New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-09
THE BRIGHT OUTLOOK IN INDIANA
GENERAL HARRIsoN's PARTNER ON THE s1TUA'
r1nN-u1EHs OLE JUDGE FAIRBANKS.

GENERAL UARRISON'S PARTNER ON THE sAAO~N
rION-vIEws OF JUDGE FAIRBANKS
Among the lete arrivals uptown on Tuesday night
we're W. II. Miller and Horace Mckay OK Indiaiapo1s'
who are here to represent General Harrison. MI
Miller is the second member of the law firm OF Harrison.
NnIor & Flarn and MI Mckay was a delegate to the
Chicago Convention. Mr. Miller said that he LETT
General Harrison In good health and spirits Ihdaha
is surely Republican, he said. The young voters aio
coming with is Tic soldier element is giving US great
strength and our growing manufacturing interests
demand protection The natural gas discoveries nave
created large manufac turing industries within two or
three years"
Judge c. W Fairbanks, the Indianapolis attorney
who was prominently identified with the canvass ior
the nomination Of Judge Gresham for President, IN
discussing the political situation In Indiana Sad
day TWO ago:
There is much 10 be said in reference TO ON State.
but when everything is said It is my candid judgment
that the Republicans have the best of the situation
and viii carry the state The Democrats, OF course.
have become ntrcnched behind the Federal power ana
patrona ge but this has ITS disadvantages There are oo
people who are angry the distribution of patronage
many times over than there are Democrats satlsiea
with places Tho failure 10 nominate Governor Gray
for Vice-President, because of a Democratic local
quarrel has hurt the party IN Indiana very much.
our canvass is materially strengthened at the outset
by the state pride which all take In General Harr1-
SON. and by the general rally of his old soldier com
O his banner The arfH question operates DOu
WAYS with US as It does everywhere else, but tho
general roundup seems show greater accessions 10
or party than losses So, on the whole, think we
Shall carry the State. and this judgment OF mine Is
given deliberately and cooIy. If Republican and
Democrat shOIld make an even bet on the state, !
should say the chances little the best for tho
Republican OF course, state like Indiana, where
the margin Of difference in 100000 or 100000 voters
IS only 5000 or G,OOO, only a close personal and
Individual canvass can show the actual situation
hut there are drifts and tendencies either way, and
when these have been summed up the advantages
seem positively In favor OF the Republican party"
What about the Governorship!"
Wei. Governor Porter has declined 10 De a canol-
date lie states his in his letter, and they are
undoubtedly the real reasons. He says that In De.
cembar last he declined TO be candidate ana thdt
other gentlemen who his friends thcreupon came
in honor accept IT, He is in much the ZANE position
that M Blaine in az Chicago. thlnk governor
Porter would have been the best man to rum
General Dan Macauley, who was at one time Mayor
Of Indianapolis later the proprietor OF the Gedney
House in this city, and now engaged In electrical
enterprises has cool judgment about politics, which
Is evenly tempered by his wide acQuaintanceship and
contact with men. He asked yesterday about
Indiana and replied:
Why TO tell you the downright truth, General
Harrison IS sure to carry 1t. Any Democratic talk
about even a possibility Of their carrying it Is out
NJ all kcepipg with their own claims. They always
said that it was Hendricks who carried the state for
thcm With Hendricks dead and Harrison running
,h would be in more logical position If they owned
M The corn at and admitted the hopeessnesS Oh
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