Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-13
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
OF OHIO.
For VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM A. WHEELER,
OF NEW YORK.
From the New York Times, Oct. IL q.
The October Elections.

Inc OCTOBER ElectlOnS.
The elections held yesterday place be-
yond all doubt the success OF the republi-
can national ticket in November. Those
held in Ohio and Indiana were the most
important. The Tilden party had staked
everything on the result. If they could
not 60 In heavily in Indiana, and wrest
Ohio, where their power has apparently
been growing steadily for some time
from the hands of the republicans, not all
the desperate energy of a solid South
would avail them. With the conscious
ness OF this fact pressed upon their minds,
they concentrated all their available forces
on these two States-the homes Of
Governor Hayes. and Mr.. Hendricks.
respectively. In both the contest has
been waged on the part of the sham
reformers, with characteristic tactics, and
in both they have met decisive defeat.
In Ohio, where every great issue was
lodged. and every possible side issue was
brought to bear to distract the republican
voters, the latest returns show republican
gains over 1875, when Gov. Hayes was
elected by 500 majority. Mr.. Barnes,
the head of the republican ticket, who
has been assailed as a CRUSADER" with
the hope Of estranging the Germans.
undoubtedly falls behind the other candi-
dates. but be is elected, hey ond all rea-
sonable question. by majority which will
probably not be short of 10000. OF the
remainder of the ticket, we know moth
Ing definite, except that the majority on
that will be still larger. The returns
come In very slowly. and the gains of
either party are in quarters where they
had been least expected. but the decided
character of the republican gains in the
country districts show that the position,
which was favorable at the moment OF
sending the last dispatches, is sure to
grow steadily more favorable.
In Indiana the contest has been extreme
ly bitter. The State has for years been a
doubtful one. In 1860 it gave its electo.
raj vote to Mr.. Lincoln, and two year.
later. at the most trying period of the
war. the democrats. by desperate and
reasonable combinations, carried it by
nearly 10000 majority. For the five fol
lowing elections the republicans held the
State. their majori,ies running up at times
to 81 900 and again down to below 900.
Suddenly, in 1870, the State turned to the
democrats. and in the State election of
the last Presidential year, when defea,
for the Greeley ticket had already be
come certainty, Indiana, on the heav-
lest vote ever cast, gave democratic
majority of 1887. Then. once more, as
Ii to fix its reputation for fickleness, it gave
Grant q, 900 majority on a reduced vote !,
In 1874 the democrats carried it by l,147.
This year both parties have exhausted
their resources to gain favorable YER
dict for their respective tickets. The
vote has been very large. Though the
majority either way is exceedingly small
the probabilities are strongly in favor Of
the election of Harrison.
This state OF things calls for but brief
comment. If the republicans have car
ried the State, even though by a small ma
jority. they will have more decided one
in November. If the democrats have
carried ii, their majority is certain to be
In La d., I'll
On the other hand, while the republicans
can afford to lose the State, and could do
30 and still elect Gen. Hayes. to lose it.,
or even to hold it by light majority
would be fatal to Mr.. Tilden. In Indi-
ana, II anywhere, the bargain with th.
infationists would yield its profits. II,
was to capture Indiana that the repudi.
alton plank was put in the democratic
platform, that Hendricks was nominated
and that Tilden consented to accept tn.
EXTREMIST inflationist demands. In Ind
ana also. the campaign has been waged
BY the democrats on the plan which was
expected to deceive throughout the coup
try-specious pretentions as to the South
ern question, and great parade of retrench
ment and reform. If 10 this hopeful sol
OF the most refractory State 10 the North
the democratic crop is small, then II will
amount to nothing in the Union at large
Nothing can retrieve for the democrat,
the failure to carry Indiana by large
majority.