The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-08-10

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The loss Of the state to the democrats
by a few votes in October, 1868, insured
the electoral vote TO Gen. Grant in the
succeeding month. But the democrats
turned the scale in 1870, and they have
kept the uppcrhand in every election
since except in that for president, in No
vcmbcr, 1872, when, in consequence of
the righteous dissatisfaction Of Indiana
democrats with the candidaturc of Mr..
Greeley, the election vas permitted to
go by default. After an almost uncx-
ampled contest for governor, Hendricks
had been elected by LIS majority in
the previous month, but there were %
Isl 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,
full. The democratic majority in 1870
was 2,5GS; in 1872, GncIuding the
"strnieht" democratic votc), 1897, and
in 1874, over the combined republican
and Independent vote, l;Ol9, and over
the republican vote alone, II, 1852.
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 ncx,
October may be summed up in II few
sentences. If parties stand as they stood
at the last election, the democrats will
have Il clear majority. But it is proba-
bic that the more respectable portion OF
the independent vote of two years ago
will 90 with the democrats now. 1t may
not be more than ten per cent, but still
it will increase the democratic majority.
II now we consider that lndiana's favor
tie, Hendricks, is the democratic candi-
date for vicc-prcsidcnt, and that the
state has been complimcnted 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, Gottlicb Orth, who calls
himself Godlovc, Iabors under serious
charges affecting his honor IA n man and
public official, which charges he cannot
disproyc, it must be admitted that
things in Indiana are all moving in the
direction of a dcmocIatic victory.
The exciting canvass of last year in
Ohio drew out the largest vote ever
poIlcd in the state. The democratic
vote was larger (by 10000 than it had
eve been before. 1t was within the
triflc of less than 5000 of the republican
vote. Expressed in percentages, the
republican vote was 50.2i of the whole,
the democratic vote ~ 81, and the tenn
perance vote i5-adiference between the
democratic and republican vote of less
than n per cent. But the most import
ant fact to be mentioned in this con-
ncction IN that, notwithstanding the
magnitude of the democratic vote of
1878, It did not include the German
vote nor that of an uncertain number of
democrats who were dissatisfied with the
financial views of Gov. Allen. The Ger
mans voted with the republicans, and
the dissatisfied democrats refraincd 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, pollcd within one per
cent. of the republican vote, what ought
they not be able to do this year, with a
united party and II vast majority of the
Ohio Germans enthusiastically sustain
ing them? 1t is obvious that only a tull
democratic vote should be necessary to
secure Ohio to the democracy, even in
the October fight.