Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-26
FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES A. GARFIELD, of Ohio. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, CHESTER A. ARTHUR, of N. York.

l The Boston Advertiser calls attention to a very cheering fact, namely, that in several l States usually classed as doubtful local issues are pending, the tendency of which, in every case, is favorable to the Republicans. In Maine, for example, the attempt of the fu- sionists to steal the government last winter has helped to assure Republican success next fall All the defenses of that. schemeewhieh l have been attempted have been failures. It l is simply impossible that the one candidate of the fusienists can have as many votes in Sep- tember as the two had last year, and the Re publican vote will be largely increased The Republicans will carry the State by hand some majority and it now looks as if they would regain both the lost Congressional dis tricts.
 The prospects of the Republicans in Indi- ana are brighter than they have been for many years. Indiana has not given Repub- ican majority since 1872, and two years ago the Democratic plurality was more than IA, 900. If the constitutional amendments had been allowed to stand, the checks to fraud given by them would almost certainly have made it Republican State in November. What would have been gained in one way will now be secured in some measure in another.
 The evidence that the decision of the Supreme Court was prearranged scheme to make h. diana an October State," and keep the field open for one more year of election fraud, is too clear to be denied. Even Democratic papers in Indiana admit that it will not be easy for the Democrats to refute Republican argu- ments on this matter. The Indianapolis Jour nal, on the morning after the decision, promised that the State should ring with denun citation of the decision, and it is doing its best to keep the promise. With a popular candidate for Governor, and opposing an uninfuential soft money ranter, the Republicans have an op- portunity to carry the State and render the ection of General Garfield a certainty.
 Ohio has been great battle ground and the majority is small The Democrats have been successful only once in four years, and this year they are doomed to certain defeat. Few among them entertain the least expecta- tion of being able to carry the State. The very bad record made by the Democrats when in power-their interference with pop ular rights in the cities and their disgraceful va the downward road, and the popularity of "Great Majority Garfield in his own State will overwhelm them.
 Maine, Indiana and Ohio are States which have an election of their own before the grand contest in November. As the Advertiser says ''Four years ago the result in them was decisive of nothing. Maine was then deemed a sure Republican State, and the fact of her having given General Connor good majority in September was so much matter of course that it had little or no effect upon other States. In October the honors were easy, the Republicans carrying Ohio and the Demo- crats Indiana, so that both parties nerved themselves with hopefulness and vigor for the final struggle. Thisyea if Maine is car ried by the Republican in September by 8 good round majority,it will mean som ething, and have an important effect..upon the later elections If in the ensuing month both Ohio and Indiana should give Republican majorities, there could be no further doubt as to the result in November" !"
 Connecticut, New York and New Jersey are the only other Northern States of which the Democrats have any hope. They will not get Connecticut, and they are not certain of New York With Maine, Connecticut and Ohio, about neither of which can there be serious doubt, there are nineteen States,
 casting 172 electoral votes, assured to the Re publican party, and enough to make 1855, a majority, may be furnished by either Indiana
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