The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-10-09
1929!
INDIANA.

luGTt Is UO ulSGulolue ~, llc ttlHo'l AVS diN
beginning to feel quite as anxious and uneasy
about Indiana as the republicans. Not that
the state Is not democratic by an honest MAORI.
ty of from eight to fourteen thousand but be
cause of the herculean efforts being made by
the republicans TO steal them out
Look at the case. Two weeks ago, after
having exhausted their best lung power in the
state and made close canvass, the republl-
cans concluded that their case was hopeless
unless an entirely new class of forces and new
system of tactics were enlisted. TO this end
a final pteous appeal was made to Conkling,
Cameron and Grant. These worthless went to
Mentor, saw Garfield, and there the bargain
was struck What that bargain was is easy TO
conjecture. Conkling was, in case OF Garfield
election, to control the patronage of New York,
Cameron that of Pennsylvania, and the Gar
field administration was to be run IN the inter
est of Grant for the next term, On this cond
ton Grant consented to the publication of his
brutal interview with parson Fowler, COnkling
agreed to make speeches in Indiana, and Cam
eroa agreed to bring into the Indiana canvass
his peculiar Pennsylvania system of bribery
and corruption.
Cameron returned TO Pennsylvania, Grant to-
Chicago and Conking went to Indiana. In a.
week Cameron is heard from, having raised N
Philadelphia and New York $950,000 to bel
used in Indiana and Don Cameron was sent
with it, to see to it, in connection with that no,
torous corruptionlst FIlley of st. LOUIS that
the money was placed "where it would do the
most good" Conkling commences his round
of speeches, attracting vast crowds rather tCI
see his person than to hear and be convinced
by his eloquence, but giving Cameron and
Filley the best opportunities to operate on the
crowds in their peculiar way. As to Grant,
he seems to have done all he thought necessary
by authorizing the publication of his disgrace
full Fowler interview.
OF course the chief and only dangerous part
of this programme Is the role to be played by
Cameron and Filey. ltinvolyes not only theI
extensive purchase of votes outright but thel
colonizing of enough negroes from Kentucky
and roughs from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
to turn the balance in the state. If $950OOOl
are not enough to accomplish this hellish pur-
pose, Cameron and Filley can command a mil
lion more.
Can the democrats, with their eight thOus-
ond majority but nearly exhausted treasury
meet this onslaught? Can Hendricks, Nc
Donald and English, even aided by the pres
ence of the astute and judicious Barnum, with
their stout hearts, inviacible courage and fell
determination not to be cheated or stolen out,
meet and overcome this tide Of corruption?
We hope for the best The people of lndl-
ana are high spirited and honest and her vot-
ers are not purchasable cattle like those of
New Hampshire or Maine. Yet there is mol
cunning, no device, no dishonesty, no deyiltry
conceivable by man that will not be resorted
to to thwart their honest will next Tuesday and
if the democrats against such a combination
of all that is reckless INSCRIPTIONS and Grim
inal in politics succeed, they will cover them
selves with imperishable glory