New-York tribune., 1880-06-28

WY REPUBLICANS WILL CARRY INDIANA.
Democrats are as happy as baby with a
new doll over their new ticket 1t is not sur
prising. Two or three times before we have
heard the same joyous congratulations after
the nomination Of ticket. the same fierce
yells of triumph and the same gushing pledges
Of unlimited majorities in oil the doubtful
States. But the season Of rejoicing
has always been followed by q dismal
period of doubt, and afterward by the
sackcloth and ashes of great defeat 1t
pleases the Democrats to win all their National
victories before the votes are counted, and no
one will grudge them their pleasure. In about
three weeks some sober Democrats will begin
to ask whether Hancock and English are not
going to be defeated after all.
Reasons why this ticket ought not to sue
ceed will be given hereafter in abundance
At present it may be we'll to suggest few
of the reasons why it will not succeed. The
ticket is a very decent and creditable one,
and the Democratic party deserves some
praise for selecting a mask so respectable
Whether it will deceive anybody is quite q
different question.
First, as to Indiana. Some time ago the fact
was pointed out that the Democrats had trouble
before them in that State. At the Cincinnati
Convention their chosen delegates insisted
that nothing except the nomination of Mr.. Hen
bricks for President could make that State safe
for them, and even that would probably have
failed. On q test vote neither party has
carried the State for many years, save by a
slender majority. The Republicans are united
to a remarkable degree upon ticket of
peculiar strength, while the Democrats have
put I'D for Governor the most reckless and
blatant demagOgue in the State. Add to
this the fact that Constitutional Amend
ments adopted by $4,000 majority on a
vote of the people have just been set aside
for partisan ends by a Democratic Court. The
chances were obviously much against the
Democrats before the National ticket was
nominated. Those Democrats were evidently
well informed, and have a strong reason
for their belief, who declared that tieir State
could not be made safe for the Democratic
ticket except by the nomination of Mr.. Hen
bricks. For the Democrats had no reason to
expect success unless they could give especial
satisfaction to the Greenback vote.
General Hancock has no personal strength
with the Democratic or the Greenback voters
of Indiana. Nothing is known of him to
satisfy their notions on the financial ques-
tions. AS soldier, he will be Objectionable
to some Copperheads, of whom Indiana has
ever lad many of the most malignant.
His part in the Surratt affair will excite
the hostility of some voters But for the fact
that he is the candidate of the party, he would
not receive one-terth of the votes that would
be cast in Indiana for Mr.. Hendricks. If it is
| expected to carry the State at all, therefore,
| it must be by the nomination of Mr. English.
| But William H. English has for years been
one of the most unpopular Democrats in that
| State. For eight years he had been mem
| Der of Congress when he was thrust aside in
| 1850. From that day to this he has had no
part in public service nor has his party ever
supported him for any Office. 1t has elected to
Congress some strong and some weak men
| from the district In which he lives has sent
Hendricks, Mcdonald and Voorhees, to the
Senate has set up as candidates for Governor
Mcdonald, Hendricks, Williams and Landers
has voted in Democratic National Convention
| for some good and some boor candidates fol-
the Presidency and Yice-Presidency; but never
has made any effort to place Mr.. English In
any position of public trust or honor. The reason
| is not hard to find. National banksand bankers
have been particularly unpopular among the
Democrats of indiana, but Mr. English organ.
lied and was president from 1858 to 1873 oil
| the First National Bank Of Indianapolis
Lenders of money upon bond and mortgage
have been even more unpopular in Indiana
than they usually are in agricultural States. fol
the disposition to. pay debts has never
been strongly developed among the Democrats
Of that State. But for twenty years Mr.. Eng.