The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-08-31
THE FIGHT IN INDIANA.

On the part Of the Democrats the
stsseele asihsnhe hitter and adesperate.
Hendricks, the candidate for Governor,
has been beaten twice, and another de-
feat would b the end of his political
hopes lie has iorsakcn his usual cour-
tesy and fairness, and is re sorting 70 The
moss disrspatsble trickery and fraud. lie
carries about with him and reads TO his
Democratic audiences q letter written in
1866, with the date forged to 1862 to
convict Grant Of having accepted large
gifts after his Inauguration as President.
His attention has been called to the fraud
but he has made no explanation Of his
dishonorable conduct. Mr. Hendricks
was cxasperased when the tricksters o.
his party threatened him with their per-
petnal displeasure il he refused the NOM
ination, which was forced upon him after
he had repeatedly declined it in the most
positive terms. He was chagrined when
Mr.. De-Pauw, who was nominated as
Lieutenant Governor in the hope that
his wealth and connection with The
Methodist Church would add strength to
the ticket, perewptoiiIy declined, and
his place was filled BY sorehead Repub-
licsn Of small influence and limited abili-
ty. Besides all this, MT. Hendricks does
not take his crow without many wry
faces, and the force and influence Of his
speeches are much impaired By the
apologize style in which he attempt, to
justify his advocacy Of the arch enemy
and chief vilifier of the Democratic party.
The effect Of the speeches Of Voorhees,
and Kerr is also very much weakened by
the same causes.
The main reliance Of the Democracy
of Indiana, however, is not on Hendricks
or Voorhees,, or Kerr, or Greeley. but on
the inscriptions .illa'Dy Of E. s. AL
word, the Chairman of their State Gen.
trail Committee. '.Old Alvord,' as he
has been known among sporting men in
the West for quarter Of century, has
been one Of the most notorious gamblers
Of the country. lie has fought the tiger
from Maine to California, and at his IA
vorite game Of faro has usually had the
reputation Of standing in with the bank.
lie claims to have forsaken cards and
his other vices since he became Demo-
cratic leader, which is very strange, if
true, il we are to accept Mr.. Greeley 8
estimate Of Democratic character. AL
word will stop at no villainy to accom-
plish his aims, and if the Republicans
were less. thoroughly organized we
should fear for the result.
There are two important things to be
considered in this election as increasing
the probabilities Of Republican SUCCESS.
The importation OF Democratic votes
from Kentucky into the river towns will
not be carried on to the extent that it
was in 1863, when, according to the
statement made by Colonel c. w.
Woolley in letter to Horatio Seymour,
10000 were colonizsd to aid Hendricks
at the October election. Now, the coloni-
cation from Kentucky is composed Of the
five or ten thousand negro voters, who
have been driyca from Tennessee and
Kentucky by the Ku-Klux during the
past four years. These men have taker
employment in the towns and on tht
farms Of Indiana, and form very i'm.
portant and useful element OF her ropu
lation. or the whole co.ored vote il j.
not believed that Greeley will get on
hundred in the State. 1t may be remark
ed in passing also that there is nothing
in this canvass to stimulate the Ken
lucky Democrats to run the gauntlet Q
the penitentiary for the sake of coming t.
indiana to swear in . fraudulent vote 10
Greeley.
More discouraging to the Democrat
than all this is the fact, new become ap
parent, that there is deep seated an
growing disaffection among the masse
o! the party in the Southwestern con
gressional districts. Wolfe, the candidat
for Congress in the New Albany distric
which usually gives Democratic major
ity Of COCO, made speech q fortnigt
before his nomination, in which he d.
clared that 'next to Charles Sunne
Greeley YVES the most odious man in tn
nation and his nomination by a clio.
vote over his competitor, Cyrus l.. Dul
ham, was accepted IS an Endorsement
his speech. Colonel Durham now rr
poses to run as an independent Dem,
cratic candidate, and the Indianapo
Sentinel Of Saturday last insinuates tn
some prominent Democrat has been bl
bed to ioment disaffections among t
faithful in that region.
Upon q review Of the who'e field,
regard the prospect as very encourage
for the Republicans, and while they "
not have an easy victory, We believe. tn
can secure it by la0oring during the
mainder OF the canvass with the sa
vigor and intelligence that have char
terized their efforts thus far.- From
Missouri Democrat
Charles Sumner and Carl Schu
whose inordinate egotism led them
baliaxa that fheu ounad q conc;dnra