The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-10-17
Tuesdays ELECTIONS.


tree, and the hatchet, IL cannot tell lie. We |
are disappointed. But we are neither de-
spondent nor disheartened. Disappointment
means defeat or failure of expectation or
hope. We expected - that Indiana would
go strongly Democratic, and we chopped"
that the Republican majority in Ohio would
be reduced. Our expectations and our hopes |
have been blasted. Dependency means
abandonment of hope and Encouragement.
We are not discouraged at ALL We have
faith. Faith can remove mountains. But
we need not to exercise that larger degree of
faith, because Ohio and Indiana are only
mole hills in the grand system of the Ameri-
can republic which will combine in an effort
in November to remove from power the party
whose object is Capitalization and despotism.
As Uncle Toby said TO the fly, there is room
enough in the world for all of us. Ohio
and Indiana may go Republican and still
there is margin enough to elect Hancock in
November. But we doubt whether Indiana
is welded to the Republican party. No osuch
power was ever before used in politics as was
used recently to wrench Indiana from the
''h'''"'iN N'iuhh. " was 'rcVh'"' ''"'
that power should be exercised to the ut
most. A Republican defeat in October was
the certain presage of the loss Of tho Presi-
dency. The Democrats could afford to lose
it, aud still win in November. Hence the
Republican managers used every appliance.
They commenced over year ago by sending
hordes of negroes into the State, all pledged
4. an
put their hands at the throats of their hun
dred thousand employees and demanded their
money or their Offices. From the scavenger
to the President everybody was made to
| contribute. Kicking aside all its professions
of civi-service reform, the whole of Mr..
Hayes's Cabinet took to the stump. The whole
of the Republican official host, from Cabinet
Ministers to tide walters and whisky gaug-
ers, became an army of political agents. The
departments and bureaus of the Govern
ment were converted into centres of political
! activity. Al one time not a Cabinet Minister
| and scarcely a head of bureau was
at his official post. They were
travelling in every direction through Ohio
and Indiana, waving the bloody shirt
and appealing to sectional hate, while the
clerks in the departments from other States
were busy falsifying the public records and
forging campaign documents to impose upon
| ignorance and credulity. The best cam
paigners they could find were sent into Ind
ana. For the first time in his life Mr.
Conkling took the stump in the West. Hat
ing and despising the Administration be
cause it had turned his pet, Arthur, out o
hceforincompetency and alleged dishonesty
he went forth to plead, not for Garfield, bu
for renewed lease and perpetuation o
Republican power. Blaine was brought from
the East to exercise his great powers to otise
the defeat in his own State. They ploughet
with the Greenback heifer. Every agenc,
was brought into play. The money wrun!
from the people in taxes was used to under
mine their institutions. Every power tina
legitimately belonged to the people wa
seized upon by the Administration and pros
titutcd TO party purposes. No license, n
corruption, no intimidation was too gross 70
the Republican managers to avail themselve
of to reach the one end, namely, the making
Indiana debatable State for November.
But in spite of all the State can, and W
firmly believe will be, reclaimed in Novem
f ber. The same conditions will not thel
f exist. The Republican party will not b
able to throw its whole corruption fund i
one direction. Those who pretend to sa
r that James A. Gariield's name or candidac
had anything to do with the result las
| Tuesday mistake the situation entirely
Instead of being tower of strength,
Garfield is really drag and weakness
Local issues brought about the Republica
t success in Indiana.
The blunder was made when Frank Lar
ders was nominated for Governor. He wa
S opposed in his own party in Southern Ind
g ana from the very start. In the language
= the New York World, he was "enough of
" Greenbacker to disaffect many hard -mone
" Democrats without being enough of
4" Greenbacker TO attract any considerab
following from among the soft-mone
"men.'
He was a great deal weaker than Ii
:, party, while on the other hand his compel
u tor, Porter, was stronger than his part.
" Many Democrats having determined to vo
" against Landers, it was no very hard matt'
y for the Republican party, by lavish e:
~ penditure of money, to persuade the corrup
ably inclined to vote the entire Republica
ticket.
>. Another strong point made by the IndiaI
s Republicans was that the Congressional di
n tricts must be saved. They had an eve
d abiding fear that Hancock would be elect,
in November, and they wanted TO sa
a, themselves as much of power as possible, al
g. at the same time to embarrass the incomil
o. Administration by an Opposition House
- Representatives. Their efforts all tended
that direction.
le But we repeat that the conditions will
IN quite different in November. The Repub
e. can managers have about exhausted tht
financial resources. The party has pump
it its office-holders dry. The most frantic a
81 peals will not bring forth again the hu
IL dreds of thousands of dollars which we
used as corruption funds in Ohio and !
- diana. The efforts cannot again be conce
trated at a given point. A very small pie
10 Of butter sufices for slice of bread, b
Nhch you attcWPs w Spic"u ~ oNri VI
"a whole loaf it affords no nourshment. Mon
g. will be needed in New York and elsewler
IN and there will not he enough TO 20 roun
le Conkling will have enough to do to tai
r care of his own state. Blaine will need ;
IA his resources in Maine. These two powerf
ps champions will have to he withdrawn frC
n. any campaign work in the West. On
al square National issue, deyested of all loo
n questions, Indiana will, we believe, retu
re to her proper place in the Democra
in column.
m But we by no means give up the fight, ,ev
a. though assured that Indiana will go again
re- us. The field can still be won by hard wo
and good management. But there must
no faint -beartedness, no crying over spin
id milk, no sluggish folding of the hands.
IN must be work-energetic, unceasing 10
at The people must be instructed by a me
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