, from day to day and from night to
night. The supporters of Greeley and Brown,
fully appreciating the necessity on their part
OF o check in these October elections to the
boastings of the republican party, are bring
ing all their forces, all their strength and all
their ways and means to bear upon Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana. If, in the cause of
Greeley and Brown, any two of these States
are carried in October, it is commended that they
will create such q general reaction as to
render the success of the opposition coalition
morally certain in the Presidential election.
Indeed the devoted friends of Mr. Greeley hold
that if they carry Pennsylvania in October
and show any promising gains in Ohio and
Indiana, they may still, by vigorous prose-
cation Of the war. give 'Old Horace" the VIC
tory in November.
For these October elections the odds are evil
IDENTIFY in favor of the administration party in
Ohio; but there is an opening for an oppo-
sition success in both Indiana and Pennsyl-
vania. In each of these States the leading
straight-out or Bourbon democrats, while pro-
testing against Greeley and Brown, have
indicated their purpose to support the dem
ocratic and liberal republican State ticket for
October; or, to state their position precisely,
the democratic Bourbons of Indiana will sup
port Hendricks and in Pennsylvania they will
vote for Buckalew, the opposition coalition
candidate for Governor and as it was in
North Carolina. so in both these cases, the
Presidential test will be upon the Governor.
If there are five thousand, or even two thou
sand Greeley republicans in Indiana, assuming
that all the democrats will vote for Hendricks,
then, according to the test vote for Governor
of 1868, Hendricks will be elected The In
diana Presidential test vote of 1868 was upon
the Governor, and it was as follows:-
Republican vote..... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 171,576
Republican majority. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 962
But the moral effect of this October victory
was to give General Grant in the November
national election majority Of nearly ten
thousand. Looking, however, at her October
vote >T e..
strength Of the two parties, there is now an
opening for the opposition alliance in Indiana
upon Hendricks, whose popularity is uni
versally admitted.
But in Pennsylvania, from the discords
among the republicans on their State ticket,
from the moral effect of the example of the
prominent republican leaders there who have
gone over to Greeley and Brown, and from the
popularity of Buckalew, the opposition coali-
ton candidate for Governor, they have high
hopes of great and decisive victory in Octo-
Der. It may be further said taat the outside
State tickets of the labor reformers and the
prohibitionists are each calculated to weaken
Hartranft and to strengthen Buckalew, SO that
Mr.. Greeley has some grounds for his hopeful
estimates of Pennsylvania in October. Upon
a full popular vote, including the new black
element, Mr.. Buckalew will have, say twenty
thousand republican majority to overcome;
buff the liberal or anti Grant republicans even
give him eleven thousand, in addition to the
full democratic vote, they can probably carry
him in; and surely the Greeley republicans
ought to be able to muster eleven thousand
men from the three hundred and fifty thou
sand republican voters of the great State of
Pennsylvania. At all events, as in 1856 and
1868, the October results in the State elections
of Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio, and mainly
in Pennsylvania, will settle the question of
the Presidential election Of November. Hence
this great excitement in Pennsylvania.
Our Correspondence On tho Political