Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-03
Chairman Barnum's Plans
! Chicago Times Special.

Chicago Times Special.
A special dispatch tonight from New York
to the Philadelphia Times gives correct
statement of the plan to be pursued by
Chairman Barnum, of the Democratic na-
tional committee, in the coming campaign
in the West. After relating that Mr.. Bar
mum takes no stock in the Democratic
chances in Maine, and that he virtually con-
cedes that State by five or ten thousand to
the Republicans, the dispatch continues:
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
have had the most systematic and thorough
work done in them, as may now be appre-
ciated by the assured
UNION oE THE TILDEN AND KELLY FORCES
in New York, the nomination of English in
Connecticut, and the withdrawal of Abbott
in New Jersey, and If organization, canvass
ing, and all the appliances common In cleo
tions can carry them for Hancock, it will be
done. Barnum regards New York and New
Jersey as safe in any contingency, and he is
quite confident of Connecticut; bat Barnum
has worked most where he has been least
seen and is least felt by the Republicans.
He went to Ohio and Indiana a month ago,
to survey the ground tor the most complete
organization of both States, and he will open
the most aggressive campaign there about
thirty days before the October election. The
preliminary work has been most
effectively but quietly done, and in.
stead of concentrating on Indiana he will
compel the Republicans to make desperate
and costly struggle to save Ohio. Barnum is
now in Ohio, and has been there for three
days, although it has not been publicly an
nounced, and he is there on business. He is
fully satisfied that
OHIO IS DOUBTFUL STATE,
with Garfield, and he will startle the Repub-
Iican leaders by his bold and hopeful efforts
to carry it. He now feels certain of both
the Cincinnati districts, and, as Cincinnati
has carried the State In every close contest
since 1875, he regards it as fairly debatable,
and he will throw his best speakers, and his
hitherto well husbanded means equally into
Ohio and Indiana for thirty day fight.
The loss of Ohio to Garfield in October,
or nominal Republican majority there for
the State ticket, would, in his Judgment,
carry New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Connecticut, New Hampshire, Wisconsin,
California, Nevada and Oregon, without
costly campaigns and by large majorities.
You may rely upon the statement that be-
fore the middle of September the Rspubli-
can leaders will understand what Barnum
has been doing, and they will be more ear
nest in their defensive campaign in Indiana.
BARNUMs THEORY ABOUT INDIANA
is that it is naturally Democratic State, and
that the Democrats need only to summon
their own strength on the home stretch to
carry it by decided majority. He has been
there, and English is in perfect accordance
with Barnum's policy to have
every voter canvassed. The local
organizations for holding and polling them
are thoroughly perfected. He will supply
them with documents and devote the last
thirty days of the contest to the boldest ag-
eressive operations. The Republicans have
been running shouting and costly cam
paign in Indiana for a full month, and, when
Bsrnum and English shall be ready to ad
vance their whole line at once, the resources
of the Republicans will be largely exhausted,
and with defiant assaults made simultan-
eously in Ohio and Indiana they will be un.
equal to the struggle. Barnum has not O
doubt about Indiana, as he has regarded
il as
MERELY A MATTER OF ORGANIZATION,
efforts and money. English has the money
to offset the double assessments of federal
Office holders for Indiana, and he will spend
il because he must spend it or allow the Re-
publicans to buy the State away from him.
Up to this time the Democrats have not
spent 81 in Indiana for 80 spent by the
Republicans. But after the middle of Sep
tember the Democrats will have more to
spend than the Republicans, and Barnum
and English will see that it goes where ii
will do the most good. They both believe in
SPENDING MONEY ONLY ONCE,
in elections, while the Republicans will be
compelled to do their work and make and
paw their contracts over again after their
treasury and their parades have been well
exhausted. Information on these points is
! from the most reliable sources, and you may
confidently look for Barnum's strategy to
develop as foreshadowed here. Ohio will be
as much battle-ground in October as Indi
ana, and the Republicans will be compelled
TO defend their supremacy there as much as
the Democrats will be compelled to defend
their supremacy in Indiana.
Regarding this dispatch the Times says
editorially:
The information given in our special dis
patch from New York in regard to chairman
Barnum's strategy and movements Is from
most Trustworthy sources, and it may be &c