The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-07
VICTORY OF c. B. LANDIS
HE HAD TO FIGHT INDIANA POPU-
LIsM IN STRONGHOLD.
New Congressman from Ninth District
i'm City-What He Say~ of the Con-
test-GOwdy's Address.

C. 3. Landis. Representative elect from
the Ninth congressional district, is in the
city. His district was the closest of the
thirteen. and was the last to be settled be-
tween the two parties. He had perhaps the
hardest fight of all the congressional can
didates. Mr.. Lands did not know whether
he was elected or defeated until long after
the other twelve districts had been known
to have elected eight Republicans and four
Democrats. He completes the list of nine
Republican Congressman which the Journal
counted upon the day after the election.
n telegraph wires were pretty busy
Wednesday night, and it was almost i'm
possible for Mr.. Lands TO communicate
with the chairmen of the county commit
tees in his district. Information reaching
him at Delphi and that reaching this city
concerning the situation in the district, was
very meager The result was known to be
close. but nothing satisfactory could be
heard from Fountain county.
Mr.. Lands was the Republican nominee
in the Old Tenth district two years ago.
and would have been easily elected in the
Republican landslide of that year had he
remained in the race. He withdrew. how
ever, in the interest OF harmony, dispute
having arisen over the convention. AMI DR..
Hatch was nominated and elected. Mr..
Lands is the editor and proprietor of the
Delphi Journal, an influential weekly paper.
He made many friends in his party by his
conduct two years ago. Last fall he was
invited to deliver a number of addresses in
Ohio during the gubernatorial campaign
between Bushnell and Campbell, and TO
him is due a part of the credit for the I'M
precedented plurality by which the State
Ohio the work of Mr.. Lands,
and this year sent several noted speakers
into the Ninth Indiana district to assist in
Mr.. Landis's election. Mr.. Lands said last
night in speaking of the campaign:
THE new Ninth district has been recog-
niZed as the center of Populism in In
diana for two years. There were 200 Pop
ulist votes cast in the district in 1894 and
Lee Prohibition votes. and three-fourths OF
this latter element favored free silver. Mr..
Chcad e's nomination by the Democrats and
POpulists on a free-silver platform drew TO
his support the Democrats, Populists. Pro-
hibitionists and free-silver Republicans.
The combination was a powerful one-waS
a fusion that fused-and the people of the
Ninth district will testify that they never
had a warmer or more exciting campaign.
The meetings were simply immense. in
few instances were the halls large enough
to conmo the people,"
In what counties was the free-silver SEN
timent STRONGEST"
III SAAiAtOAis DOOAiC oAA 1870
of Republicans were swept from their
moorinSS early i'm the campaign and many
OF them never got back. The ~!ierutli6ans
douS odds. and now that the contest Is over
and the field can be surveyed L an sur
prised that the Democratic m5jori:ies were
kept down as they were. The Republicans
worked day and night for months, hGhtinT
the heresy as they would have fought the
spread of prairie fire, and they peat II back
and stamped it out until Oh election cay /:
was mild compared to what II was In Jrly
and August"
Was there any considerable sound
money Democratic vote iii your districI?'
Yes, indeed. Without such a vote 1
| would have been badly defeated. i. repre-
the Democratic party in the Ninth district,
and / var 10 say that but for the sound
money Democrats the Republicans would
not have been in the campaign at any
stage. Had this free-silver heresy been sup
ported by the brains and money that
@ SaShdd ba the s Remof Bsysn i Papt yhe IN pr, lss2 al
tial chair. We could not have stemmed the
tide. 1t would have been IRRESISTIBLE"
Hamilton county stood by you nobly,'
was suggested.
"Grandlv. The Republicans Of that coun-
ty never put up such a fight: Every Re
| went to work Indeed. this can be said OF
| every county in the district. Montgomery,
Upton and Carroll had splendid organiza-
tons, and fought the many-sided Combina-
ton with desperation. TIE Democrats of
Carroll made the most malicious and vim
| dictive fight i'm their history, and this is
saying a great deal. They placed the boy
colt on sound-money Democrats, flooded
| the county with anonymous letters agains;
4 me. and Wednesday. when it looked as if
1 were defeated, they congregated on the
streets and indulged in exhibitions of
'ghoulish glee' that would have done credit
to a band of Apache warriors. They pant
ed for my scalp. They howled FOR Cheadie.
He had abused them so unmercifully he
quite won their alteration"
lis there any evidence of an improve
\ mant of business ND YOUR WaYv'
Indeed, there is. Business men look
happy and are preparing to sell goods. Our
| banks are passing out gold over their coun-
tiers and some of the most rampant free
silver fellows are confidentially informing
US that they have about mace up their
minds that free silver was not exactly the
thing, after ALL"