The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-19
THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

When the bottom facts are uneafthed in re
gard to the manner in which the very doubt
full state of Indiana was carried for Porter,
by a bare majority, it will be found that the
republicans have but slight reasons for re-
joicing over the result, and that the demo-
cratic party will see nothing in it that will
dampen their ardor in fighting the great po-
litical battle which is to be fought over the
same ground on the I'd of next November.
The causes that operated to defect the
course of the victory which had almost perch
ed upon the democratic standard in hat
state cannot enter into the presidential con-
test. The assessments, amounting in the ag-
gregate to millions of dollars, which were lev
led upon the one hundred and twenty-five
thousand federal Office holders in the United
States were spent with a prodigal hand in
purchasing the tramp vote that is merchanta-
BILE property in the tier of states that border
on the great lakes. Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin furnished their quota of thes voters
who were secretly imported into Indiana to
swell the republican vote at this particular
state election. This class OF voters will be
needed in November by the states that spared
them for the special purposes to which they
were put, and the honest yeomanry of Indi-
ana, being freed of their presence, will en-
phasize their preference for Hancock by an
overwhelming majority. Again, thousands
of dollars were spent by the republican par
ty in colonlzing negroes in Indiana to defeat
Landers. 1t is extremely predetermined
whether this vote can be handled IN the inter-
est of Garfield. Negro votes are boomerangs
that frequently turn upon their m~anipulators
and the chances are that the few that the
frosts of October do not drive to their south
ern homes will join the democratic phalanxes
who, they will soon be taught, are their best
and truest friends.
Furthermore, Landers' personal unpopu-
larity with the masses in Indiana, was a po-
tent factor in demoralizing the democratic
party of that state. This defeat retires him
from the political arena. He Will cut no
figure in the coming election. The name of
Winfield S. Hancock name fruitful in all
the lements of strength and success-will
head the electoral ticket Of Indiana, and
gather to its support the weak and the waver-
ing, the independent and the conservative
and the full democratic vote of the state, and
Indiana will wheel into the great democratic
column on the ides Of November.
To sum up, the elections in the northern
states so far have shown that the cans
have lost Maine and West Virginia, and that
they have held their own in Ohio, and
achieved a temporary success in Indiana. We
cannot see that the balance sheet shows any
thing in their favor or to their credit. They
have exhausted the mental capacities of their
greatest orators and most effective speakers,
and nearly bankrupted the treasury of their
national executive committee in the little
skirmish which has just taken place. If the
republicans can derive any comfort from a
careful survey of their present condition it
must be of a character so trigid that a repeti-
ton of it Will be altogether undesirable.