The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-02

ports Gen. Hancock. Thousands think
as he does. and thousands of conserya-
tive men will help to swell the majority
for the hero of Gettysburg.
The Democratic outlook--Barnum's
~ 10 Plans.
ass Special to Chicago Times.
MAINE coNCEDED TO THE RNPUBLICAGs.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 3l..-A special
dispatch tonight from New York to the
Phiiadelphia Times gives a correct state
ment of the plan 20 be pursued by Chair
man Barnum, of the democratic national
committee, ia the coming campaign in the
west. After relating that Mr.. Barnum
takes no stock in the democratic chances
10 Maine, and that he virtually comedies
that state by five to ten thousand to the
Republicans. the dispatch continues: New
York, New Jersey aud Connecticut have
the most systematic and thorough work
done in them. as may now be appreciated
by the assured
UNION OF THE TILDEN AND KELLY FORCES
in New York. the nomination of English
Abbott 10 New Jersey, and il organization
canvassing. and all the appliances common
In elections can carry them for Hancock,
it will be done. Barnum regards New
York and New Jersey as safe 10 any con-
tingency. aud he is quite confident of Con-
necticut; but Barnum has worked most
where he has been least seen and least
felt by the Republicans. He went to Ohio
and Indiana month ago to survey the
ground for the most complete organization
of both states, and he will open the most
aggressive campaign there about thirty
days before the October election. TIE
preliminary work has been most effectually
but quietly done. and instead of concen-
trating on Indiana he will compel the
republicans to make desperate and costly
struggle to save Ohio Barnum is now 10
Ohio, and has been there for three days,
although it has not been publicly an
bounced, and he is there on business, He
is fully satisfied that
OHIO Is A DOUBTFUL STATE,
with Garfield. and he will startle the re-
publican leaders by his bold and hopeful
effort to carry it. He now feels certain of
both the Cincinnati districts, and as Gin
cinnati has carried the state in every close
contest since 1875, he regards it as fairly
de batxble. and he will throw his best
speakers and bis hitherto well~husbanded
means equally into Ohio and Indiana for
a thirty day fight. The loss of Ohio to
Garfield 10 October or nominal republic
can msjority there for the state ticket,
would in bis judgement, carry New Y ork,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Conn ecticut,
New Hampshire, Wisconsin, California,
Nevada. and Oregon, without costly cam
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rely upon the statement that before the
middle of September the republican lead
ers will understand what Barnum has
been doing, and they will be more earnest in
their defensive campaign in Ohio than in
the aggressive campaign In Indiana.
BARNUM's THEORY ABOUT INDIANA
is that il is naturally democratic state,
and that the democrats need only to sum-
stretch to carry it By decided majority.
He has been there. aud English is in per-
feet 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 boidest
aggressive operations. The republicans
have been running q shouting and costly
campaign Ia Indians for full month, and
when Barnum and English shall be ready
to advance their whole line at once, the
resources of the republicans will be largely
exhausted. and with defiant assaults made
simultaneously in Ohio and Indiana they
will be unequal to the struggle. Barnum
has not doubt about Indiana, as he has
regarded it 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 lie
will spend it, because he must spend it or
allow the Republicans to buy the state
away from him. Up to this time the
Democrats have not spent 81 in Indiana
for $40 spent by the Republicans. But
after the middle of September the Demo-
Gratis will have more to spend than the
Republicans, and Barnum and English
will see that it goes where it 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
pay their contracts oyer again after their
treasury and their parades have been we'll
exhausted. Information on these points
is FROM the most reliable sources, and you
may confidently look for Barnum's strate-
ey 10 deyelop as foreshadowed here. Ohio
will be as muoh battle ground in October
gs Indiana, and the Republicans will be
com PEELED to defend their supremacy there
as much as the Democrats viii be COM
pel!Dd to defend their supremacy in
Indiana.
Regarding this dispatch the Times says
editorially:
The Information given in specisl dispatch
from New York in regard to Chairman Barnum's
strategy and movement e is from most trustworthy
sources, and 1t may be accepted by the leaders of
both sides &C ma 2ping out the future OF the great
battle. Those who know Mr. Barnum will under
stand that he is not idler dress parade poll
tician. He is of the Tilden school. secret saga
ctous and tireless and the first visible results of
his organizing policy are given In New York, New
jersey, and Connecticut. while the silence of his
guns in Ohio and Indiana LIS explained By his de-
sire TO nght the great battle and spend his mani
tons Of war but once to decide the ISSUE Whether
his Citations In regard to Ohio and Indiana will
be realized is question that the verdicts OF those
states can determine, but precipitating bold ag-
gressive campaigns In both those states with ample
audit asFarS +t,a