Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-06
INDIANA.


CofEesp0ndencc PhEadelphia Times.
The leaders fboth sides lave got down
to business and hard work in Indiana, and
the Republicans to-day openly confess, for
the first time, that Chairman Jewell has
been utterly Outgeneraled in Indiana.
They know that Indiana is naturally a
Democratic state that it elected Hen
bricks governor in 1872; that it gave II,
600 Democratic majority in 1874; $500
in 1876, and IA, 900 in 1878, and they now
see the vanity and folly of Jewelrs
"splendid dress parade" begun by him.
self in Indiana more than two months
ago and followed up by lavish waste of
money, parades, speeches and enforced
enthusiasm long before the people were
ready to take part in the contest. Assess
ments and double assessments on the Office
holders were called for and poured into
Indiana before money could effect any
lasting good, while English sat calmly on
his 'bar'l and waited for his opponents
to exhaust themselves. Barnum slipped
out to indianapolis soon after Jewell had
exhibited on the tree tops and told how
tho state was to be carried with 4
hurrah, and none knew that he came
but English. They met, talked the battle
over, decided to let the Republicans ex-
haust their money and enthusiasm, de-
vised the most complete system for reach.
ing every individual voter of the state by
actual canvass, and decided to wait until
three weeks before the election and then
80 in with all their resources. No money
was scattered around for fireworks OF
parade; but the canvass was made as 4
matter of business by English, paid for out
Of his own pocket, and every weak voter
| and every weak point of the Republican
line is before English to guide him in put
ting his reserve powers into the struggle
"wbere they will do the most good" :
| 4 There is not anything like conf
| dence felt in Indiana now at Republican
headquarters. Two weeks ago Jewell was
| aslow with enthusiasm over the easy
| victory he promised himself in the pivotal
state; but to-day he and those about him
regard Indiana as more than doubtful.
because they feel that they have wasted
their resources and cannot now meet the
Democratic assault that is certain to be
made on tho state. Another new feature
| of the state contest that has been un.
expectedly developed since Barnum's
late visit to indianapolis, is 4 fierce,
aggressive campaign against Judge Porter
putting him on the defensive by charges
/ VI SkOoo NOhOhOASA VA
the treasury. The charge has beer
worked up by ex-Dctcctive William p
Wood, once chief of the secret service, an d
it makes out plausible case against Con
troller Porter for paying fabricated and
fraudulent claim, knOwingit it to be such.
1t is not credited by Republicans, nor is ii
likely to bc really credited by sensible
Democrats but it puts Judge Porter at
the great disadvantage Of beiD. OH the
defensive in his joint debate with Landers,
| and that is reversal of the whole Repub-
lican policy of the Indiana campaign. The
great distress in the Jewell committee now
is becaust Of the want of money. Enough
and more than enough to meet all re-
quirements now has been wasted in Ala
| bama, Maine, Vermont, and i'll premature
display in Indiana, and now, when a large
sum is needed, the contributions and par.
ties subject to assessments are exhausted.
And the now well-devclopcd programme of
the Democrats requires the Republicans
not only to pour out money like water III
Indiana, but they must be prepared to
meet a most desperate assault in Ohio, for
Barnum means to make q systematic and
exhaustive effort, backed with all the
money that can be used effectively, to
carry Ohio in October. This is an un-
expected and serious peril for Jewcll's COM
mittcc to meet, for they must not allow
Ohio to fall to a nominal majority, and the
loss of the state in October would elect Han
cock by a hurricane. The work of collect
ing money for Ohio and Indrana will be-
gin anew to morrow and it will bc pressed
with desperate vigor, but the growing
conviction among Republican contributors
that Indiana is lost, and principally be-
cause of Republican waste and misman-
agement. will make responses reluctant
and not ut all liberal. There will bc Il
desperate battle in Indiana. notwithstand-
ing the disadvantages under which the
Republicans must labor from this time
out, but the belief is much more general
than it is expressed among the leaders
that Indiana is lost to the Republicans
and that Ohio must be literally supplied
with money to save Gartield's own state