The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-05
\ LIVELY CAMPAIGN.

borhood OF The more important polling
/, places on the I'd of November. In
energy nothing to compare with the
struggle now going on in Indiana ever
was witnessed in any preceding campaign.
on the stump. Nightly meetings are held in
all the larger towns, and at least one meeting
per week in the most insignificant hamlet
in the State. Torch-light professions, club
parades, ETC., are matters of daily or nightly
occurrence, until the attention of the people
has become so thoroughly engrossed with
politics, that it is nothing uncomm for
business men usually staunch and well bal
ancea to shut up shop and. entirely neglecting
the business of their everyday lives, throw
themselves heart and soul in the work of
"helping the boom along" The irregular prac-
tices common wherever a close and important
election is to take place are INDUCED in to no
sparing extent if we are to believe the storie
the contendipg parties tell of each other in
mutual recrimination. The republicans charge
the democrats with the importation of whole
colonies of democrats from Kentucky, the
said colonies being planted in strongly demo-
cratic districts, where their presence will
make no difference to the local ticket. and
where any protest from the republican minor
ity would likely be treated as the kicking
naturally to be expected from those districts
wherein the minority sees itself doomed to
overwhelming defeat. IN the other hand the
dan, oorate cn,,c fho Pop,h1ioo nc cf Hirapt-
ing the "negro exodus" refugeesinto Indians
for the sake of their votes in November, and
the wicked democrats go Oh to say how they
capture thisn negro vote and run it out of the
state by the promise of fabulous wages or
dazzling business openings to be found at
some outside locality, so far away that in
journeying to it the trustful darkey is certain
to lose his "resldence" and consequently his
privilege of voting in Indiana. Such are the
campaign stories to be heard from one side
or the other, but the probability is that there
is vely little of such work going on. Each
side is wide awake, vigilant, active, and
the c~olonist who can ring in his vote, without
actually having resided in the state a sufficient
length of time to enable him to vote, will be
a genius indeed in that particular department
Of the citizens duty.
As for the October election and its proba-
BILE result, it is difficult to conceive of any
thing except a democratic triumph. 1t is
true hat Landers, the democratic nominee
for governor, is a very weak candidate, but
all distinctive features of the contest, merely
as a state election, are lost in the significance
of its bearing OH the national campaign. To
have Indiana 60 republican or democratic in
October promises to be of far more import
ance to the winning side than the gain Of its
electoral vote in November hence the can
didacy of Porter will receive but slight
thought from the republican who will CON
slider his ballot cast for Garfield; and so with
Ladders, whose personal unpopularity is not
likely to cost Hancock many votes among
the hopeful, enthusiastic democrats.
In 1856 the electoral vote of Indiana helped
to cleo: the democratic candidate, James Bu-
chanan, to The presidency. In go the state
went republican, in support of Abraham Lin
coin; and in ga, '6S and ~ Indiana was al
NoyS ASPooAlSoA III io vi ~ pICSlOClhs
Not until 1876, when ex-Governor
T. A. Hendricks, one of the most pop
ular men of the state, held the
second place on the presidential ticket,
was Indiana enrolled among the democratic
states by a majority of something like $4,000.
Respecting the present campaign it may
truthfully be said that English is much less
popular than was Hendricks in '76, ana that
his personal influence on the vote will be far
less than was Hendricks. Admitting this to
be true We must also admit that this unpopu-
larity of English is we'll compensated for by the
esteem in which Hancock is universally held
while on the other side of the house the Re-
publicans in IS had in Hayes a candidate OF
far cleaner record than that possessed by Gar
field. Besides this, Hendricks. who is as pop.
ular and influential as ever, is taking a leading
part in the campaign. When we con-
slider that the defeat of the Indiana
democracy would virtually amount to a
vote of approval of the proceedings by which
the Indianians believe their candidate to have
been defrauded of the vice-presidency four
years ago, it does not seem possible that the
democrats, cheered and encouraged by the
unexpected defeat of their opponents in
Maine, can fail to win the victory which
seems so easily within their grasp. But Tues.
day, the 18th of October, will tell the story
Well informed politicians i'll carefully
looking over the ground are Of opinion thai
in the November election the vote for Han.
cock in Indiana will be 10000 in excess Of