The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-10-07
Indiana.

The election for State officers takes place
in Indiana on the 18th inst, next Tuesday.
Wide spread interest is felt throughout the
country in the result, and various specula-
tions are INDUCED as to the success of the
respective parties. The intelligent and care
full correspondent OF the Philadelphia Press
of the 4th, writing from Indianapolis under
date of the I'd. gives the following conserva-
tive views of the situation, which accord with
those of our own. We publish an extract
from his letter, so that the popular mind may
be prepared for the result and the significance
which may be attached to it, whichever way
it may be:
In my Judgment, the estimate of both par
ties as to the result of this canvass is not just
fed by the outlook. | cannot find any basis
for the claim of 5000 republican majority
which the party managers make. can find
still less for the democratic claim of 1900
majority. Marshal Dudley, who is one of the
shrewdest political managers in the State, has
developed wonderfully during this canvass.
He has attracted greater attention than even
John G. New or Col. W. r. Holloway, who
have heretofore been regarded as the repubh-
can leaders. The perfectness symmetry and
vigor OF the organization will help the repub-
licans very largely and it is barely possibly
may give them the State, but the chances are
in favor of the democracy, and it seems to me
the worst of folly for any republican Journal
list to emphatically claim the State for his par
ty. 1t, in fact does not belong to it. For ten
years in every State contest Indiana has gone
democratic. Tilden carried it by 5000 in 1876.
The best that ought to be expected of the re-
NIL of 10 tho xyinO
commendable fight they are making to keep
the democratic majority within its present
| bounds. If the democrats carry the State they
| will simply keep their own, but if the repub-
licans should succeed in securing it, it would
| virtually decide the November contest in their
| favor. The democrats understand this, and
hence they are determined to carry the State.
| Referring to the letter from which the above
extract is taken the Press says editorially:
| The special correspondent ofthe Press whose
letters from Maine preceding the election in
that State were generally recognized as the
most impartial and candid that were written
does not write as hopefully of the prospect in
Indiana as a more enthusiastic and less eXper-
fenced political observer would. 1t must be
remembered in all the estimates as to the prob
able result in that hotly-contested State that
| Indiana is democratic, and has been these
many years. Gen. Grant carried it for Presi-
dent in 1872, but that was an exceptional year,
and even then it gave democratic majority
in October. In 1890 the republican party is
fighting against greater odds than ever. There
is the power of Englishs money, the immense
sums Barnum is throwing into the State, and
the undoubted and unconcealed plans of the
democracy to carry the election by the fraud
ulent votes of the Kentuckians, Missou-
rians, and other ex-rebels they have colonized.
Ifthe State is carried in the face of these diff
culties it will be an achievement unprecedent-
ed in the political annals of the country.