New-York tribune., 1880-10-11
TO.uOEROU,S ELECTIONS.

There is some danger OF serious disturbance
at the West tomorrow. nOn-partlsan
meeting of citizens will be held tonight at
indianapolis to avert the danger there, if pos
sble But it is not certain that the will OF
all decent citizens of both parties would be
respected. There is some reason to fear that
the desperate Democratic managers have de-
liberately prepared for violence and blOodshed
in certain Republican wards and towns,
in order to open chances for fraud, or
to supply excuses upon which false
returns OF the result may be made by Democratic
State officers. They seem to fear that the tide
has been setting against them for some days
past. The uprising Of business men and work
ing men, hitherto Democrats, who have de-
claIed for Garfield and Porter, and the cool,
fearless and resolute behavior of United States
Marshal Dudley, who proposes to enforce the
law and prevent Frauds come what may, have
maddened the Democratic managers, so that
they seem to have lost all restraint. One
Democratic paper openly advises "any citizen
"to shoot down any of Marshal Dudley's
deputies who dare to prevent them, by forms
of lar, from voting the Democratic ticket
and goes on to "deny utterly the night of
81 the United States Government to send this
fellow Dudley, or any other scoundrel, to
" supervise elections held under the authority
" of the laws of the State of Indiana Ii is
not enough to say that this is sheer madness.
Ignorant and bad men will be embOldened by
such stuff to resist the laws of the United
States which give the United Sta es Marshal
full warrant for everything he has done or
proposed to do. Forcible resistance will be
rebellion, and yet it has been openly advised
by Democratic managers in Indiana, as 1t has
been also, in a most Incorporate speech, by
Mr. Kelly in this city.
A thousand bloOd-tubs" " and rOughs have
been imported from the slums of Eastern CIT
les, with money supplied at Democratic head
quarters. If these creatures are thwarted In
an attempt to carry the election by repeating.
it is believed that they are to cause riots in
Republican wards, so that the ballot-boxes
there can be destroyed. The same low and
brutal element which has been breaking up
Republican meetings and mobbing Republican
professions at the West, as in Newark and
Summit recently, on Staten Island Saturday
night. and in this city and Brooklyn ire
duently, can be expected to make all the
mischief possible, ii it is secretly counSelled
by a Democratic committee, openly en-
couragcd by Democratic press, and promised
the support OF Democratic State officials.
Already one outbreak has occurred at Shelby
vile, where a Democratic mob assaulted a
Republican meeting AT that point. according
to dispatches, the Sheriff was Democratic
rutfian named McCorkIe. who had been the
leader of the riots which have disgraced that
locality; and If this is so, the fact that he was
killed, and one of his deputies severely
wounded, will not occasion great surprise If
the Republicans stoutly defend themselves and
their rights when attacked, but faithfully re-
frain from any wrongdoing, public opinion
throughout the country will sustain them IN
teaching the Solid South that 1t cannot with
success or safety import Yazoo methods into
Northern States.
The Republicans have on their side, in any
proper defence of their rights, the United
States Marshal and all the power of the
United States Government. The Marshal
himself, man WHO seems to be in every way
fitted for his delicate and important trust,
will have personal supervision at indianapolis,
where the danger is thought 10 be greatest.
IL may he hoped that this fact, and "A knOwl-
edge of his rcsolute character, Will deter the
Democrats from the revolutionary course
meditat,d. But if the evidence attainable
warrants him according TO the law, he may
employ an ounce of prevention instead of
pound of cure, by causing the arrest prior to
the election, of persons who are IN that State
for the purpose Of violating the law, and Of
Others who have cOnspired with them to that
end 1t may be possible to prove the exist
ence of a conspiracy 70 clearly that the most
nd fhnIr inf ant al
employers can he taken care ot be-