New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-05
INDIANA POLITICS.
THE ADMINISTRATION CAMPAIGN.


-HE MAKES SPEECH AT SOUTH BEND
SENATORS MORTON AND WILSON ALSO SPEAK.
IDY TELEGRAPH 10 THE TRIBUNBl
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug 4-Stunned 10y the to-
tally unexpected result in North Carolina the Grant
managers in this State tying In demoralzed sort
of way to enhance the chances OF victory In Indiana as
its loss I'm October Il is generally admitted. gives the
drift 10 the tide In November. Local prepare
tons had been made fer fluctuations and con
Oratnlations at an Administration victory in the
North State and as a consequence much Of the
paraphernaia OF triumph has been postponed
until the State or possibly Aaue, is carried IL excel
ent foresight and sllul management go any length In
determining the result, the Administration would win
All the utmidatng machinery known to party methods
has been set in notion and every resource OF the Gov
eminent f. TO be imported TO snatch the State from
the threatening revolution. The very elaborate plan
already prearranged is to e changed and the whole
force OF speakers at the disposal of the National Commit
tee IS to be scattered throughout every section OF the
state The spirit Of desperation is beginning plainly 10
be seem Localities, where hitherto the party has been
so strong that little attention has been paid the can
yass are now invaded by he most conspicuous headers
of the party The Cabinet will be brought as soon as
tie first detail of speakers exhausted.
Meantime such prominentnen of the party shave here
ofore taken little interest the result indifferent alike
10 Grants election or defea have been forced since the
news from North Carolina TO declare and 70 TO work
Even Mr. Colfax, who had designed spending the Sum
ner LII Minnesota and hal almost pledged himself TO
take no part In the campaign, has been forced to the
front as last desperate resort He was conceded by
the Grant people to be careless as to the reelection OF his
chief and many Republicans who sustain Grant
were free TO admit that Mr.. Colfax might
be excused for nursing very natural resentment
and consistently occupying neutral position 20, as
an offset the crushing aud disastrous event III the
North state, special ehOr was made to inaugurae an
Administration reaction saturday, and Schuyler Col
fax and Senators Wilson md Morton, Gov. Noyes OF
Ohio and many others, wee pushed forward to break
the force of the calamity. Senator Wilson and Gov.
Moves spoke at Richmond very great and highly spir
tied audiences and the vcePresident addressed tho
State through his immediate constituents in South Bend
Mr. Colfax made an efortto leave the intimate discus
sion Of the out, and las hardly satisfied the more
pressing friends Of Grant by his somewhat reserved
utterances The points that he dwet and meant TO
most impress are presented herewith
SPEECH OF MR.. COLFAX.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. | accept cheerfuy the honor
OF presiding the thousands assembled here because
my heart throbs warmly as ever in favor Of the Re
publican principles have often defended before you
Rejoicing with you in their tiumphs and devoted as ever
10 their maintenance, mach only under the iaga
psep to the music ofthe I'D Republican party oliber
ty and loyalty [Cheeringl With my convictions and
my ideas as TO principle and duty could go no.
where else. With all my hart congratulate you and
the country the magnificent Endorsement We have eX-
tended for OR political opponents. OJteh nave
prOphesied 10 yOu in this and In square that II
YOU would be faithful TO the end IN favor of the great
principles inscribed on or banners The time would
come when the whole world would ratify them, when
not only would poseriy rseup TO call You blessed but
even would ndOrse your wax. That hour has come
sooner than expected, and at last there exists no
party, not even "A recognized political leader that
daies lift his voice against shat amid so much oppo-
sitiUn and obloQuy and Misrepresentation you en-
snrned in the National Constitution Striving to induce
upon us Democratic National Convention hasteus to
rity and declare aeeincc " nose thIee great uonn
and Fifteenth Amendments Has not my prediction
been quickly and thoroughly fulfilled regret mat
away from speak az Plymouth today, as he would
have followed Senator Moroninstead Of myself He ne,
need scarcely tell you that support him with the same
cordially aud the same political and personal friendship
with which supported him II 1900 ls0o' aud 1870
HE DECLINES TO MAKE Any CAMPAIGN SPEECHES.
You do not expect me 10 launch into a campaign
speech Two wears ago. when made the laborious can
vass Of my old district and The State which 50 nearly
cost nc my life, told you here that | expected my
public life to close with this tenn knowing also that the
public opipon Of the nation in It's entire history has
forbidden President VcePresdcnt, who had not the
excuse OF being candlhte, entering INTO actual
stumpspeakng In n Presidential canvass with an
its strife gonisms and aperiiics. examinations and
recrimnatioDs told you ami all others that not expect
ing be candidate this yer that canvass was tue last
political campaign should actually participate In, and
ton nor attempt violate nile that none OF my prede-
cessors elt it proper 10 break But while thu; re-
strained feel at liberty Of cmrse as czen 10 ak 10
my feloW-tOWnSmen at hOmcpriyately or publicly NOf
Is IL any restraint upon me . scrupuOuhly aNod any
personal denunciat0n OF undldates or citizens 10
whom am politically opposed WINE cannot support
Mr. Greeley, the personal friendship OF etiibc Closes
my lips to any attacks upon nm me PdthWiy VI uu
leads me to the regular nominations OF my political
friends: and II we lived IN te same state the ucAeo
that each OF us voted wouli De uihreht from toP 70
bottom. Fer 20 years have Teen an active
without ever INDUCING in PERSONAL lnNectlve against
opponents bearing all such lungs lhyseh without Iclo't
III KIND, ana never haNhg i9st , Hienu " ,ha
vote by 10 ALL 1 am satisfied ~ Is NOT inc
way TO win political httes; ana as never
used The word cOpperhad IN the huhdfeds
Of speeches made during the war, am sure sld say
nothing offensive now even those VINO dl1ef tht most
widely from me. The numbT OF sympathizng friends
found here among old political opponents since my re,
them all as tell you TO-DAY If they sympathle with
me TO follow my examine and vote open ticket for
Grant and Wilson. Brown ana sexton, the whOlc re-
publican ticket, and they viii feel happy Laughter
and applause And now lev me make "a, pohuedl pre-
dictiOn, when senator Horton may repeat Oh Ilis
tour tour over the stat" o Of van our not Old ' snd
valued political comrades fIe whose course regret
cannot speak haFshly OF then for II is not nte'
touching shoulder shoulder with us ugain but Mhe
may be able equal the majority OF November
lSGs swelled perhaps, as that was ny your peso, ro
gard for your we do not expect 10 give
Grant and Wilson the full average Republican malotV
and national al which Wecarled the state every tme
that If the balance Of tn state does as ven as we o
clpes everything, Indiana safe lGreat applausc'i
EXTRAORDINARY EyENTs.
must not forget to speak briefly about some exraor
diuary which have occurred this year. For two
three years opponents have Insisted that II was
time for the Republican party TO disintegrate and e
it's mission having been, they said, fulfilled But o
when the Democratic National Convention assembled 1t
proved 10 be funeral for they decided, and think
wisely, that IL was tins for their party 70 dle Ihey
buried the resolutions d 1885, which had read every
Republican amendments To the Constitution, appOlnteu
Liberal Republicans b administer ON what estate
they had left, nominated candidates VINO nave
distinguished themselves according 10 Democratic
authority by their championship OF negro equality an
then committed suicide Great laugterl Nor Is TINS
all For the first time the history o Democratic COn
ventions, every vote cast for Republicans for nonna-