New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-07
THE OUTLOOK IN INDIANA.
REPUBLICANS SHOW GOOD REASONS FOE
ANTICIPATING A PLURALITY OF $1,000.
DEMOCRATS DISCOURAGED BY TIE PRELIx.
MARY POLL OF THE sTATE-REPUBLICAN
GAINS IN CoNGRE7sMEN REGARDED

AS CERTAIN
indianapolis Ind. Nov. 6.The closing hours Of the
hottest campqgn known In the history Of Indiana
find the Republican leaders confident of supremacy
In the Hooser state For weeks the party has been
growing stronger and stronger and no events In the
Short time remaining before the opening OF the polls
can arrest the tide Of Repubicanism.
Two weeks ago the Democrats felt confident Of
Indiana. All tley mad TO do, they said, was TO hold
thell OVID. They based this early poll Within
4 few days their later poll has been completed. II
does not show poss bic 10000 majority for Cleveland,
as they claim nor does 1t show any majority II
shows that he state Is Gone and that the Democrats
ant hope regain 1t IN the little time that remains
OF the camI agn. Here in indianapolis and through
tie central part OF the State they think they are all
.ight bat down around Evansville their hopes have
been gravely disappointed. They were counting
good dea, on the alleged DETECTION OF Judge Greshams
friends Now that they have had time 10 look up
he r -snppoeod converts they find that General Har-
rison will get a bigger vote In the southern part OK
the state than he di In 1883 Judge Greshams
nicnd. = aim 1t without exception worIing ior the
ticket ard working hard rega.dless OF the attitude
Of the JGdge.
ID through the natural gas country, where Senator
prce has big railroad interests II assumed that
The vote which has IN within the last three or
four y,ars was going DcmoCrtc. Why this was
assumed 10 knows. The actual poll mas SHOWN
that (, ere is going to be marked Republican gain
I'm all that country. Nearly al the new vote Is IN
fact Republican. These things the Democrats
ave fund ont for themselves They are not based
on any clair,s made by the Republicans. They are
tle lasls FOR d,mand on the Democratic National
Committee for more money II Indiana is to be saved"
for Cleveland. Another element which has proved
disapnt ng 10 the Democrats Is the old soldier vote'
TIL, vote has not been hoodwinked into any veterans
tariff reform leagues. 1t Is If possible, more sohd
than eyer for General Harrison In some OF the glass
rbora Democrats started CLUBS
eorIv in the canipalgn they have noticed a tendency
on the mart of the Gibbs diminish In membership
as Gle ton draws TIE pcl confirmed lnis lact.
II IS also the nearly universal testimony That great
many Democratic farmers who were set down ior
Cleveland in the nr>t poll, though 1t was known they
had leanings TO Weaver, have to be classed rs
Populsts." The theory on the first pou was that
most Of them would tack and was safe, there
fore 70 class them Democrats. Ins peasant
derscn Is now dspelled by the poll sent In to the
Democratic state Committee.
The Prohlbl,ionists and the Peoples party furnish
the unknown quantity In all political calculations ior
Indiana this year. The Proh5iuonis;s polled over
10000 votes two year ago, aud about 1900 In 1905.
rhis wear they hope for $4,000 TO 10000 votes and
they say they would not be surprised TO get 4oooo.
The Peoples party puts rs minimum this year Ut
10000 but these figures are not conceded by the OLD
parties. Tie Peoples party Will draw more heavily
from the Democrats
The Republican poll of the state is now complete,
and shows that Indiana Is Republican by at least
1000. That the Democrats will not hesitate 10
purchase votes In Indiana Election Day appears
from a letter received Republican headquarters re-
vealing a Democratic plan 10 perpetrate fraud in
the following manner: Imitation State ballots ara
being prepared at Cincinnati, and from there Will be
distributed Indiana, one or more persons going
TO each precinct IN the state. Upon reaching the
precinct each ballot Will be put in the hands OF
trusted man. who will be concealed In close room,
through the partition of which small SIT VIII Do
made. Democratic agents will purchase the votes
o! hOaters and send the men purchased 10 the place
where the Is concealed. on reaching this place
III n)ater will be given stamped ballot through
the slit In the wall. on receiving II his Instructions
will be to carry It t. the election booth and vote 1t,
bringing away the genuine ballot un>tamped and re-
turning Il through the slit In tho wall 10 the un-
man behind Tn" man concealed them stamps
this ballot and has II reFdy for the next foaer pur-
chlsed and sent in. The scheme lS unique ono,
be successfully carried out under IN" Australian law.
The Republican state Committee has sent out secret
instructions all over the State 20 look out for this
Democratic scheme and TO prevent IL.
In addition assured success the National and
stat" tickets the Republican managers have the figures
10 show that they viii most certainly catch the Ist.
they are Of the With and IXth They have also
hopes Of defeating Bynum In Ibis rhe Win District.
All through the gas belt, which Hes chiefly In the
vlth. Xth ami IXth, the Republican gains will DO
grcS srnan ont Of the Xth District
Chairman Gowdy. OF the Republican state COM
carry tho state by 10000. II the Peop!e's party
polls 25.ooo we'll carry the s'at' by 10000. We
expect to at least seven Congressman. namely:
with fair prospect from the With. and surprises
In politics are always IN order. would not be
pScd At two other districts electing Republican Con-
c1rssmen"