New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-06
INDIANA.
fay TELEGRAPH TO THE rR1BuNE.l

INDIANAPOLIS Nov. 1.-THE outlook in Indiana
nj the close Of the last week Of the campaign
IS exceedingly favorable to the Republicans. and
there seems TO be little doubt that they will
carry the State. Estimates differ widely as TO
pluralities these ranging from $4,000 to 25.oO0
on the national ticket and from 10000 to 1000
on the state ticket it being generally conceded
that the Presidential ticket will prove much the
stronger Of the two Both parties are engaged
in earnest work in the close legislative and
Congress districts and the fight is really
trtng there to the exclusion OF everything else.
There are twenty-four close legislative districts
in the State. and several Of these are comprised
within the Ist ard XIIth Congress districts,
thus offering TO the party carrying them almost
certainty of control OF the legislature on joint
ballot and the election Of two Representatives
IN Congress.
The indications are that the Socialists, who are
making an exceedingly active campaign in the
larger cities and in the mining districts. will
increase their vote very largely over four years
ago, and the greater part Of this will come from
the Democrats. The indications also point to
q slump in the free silver vote. notwithstanding
the efforts Of Mr. Bryan 10 hold il IN line.
Evansville. Ind. Nov. 5.-Indiana is safely
Republican by from $1,000 to 10000. More
over, there are evidences of a landslide IN the
Republican direction, but 1T is hardly possible
that Roosevelt's majority will fall below the
figures cited above
by TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUHE.l
Fort Wayne. Ind. Nov. 5.-Briehy stated,
there are several very cogent reasons why 1t
seems likely that Roosevelt and Fairbanks will
carry Indiana by a larger plurality than Nc
Kinley had four years ago-27, 0o0-or than the
State ticket had two years ago, $4,000 The
first is that the farmers are satisfied with the
high prices and shudder at thought of change.
The local Republican managers hear of specific
instances TO this effect in this, the stanchest
Democratic county of the State, every day.
Another reason Is that the wage workers and
the business men remember as If but yesterday
the industrial and trade situation in Cleveland's
second term, and want change. Both bust
ness men and the worlingrnen believe that the
trusts brought Parker out because they found
they could not use Roosevelt.
These are reasons Of the positive, affirmative
sort. sufficient in themselves. even If the Democ-
racy were united and loyal to the leader. But
II is not united and the Indiana voter hestates
to restore the Democratic party TO the Presi-
dency, knowing that by so doing Congress would
also be Democratic. but so split within itself
mat II could hold caucus on any party policy.
Still another reason for believing in a sweep
ing vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks in Indi-
ana is the treatment given the Bryan and
Hearst elements by Tom Taggart the night
before the State convention. Taggart had
agreed to deliver this State to Parker at st.
Louis. and TO do so he forced the adoption Of
the unit rule for the first time in the history of
lhe Indiana Democracy, except where a favorite
son was invOlv1 j. Hearst delegations were
e!ected from the district caucuses and the voice
u The party voters strdngled in a number Of
districts The voters Of the Bryan and Hearst
iOiio|ing believe that Taggart was acting for
belmont and other trust builders. Bryan was
sent 10 Indiana to line them up, but everywhere
ut laced MS declaration that Parker not
d nj man for the Democratic party or any other
party 10 nominate, and IL is not in evidence that
Il" Won back the directors, already thoroughly
Sausled with price and business conditions to
any aPpreciablc extent. On the other hand there
- eN.uehce mat Bryans trip through Indiana
: -sHtehed such Gold Democrats as had been
aLeo by the gold telegram back into the Re
publican party.
as IL looks now Indiana Is as safely Republt-
- 81. as pennsylvania. The only element OF I'M
n talhty is the corrupt use OF money for which
ossaft mas no peer. The laws of Indiana ex-
-,pl the vote buyer and disfranchisc the vote
- ior twenty years, the theory that AZ
80 80 are punished the State cannot secure the
- tsSeHce needed 70 convict, long experience
80 80 SHOWN. Under this new law SIXTY vote
-. ITS were cisfranchised in Montgomery, Conn
tmo years ago. the evidence being a receipt