Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-18
FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES A. GARFIELD, of Ohio. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, CHESTER A. ARTHUR, of N. York.
INDIANA.

How Indiana will vote next November is a matter in which great interest is felt. It has been a very doubtful State, though there is good evidence that on full vote, divided only between Republicans and Democrats, it would have been Republican. In Indiana, as in Maine, it is the Republican party which has suffered most from the third party vote The official figures show this, and they also show that with one exception the Democrats ' of Indiana have since 1864 been continually in the minority in elections which involved State officers; while in, the Legislature, with two exceptions, they have during the same period been continually in the minority. In 1876, when the Nationals and Greenbackers cast g, 533 votes for President and the State was declared for Tilden. the Democrats on the total vote were actually in a minority of 1857.
 ''H. c. " has been surveying the political situation in Indiana for the New York Times, and his report is encouraging. All factions of the party are entirely satisfied with the work of the Chicago Convention, and are ready to pitch in' and redeem the State, which they believe they can do even though
 
 of the constitutional amendments adopted at the spring election. One of these amend ments provides for the abolishment of the October election, and the other is intended to render impossible repetition of the frauds committed by the Democrats in 1876. For years past, as the Constitution stood be- fore its amendment, every man who claimed to be citizen of Indiana could. vote in the State without any reference to the length of his residence in any given coun- ty, township, ward or precinct. The lack of any specified time of residence for voters in given district made it easy for the Democrats to commit the grossest frauds, and it was clearly proven that in 1876 thou sands of Kentuckians went across the border into Indiana and helped elect Blue Jeans Williams and defeat the Repubi- can electoral ticket. This could not be borne, and the Republicans have secured the adop tion of a constitutional amendment which provides that no citizen shall be entitled to vote unless he has been a resident of the State six months, of the township sixty days, and of the precinct in which he desires to cast his ballot thirty days immediately pre- ceding the election. This amendment, with the one doing away with October elections, was ratified by the people last April by ma jority of more than 30, GOO votes. As it would seriously interfere with the Democrats plan, an effort is now being made to overthrow the amendments the plea that they were not ratified by law. It is claimed that under the law they should have received a majority of all the votes cast for township and other off cers at the April election, and it is claimed that they did not, although they received an overwhelming majority of the votes cast di- rectly for them. Under this claim a case has been prepared and taken to the Supreme Court by the Democrats. As four of the five judges who must decide the matter are Democratic partisans, the Republicans are naturally somewhat afraid that the amend ments will be set aside.
 But whatever is done with the amendments by the Supreme Court, the Indiana Republi- cans are prepared to make the strongest kind of a fight and they will apparently have some help from the man whom the Democrats have nominated for Governor-Franklin Landers. He was not loyal man during the war; and his record otherwise is not of the hoe4