The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-10-16
OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

| OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
Elections were held last Tuesday IN Ohio
Indiana and West Virginia. The result in thu
two former states was favorable to the republl
cans and is hailed by them as great victory
while in the last named state the democrat.
were victorious.
In ONO the republican majority on thu
state ticket Is variously placed at from 1900
to $4,000, being in reality, with exception o.
5000 votes they gained by fraud in Cincinnati
four or five thousand short of the majority
they had two years ago. when Foster carried
the state by 1900. 1t is admitted that the
democrats made comparatively feeble fight
while the republicans, thoroughly alarmed by
the result in Maine, put forth their mightics
efforts, even to the extent, as hundreds OF wit
nesses in Cincinnati can testify, of importing
vast numbers of Kentucky negroes to helI
them. The two democratic congressman they
gained in Cincinnati were elected by these
fraudulent votes, and if the majority in the
next house is democratic they will very likely
on that account lose their seats The republi
iCulls NluiIll ~ VI TIC ~ 'lsiNsSbNh, Nuith
If verified is gain Of ,.
IL INDIANA the democrats have met dlsas
trous, though not wholly unexpected, defeat
Looking at the unhappy auspices under which
agcment, and the tremendous activity, organi
cation, lung and money power the republicans
| had hurled upon the state, we tried to impress
upon our readers on several occasions hereto
which the democracy of Indiana had to con.
tend and the dangcr-nay imminent probabil
ity-of their defeat 1t came as we had more
than feared. Landcrs, the democratic can
dldatc for Governor, is beaten by about 5000
majority, and the republicans have a small ma
Iiorty in both branches ofthe legislature. Green
backism, ofwhlch we heard so much In Indiana
four years ago and more two years ago, has com.
pletely pctcred out-the greenback vote of 3d.
600 in 1876, increased to 30 900 IN 1878, having
Idwndled down to less than 10000 in 1880!
And herein lies the chief solution of the demo
cratic disaster on Tuesday. Flanders, who n
few years ago had been the grand mogul and
leader of the grccnback party Of that state,
had deserted them and gone over to the democ-
racy, and few months ago, when the green
hackers nominated their state ticket he per-
suadtd two of their principal nominees to
withdraw and also desert them. The green
hackers became enraged at him, but instead of
casting only halt vote against him by voting
for their own ticket, went under Weaver's ad-
vice, the whole length, and cast q full vote
against him by voting directly for Porter, his
opponent We say under Viewers advice"
for IN that way alone can any meaning be ex-
tracted from the assurance which Weaver gave
to several Ottawa as well as Streator gentle
men when he was here a week or two ago. He
said Landers was destined to be badly beaten
and he would be hit by lightning from quar-
ter he least expected. co. | have fixed him."
chuckled Weaver. The disappearance of 3d.
600 greenback votes in Indiana on Tuesday
shows what Weaver was at during the three
"quiet" weeks he spent in that state
In WEST VIRGINIA the election was rather
quiet and the democrats carry the state by
about 5000 majority. Weaver had been at
work there too, and the greenback vote, which
two years ago was $4,000 has fallen off to
about $4,000. Mr.. Weaver can enjoy the sat.
sfaction of knowing that his efforts have
slightly increased the republican vote of that
state, but not half as much as the contempt
for his own double dealing and treachery to
the cause he pretends to have at heart