Wichita eagle., 1888-11-02
INDIANA POLITICS.

INDIANA POLITICS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 1.-General Harrl-
son passed the day In his library at home,
receiving the usual number of visitors.
Among his callers this afternoon was d.
/. Brown, of Kansas, who presented the
general with mallet made from the
stump of Wing pole erected at Mt. Tip,
Athens county, Ohio. September p, 1S40.
On the 25th of last September the citizens
met to plant another Harrison pole on the
identical spot when the remains of its
predecessor were -unearthed On the
handle is finely preserved medal of the
Tippecanoe campaign. General and Mrs.
Harrison evinced lively interest in the
historical relic.
Several weeks ago General Harrison
suffered the loss of his picket fence at the
hands of the visiting Chicago drummers
and others who made a nocturnal visit 10
the premises and carefully pried off all the
sound pickets. Every little article about
the yard has mysterlously disappeared
and it seemed as though no materiad had
been left upon which the Jealous relic
hunter of the future could work,
but one loose brick in the generals we'll
paved sidewalk proved fatal to the theory
1t furnished a starting point and now the
general is threatened with the loss of his
pavement, serious inroads having already
been made upon 1t.
Everyone seemed hard at work today
about political headquarters. Prepara-
tions are being made at both headquarters
for receiving and tabulating the election
returns by precincts. This matter IN
wolves much careful figuring. During no
previous campaign in Indiana were such
careful and complete preparations made
regarding returns as is now in progress.
The Western Union surveyed the
+,.,.rr Of nrc
wires to dozen different points in the
city, including both headquarters where
returns Will be received, Interest in the
issue has grown so general In this city that
every resident seems engrossed with the
desire to learn the result of the great bat
tie at the first moment.
One of the important matters now oc-
cupying the attention of both committees
is the getting in on election day, from all
parts of the country those legal voters who
are temporarily residing or stopping at
points outside the state. One Of
the committees arranged today
to bring such voter
whose legal residelc is in indianapolis
from a distant southern city. This shows
how important each vote Is regarded. 1t
is calculated that the total vote of Indiana
will reach between $50, 600 and 100000, an
increase of 5000 over 1884. a large per-
uentage of this increase is attributed to
the discovery and development of natural
gas which brought thousands from Penn
syvania, Ohio and the east.
Both committees have about finished
their third and final poll of the state, but
their figures are not reliably obtainable.
In other words the local pub
JIG don't credit the poll figures
that are in some mysterious
way circulated. 1t is generally thought
the true results of their polls are known
Il. ,f n..,
mittees.
The citizens committee of one hundred.
the Fair Election league and the local and
outside detectives now in the city all ap
pear to be cooperating in the matter of
ferreting out and sporting" supposed re-
peaters. The name, residence and descrip-
ton of 105 recent arrivals are today fur
nshed to the board of police commission
ers. This evening the entire police and
detective force was brought before Super
intendent Travis, who read the
list of names, with places Of
abode and ordered his Off
GERS to hunt down every man named on
the list, and notify him that he must
leave the city bv Monday morning or he
would be arrested and jailed as sus-
pected repeater" Detectives state that
this list comprises only small portion of
the number of strangers who are domi-
ciled in and about indianapolis presuma-
bly, to participate III the election. The
local papers contain daily interviews with
political managers ON both sides express
ing the belief that the other side is pre-
pairing 10 commit election frauds. So cur
rent and common have grown these mu
tual changes that they have ceased to occa-
sion much notice.
Chairman Huston. of the Republican
committee, today sent the following letter
to Hon. Charles |. Jewett, chairman of the
Democratic state central committee:
Dear Sir-ln order TO prevent the posi-
billty of the casting and counting of two
or more ballots by one voter the Republi-
can state central committee of Indiana
submit the following proposition and ask
You to agree to it: The inspector in each
precinct when he takes the ballot from the
voter shall place a small rubber band
in the box. BY this means.
If two or more ballots are
folded and voted together they cannot be
separated in the box and when the inspec-
tor takes the ballot out TO count it. and
opens IL N case one or more ballots are
folded within it they will all be in his
hand and not in the box and therefore
should not and will not be counted. This
plan we are informed Is in force in
other states and we see no good reason
why in could not be carried out in this
state, for there is no law against it We
are very ANXIOUS lndI there shall be
a free vote and fair count in this state
and we will join you in any agreement
which is calculated TO accomplish these
objects. We earnestly request you to
unite with us in an agreement by which
such plan as we have outlined shall be
carried into effect. We trust you VIII an
swer without delay. Yours truly,
J. \. HUSTON,
Chairman of the Republican State Central
Committee of Indiana.
Ceairmau Jewett stated this evening
that he should give the subject of the
letter his early attention.
Hon. McQuinn, of Illinois, and Hon.
John T. Finerty, of Chicago, addressed a
large audience tonight at Tomlinson' s
thall.