The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-10-20
PoLIIlcs lN INDIANA.
Why Harrison II Sure to Lose His Own
State by . Big Majority.

Why Harrison n sure to Lose his Wv" | ,
State by Big Majority.
All eyes here are fixed on Indiana
In the estimation of the shrewd politi-
clans of both parties the Hoosier State
Is the pivot on which the Presidential
contest will turn. The Democratic
managers were never surer OF carry
Ing the State than they are to-day.
They are not at all afraid of Candidate
Harrison's personal popularity. Ihey
have met him before on Sae Indiana
battlefield, when his record was short
or. and consequently less Objectionable
than now. and whipped him in fair
fight. That was in 1876, when he ran
for Governor, and the Republicans had
Oliver p. Morton for leader. a splen- |
did organization and the federal
Treasury to draw upon. The Repub-
licans have lost ground since they won
their scratch victory by the use OF an
overwhelming corruption fund in 1850,
and the Democrats have steadily
gained on them. The young voters OF
the State to-day are Democrats and
tariff reformers. For the past eight
wears the Democrats have had all the
accretions and the Republicans all the
losses. To form an opinion as to the
outcome of the contest this year one
should go back and analyze the vote OF
1884 when both parties polled more
votes than they ever cast before.
Blaine had bigger majorities than Gar
field In sixty-four counties. He polled
in the State 233.511 votes as against
232,l for Garfield. Garield's ma
jority in 1880 was 6,642. Blaine, there
fore, should have had over $4,000 ma
jority over Cleveland had the Demo
cratic vote stood where it was in 1880
But what do the figures show? Why,
thst Cleveland had nearly 10000 more
votes in the State than Hancock. or
total of 245.042. as against 225,522 fol
the Democratic candidate in 1880
Cleveland defeated Blaine by 6.53
plurality In the largest vote eve
polled in the State. These are figure
which the Republican managers cal
not knock down or overcome. The
show Enthusiastically that the popula
tide is with the Democratic party, an
they can not turn it back.
Do the two parties maintain thel
relative strength this yearp The Den
ocratic campaign managers say ye
They claim that their party was nevt
30 thoroughly united and harmoniot
rs now. Indiana is a tariff reforl
State. Every Democratic Represent
tive in Congress for years has went
Washington pledged to secure a r.
vision of the tariff, and has fought ar
won his fight before the people OF h
district on that issue over and ov'
again. This is not an experiment
question in Indiana. No Democrat
Congressman who should cast his vo
against measure like the Mills D
could hope for a denomination ct {
hands of his constituents. The DIR
of popular sentiment in the State Is
Enthusiastically toward tariff reform tn
even the Republicans have become i
pressed with it. The Hoosler Repr
licans went to Chicago and made
sturdy fight against the high tax
free whisky platform that the pal
adopted. When the conspiracy
nominate Blaine was developed
stoutest opponents of the movem
were these same Indiana men-not
cause they were so devoted to Hal
son. but because, as they publicly
clared, Blaine's high tariff noti
would make Republican defeat in
State foregone conclusion. The
dianaUolis Nsscs, Republican jour
with the largest circulation In
State. before the nominations "
made warned the Republicans over
over again that they would be be'
in Indiana il the party adopted
tariff platform. Party exigencies b
compelled the EetCs to place Harris
name at the head OF its columns,
it still repudiates the party platte
and advocates tariff revision dire
in line with the Democratic platte
Advices received at the National b
quarter here from every part OF
State show that the people are n
logical than the newspaper, and
accepting the Democratic plat
and the candidate who can stand
II. There is no organized defe'
from the Democratic ranks anyw
In the State. Here and there an {
fed manufacturer who does not
TO surrender any part Of the weal'
is accommodating at other peoples
pense has declared his intentit
vote for Harrison, but these are
adic cases, and have no signiit
whatever.
On the other hand. there are