New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-18
INDIANA DEMOCRATS.
ExrRAvAGANr HOPES OF VICTORY.


EFFECT OF The OHIO ELECTION.
rPROu SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRfBUNbI
JEFFFnsoSyfIIE Ind, Oct. 14.-Leaving Indian
apolis for the Southern part of the State by tine
afternoon train yesterday. we were approaching
couatry village station. and as the whistle bie"'
Young man, bright-eyed, wearing full, close cut
bIack So clad in a weIl-itting fall suit, and
having a generally pleasing appearance OF the
Young man about town, rose with his companion
from one of the seats in the rear end Of the car and
prepared TO leave the train He was recognized rs
William f. English son of the late Democratic
candidate for the Vice-Presidency and himself the
present Democratic candidate for Congress IN the
indianapolis district.
what are your orosDectss" was asked after the
FIRST hasty greetings were over
Il believe | am certain to be elected. Marion
County. in which indianapolis is situated-my
home-wiIl, I think, give me large majority thus
year. 1t is usually Republican by from 1000 TO
1000"
"Have you any Greenback element to contend
With"
well yes The Greenback vote is considerable,
but was in the Legislature when the money ques-
ton was upperm0st, and my votes were not obJec-
tlonabe TO that party but regardless OF the Green-
back vote l am confident that the Democratic vote
IN the district will be large enough to give me
decided plurality"
"What do you think the State at large will do !"
1T will be a Democratic victory. YOu can write
to your paper that the Democratic majority III the
State viii be %, 900 and that Marion County Will
give decided Democratic majority, and that VIII
be elected to Congress-
AS the train stopped Mr.. English stepped upon
the PLATFORM and turning around said, Allow me
TO introduce to you Mr. Peee, the brother Of my
competition Congressman Peee. must say In JUS
tice to him chat he is Democrat and IS for me"
The person introduced was the travelling COM
panIon of Mr. English and was apparently stump
ing the district against his brother, the Congress
man.
An hour later there entered the car at the county
seat of one of tine southern counties tall. broad
shoudered sInooth-faced, miGdica ged man, his face
denoting the possession OF cultivated intelligence
and force, who proved TO be Captain W. r. Myers,
ex-Congressman from Indiana and present Demo-
cratic candidate for Secretary of State the highest
State Office to be voted for this year HIS greeting
was Enthusiastically hearty. He inquired If the
correspondent was out here to wnte Us up" and
feiqned surprise that the outer world should take
such interest in the local affairs of Indiana.
Are you having a lively canvass n asked the
correspondent
Yes. it Is right lively now. There is a good deal
Of interest felt in It, aud l am having unusually
large meetings.
You have a temperance issue here, as in yonr
neighboring States ~
yes fictitious one. The boys have thrust 1t
upon US and as / claim, they are now trying to
evade the point. l have been trying to get my
competitor TO tell me where he really stands,
whether he is for or against prohibition. lie does
not answer He says he is formulating reply
which / suppose will be completed sometime in the
future"
and do You take decided stand in relation TO
the new issue ~
eyes, sir COMPATIBILITY; decidedly in OPP
position to prohiOiti0n. My argument IS
that l am opposed to it because it does
not prohibit. In my speeches l have taken the
statistics of crime and paupersm in prohibitory
localities and compared them with localities where
there has been freedom. l am surprised at the re-
markabe contrast in favor of the latter. compare
Maine with Kentucky. 1 sure that no State
having prohibition can compare in general pros
perity with Indiana"
"Is your position THAI of your party generally :"
Yes pretty generally. A few have left us. but
for every vote we have lost can count in every
community a half dozen German Republicans
gained. Our loss is very small. | recall only
one prominent man who has abandoned US.
John Il. East has left the Democracy. He is
very religious man, and has been Prohibitfonist
for long time"
What position do you take on the question Of
submission ~
- We are opposed to it as the Republicans present
it, The Democratic party is in favor of settling the
question here and now. We are in favor of sub
mission in what we claim is the constitutional way
Our best lawyers are divided upon the question
whether special election to be held for the pur-
pos would be constitutional; but no one doubts
that the question may be constitutionally de-
cded at a general election. The Democrats
favor submission in that way. Bat why
daily with the question when expression of the
people be had squarely upon prohibition at this
coming election. Ii is very easy to see that, pre-
senting the liquor question squarely, as We are
doing il in Indiana this year, prohibition may be as
certainly disposed Of by this vote as 1t could be by
submitting it to another vote of the people two
years hence"
What effect will the result Of the Ohio vote have
upon your fortunesl"
1T will help us amazingly. It will solidfy our
people make them enthusiastic and conf
dent and call back the wagering ones.
Not only Democrats, but republicans look
upOn the vote in Ohio showing the drift OF
sentiment against the introduction of these isms'
into politics The fact that those most interested
in temperance refused TO vote in Ohio this and
took no interest in the election shows that the
people do not regard it as an important political
question"
Are the voting masses of your State showing
signs Of an awakening ~
Yes Our meetings are very large. have been
in forty-three counties, and have not yet been lip
one where the increase to our vote was
not apparent, in consequence of this
prohibition issue Wherever you find
a German you have man who
is determined to vote with / never knew
our own people to manifest greater enthusiasm.
very frank in my own public statements, taking
ground squarely against prohibition"