Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-22
How Indiana was BulldOSed.

How Indiana was BulldOsed.
If our Republican friends imagine
that the result in Indiana will help
their cause in November, they do
not possess the political sagacity we
have hitherto accorded them. AL
though the face of the returns
show majority of n few thousands
for their candidate for Governor and
an increase of Republican Congress-
men, it is by no means justification
of their cause or II triumph of their
principles. 1t will he remembered
that last Spring the country was fully
informed of the efforts being made
to import and COLOMBO thousands of
negroes from Kentucky and other
Southern States, for the express
purpose of making them effective in
struments in carrying the State for
the Republican nominee for Presi
dent. The work has been steadily
going on ever since, and the effect
is seen in the result last week
Every effective appliance that could
be devised was brought into play,
the energies of the whole party were
centered on that one battlefield, ex-
cept SO much as could he spared to
keep the Republican State of Ohio
true to her political lineage. DR..
Minor, who came fresh from the
council-chamber of the Republican
Committee few weeks ago, estima-
ted the cost of the political machin-
9. ':e~caryy e. fie -S..sSSi, =
at So, 900 900, and that immense sum
would be provided, he had no doubt,
for to lose Indiana would be the
death-knell of the party. The in
famous record of their candidates
ON the National ticket as proven by
Republican witnesses and official
documentary evidence; the drift Of
public sentiment incident thereto;
the tide of popular favor setting in
with such irresistible force toward
Gen. Hancock, combined with the
unexpected defeat in Maine, had so
shattered the party, that victory of
some sort was absolutely necessary
to hold it together and prevent the
general stampede imminent at any
moment. That victory was provided
at cost of fabulous amount of
money and an expense of all honor.
1t was the forlorn hope i'll which the
party risked its all and fought with
corresponding desperation.
The details of the many outrages
perpetrated throughout the State
are beginning to he received. Had
they occurred twenty years ago, the
people would have been appalled,
with horror at this travesty on the
enercise of the privileges and rights
belonging to free Government. A
special dispatch to the S. L. Eram-
liner says that United States Deputy
Marshals were ut the different poll
ing places and stopped the Sheritfs
from arresting fraudulent voters.
Thousands of negroes from Ken
lucky went about from poll to poll
repeating as often as they chose,
while the ballot-boXes were guarded
by hired Republican rullians from
Philadelphia, st. Louis, Chicago
and New York, who aided the Fed
eral officers in their open villianies.
A few days before the election,
U. S. Marshal Dudley issu.d special
orders to his deputies which clothed
them with power to manage the
election as they pleased, and the ac-
counts 80 to slow that these instruc-
tons were faithfully obeyed. Can
such things be, and lot excite q
patient, law-abidins people to re-
vol; !?
There is a hope, however, that
these fragrant usurpations OF power