The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-21
Indiana.

Indiana.
The organ of Our Uncle is still very iubilant
over the result of the State Convention of the
Indiana Democracy, and pretends to believe
that the election of the ticket headed by THoM-
AS A. HENDRICKS for Governor is foregone
conclusion. 1t is difficult to see on what ration
al grounds this belief is based. There is not
single man on that ticket who was not, during
the civil wal, rank copperhead. Mr.. HEN
bricks the candidate for Governor, was bitter
ly denounced in 1864 by the soldiers of twenty
two Indiana regiments in the Army of the
Cumberland, for his persistent refusal to vote
for any military appropriation bills in the Uni
ted States Senate; and when the news of Pres
ident LINCoLN's assassination reached Indian
apolis, and Mr.. Hendricks attempted to address
a meeting of the people of that city, he was
forced to leave the stand by an overwhelming
outburst of indignation, and was protected
from personal violence only through the inter-
cessiOn. of Gov. Morton. Besides, in spite of
his national reputation, he has never been
strong man in Indiana, and has invariably ran
behind his ticket. In 1868, the nomination of
Conrad Baker as the Republican candidate
for Governor, caused considerable dissatisfac-
ton, and it was confidently expected that Hen
bricks his Democratic competitor, would be
elected. Nevertheless, Baker defeated him.
lie TWO 1en1OcrdUlC CdIuludU6S IOr Congress-
men at large, Kerr and Williams were out-spo-
ken rebel sympathizers during the war, and
members of the reasonable order of the Sons
of Liberty. Williams, a Lafayette lawyer, has
been everything by turns in politics, Wing, a
Democrat, Know-nothing, Free-trader, and
Protectionist In 1864 he presented with his
ballot for Mcclellan, to the election inspectors
at Lafayette, Ind., written declaration, in
which he predicted that President Lincoln
would establish a monarchy in less than sixty
do ov,1 hat fha 10 of %l0T T,1.k O%a4o
would never have a chance to vote for another
President He was also a prominent member
of the Indiana Whiskey Ring. Bayless w.
Hanna the Democratic candidate for Attorney
General, advocated in the Legislature of 1868,
the secession of Indiana from the Union, and
was one of the leaders of the Knights of the
Golden Circle In the present campaign he
distinguished himself, first, by violently oppos-
ing Greeley's candidature, and then suddenly
declaring for him. because he was acceptable to
the extreme rebel element in the South. The
other candidates on the Democratic State ticket,
Stoll, Eddy, Ryan, &C., were all intense
copperheads, Knights of the Golden Circle, and
Sons of Liberty.
The expectation that any considerable num-
Der of Republicans will vote for this Copper
head ticket is simply absurd, the more so as the
Republican State ticket is one of the strongest
that has ever been presented to the people of
Indiana. There will be very full vote, and
the popularity of the Republican candidate for
Congressman at large, Hon. Godlove s. Orth, in
Northwestern Indiana, where there was con-
siderable disaffection among the Republicans
two years ago, and among the Germans with
out distinction of party, will gain the Republi-
cans thousands of votes. The German Demo-
cratic papers have declared that that they will
not support Greeley under any circumstances,
and they have hitherto observed an omin-
GUS silence in regard to the Democratic State
ticket. Finally, the list of Liberal Republi-
cans" which never was very large, is rapidly
decreasing, and the most prominent man
among them, George w. Julian, has just re-
ceived from his former constituents merited
rebuke in q letter signed by three thousand Re-
publicans in Eastern Indiana, in which they
implore him to sever the unnatural alliance in
to which he has entered with the Copperhead
leaders. Taking all this into consideration, the
confident expectations of the Indiana Republic
cans, that will carry their State next October
by handsome majority, seem absolutely GER
tain to be fultilled.-N Y. Times. :. ..tit