Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-24
INDIANA'S CONTEST.

tGctes Of a Core spOndent With .RepWbtt-
can Pr0cItvttjes.
I Indianapolis Special (Sept. 22,) to Chicago
Times.
The indianapolis Greenbackers and men,
bers of the State central and local commit
tees are indignant at the action Of their
brethren in Maine in selecting a Fusion
electoral ticket. These people are in sym
patty with Gen. Weaver, who has consist
emily opposed Fusion of all kinds. They
see in the coalition the beginning of fatal
split in their party, and denounce it with
heartiness as an imprudent step to take at
this time. Mr.. Post, chairman of the State
committee, is of the opinion that the Scion
Chase secession means the election of the
Garfield ticket in Maine. Democrats be-
lieved the fusion will
INSURE AN ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC VICTORY,
but they are not as enthusiastic about it as
the circumstances would seem to warrant.
Republicans say that, no matter what action
the nationals had taken, the Garfield ticket
ia certain of election. They lay claim to
not less than 15 per cent. of the September
union vote, and say that they are not in the
least uneasy about the result in the Pine
Tree State in Novem Der.
The Democrats fancy that they are on the
verge of discovering
NEFARIoUs REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY
to capture enough ballot-boxes in October to
insure them the State in the event of close
count. AS yet they are excessively mysteri-
t,v,k ol>a kIn <>f
full disclosures in the near future. The cap
ture is to be effected through the agency of
federal election supervisors, but just how
they do not yet know.
FAITH WITHOUT PROOF.
Pick out ten men at random and seven of
them will tell you in all candor that they
believe Landers will be elected governor in
governor in October. The preponderence of
surface opinion is unmistakably still that
way, yet the Republicans who are doing the
hard work silently maintain that
Porter is certain to win. Not only this, bu;
they will produce an array of statistics to
prove what they say, which is almost enough
to convince q man against his will and
against the warning of his better judgment.
Some of the claims of both parties have been
already sketched in these dispatches, but
these claims are constantly undergoing
changes and modification 80 that the views
of one day will scarcely hold good twenty
four hours. Republicans are not prepared
to admit it but it is nevertheless true that
THE MAINE ELECTION
has had very bad influence on this cam
paign. Even if Davis should be elected the
harm has been done, and if Plaisted should
be chosen it can not be undone. It is too
early yet to judge of the effect on Indiana
politics of the action of the Maine Green
hackers in putting up Fusion ticket, and
opinion is much divided on that point.
Democrats say it will win over many men
who would otherwise have voted the straight
ticket in October and November, to the sup
port of Landers and Hancock, while Repub-
licans with equal positiveness and plausi-
bility assert that it will drive Greenbackers
of Republican antecedents back into the
Republican fold. Perhaps both are right.
The Democrats have the best of the argu-
ment in this. The Greenbackers were in
dignant at what they thought an attempt on
the part of Blaine to count them out in
Maine, and the ardor of Greenbacker's
wrath takes long time to cool. Nothing
can make them believe that Blaine is not
SAD RASCAL,
and Blaine and his party are so intimately
associated in the illogical minds of the aver
age fatists that they cannot be divorced, and
the wrath against one is against both. '"They
tried to count us out in Maine," reasons the
Greenbacker, "and that shows what rascals
they are. actually believe that they did
commit those frauds in Louisiana, too, and
they ought to be bounced" This is one
side-the Democratic side-and Republicans
cannot see things in that light at all. Fur
ther than this they hold that Landers' hope
of aid and comfort from the National Green
hackers, without the confines of the Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth districts, is based on
reports preposterous in the ex-
treme. They have advices from
THE DISPUTED DISTRICTS
that the volatile grangers will come to the
support of Porter in large numbers, and
they point to such counties as Marshall,
Benton, Stark, and Pulaski, where they are
very strong, to substantiate the assertions.
In those counties, which are out of the hos
tile territory worked by Mr.. Landers, it is
claimed that the .Greenbackers are almost
solid against the Democratic candidate for
governor. To OBJECT this comes the report
that in Brown, jackson, Allen, Hamilton,
and some other strong counties the Green
hackers will rally round Landers.
The deeper an anxious inquirer wades in
to the greenback problem, as it is now pre-
scented, the less he knows about it. The men
who have made Indiana politics lifelong
study will admit that it is
ALL GUEsswoRK
and that they are very liable to be mistaken
in their calculations. The great difference
in the polls of the rival committees proves
that there is q wide margin for talented
guessing, and virtually narrows the question
down to "who will have the most money to
spend on the 10Th of October" after all. II
looks very much as though one party would
gain as much or lose as much from the
Greenback vote as the other-a wise con-
clusion this correspondent reached some
time since; and on the tickle surface of that
proposition he proposes to drive stake.
The densest ignorance yet encountered on
the subject is at the headquarters of the
National Greenback State central commit
tee. Everything there is glittering general
ity. The committee has, taken no poll but
from the
VAST ACCUMULATION OF TRANSFORMATION
on hand, supplied by long haired, linen
clustered fellows The people in charge
throw up mass of reliable statistics to the
effect that everything is in splendid shape
and our cause is gaining new converts hour
ly." This campaign is conducted by Con-
gressional, county, and township organiza-
lions, each one run independent of the 9TH
ers and of the State central committee. 1t
is happy go-lucky go-as-you please sort of
a canvass, illogical, and unreasoning, with
out apparent aim or purpose, for all the
world like individual members of the party.
Look at one of those sallow-faced, narrow
Drained. carelessIY- dressed, Stumbling, stoop-