The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-19
INDIANA is SAFE
HOOSIER STATE WILL GIVE MKIN'
LEY an IMMENSE PLURALITY.
So Saws . Man DirecI From Indianapolis
Who is in q Position to Knoxville Puts
the Plurality for Protection and Sound
Money at 4o,OoO-Democrats Have No
Sinews to Wage the War of silver With
They are a Little Short on Brains Also
-Something About the Working of
Australian Ballot.

/ SoASes
Indiana VIII give Mckinley a plurak-
ty Of forty thousand votes" said W. E
Shilling of Indianapolis yesterday.
Mr.. Shilling is recorder Of Marion
county and he is in position TO know
what he is talking about. He is visiting
some friends in this county and saw
/ Wichita yesterday under the escort of
Mr.. Z. T. Allen, president of the COM
bined Mckinley clubs.
The money question cuts no figure in
Indiana, them" suggested the reporter.
| 1T cuts very big figure" said Mr..
| Smiling. SO much so that Marion
county VIII give $500 plurality for Nc
| kinney and sound money. The people OF
Indiana want q good honest dollar and
they want, especially. a chance to earn
| it Some people think Mckinley VIII
carry the state by $1,000 but we are
all satisfied TO leave it at 10000 The
Democrats have no greater snow for
| carrying Indiana than the Republicans
have for carrying Colorado. They lack
the organization and they lack the cam
pafgn funds The men who have been
| contributing are for gold and they
are not giving anything 10 the cause Of
silver. Il takes money and brains 10
carry Indiana and the Democratic or
ganizstion has neither this year"
How does Indiana compare with Ill
inois?''
Indiana is absolutely safe for the
Republicans and 1 presume Illinois is
! reasonably safe. but it is pretty hard
TO trust the rough element in Chicago.
They are liable 10 vote for Altgeld and
for Bryan"
How are the rural districts IN In
diana?'
The state has a strong Mckinley sen
timent an over. The people there want
Notwithstanding to stimulate in
dlistries, and they know that Mckin-
ley stands for that. If the people are at
work and earning money you will hear
no more about the silver craze unless
the Democrats keep d. alive for the pur-
pose of keeping their party alive. They
can't do II, for when people are busy
they are not going TO listen TO croakers
and calamity howfers.
Under what system do the people
vote?"
They vote under the Australian BAL
lot law. There is no law, however, that
canOnt be evaded. and il is by no means
impossible TO have a dishonest election
under that system. I do not mean by
this that it VIII be dishonest this year,
for the Republicans have control of the
polls this year and hence an honest bal
lot is assured
How can the ingenuity OF an Indian
an beat the Australian ballot law?''
Easy enough. For instance, you are
running for Office and you promise 10
pay a man 81 if he votes for you. You
arrange it with one of the clerks and
the rest is easy. Make the man you
bride call the clerk to assist him in MAX
ing out your ballot. The clerk sees
whether he votes for you or not If he
does the clerk will nod his head to you |
and when ne goes out you give him
his 81
There is another way that IS Still |
easier. If you want to buy votes all !
You have to do IS TO get a sheet of paper |
the same size and fobd it exactly as the |
ballot is folded Then you want 10 |
sign the name of the county clerk at the |
bottom Of It exactly as he signs 1t. Get
some friend Of yours 10 go in and vote. |
When he gets the regular ballot he |
wants TO put that in his pocket and vote l
the blank. BY this means YOU come |
in possession of a regular blank ballot /
Then, for instance, If you want to bribe |
John Smith TO vote for you you make /
out this blank ballot as You want him TO /
vote it, and send him into the booth. /
When he votes he brings out ths hank /
ballot the judges give him and upon re- |
ceipt OF this you give him his 81. You |
can use the blank ballot thus received |
for the next man. and so on indefinitely |
until the polls close
I'VE have a peculiar condition Of af- /
fairs in Indiana now and no one party |
viii succeed itself in the municipal gov
eminent OF Indiana for the next ten
years. The legislature gave the mayor /
such absolute one-man power that each /
administration goes out with such odi- |
UNI attached 70 it and the party IL rep
ressntS that the oppoS ton is sure to be /
elected.
Mr.. Shilling brought r. T. Allen the
news that his uncle has been nominated 4
for judge and that he is sure OF an cleo