Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-12
The Elections To-day.

Three state elections are In progress t1-day-
Ohio. Indiana and West Virginia Ohio elects a
secretary OF state, judge and clerk of the
supreme court member OF the board of public
works state school commissioner and t2 enty
members OF Congress. Indiana elects a gov
ernor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state,
aud,tor, treasurer, attorney general, a clerk and
arepolter OF the supreme court, super 1tendent
OF public instruction, two supreme court judges
and thirteen members OF Congress West Viz
Sinia elects a governor, auditor, treasurer, at
torney general, supreme court judge and super
1ptendent OF schools. The Congressman In that
state are not elected until November ID. In
Ohio the republicans, democrats and greenback-
ers have tickets In the field but the race Is be.
tween the two old parties, the greenback vote,
being, apparently, scarcely large enough to be
considered. Judge Lang, German of promi-
nence, heads the democratic ticket, and the
party counts upon his receiving large number
OF German republican votes. Mr. Townsend
heads the republican ticket. In the present
House the democrats have eleven member;
OF Congress and the republicans nine but last
year tie Old distIicting law was re enacted, and
as 1t Is favorable TO the republicans they calcu-
late upon electing not less than twelve Con-
gressmen today. The democrats count conf
IDENTIFY upon electing six congressman aud hope
TO get ten. In Indiana, LanderS aud Porter
head the democratic and republican tickets.
respectively, and as party lines are distinctly
drawn they are expected, each, to poll the vote
that bis party will receive. Some of the repub-
lican leaders maintain that Porter Is stronger
than his party and Will get democratic votes,
but the exciting campaign and high party
feeling existing render this veIy improbable.
The democrats of Indiana have in the past kept
solid ranks through their political fights, and
they will. no doubt, be equally as well discip-
lined in this contest. Since the last Congress
Sional election the democratic legislature has
redistrtcted the state with a view to party
advantage. and therefore 1t Is reasonable to
conclude that majority Of the delegation
elected to-day will be democrats. In the
present House there are six democrats, six
republicans and one greenbacker. In the next
House the democrats viii very probably have
seven and perhaps eight members from that
state.
In West Virginia the greenpackers are making
the only organized fight against the democrats.
Efforts to unite greenbackers ana republicans
were made, but failed substantially. The oppo-
sition has been so weak that the democrats have
not felt called upon to exert themselves par
ticularly. The democratic ticket will be elected
by majority ranging from 5000 to 1900. The
letters Of Lum exposing the alleged bargain
between Weaver and the republicans have been
used effectively by the democrats In West Viz
ginia to disrupt the greenback party.
In Ohio the republicans would, in all proba-
bility, elect fourteen or fifteen of the Congress
men If 1t were not for internal quarrels In three
or four districts. While these diSSensIons do
not affect the republican state ticket, the effect
will be TO weaken the candidates of that party
for Congress In several districts