The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-18
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BRING OFT TIP VOTE.


1t is not more than two weeks until the day
of election, and whatever is to be done to aid
the Republican party in the work before it
must be done promptly. The Journal will not
say to the Republicans of Indiana that they
are going to carry the State whether or no.
No good could come from such talk, and it is
not the Journals style. The fact is, if the
Republicans are to carry the State atall it will
be only by the hardest kind of work and the
most unremitting vigilance. And yet it is
within the power of the Republicans to defeat
the Democracy. We are not talking bun
combe, nor indulging in campaign hurrah.
Every well-informed man knows that there is
good chance for Republican success, much
better than may be generally believed on one
side or conceded on the other. The reasons
for this belief are not far to find. It is un-
questionably true that there will be a smaller
scattering vote this year than usual. Two
years ago this vote amounted to near 10000;
this year the Greenback vote will be decreased,
and the Prohibition vote will not certainly be
increased. On the start therefore, the advan-
tage will be with the Republicans.
The Democrats have serious troubles
Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and
Twelfth districts there is open rebellion,
which threatens the party more seriously than
the managers will concede; while all over the
State there is moro or less GOODNESS and dis
affection, growing out of unsatisfed appetites
For the first time the Democracy is realizing
the explosive force of the postofice in politics.
Heretofore that luxury has been enjoyed ex-
clusively by Republicans. On the other
hand, so far as we Know the Republican
party is without quarrel or friction This
is the attitude Of the two parties, but it is &C
companied with an apathy that is dangerous.
The people nowhere seem to be fully awake.
This can be accounted for on many grounds.
The main one we believe to be the fact that
Indiana people have not yet become accus-
toned to the fact that they no longer stand in
the eye of the whole nation but are left alone
to fight their own battles for themselves and
with their own resources. This with the
added fact that it is an off year, is sufficient to
account for the apparent GOODNESS. There is
also to be taken into account the ill-feeling of
one party and the natural belief of the other
that bad blood will, of itself, practically de-
eide the election. This is the Repub-
lican danger to-day, and the only
danger. The object Of this article is
to arouse the Republicans of the State to
the necessity of waking up and bringing out
every vote. The Democratic detection is we'll
enough; that will work out all right; it need
not occupy the attention and the thought of
Republicans. The thing for Republicans to
be troubled about is getting out the Republic
an vote. Work to that end, and the State
will be carried. There is no doubt of this.
IF the Republicans do not carry the State it
will be because the per cent of Republican
stay-at-homes is greater than the per cent of
Democratic detection. This is the problem,
and the figures of the election will demon
strate it. Is not the opportunity and are not
the issues important enough to put every Re-
publican in the State on his mettleg Will not
committees bend every energy to this point
from now till the last hour of election day?
Will not each individual voter in the State
supplement the work of his local committee
by seeing that he votes himself, and that his
neighbors vote? A full Republican vote, and
Republicans will be redeemed from the dis
reimbursement of the gerrymander, the bene-
VIOLENT institutions will be reclaimed from the
brutes and scoundrels who have prostituted
them, the State treasury will be opened, and
it will be found out what has become of the
funds, that the mon working for thu State are
not paid the money that was borrowed pur-
posely to pay them; and the State will be
honored and the whole country benefited by
the reelection Of Benjamin Harrison to the
seat he has filed with such signal ability.
Bring out the vote.
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THE New York World possesses a vein of
as pungent satire as is possessed by any other