The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-10-26
Molitita1,
THE CHANCES FOR NOVEMBER
How the October Verdict is Regarded
in Washington,

OSpoSSl l.
has now been afforded to calculate
with degree of certainty the effect
OF the elections of Tuesday last. It
is very true that ut first tho impress
sion in political circles was that tho
result of Tuesdays work might be
fairly summed up as a drawn battle,
but deliberate survey of tho whclo
Held shows that this is worry far
from being tho case. Tuesdays
work is bound to exercise most
important influence upon tho con-
test i'll November, and the whole
prestige of that day rosts with the
democratic party. Ohio, the home
of tho Republican candidate for
PRESIDENT, was conceded to that
side from the day that the nomina-
ton was made at Cincinnati. The
Democrats had no expectation of
carrying that State, and made much
less Of contest than they did last
year, whom Allen was running for
Governor. The Republicans, on the
contrary, expended immense sums of
money, and, not content with their
own speakers, imported orators from
all over the Union. The sum total
of their efforts is paltry majority
scarcely if any greater than that of
last year, and a mere bagatello as
compared with the immense Repul,-
Ican majoritics which Ohio has been
accustomed to roll up.
So much for Ohio. In Indiana tho
case is infinitely worse for the Re-
publicans. Indiana was really the
battle, ground of the two parties, and
so accepted by both. Gen. Kilpat-
rick said what was needed in In
diana was 'h bloody shirt campaign
with money" This they had. The
song OF the bloody shirt went on
without ccasinG, day and night. The
wnole State was irrigated, asst were,
with tho flow of money. The Indt-
pendent candidate was bought oil,
and never before, since Indiana has
been an organized community, have
It's honest farmers been subjected
to such pressure. The Democrats
were ut decided disadvantage in
that they had not one-tenth Of tho
money possessed by their opponents.
1t is said here that tho money spent
by the Republican committees in
Indiana amounted to ten dollars for
every voter in tho State. Then the
Republican nominee for Governor
was selected with especial reference
to his availability as the grandson of
President Harrison. CLEO clubs
were employed to traverse tho State
and chant campaign songs in the
style of 1910, when Gen. Harrison
was elected President. But the
bloody shirt and tho money and tho
glee clubs all failed to convince the
sensible, honest farmers Of Indiana,
and Mossrs. Blaine, Ingcrsoll g. Go.
may well ask themselves whether
their vile and outrageous SANDERS
were not productive of more harm
tAan good to tho cause which they
cspoused.
INDIANA AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The fifteen electoral votes of
Indiana are now just as sure for
Illdcn and Hendricks as that the
sun will shine. IL is not at all looi.al
to compare Tildon with Greeley, and
to point to tho fact that Grant car
RED Indiana after Hendricks had
been elected Governor. An i'm
mense mass of Democrats, not only
III Indiana, but ali over the country,
wore dissatisfied with Grecley's
nominatlon and refused to support
hlm, while tho party was never more
united than it is now in favor of
Illdcn and Hendricks. Rep,1b]i.
cans and Democrats here both feel
this, and while tho former arc de-
spondont in the extreme, the latter
are exceedingly sangrine. The as
surance of Indiana's vote in Novem-
Der, it is believed, will be certain to
bring that of New York, Now JERSEY
and Connecticut. The shrewd polit
lcal weathercocks have already trans
tolred these four States from tho
doubtful list to tho Tilden column.
Ih's tells the whole story of Novem-
Der.
INFLUENCE ON OTHER STATES.
Furtherm ore, tho nows has come
from tho West today that the indiffe-
ront successin Ohio and the Waterloo
defeat in Indiana have exerted such a
depressing influence on the Republi,
can elomcnt in that section that thore
is n strong probability of Indiana
having pretty close company ncxt
month Yet tho desperate mana2.
ers here do not intend to give up
tho contest without another bite,
struggle. 1t is understood that adj.
ditional assessments are to be levied
upon tho officoholders hero and
elsewhere. The bulk of tho money
now to DO raised will be poured into
New York, although vain hope, some
of it will be sent after tho bad money
which has already gone to Indiana.
But the prestige which now sur
rounds the Democratic cause is a full