Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-10-26
The Silly Estate Pride" Dodge Worked
by the G. 0. p. Completely Collapsed.
Mr. Hendricks Private Secretary Stud
les and Reviews the Situation.
He is Satisfied the State Will Give Its
Old Time Democratic Majority.
Quay's Scheme to Increase the Repub-
lican Vote in New York City.
Ancient Pennsylvania Tricks Easily
Seen Through by Democrats.
POLITICAL OUTLOOK IN INDIANA.
All Things Working Together tor a Democratic
Victory.

All Things Working Together TOR Democratic
Victory.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oot. 23.-Col. Hughes
East, a gentleman who was for number
of years the late Mr.. Hendricks private
secretary and who is now a resident of
Dakota, is in the city on a visit made for
the pUrposr of satisfying himself as to
the political outlook. He comes to In
diana for the purpose of getting ON the
inside" thing which his old associa.
tions makes possible, and since he
has been in the state he has lost no
chance to get at the bottom facts of
the campaign. Mr.. East accompanied
Mr.. Thurman on his Indiana tour.
After two weeks of unprej JUDGED inves-
tigation Mr.. East has concluded that In
diana is all right and will give her
OLD TIME DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY.
As to the reasons ON which he based his
conclusions he said: Before came in
to the state, ! heard so much about state
pride and democratic deserters to the re-
publioaus that, to tell the truth, was
greatly alarmed. In Chicago a republi
can assured me that in Greene county,
my old homo, there were 100 converts
and thst this was cnly al illustra-
tion Of what was going on
over the state. When 1 went into
Greene county found just one deserter
"a democrat who had not obtained d
looked for pension-and TO offset this
loss of one found democratic convert,
made so by a pension which had been
granted. In Knox county the repubh
cans claim sixty five accessious. Judge
Niblack of the supreme court tells me
there Is positively only QUE Every body
knows Gen. Shank. The general is 3
republican, but said to hiol the other
day: General Shanks, l don't want to
pry iatO party secrets, but |
have come here from Dikoth to find |
the tru h, politically. What gains are
your party counting on through state
pride?' his reply was: TO tell the truth,
| think our gains in this direction are a
good deal like that vague, oldfa3hi0ned |
cattle diseGse-always just over IN the |
next county. L shall be satisfied if We |
gain six votes in 10Y oae county Aud 1 |
fad this largely the stG'e or affairs every |
where.
Here in Mari0n county, as you know, |
there is q margin of floating vote of five |
thousand. In 1880 Garfield carried the |
county by 5000. In 1884, Blame did the |
same by about 800. This year / be- |
Heve democratic majority of 1900 |
is possible uuless l am mistaken in the |
labor vote. A few years ago my old |
friend Dick Bright, who is now the door
keeper OF the house, made a race for |
sneT,T IN Vuis coUuby, auU Ill spiGe ca
the strong points of his candidacy he
was defeated by this labor vote solely |
because ne he'd volunteered in the strike |
militia company of IT, of which Gen.
II 2rrisou was captain"
DEMOCRATIC ENTHUSIASM.
Speaking of the recent democratic
gatherings, Mr.. East said: When 25,000
and 80 600 men gather in a pelting rain
lock ou.. The Saturday night pr4ced-
ing the election in 1884 was one of the
worst [ ever saw; rain sleet and
mud corspired to make it disagreeable,
and yet the streets were packed with
democratic men, women and children.
That night Mr.. Hendricks said: That
settles it, Afterwards Gov. Porter told
me he felt the same way
Mr.. East says he called upon Mr..
Hughes, the prohibition candidate for
governor, for some third party figures
recently. Mr.. Hughes puts the prChibi
ton vote at not less than 10000 nor more
than $4,000. AS to where he will get it,
he says, in large fractions, three voters
from the republicans to two from all
other sources.
INDIANA NATURALLY DEMOCRATIC.
In an interview with Chairman Jewett, |
published recently, that gentleman |
made the statement that Indiana was |
naturally a democratic state" This |
statement has been controverted by |
republican of some prominence, VINO |
gave no reasons for the same however, |
his basis for the statement. easy |
enough he said, 81 count from that time |
-76-when the country had fully re-
covered from the excitement of the |
war period. In '76 we carried the |
state in one of the feirest cleo |
tions we ever had by 5.515. In |
'84, when the republicans were
short of funds by 6,527. In 1880, when
the republicans put 100000 into the |
campaign they carried it by 6,642. In all
the off years we have had a democratic |
majority until 1886. That year the dem
ocrsts were fighting Lowry in the Fort
Wayne district: they were fighting Lamb
at Terre Haute; Menze and his friends
had split off at Evansville, and in the
New Albany district, to vary the thing, we
we're having a triangular democratic
fight. That year the democratic vote was
just II 900 short as against 1000 for the
republicans. The republican majority,
however, was only about 1000. If these
facts don't show q national democratic
majority of between 5000 and 5000 what
do thew shoE?"