The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-30
The Canvass in indiana.


WHAT THE TWO PARTIES ARE DOING IN THE
STRONGHOLD OF MoRToNISM-A STRONG DE-
MAND FOR CHANGE-oLD BLUE JEANS
POWER.
Especial Correspondence Of the Baltimore Gazette.I
INDIANAPOLIS, August 27.-Both parties
recognize this rs the battlefield OF the gene
raj canvass. and, as Morton has already al
mitted, the result in Indiana, IL either party
gains complete victory, will doubtless de-
terminc the final result. The Republicans
here have never attempted L more thorough
canvass. They have harneSscd every pollti-
cal speaker in the party, and imported men
from other States as far as possible. They
have levied heavy tax on all the office
holders and local candidates as il making
death struggle. The best organizers OF the
State (siN or eight Of thcm) are in con-
slant session in the committec-rooms.
John w. Foster, Minister to Mexico,
who has peculiar talent in organi-
cation, has been brought home, and
is really in charge. 1t was his fiat that took
Orth off the track, placed Harrison on, and
sent the crippled Morton over the State to
arouse the party. 1t is represented to the
disheartcned leaders that Morton's adhesion
to the Hayes ticket, after being ruthlessly
slaughtered at Cincinnati by direct arranS-
ment, will secure all the patronage from
HAYES that he desires, and the promise Is
out to every aspirant for office IN every
county that he shall have IN office II the
party is successful. BY this means there is
q species OF enthusiasm and industry all
over the State that at first view looks for
midable, but I speak whereof know when
I say that the leaders OF the party feel
themselves beaten. They Numbered in
their State platform. They blundered
with Orth, in Morton's silence on the finan-
cial question during the entire session OF
the present Congress, and the very insignit-
can't State ticket that has been nominated,
and the absence of the usual amount OF
money that there has for q dozen years been
spent in every canvass, altogether produce
distrust. For months the leading organ OF
the party here was very firm for hard money,
and the independents drew largely from
their ranks. The sudden change in tactics
came too late. Since Morton's defeat at
Cincinnati desperate efforts have been made
to win the disatiected back, but the letter of
General Fitzpatrick to Governor Hayes has
entirely cut OFT all hope in that direction.
To-day, il the election for Governor should
take place, Harrison would be beaten byten
thousand votes. r Il H.. ,.fu
mistake not in saying that there is deep
and strong feeling among the people for a
change in the Administration. This will
prevent the Independents from going back
to the Radical party, even il Mr. Cooper
should withdraw from the canvass, which
will take place" before month. Thousands
of Republicans will silently; vote for the re-
form ticket without publicly defining their
position. The canvass as conducted by the
Democracy is emphatically a spontaneous
movement OF the people. The decline Of
property, the suspension Of manufacturing,
the oppression Of taxation, all invite the at
tention of the people to Republican eNtrav-
aganee and corruption, and there seems to
be o deep, earnest purpose, even among
Radicals, to make the experiment of a
change. The difference in the political
meetings of the two parties is very marked.
The Radicals work up enthusiasm ut point,
make grand display, but when their
speakers have delivered their addresses the
people 60 home disappointed On the
other hand, the gatherings Of the reform
party are spontaneous, and the enthusiasm
follows, the people to their homes. cold
Blue jeans" the Democratic candidate for
Governor, is power with the people. He
is in every sense popular, and constantly
grows in the affections Of the people, while
Harrison, the aristocratic makeShift, who at
the: last moment was forced to run in the
place Of the disgraced Ortb, makes no votes
in the canvass. He is man OF respectable
talent, but with little sympathy for the peo-
pie, and can never be q faYorite.
Summing up the situation to-day, may
confidently say that the friends OF Hen
bricks send greetings to the East, and tell
the Democracy there that if they will re-
deem their promises and pledges OF Tilden's
strength in that section MIR. Hendricks will |
take care Of Indiana. The very best speak |
ers in the State are billed for addresses all |
over the State from now until the election
day. Hon. George W. Julian Will speak
here tonight. / have seen a copy Of the
soeech sent out to the Associated Press, and |
can say that it is most powerful political
document. Twenty thousand copies have
been ordered by the State Central Commit
zee. Hon. D. w. Voorhees, is also in the
ield and doing valiant work. "A. careful
survey Of the situation shows steady pro-
,ress for reform, and unless there occurs
Ome wonderful change Indiana will 60
)emocratic by 10000 votes. s... Il. B. H.
A aREBEL RECORD. 2 Among the re-
OrdstDf the rebel government captured at /
he fail Of Richmond was letter from the |
Pope to Jefferson Davis, in renly to one for.
yarded to him by the President OF the Con-
ederate STATES. It has been asserted that
bis setter contained q recognition of the
spnie derate Government, but such is not
he fact. It Is entirely non onlmittal on the
epel!ion, and the only. point in It Is On ex-