Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-18
INDIANA,
Democrats Encouraged by the Re-
s suit In Ohio,
And Promise Great Things on November
9TH Views Of Correspond
eat Who Has Gone Over
,< the State.
THE CONGRESSIONAL OUTLOOK.
Special COrespOndenoe Of de Register.

just ICaOucu toAS CA1y oasoA AASAS
of the various Congressional districts, 1t
has been long tramp. I have personally
gone over ten of the thirteen districts, visit
ing forty-seyen counties, and conyersing
with nearly ell leading men of both parties
in the State, and brief review of my can
vass after political knowledge will doubt
less prove of interest TO your readers. But
first let me say few words about the gen.
eral effect The result in Ohio has had upon
the Hoosier voters. Democrats here can
hardly realize the glorious and magnificent
result Of the Ohio election. They have been
Disappointed So often and So Bitterly
upon the result in that State that they
have scarcely dared of late years TO claim
the State. While all over Indiana there
were many Democrats who hoped that
Ohio would 60 Democratic, still they did
not as much as whisper their hopes to
friends. From one end of Indiana to the
other in the hast two weeks have heard
Democrats say: "0hl if Ohio could only
go Democratic, how it would help US in
this State" .s
Well. Ohio has gone Democratic and by
majority as splendid as il is encouraging,
and the good OF il will help Us out as sure
as fate. The one days work in our neigh
boring State, the going to the polls of near
ly 800. $50 freemen and voting the Demo-
cratic ticket has
Done More Real Good
to the Democratic cause in Indiana than
ten thousand stump speeches or large
campaign fund. 1t has already put new
life, fresh hope, and inspired great eneour-
agement in the Democratic masses of lndi-
ana. Every Democrat in Indiana knows
what the result in Ohio means if his party
works and stands shoulder to shoulder. 1t
means that Indiana will go Democratic by
10000 majority next month; that on the
same day the gallant Pattisou will be elect
ed Governor OF Pennsylvania, and also that
the next Governor Of the Empire State will
be Grover Cleveland. and that his majority
will go as high as 5000. 1t means that
the next House OF Congress will be control-
led by Democrats, and that that House will
count in legally elected Democratic Rres-
ident in 1885.
The COugressmen.
The first place visited was the First dis
trict and there found the situation about
as ugly as il could be for the Democrats.
Heilmau, the Republican candidate, is
making q money canvass, and you know
what influence the greenback has among a
a certain class of voters. Against him the
Democrats had nominated Mr.. John J.
Kleiner, greatly the superior Of Heilman
in every respect, but unfortunately poor
man. Added 10 this disadvantage found
some of the best and leading Democrats of
the district sore and more or less dislffec-
tion throughout the district. Under these
/ was forced to the conclu-
sion that Hei.man would be elected if the
Democrats did not recover their reason
after sober second and make desper-
ate fight for their candidate.
In the Second District
there is no doubt of the election nf Mr
Cobb, the Democratic candidate sI1 py alsIse
majority I;s ~rrO..Sne is Mr.. hoSteIIeTi
an exceedingly clever old gentleman, VINO
is running as an Independent Democrat.
He will carry his county, Lawrence, by
good majority, and catch few Democratic
votes in the district. lie will be badly
beaten, however. rs he deserves to be.
Democrats should fight Democrats at the
convention and not at the polls.
In the Third district Mr.. Stockslager,
Democrat, will be elected by an increased
Democratic majority, if the vote is got out
At any rate he will run ahead of his ticket.
The Republican nominee is young man
from Scott county, named W. T. Walker.
This is his first appearance IN politics, and
BIDS Fair TO BE His Last.
The Fourth district will return to Con-
gress for the tenth time, off and on, divid-
ed and solid, the faithful guardian OF the
peoples money, Hon. William Stelle Hol-
man, of Dearborn county. He will be re-
turned by an increased majority, and II is
not so sure that his young competitor, Mr..
w. J. Johnson, of Jefferson, will remain
on the track until the election
The Fifth district will re-elect Col.
namnHrEf a.
publicans are badly divided up by faction
fights, and as Putnam aud Bartholomew
counties will give largely increased Demo-
cratic majorities, the result is beyond ques-
ton.
carried the Sixth, Old Brunt district, by
about 10,CC0 majority, so the election OF
Mr.. Brown, Republican, BY large major.
ity is about as certain as taxes, death and
the election of Grover Cleveland, Governor
Of New York.
There is a pretty fight going on in
the Seventh district, between Hon. Will 4.
English, Democrat, and Stanton J. Peelle,
Republican, aud present incumbent. Tle
district is composed of Marion. Shelby and
Hancock. The two latter counties gave q
Democratic majority of about l,5O0 two
wears ago and Marion over 1000. The
Democrats claim that English will come to
Marion county with. at the least estimate,
!, go majority and that the Republican ma
iority IN this county, at the highest estl-
mate will not exceed 500. This count will
elect English by 700. The Republicans
claim, on the other hand, that Shelby and
Hancock will not give English to exceed
SEQ majority, and that they will give Peelle
900 majority in Marion county. This
would elect him by only 200. This estl'
mate by Republicans certainly defeats
Peelle, and il looks TO an outsider like En-
glish has his scalp
Already Dangling at His Belt,
Mr.. John Z. Lamb, Democrat in the
Eighth district, mas good fighting chance
to win. 1t all depends upon Terre Haute,
in Vigo county. His friends, including
Senator VOORHEES,, claim that he will carry
that county Dy upwards of thousand ma
iority. II he does that and makes the gains
expected in Clay. he will be elected. Mr.
Lamb is young, talented, ambitious and
good mixer, and may pull through, though
the odds sgainst him are appalling. IL the
German vote of Lafayette and other point:
in the Ninth district goes against Orth, as
the leading Democrats claim that 1t Will
Judge Ward, Democrat will be elected.
consider the district as
Exceedingly Doubtful,
with the chances in favor Of 0rth. Hon
Thomas J. Wood, Democrat, is working
like Turk to be elected in the Tenth dis
trict and is encouraged at the outlook Mr.
Wood was born under luck star, and ht
NAV, make the ripple Steele, Republican
will carry the Eleventh district by reduces
majority. In the Twelfth fort Wayne
district, the Democratic disatfection whict
| resulted over the defeat OF Mr. Colerick II
| the Congressional Convention has abou
keen healed. and Judge Lowry, the Demo
cratic candidate, will be elected. Last
Though BY No Means Least,
is the Thirteenth district, and the two biI
guns, CAlkins, Republican, and Winter
! botham, Democrat, are making the 81
| COUNT howl. Both men are enereeac
/ and pos ess an abundance of political 81
| gacity. Then they have means and kno7
| how to set 'em up and get out the vote
! Calkins is being stabbed in the back D.
some of his party friends, and there ar
| other causes which lead me 70 think b
! will be beaten. The district is nearly
thousand Republican, but thousand vote
to Mr.. winterbotham amt circumstsnct
! He wants to 90 to Congress; and he want
| 10 go bad And he is going.
Il win be seen by the above that n
Democrats are almost certain OF carryin
six districts and the Republicans foul
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