National Republican., 1880-10-04
THE INDIANA CAMPAIGN.
The Situation as Viewed From Different
standpolnts.
A Democrats Opinion of Engiish--A strong
Republican 1Ide--Businoss Men In
terestcd In the Canvass.
Another Democratic FaIsehood Rcfuted.
[From tho New York Hcrnld's speciall

Another Democratic Fn1sehoOd Koiuteu.
[From tho New York lfcrnld's specall
INDtANAPoLIs Oct. 2, 1880.
Senator Dorsey denies plumply and without
hesitation the charge that ho ever paid Gem
eral Weaver $1,000, aud when told that
Marshall Jewell was quoted as saying that he
Dorsey paid Weaver $500 he Indignantly
declared it to bo a lio out of whole cloth. He
says ho docs not know Weaver, and had never
seen him before he went to Alabama; that he
never paid or authorized to be paid TO him a
dollar, aud that ho doesn't believe any agree.
ment was ever made with him.
sLocUM sPURNs ENGLISH.
General w. II. Slocum of Nov York, who
is making twenty-five campaign sp ooches, is
not working for the democratic ticket out OF
my love for William H. Englisl-not bit OF
II. In fact, he has said quito plainly that Mr..
English might 20 at once to very warm place
for all ho cares If II were not for Hancock.
1t Is not anything that tho republicans have
said about Mr.. English that has soured General
Slocum, but he has had . chance of finding out
just what kind of man English Is, and ho is
not the kind that the general admires or cares
to associate with. Ho says be had no sooner
arrived from Europe than General Hancock
bclll lDI nm anu lOlu MIN 0lI. EObllSn WAnICu
him In Indiana He spent but ono
night with his family and came at once
to enter upon tho campaign. When he arrived
at the depot no one met him. he went to
the hotel, but Mr.. English did not call upon
him, and II was only after he had been here
some lime that he was eventually intrOd uced
to Dlr. English by stranger. Although ho
came here by special request of Mr. English,
that gentleman, he says, has never invited
m hnnga hua hAat ,n,,
courtcsies upon him, and has never oven asked
him to take glass of vino with him. Com
eral Slocum says that every gentleman who
has como to Indiana has been disgustod with
tho way Mr.. English has of treating strangers,
and that If any one of thcm has been offered
moro than two fingers Of his right hand ho has
not heard Of it. my opinion OF Mr. English"
lie adds, is that he Is a id hog. and
would not stay in Indiana Il day if 1t wore not
for Hancock"
The democratic and republican committees
have agreed upon plan to secure fair count
il possible which Is oroditabe TO both COM
mittecs. They will issue joint circular en- ..
bodying an agreement that in all townships
or precincts where the inspector is demo.
crat no shall appoint judge and clerk, to be
selected by the republicans of tho township
or precinct, and where the inspector is II ro.
publican he shall appoint judge aud clerk, TO
be selected by the democrats of the township
or precinct.
The democrats are sorely chagrined at Sen.
ator Bayard's speech in New York. demo.
cratic stumper says of it, "If IL had been
made after the Indiana election it would per.
Laps have been all well enough. but to have
Dir. Bayard slap us people in the face after We
have beon toiling upon the stump day and
night to conciliate the Rreenbackers in this
state, as was done in Maine, Is, to say the
least, certainly very unkind." An alleged So
Cret circular has been circulated among the
catholic Germans of Tippecanoe county, urg.
Ing them TO vote the democratic ticket, which
is causing great excitement,
ale TIDE SETTING TOWARD THE REPUBLI.
CANS.
New YORK, Oct. IA dispatch to the Times
from Indianapolis, dated October 9, says:
In general terms 1t may be stated that the
republicans enter upon the last DAYS of tho
canvass with increased confidence and de-
cidedly better prospects. The democrats give
evidence of weakness on every hand. Their
campaign of fraud has been beaten in advance
Tie preparations made by the republicans to
meet aud checkmate IL have been SO complete
and the shadow Of tho United Statos author.
tty Is so threatening that the democrats have
about concluded it will not pay. Tho
talk of and alortness against fraud and the
preparations made TO meet il AFRO such
MS TO warrant the belief that the election will
be mrasurably free from tho scandals which
have boon contemplated. The one great thing
to fear now Is the opening of barrels In every
county ON tho day Of election. This tho dem.
scrats propose to do. They openly brag both
hero and in tho east, that thoy will have
plenty Of money on election day, while the
republicans have been left to make their fight
without sufficient means at any time. If
there was money enough hero properly to
guard the ballot-boxes and to pay for work
that Is indispensable to check democratic
processes, there would be no doubt of carry.
ing the state aud settling tho whole prosi.
dental election by decided republican
victory ia Indiana But it will not DO so
regarded, probably, by the national committee
md by tho gentlemen Of tho east who have
their own campaigns yet to make. The demo.
Gratis have been driven from their contem.
plated frauds. There Is an undertow toward
the republican party, the strength of which
Is hard TO estimate, but 1t exists with great
fOrco On every hand there are reports of
democrats who will vote for Porter or not
vote at all, while do not know of single
republican who has altered his political aflia.
tlons. What this will amount TO, as has boen
Iaid, It Is hard to conjecture, but it Is u silent
vote, the iorco Of which will be felt on
October l2 So decided has this become
since tho business mems meeting was mootcd
that q careful member of tho state committee
said yesterday that 1t would not surprise him
ii Mr.. Porter had 10000 plurality. The green
hackers are going to piscos, and the tendencies
from that party arc toward Porter. Under
the force of recent circumstances 1t would not
be strange If the greenback voto did not ex.
eeed 1900, and 1t may bo oven less than that.
The selling out of two of their prominent
men TO the democrats has proved bad bar
gain for Mr.. English, aud the democracy will
most certainly lose by IT, General Weaver
and DIR. De La hlatyr are both using their
tull influence to prevent any incremont to
thoaa who hnYe sednceh weak nrnnnhnnl or,