Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-26
INDIANA POLITICS.
EXCITING CONTEST ON THE BATTLE
GROUND OF TIE TWO PARTIES.
vcerhees's Powerful Canvass for His
Third Term-Tho State Legislature and
Congressional Situation.
rpccin telegram to tho Dl,p.,ch.,


t.ldom cools of from her frequent pc.
htical heatings up. Being one of the
backgrounds OF the two great parties,
She State is almost constantly under DO
liticsl excitement This year there is O
fall State ticket 10 elect with tho ex.
ception of Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, also thirteen congressman
and new Senate and House OF Repre-
sentatives. which will select a United
States senator 10 serve six years from
pcIt March. Both parties ere doing
their level best and the most prominent
orators OF each are on the platform.
Senator Voorhees, is host within him
self. He has been constantly on the
stump for several weeks, md continues
90 make from one TO two speeches daily.
Ho is aided by Hon. Joseph f.. Nc
Donald and General Gray, the candi-
dates for Congress, and maby other
formidable platform orators. The Re
politicians have had 10 aid them recently
Speaker Reed, Commissioner kaum, and
ell Of their best local speakers.
A HOLY TERROR.
MI. Voorhees, is making his third race
for the United States Senate, and Is at
tracing immense audiences wherever he
speaks lie is q holy terror to the he
publican party of Indiana. Six years
hgo, when he was candidate Tor the
senate, his Legislative majority was over
10000. and twelve years ago 1t ran over
$4,000. This year he brings the blood
~ every stroke OF his braWny arm as he
applies the lash 10 the infamous force
bin and to the other monstrosities OF Re
publican legislation. Tho Republicans
ore making Eercpjesn cxertions TO de-
feat his return 10 the Senate. la every
Democratic county Of importance they
have made the most unnatural coalitions
with tho Farmers Alliance and other
similar organizations. They have said
b. them "yOu farmers take all the
county Offices, nominate who you
please on YOU own platforms, anu
we viii support your nominees. We ask
only in return that you nominate Repub-
hcaus for the Legislature. You may
have oil the remainder"
This las been a very tempting bait
sni the farmers organizations have
culped down the toothsomo mOrscl with
svidlty. The county Offices in nearly all
sections OF Indiana are small gold-mines.
They Weld thousands of dollars annually
md the Iuen nominated on these tickets
are actively striving for election. One
may see the somewhat thorny road that
Glr. Voorhees, las to travel IN order TO
got back to the Senate.
TIE FARsRRs' HOWL.
The hope the Democrats have now is
this: The farmers have been bowling
nbou. the tariff duties for twosyears and
the increase made in them by the Nc
Kinlcy hill are making them howl the
louder The point that tho Democrats
are urging upon their attention IS how
much worse Will the matter stand when
q Republican High-Irotectionist Is re-
turned 10 the Senate In place OF Mr..
Voorhees,. The Democratic farmers have
been getting their eyes opened recently
and arc dosartlng the Coalition, and now
the lest results are being anticipated by
Mr.. Voorhees, and his friends
TIE CONGRESSIONAL PROBLEM.
The same factor prevails largely in the
congressional problem. The Republic
cans have made these same coalitions IN
three Democratic districts, while the
Democrats have followed suit in only
one. The worst that is anticipated by
the Democratic managers is the loss of
two districts. while there is good
chance TO gam one-perhaps two. In
1885 the Democrats elected ten out OF
the thirteen congressman. No other
State, especially in the North, did rs well,
or Mr.. Reed would not have been the
bulldozer-in-chief Of the last Congress.
Two Of these ten districts were carried
hv the skin Of the teeth-that is. Judge
pnrrett, Of the Evansville district, pulled
through by barely twenty, and Mr.
BrooAshire, OF the Terre Iiaute district,
only had sixty 10 spare. Both OF these
districts may be- carried 10y the Rcpubli-
cans, but the Democrats are quite san
Cuine that they will be safely Democra-
tic. In both. however, the Republicans
have mado formidable coalitions with the
Farmers Alliance, and the chief good
feature in the Democratic situation is
that the farmers of the district are I'M
easy about tariff matters and have sense
enough 10 know that sending Republi-
cans to Congress will not better them.
Heed, Kaum, and the other Republican
stumpcrs are begging tue people to try
the Mckinley bill for only one year ;
then il can be modified IL not found
satisfactory.
TIE FIGHT N TIE FIFTH DISTRICT.
Some Democrats think that the Fifth
district is in danger. This is represented
by Mr.. Cooper, who is making ms second
race Tor Congress- PenslOn-Commis-
sioner Rsum vas sent into this district
by the Republican managers because of
the charges made by Cooper against
Raum The latter was challenged to a
JOINT discussion 10y Mr. Cooper, but
Raum backed ont In his speeches IN
Indiana he ignores the Cooper charges
and discusses other issues. The Repub-
hcaus have endorsed tho nomination OF
Major Dunbar, who IS a farmer and had
already been put in the field by the labor
party. Mr.. Cooper's majority was about
1000 in 1883, and 1t hardly seems posi-
bic that he should be defeated, yet some
Of his friends think 1t quite possible. lie
is actively at work himself, and says he
will be elected beyond a doubt. Dunbar
popular. makes q very good speech.
and having been in the army will secure
at least all Of the Republican soldiers
votes. but his position on the tariff will
not help him with the farmers.
A GOOD FIGHTING CHANCE.
While the Democrats may lose two
oct OF the three districts alluded to, there
isagood fighting chance TO defeat the Re-
publican candidates in tho Ninth and
Ienth districts. Both are usually Re-
publican. and if the tariff question, and
especially tho Mckinley bill, were dead
issues both districts would cling to
their old political idols. The Ninth
district is now represented 10y
Mr.. Cheadle, but being somewhat
cranky and unreliable from Re-
publican standpoint he failed to re-