Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-10-19
INDIANA POLITICS.
Schuyler Colfax for senator---Brillian
Successes all Along the Line.
Chicago Times,

ochuyier COliax Tor SenntOr--- Brilliant
successes all Along the Line.
Chicago Times.
The first fruits of the sweeping repub-
lican victory in Indiana are seen in
proposition to make Schuyler Colfax Mr..
McDonald's successor in the senate.
The new legislature will have an over
whelming republican majority, and, q
'stalwart' will be wanted for McDonald's
place. Stalwartism has won the day for
the party, and no man without thor
oughly partisan record will be selected
as the recipient of the best prize of the
campaign. General Ben Harrison will
not take the senatorship, it is said, be-
cause MIR. Garfield has. offered him.
position in his cabinet. Mr.. Porter will
not have it, because the lieutenant
governor elect is "stick," and Mr.. Por-
ter must keep the governorship. Why
not Colfax, then?
Vindicated at last, he comes to the
front confidently as leader of the par
tty, and an aspirant for its highest honors.
lie has taken conspicuous part in the
campaign now so gloriously ended, and
has been we'll received by his party.
Nobody in that party can now mention
his part in the Credit Mobilier matter.
Whoever strikes blow at Colfax hits
another over his back, and the statesman
Of South Rend can stand all day in the
presence Of his fellow-republican all
over the United States with the "S. G. or
bearer" chip on his shoulder, and not one
of them will venture to knock it off.
There is no longer the slightest obstacle
to ColfaX assuming his old position
in Indiana politics if he wants to re-
sumo it; and that he is disposed to do so
is sufficiently evidenced by his emer-
gence from his retirement. the active part
he has taken in the canvass for Porter,
and the prompt suggestion of his name
for the senatorship. Mr. Colfax's reap
pearance in the senate would not be at
all likely to cause the republic any Of
tense. At the time when he retired in
disgrace from the vice presidency the
public sentiment, though even then IA
miliar with scandals. had not been
blunted as it has been since by the scan
dals OF Grants second term and others
which have followed. In the<light of
certain occurrences which have not pro-
duced ripple on the surface of the pub
lie sentiment, Colfax's connection with
the credit Mobilier seems almost trihing
affair. The republican party has official,
ly condemned that otfense. The repub-
lican members of the house investigating
committee who exposed the scandal and
branded-though ever SO lightly-the
participants in it have taken back all
they said in an unguarded moment of
bipartisan Indignation. The attitude
Of the party on the matter gives no
otlense to the people, it is plain, since
they have given. in Indiana and Ohio.
| rousing majorities for the party's
candidates tor state and congressional
offices, and in November will in all prob
ability elect the party's presidential can
didate. Why not Colfax tor the senate,
then? And since the republicans are
soon likely to regain the control of the
senate, there is every reason to suppose,
if Indiana shall send Colfax to the SEN
ate, that he will be chosen to the tempo
rrary presidency OF that body, as~at once
the man most fitted by experience to pre-
resentative Of the party. He would oc-
away fishing, vindicated at last, and tri-
umphant over Oakes Ames' memoran-
dun book.
The success of the republicans in Indi.
ana appears more and more brilliant as
the returns come in, but the reverse is
true as to Ohio. There it seems likely
that the majority for secretary of state
will be less than Fosters last year
This can not be attributed, as
some of the organs of the defeat
ed party may hasten to assume, tc
any weakness of the republican presi-
Dental candidate in his own state. OF
held to foreshadow reduced majority
in November. It is undoubtedly due tc
the voting of Germans for Lang, the
democratic candidate for secretary o.
state, who is German, and to the fac
that Fosters majority last year wa
really an abnormal one for that period
being caused by the peculiar unsound
ness of Ewing, his antagonist. MIR. Gar
field will probably receive larger ma
jority in November than the republica,
ticket received on Tuesday. The gail
in congressman shows that the drift o
sentiment in Ohio is decidedly in the re
publican direction.
Sentiment among the democrats in til
country at large regardings the result il
Indiana and Ohio and as to the futur
: appear to be in the formative stag
i just now. An idea is expressed in til
: dispatches this morning by some dis
u ponding democrat that it would be n
n excellent thing if the republicans shoul
$ carry southern state or two, becaus
e with break in the solid soutl
n a break in the solid north nigh
e some time be hoped 70
u This idea may yet come to be shared b
/ other democrats than the timid one WI
e advanced it yesterday. As the days we,
T: on, and the real extent of the calamii
u which the democratic party has suifele
.r dawns upon it, the expression Of sue
l. ideas rs this and as those of the Mer
Is Is phis Avalanche may become more cor
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