The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-08-11

The loss of the state to the democrats
| by few votes in October, 1868, insured
| the electoral vote to Gen. Grant in tine
! succeeding month. But the democrats
turned the scale in 1870, and they have
kept the upperhand in every election
since except in that for president, in No
vember, 1872, when, in consequence of
the righteous dissatisfaction of Indiana
democrats with the candidature of Mr..
Greeley, the election was permitted to
90 by default. After an almost unex-
ampled contest for governor, Hendricks
had been elected by l Jas majority in
the previous month, but there were 25,-
7S7 democrats who voted for Hendricks
in October, who would not vote for
Greeley in November. and this gave the
state to Grant. But the returns show
that in the last three elections for state
officers the democrats have been success
ful. The democratic majority in 1870 !
was 2,56S; in 1872, (including the
straight" democratic vOte), ,337, and !
in 1874, over the combined republican |
and Independent vote, 1919, and over
the republican vote alone, II ,252.
indiana, then, had been carried by |
the democrats in all the recent elections |
whenever the whole democratic vote had |
been called out, the prospect for next |
October may be summedEp in q tS,x ~ !
sentences. If parties Stzsss- ls.Ssss y. ~
at the last election, the 7sss---a1z-zt ~
have a clear majority. But it is proba-
BILE that the more respectable portion of
the independent vote of two years ago
will go with the democrats new. 1t may
not be more than ten per cent, but still
it will increase the democratic majority.
If now we consider that Indiana's favor
ite, Hendricks, is the democratic candi- |
date for vice-president, and that the
state has been complimented in his per-
son; that the honest and popular Blue
Jean" Williams is the democratic candi- |
date for governor, while his opponent,
that unworthy German, ashamed of his
German name, Gottlieb Orth, who calls |
himself Godlove, labors under serious
charges affecting his honor as a man and
public official, which charges he cahnot |
disprove, it must be admitted that |
things in Indiana are all moving in the |
direction of democratic victory.
The exciting canvass of last year in |
Ohio drew out the largest vote ever
polled in the state. The democratic |
vote was larger (by 100000 than it had |
ever been before. 1t was within the |
title OF less tnan O,UUO OF Lnc republican
vote. Expressed in percentages, the |
republican vote was 1924 of the whole, |
the democratic vote 49.31, and the tenn |
perance vote ia difference between the !
democratic and republican vote of less
than one per cent. But the most import |
ant fact to be mentioned in this con-
nection is that, notwithstanding the |
of the democratic vote of |
1875, it did not include the German |
vete nor that of an uncertain number of |
democrats who were dissatisfied with the |
views of Gov. Allen. The Ger
mans voted with the republicans, and |
the dissatisfied democrats refrained from |
voting at all. If, therefore, the democ-
racy of Ohio in October, 1875, when their |
party was divided and the Germans |
were against them, polled within one per
cent. of the republican vote, what ought |
they not be able to do this year, with |
united party and vast majority of the |
Ohio Germans enthusiastically sustain |
ing them? 1t rs obvious that only full
democratic vote should be necessary to
secure Ohio to the democracy, even in
the October fight.