The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-10-17
The Result in Indiana.

Democrats claim that they have car
ried Indiana by small majority. They
shout over this as great victory. The
truth is, it is crushing defeat for them
Ia defeat from which they can not re-
cover between this and the 7th of No
yember. In the October election 1872,
Gov. Hendricks carried the State by Q
majority of eleven hundred and forty
eight. One month from that time, Gen.
Grant carried the State by majority
Of q, SIS These figures are official and
they show the true inwardness Of lndi-
ana politics. There is, perhaps. no
State in the Union 30 torn and distract
ed by local issues. Not all the stump
speaking and editorial preaching that
accompany . national contest boiled
down to the limits Of two States can en-
tirely obscure those questions of local
interest which are always upp ermost In
Indiana politics. For this reason that
State has not been regarded political
indicator. In old times, when Pennsyl-
vania held her State elections in Octo-
Der, she always voted in November as
she voted nOct0ber-simply increasing
her majority in the national election.
The record of Ohio shows the same
consistency, and that State Is counted
rs certain to vote in November as 1t
votes In October. Indiana has never
been carried by the Democrats In q
PRESIDENTIAL election since 1856. In 1850
Lincoln carried the State by Q majority
Of 6.929 over the combined vote Of
Douglass, Breckinridge and Bell. In
1884 Lincoln's 3 majority was 2O, ,1s9. In
1858 Grants majority was 1858. In
1879 his majority was, Is above stated,
22,515. Indiana must therefore be
considered Republican State when she
votes on national issues. On local is
sues she has repeatedly gone Democrat
ic, the majorities in October have always
been reversed in November.
In 1874-the year of the great Demo-
cratic tidal wave-Indiana went Demo-
cratic by majority of seventeen thous-
and two hundred and fifty-two. That
was an of year and a much smaller
vote was polled than in October and
November, 1872. If that Democratic
tidal wave had not spent its force Indi-
ana would have gone Democratic on
Tuesday by at least twenty thousand
majority. 1t is the home Of Gov. Hem
bricks, the Democratic candidate for
Vice President He was placed on the
Democratic ticket simply because it
was believed that he could hold his
State up to the standard of 1874. He
was expected to carry Indiana in Octo-
Der by such an overwhelming majority
as would render it certain for Tildep in
November. If he had done this the
Republican party would have good
cause for very grave misgivings as to the
result in November. If we compare tho
October vote in Indiana with the No
vember vote, we find that, in the four
national contests since 1856, the Re-
publicans have gained in the latter
month an average of something over
sixteen Thousand votes. If Hendricks
had carried his State ON Tuesday by q
majority of twenty thousand, the aver
age Republican gain of say sixteen
thousand in November would not have
wrested the State from Tilden. Instead
of carrying his State by twenty thous-
and majority, he is still in doubt as to
whether he has carried it at all. He
must wait for the official returns before
he can inform his friends how disas-
trously be has been defeated. If he has
carried Indiana by one thousand votes
he is behind in his contract from fifteen
to nineteen thousand. If Mr.. Hendricks
has failed to carry his State-if he has
lost it by ever so small majority, the
Democratic party will go to pieces and
the national contest will be virtually
settled. [St Louis Journal.