Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-03
THE OUTLOOK.
What SIS Assured Already,

Washington Correspondence n. Y. Sun.
Reports from the best informed sources
in Indiana relieve the anxiety that has
been felt here in regard to the vote of that
state in October. Little if any doubt is
entertained that the Democrats will elcc
their governor by decided majority,
which will he doubled for Hancock. This
confidence is inspired mainly by the able,
efficient, comprehensive and discreet man.
agement Of the campaign by Mr.. English,
who, in his quality of chairman of the
state committee and of candidate for vice
president, has double responsibility to
carry.
He is an organizer of the first order, be-
ing cool, sagacious, vigilant, and prepared
at all points. He has methodized the cam
vass rs an intelligent merchant would do
his business. Instead of begging for help
outside the state, and carrying round a
hat, after the old fashion, he has put his
own shoulder vigorously to the wheel, and
he relies upon the Democrats of Indiana
to take care that there shall be no default,
and that the vote of 1876 shall be reaf-
firmed by an emphatic expression against
the Fraud.
But for the energy and the capabilities
of Mr.. English, rs the directing mind, and
the pivot upon which the organization
turns, there might bc misgiving and dis
trust of the result, from the uncommon
efforts and the immense expenditure OF
money OH the part of the Republicans,
who have flooded the state with campaign
Eabrications, and have imported some -four
thousand negroes to illustrate the purity
OF tho elective franchise. They have done
worse things than either of these schemes,
which Mr. Marshall Jewell and his cOnfctl'
crates will find out in good time arc vel
known, and will be cOuntcractcd.
While committees at Washington and
elsewhere have been blowing their trum
pets about the prospect, and getting them
selves gazctted and pullcd for doing ncxt
to nothing, Mr.. English has silently pur
sued his way, and encouraged everybody
near him with the conviction that his way
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nothing to external support, and very littlt
to local chiefs, who have been accustomed
to appropriate the hOnorS, for which they
contributed but little labor. The plaiI
people, as Mr.. Lincoln called them, and
not the selC-appointcd leaders, are his
great reliance, and they will not fail in
duty or in devotion when so much is at
stake.
. With Indiana secured the presidential
contest would bc reduced to narrow limits,
and IIancock's election, from that day
forward, might bo regarded Us i reason
able certainty. The effect of 4 positive vic,
tory there would be felt in every close
state, and would ut once capture the large
floating vote, which is always Oh the look
out for y comfortable place with the ma
jority, no matter what its political conn
plcxion may DC.
! Pennsylvania and Illinois are both pro
nounccd Republican states in ordinary
times. But there is 4 strong leaning to
Hancock in each of them, which has broken
through party lines and threatens 4 scri-
GUS revolt. If Indiana should lead the way
gallantly, rs is now fully expected, Cam,
cron and Logan will find their hands more
than full to prevent stampede, which
would leave them powcrlcss and i'll tic
fellowship Of kindred demagogucs, whom
the people arc likely to consign to enforced
exile from public life.
The outlook is good, and now that the
discords in New York arc silcnccd, rs they
should have been month ago, there will
bc nothing to mar the prospects Of Il great
triumph. To make that object sure be-
yond dispute, work, real, earnest and
steady work, is demanded from every hand
that can spare IN hour to redeem the
country from misrulc and to restore honest
government ut Washington.