Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-08
THE INDIANA CAMPAIGN.

Both Sides Down to Solid Work Chair
man Jewell OGtseneraled-How English
and Barnum will Fight.
Special Correspondence OF the Philadelphia
TmcS.
New YORK, September 5.--The leaders
OF both sides have got down to business
and hard work in Indiana, and the Re-
publicans to-day openly confess, for the
first time, that Chairman Jewell has
been utterly outgeneraled in Indiana.
They know that Indiana is naturally II
Democratic State; that it elected Hen
bricks Governor in 1872; that it gave
1900 Democratic majority in 1874;
$500 in 1876 and l4,00O in 1873, and
they now see the vanity and Jolly Ut jew
ellis splendid dress parade begun by
himselfin Indiana more thantwo months
ago and followed up by a Lavish waste
OF money, parades, speeches and en-
forced enthusiasm long before the peO-
pie were ready To take part in the con-
test. Assessments and double assess
mcuts on the Oilicc-hOiderS were called
for and poured into Indiana before
money could effect any lasting good,
while English sat calmly on his "barI
and waited for his opponents To exhaust
themselves. Barnum slipped out to
indianapolis soon after Jewell had eX-
hibited on the tree tops and how
the State was 10 be carried with a
hurrah. and none knew that he came
but English. They met, talked the
battle over, decided To let the Rcpubll-
cans exhaust their money and cnthuSl-
asm, devised the most complete system
for reaching every individual voter OF
the State by actual canvass, and decided
To wait until three weeks before the
election and then 70 in with all their re
sources. No money was scattered
around for fireworks or parade; but the
canvass was made as a matter Ot busl-
ness by English, paid tOr ont OF his own
pocket, and every weak voter and every
weak point of the Republican line is be-
fore English to guide him in putting his
reserve powers into the struggle where
they will do the most good.
How Englishand Barnum Will Fight.
AS stated IN my first dispatch to The
Times Chairman Barnum went to lndl-
ana and Ohio a week ago and he was
absent five days before his presence
the first notice the public had oil his
movements was them by my dispatch
copied simultaneously into the Clncln-
natl Ei,ytir.I and Chicago Times Now
his week operations in Indiana and
Ohio have been reported to the Repub-
Gcan National Committee. They
do not know what he has done,
as Barnum does not talk like
Jewell. but they know that he has been
three days in Indiana and three days IN
Ohio. and they have reports from the
Republicans of both oil those States
which are alarming to Jewell anu his
committee. They understand now
that from this time forth Barnum and
English have more money to spend IN
Indiana than the Republicans can now
command after wasting tens oi thou
sans there in waking up enthusiams
that cannot last until election and IN
making contracts fOr frauds and
the corruption OF voters which
must he made over again alter
Barnum enters the field, and at
greatly increased rates. In word. the
Republicans now realize that they have
tn begin the Indiana battle over again;
that they must spend as much more "A
they have already spent 10 hold their
own, and that they must begin with Il
depleted treasury and an exhausted
campaign tide, while English and Bar
mum begin with fresh troops and an am
pie treasury. Barnum has always SAID
to nil who interrogated him ON the sub
iect; Indiana Is Democrat
ic State, and it will not he
lost. We will fight the battle
there but once, and that will win Lit
orally interpreted, that means that
when Jewelps money shall have been
paid out to corrupt Democrats, many OF
whom were set up To deal with him,
aud all of whom have been reported To
English under his complete organizl-
ton and canvass that has reached every
voter. Barnum and English will come in
on the last charge OF the campaign,
double up the contracts OF Jewell and
make all possible inroads upon the Re-
pub!icGnS.