The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-11-05
CURIOUS STATISTICS.

Inc regular INDIANA correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Gazette tells how the Re
publican victory in that state was won.
HIS story is an interesting and instruct
i've one. narrating facts that are true of
all sections of the country as well as In
diana, and we therefore copy it. We
have no doubt that an Investigation of
the records of nearly every county in
Kansas would reveal a similar condition
of affairs. The correspondent says:
81 find an immense curiosity as to the
methods by which the Indiana victory
was achieved, and after telling it a hun
bred times verbally. l may as well tell
it once for ali in the Gazette. In the
first place, it was the most thorough,
honest and high toned campaign Indi7
ana ever SAW. We concluded, once for
all, to cast aside those soft money falla-
cies which have so long weakened the
Republican party in Indiana. to plant
ourselves squarely on distinctive Re
publican principles only, and go in on
the Donnybrook plan-"Wherever
You can see an error, hit itr' We
i speak now more particularly of the
Eighth district-knew just where our old
time Republican majority had gone,
and therefore knew where To look for
II. In Parke county, for instance, our
old majority was 1000; just as the
down, till, when the Nationals Green
back) cast 700 votes, the Republican
majority was only 300. It was a plain
case. Now the Nationals, despite their
errors in finance, are national indeed.
On ali points touching the supremacy of
the nation over the state, the duty of the
nation to protect the voter, and jealousy
Of the rule of solid south, they are with
US; in fact. they go little further than
most Republicans. They exalt the horn
of the general government; they say
with US that it should WELD the ulti-
mate power of sword and purse, and
have the court of last resort, and more
than that, they say it ought not TO part
with the prerogative of Issuing curren-
cy. Hence, We had one of two things
to do-to convince them they we're wrong
on the only point wherein we differ, or
show them the folly of dividing the Ma
tionalist sentiment at this time on a
mere question of political economy.
We did this, and l may say, without
Boosting, that we did il we'll.
We really converted about one-third
of them, as they stood in 1878, to the Re
publican view of the finance, and many
more voted with US on other grounds. It
is a plain case that il state sovereignty
triumphs national money is defeated in
all the range of political philosophy no
| two ideas can be found so utterly oppOs-
ed to each other. And our National
saw it. Unless these United States con-
| stitute nation, with ultimate soyer-
eighty as to sword and purse, IL is folly
think of making the national greenback
our only currency. Our Nationals in
western Indiana are largely composed of
| old soldiers. If there is one thing more
than another to them IL IS the nation,
/ and 10 Oh l.. Tn, hi.
| them over, however, TO tile faith that the
| present system of finance is best, we
! developed some rather curious statis-
| tics, which should like to see tried on
larger scale. We took the county re-
cords and made out parallel lists of the
real estate owners IN 1865 and 1880. We
| took 1865 because that is the year the
| nationals settle on as the era of greatest
| ,yrecnback prosperity. We also made
lists of the mortgages and their amounts,
and of the judgments against debtors.
We also got the average of wages for
| 1865 and for 1880 in our factories and
coal mines, and the average prices of
the necessaries of life. And what do
| you guess we proved beyond controversy
by these tables2 We proved that with
in these fifteen years of 'heartiess con
! traction, when the money power had
the people by the throat" and ali that
sort of thing. the following changes had
taken place:
1. The number of solvent land owners
increased nearly twice as Ease as the
| population.
g. The amount of mortgages decreased
one-tbird, and foreclosure Of mortgages
one-haIf.
8. Judgment against debtors, both in
circuit courts and before justices, fell of
| twO-thirds; and
A. A days wages will buy from 10 10
| 20 per cent. more of the necessaries of
| life than in 1866.
In short, return TO solid values helped
all classes except spectators and those
who had gone In debt trusting 10 furth-
eF rise in prices. Indeed, il requires no
great degree OF monetary science TO see
that the initiation of the currency now
could no. help either the producer or
the legitimate consumer; but IL would
multiply the number Of spectators who
intervene. 4 rapid rise in prices. such
as follows initiation. inevitably creates a
swarm spectators, but il certainly does
not increase the capacity of man 10 pro-
duce, distribute or consume. Capacity
cannot be increased by merely multiply
| ing the tokens in which that capacity is
measured
Against these figures there was obvi-
OuSly nothing to be SAID They were
simply unanswerable, but some of them
are OF great local interest In my own
county. (Parke) the voters. and presuma-
bly, the population, have increased IS
per cent, while the landowners have IN
creased 80 per cent In Fountain couB-
| ty, which assisted to canvass. the rec
ord is nearly as good, and in Montgonl.
cry but little less favorable. The banner
township, however, was in Montgomery;
IN that the voters had increased IL per
cent. aud the solvent real estate owners
81 per cent: It is needless 10 add that
precious few national votes were cast
there But in Wayne township. Mont
gomery county. We found the only pre-
cinct where landowners had not in
creased faster than the population.
Well, the result Of this thorough work
was tbat BAyless W. Hanna-4he noted
ecopperheadr of lSe3-was the worst
beaten man that ever ran for congress In
| the Eighth district, and the average Re-
publican gain was $50 70 the county.
The tariff helped us q little, and still
more did we profit by an awakened
sense Of state pride. Indiana people
were Disguised sc the idea of being 9
mere tail piece TO the solid south.
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