The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-10-28
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H"' -Cvmp'e~j"" cf tie fer| }|o"s"'
[Cr:r> l"r1.'r;" Of III: P1r@y"r".i
Washington, Oct, II, iSSN.
| ;hink TIA; can congratulate the
coed PEOPLE of Lor;S!ara ~ the pros
Feet OF
AGREAT nE1.lNERA:;CE.
Not ONLY il :hnra at Nar,l az escape
fln" Ike infamous brood who have
been drinking the life i'.oo': ct your
State, but TIE shadow Of ttA ,hHtyt'I
t,......., VI .'.,. E-.uiOnn' :4u1lliiI1,:';'-
Con under which we have lived for
the ins1 eight or ten years e2emS 70
be passing away.
The elections in Indiana and oi!io
are
TIE NANnWElTlNf OK Til: WALL
which Torrt"I' tho doom Of Radical
ism. Taking the results IL r''Io, in
diana and West Virginia Together.
they constitute 4 Waterloo defeat for
the Administration party. You mrSt
know that they fully expected 10 car
rs every one Of these states in t',c
October elr"tinns. It is not many
weeks since trleGrarhcd you an ar-
count Of President Grants claim, THAT
the Republicans would carry West
Virginia ana secure the tNo = GATORS
to be chosen as we'll as q gain Of one
or two members Of Inncrc<$. Much
reliance was |NArrI ON ~ 'IuH:Ati;
'li>Srnsione. and more perhaps on the
power of money aud SANDER.
Well. We have the result from West
Virginia. The Democratic majority
is over 10000. We have III" Le~is-
lature by q tvo-thir'lS majority. in
snring q choice OF two Democratic
Senators and all three Of tho Con-
gressmen chosen are Democrats
Such is the finale to Republican OK
pcctation. The State will give 1i,1"u
and Hendricks in November a ma.iori-
ty of not less than l5.OOO. The State
is very "SoIi,l.' and NlA Virginia
will be equally so.
At TIE ont~et of the canvass Ohio
VA, Get down IL al die ca|cni&tion'
is Certain for Hayes
hv a large majority. The only qurS.
ton was as to the majority he wouIt
get. Ohio has gone for tic EvprGli.
cans by large maioritirs il every
Presidential contest from lHH2 down
to the present year, a I'"lo'' nt t"rl'
iy-tnnr years.
Four years AGO it gave at The Octo
Der election Hcr"hli"an majority or
the vote for Governor of2n,iGS. Tive
months ago the Republican leaders
expected, as It was Ilayc>'S own
State, to have no serious fight, but tc
carry it in October by at least y:
larG" a majority IA they had done in
I.172, and in November by rot less
than 1890. they were
Ttrrtd'y Surprised
whca about a month ago they found
themselves forced to concentrate
speakers, money and effort to save
Hayes from defeat in his own State
of Ohio. After a terrible scare, q
desperate effort, very large cxprn,
litnre of money and large polling
of fraudulent votes. they hn'" mann
gcd to save Viio by the skin of tEvj!
teeth. They have
Barely Sared 1t.
Such is Mr.. ..Iaycs's personal popu.
larity and strength where he is best
known. 70 appreciate this result, il
must be considered that Gov. TiIdcl
was not tie oriyiu"! choice of tho
Ohio Democrats, that many of then
came to his support mcrcly Hpof tn.
ground tl:at !:> was the regular nomi
nee of the patty. They did not like
his course on tho currency question
In spite of all adverse cpnsidcra
tons, the desire Of the people for
change and reform has triumphe(
over the "bloody Shirt" the bngabot
about "Soutlrrn clalms' and the IN
stinted use of money, and Gov. Hayes
is cut down to a beggar|y four Or dv'
thousand majority in his own State
ITO tho officc-holders hero this is
seycrer blow even than the loss o
Indiana and West Virginia.
1t IS no answer to this that the Re
publicans have secured twelve out .
the twenty members of Congress il
Ohio. This is by virtue of an infa
nous gerrymandcriug of tho Stat
when they undertook to give tn
Democrats only five ont of the twont
members of Congress. IN spite G
this tho Democrats have secure
eight. Ohio, however, was not tn
great battle ground of tho camra:s1
Indiana ras the Key
to the Presidential fight. The Re
puhlicans concentrated upon it snc
an array of speakers, many of the'
possessing the highest ability 4
stumpers, such as never has bee
witnessed in politics. Tho who
power of the Administration, and (
the Republican party, was brought
bear on Indiana. II is within bonn|
to say that from
Sir to Eight Hundred Thousand DO
have been spent by them upon tt
states of Ohio and Indiana; whe
the Democrats were ablo to raise OF
dollar, the Republicans raised tlv
This gave them the means to III
Col. Schurz and whole army
speakers, to multiply meetings, p'
cessions, Examinations, to nuy I'LL
f forms, torches. etc, aud; above IL
to import and vote negroes IT"
Kentucky and vpeaters from olI'
points. Taey had effected a pc''e
nruou;z,@inu of the State as tar "a