Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-21
BRAVE WORDS.
From u Veteran Democrat Who Knows
About Indiana.
Letter From Hon. enjamIn Patton, Comno,
Pleas Judge in Allegheny County
Thirty Years Ago.

fIe9S J00G0 IN All0Rneny county
Thirty Years Ago.
HICKsvILLE, DEFIANCE Co., O.,
October 1S, 1880. )
To tile Democratic State Central C6mmittss
Of Pennsylvania
Our Democratic friends in PENNSYLVANIA
and elsewhere at the East need not be at
all alarmed or discouraged about the re-
suit of the late election in Indiana. l live
close to the Indiana line, and knew what is
going on in that state. Our friends there
are not in the least discouraged. 1t is true
they have been disappointed. But they
are now thoroughly aroused. They are
chafed partly by a consciousness of their
own mistakes, and partly by the gross
misrepresentation and corrupt means by
which their opponents carried the election.
The average majority of the Republicans
did not exceed 5000. This our friends
will wipe out in November with large
margin to spare. From the Ohio river to
Lake Michigan they are animated by one
determination, and that is to profit by
their own mistakes, to recover lost ground,
and to redeem the state. And, mark my
words, they will do it.
The object Of the constitutional amend
ments was to abolish the October election,
and they were carried by large majority
of the votes cast. The action Of the su-
preme court, by which the amendments
were, on technical grounds, nullified, was
a mistake. 1t left Indiana an October
state. This enabled the Republican party
of the whole Union to concentrate their
vast resources Of men and money in In
diana, and they expended not less than \
million of dollars to carry the state. This
game cannot he repeated i'll November.
There will then he a clear field and 4 fair
fight, and truth and justice will prevail.
In Ohio, with state pride and other pow
erfIl appliances to back the Republican
party, the result was about the same as it
was last year. when Foster was elected
governor. Why should the result have
been so wildly different in Indiann The
reason is various. There were cxtraordi-
nary and corrupt means taken !; and these
measures cannot be repeated 1T the preSi-
dental election.
Our friends in Indiana relied with too
much confidence upon their strength and
prestige, as developed at former elections.
Then their organization was very defec-
tive, whilc that Of their opponents was
perfect and complete. Seeing this, our
friends have gone to work and made their
organization thorough and searching. They
will have 4 committee of reliable men for
every square in every town and city, and
foT every inhabited square mile. They
will scour the lists to find illegal voters in
the rural districts of the state. They
will personally visit and reason with
every doubtful voter, and every man of
Democratic antecedents. They will thus
in a quiet, but effective way, remove all
false impressions, and explode the mons
trous falsehoods by which these impress
sions were created. Indiana is still Il
Democratic state and, the result in No
vember will prove it. Look out for the
victorious result of the most scarchin. and
effective still hunt that ever occurred in
cur politica! history.
Those Greenbackers, amounting to $ev-
crsl thousand, who stood up for the in
tegrity of their own organization, their
own party ticket, while the rest deserted
them, arc justly indignant. They feel that
they have been sold out, duped and cheat
ed. They are swearing vengeance.
They have come to the conclusion that
they can but obtain it by acting with the
Democrats in November, and voting for
Hancock. Under any circumstances Han
cock is stronger in Indiana by several
thousand votes thaa the state ticket was.
-AS udGiNC Vi iCch lol =
ward with almost painful interest to Tic
result in that state. | am all the time
asking myself the question, will she tamcly
submit to the continued rule Of tie van.-
pires, whose motto is addition, division
and silence - vino have brought disgrace
upon her character, and have subjected
her to the scorn and contempt of honorable
men: Or is there sill enough of state
pride left among her citizens to stand up
for one of the noblest Of her own sorS, the
hero whose courage and patriotism saved
her in the hour OF her tribulation and trial,
and whose principles, as publicly proved,
are all in accordance with the interests of
her people,
AS to my predictions in regard to In
diana, | may possibly deceive myself. But
my old friends in Pennsylvania know |
would not willingly deceive others.
Yours truly.
BENZ. PNTTu,.