The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09

the matter at all, that the Democrats have the
district. sbut they claim it by only two plu-
raliiy the result is evidently an open question.
On the face of the returns the Democrats
claim thirty one Senators and forty FIVE Repre-
sentatives Conceding to the Republicans nine
teen Senators and fifty FIVE Representatives, on
joint ballot. If this division Of power should hold
good, there would be total vote OF l5O-seven-
ty-six Democrats and seventy four Republicans
IA difference of two, but a majority or one.
With Taggart in and Mcclure out the joint bal
lot for United States Senator would probably re-
sult in seventy five votes for each candidate.
Mr. Edward Mcpherson said two years ago that
Illinois was the first State TO have tie on joint
ballot for Senator, but Indiana may ''see" that
feat or even go it one better, for if a recount
makes barely change In the result of the
Taggart- Mcclure contest there will be an abso-
lutey unparalleled double playa tie on tie.
General Harrison may yet have the benefit of
situation even more interesting than the one
which kept the name of General Logan SO long
before the public and made him the observed of
all political observers.
Corydon Republican,: It was not party which
spoke, but it was the voice of the people-the
tax-payers-who have long suffered by oppressive
taxation.
Richmond Palladium The excitement over
the altering of tally-sheets by the Democratic
thieves at Indianapolis is intense and such
threats rs hang them to a lamp-post are freely
INDUCED in.
columbus RepuONcan: I'D HENDERSON, Ue-
fore the election, had the Democratic majority
figured up TO exactly IL. 1862 1t is now charged
that Illusions dog somehow got at that major
ity and ate it up. Huston is a sly one and did
not board that dog at the hotel all through the
campaign for nothing.
Warsaw Times: The administration policy
has been disapproved The Democratic leaders
have been rebuked The Republican party has
put itself in good condition for the fight in 1888
In many States the Democrats have gone to
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put them in shape for the presidential battle.
Nashville Graphic: From the present outlook
the campaign in this State has just begun. We
hope everything will be settled satisfactorily If
the Democrats have majority In the Legisla-
ture of two on joint ballot, and have it without
obtaining it by fraud of any kind we want them
20 have their rights but it looks like there has
been some skullduggery
South Bend Register: We thought the voters
Of ST. Joseph county equally divided on
some of the candidates, but Elkhart county goes
US one better. She has tie and according to
law there is election. The present incum-
bent will hold over until his successor is elected
and qualified This may be done at a special
election or at the next general election.
Logansport Journal: The Republican mem
Der from Clark county was clearly elected, and
counted out by fraud His seat will be given
him, and Harrison will be his own SUCCESSOR
stick pin there. Joe Mackln-Sim Coy politics
will not be allowed to gair foothold in Indiana.
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the legislature and don't intend to have it stolen
from them
Shelbyville Republican: Fortunately for the
Repu blicans the court of last resort, the lower
house of the Legislature, is in their hands, and
they will be able to see that justice is done to
everybody. We don't ask them to DO any
wrong to gain point. but we do insist that they
stand between the people and ballotbox suffers
TO the end that the rights of ali concerned may
be INDICATED.
Boston Advertiser The people were not de
eeiyed by the misleading cry of "tarlff reform
and Messrs Morrison, Carlisle, Hurd and the
rest of the defeated ones must reflect with sor
row that the result of disciplining the protec
tionists has been not unlike that of the
plucky fight of the Western editor who inserted
his nose between his adersarys teeth. and thus
prevented the atter's escape until his strength
was exhausted.
Philadelphia Press: Indiana gives even
more striking proof of the peoples willingness
TO indorse the Republican party when right.
The party never faced a more discouraging con-
dition of things than it compelled TO face in
Indiana The Democrats arranged the most
shameless and unjustihabe gerry mander that
has been perpetrsted in recent years in a North
ern State. But with courage that is worthy
of all admiration the Republicans appealed to
the people to condemn this outrage, and appar-
entity they have responded in unmistakable
terms.
New Albany Ledger (Dem.): The President
the people of this country are with him. Had
fhe party organs and party orators given his
policy hearty support, the result of the recent
elections would have been very different 1t Is
because the so-called leaders and organs in the
Democratic party condemn the wise and pa
trotc course of Mr. Cleveland that the masses
are lukewarm in supporting the party ticket;
and whenever the people are represented in con-
ventions and elsewhere the administration Is
heartily Endorsed.
South Bend Tribune: Honest elections are
the safety of the people, and when they have ex-
pressed themselves at the polls that expression
must not be changed by forgery or other in
famous methods. The people will not stand it.
There are thousands of Democrats in this State
who are fully as much interested as Republicans
IN seeing that the wrongs in our insane asylums
are righted, the books of the treasury opened
and investigated, and many abuses in the State
institutions reformed To prevent this the Sim
Coy gang at indianapolis is using every dishon-
orabe effort imaginable.
Cleveland Leader: Indiana stands to-day
Republican State, and there is every prospect
that it will gtvea substantial Republican major
ity in 1888. Two years before the last presideu
tial election the Democratic plurality in the State
was 924, and vet Cleveland LED Blaine only
65l2 Two years before the coming presidential
election the Republican majority is 1000. The
blindest men can see the significance of such a
change as that thought to insure aSleast 900
Republican majority in the next national cleo
ton and the Republicans of the Hoosier State are
ehuueo 20 unOoun0e0 credit 1or the work they
have done.
Brooklyn Eagle: To political observers every
where the Indiana result was wholly unexpected.
Probably it astonished much as the
Republicans themselves. Nothing could be more
ridiculous, however. than attributing it, as one
OF our morning contemporaries undertakes to
do, to the attitude of the oppsing parties on the
question of civil-service reform. Nowhere has
the cIyilservIee idea been received with greater
Gisfavor than among the citizens of Indiana,
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which engenders and promotes faith in the spos
system opposed to the civil-service system.
Interest in Indiana politics for some time to
come will center on the impending contest for
the senatorial succession.
Charlottesville Journal: It is indeed q GLORIOUS
YiciOryn In Indiana The cansas which "A thara=