Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-09
The Elections This Week.

The elections of Tuesday will be regard
ed with great dea! of interest in all parts
of the country. The result will largely
influence the Presidential election. With
q fair vote the republicans have nothing
to fear. Only fraud on large scale can
deprive them of victory even in lnd-
ana.
Ohio we believe to be certain for the
republican ticket. but the republican ma
jority will not mount very high. The con-
test in that State has been close and sharp,
the Tildentes having done their best to
beat Hayes in his own State in October as
the most practicable step towards beating
him in the national field in November.
The report that the German element is
disaffected with the republican ticket, and
will largely support the democratic tick
ct, is not true. The Germans will vote
nearly as they voted last year, but will
give Hayes and Wheeler larger vote in
November than they will give the State
ticket at this election. The democrats
have played the game of trying to cut
down the vote of Barnes, the republican
candidate for Secretary OF Slate, the lead
ing place on the ticket. below the rest
of the republican vote, knowing that the
vote for Barnes will be teegraphed
abroad as the full strength of the repub
lican ticket. BY this ruse, if it were sue
cessful, they would make the republican
vote appear less than its real strength,
and turn the trick to their advantage in
its effect upon the election in November.
Recently they have started the story that
Hayes is a member of the American Al
lance. some kind of a Native American
society, but this roorback has been so eff
fectualy disposed of that it will have but
little effect.
Indiana is more uncertain than Ohio on
account of the facility with which fraud
may be committed there. and the prepar-
atoms made by the democrats to carry
the State by fraud. They can easily trans
port thousands of men from Kentucky
across the line and vote them in Indiana.
They have done it in other elections and
will do it in this. The railway trains
from all the principal cities have been
freighted during the past week
with crowds of repeaters. plug-ug
lies and blood-tubs on the way to-
Indianapolis ostensibly to attend the con-
vention of democratic soldiers and sailors
In that city. but in reality to be quartered
at various points in Indiana until after the
election. Baltimore has contributed a
large quantity of her choicest voting ma
terial, including a fine phalanx OF repeat
ers. deserters and bounty jumpers, who
have been furnished transportation to In
dianapolis, with instructions to vote as ear
ly and often as circumstances will permit.
In Chicago says the Tribune Of that city.
"provision has been made for all who want
a free ride and plenty to eat aud drink
and the contribution fIom this city of bum
mers and ballot-box suffers is certain to
be large" There will be great turnout
Of-"veterans, aud 10 the extent that these
importations are permitted to remain and
vote the cause of Tilden and Reform will
be benefited.
But the republicans of Indiana are
thoroughly aroused and determined to do
their whole duty, and we hope that against
and over the vilIainous efforts of the demo-
Gratis they will come out victorious
West Virginia will show republican
gains, but the democrats are too strongly
eu,renched there 10 lie beaten ia this cleo
ton.
Tuesday viii be lively day in the
States which we have mentioned. We'd
nesdxy morning will give Us the result