Year: 1876

Franklin and keep her out at sea until
within day or two of the election, and then
the moment she comes into the harbor
astounding disclosures should be flashed
over the country by telegraph, no man OF
sense will believe that they are genuine.
Reports started so late that it would be i'm
possible to investigate and refute them be-
fore the election will be regarded as des-
perate campaign Roorback. and its effect will
be parried by asserting that the Franklin
was kept out at sea for the very purpose of
allowing no space for contradiction. We
doubt therefore, whether a Tweed Roorback
will he started in the hope of damaging Mr..
Tilden. But if it could be expected to have
any effect at all the temptation is very great
when the contest is so close that the change
of even few hundred votes in one State
may decide the fatc of parties for the next
four years.


The republicans may undertake more
promising man9uvre than the circulation Of
a real or pretended disclosure by Tweed
just on the eve of the election. If they are
astute and dexterous enough they can take
the fifteen electoral votes of Indiana away
from Tilden with reasonable chance of
defeating him, or, at least, of preventing
choice in the Electoral Colleges, and
thereby enabling the republican Senate to
elect Mr.. Wheeler Vice President Such a
stra.agem is practicable, because both politi-
cal parties in Indiana are inilationists at
heart, the republicans even more strongly
than the democrats It was the republicans
and not the democrats that attempted to
break down the grecnback party of Indiana
in the State canvass. They confessed that they
had more to fear from it than their opponents.
1t was the republicans who induced Mr..
Wolcott to withdraw just before the close of
the canvass and advise the greenback party
which had nominated him to vote the re-
publican ticket. In spite of the demoral-
izng effect on the rag baby canvass of Mr..
Wolcott's withdrawal at that late and criti-
cal stage Mr.. Harrington, who was suddenly
substituted for him ut the last moment, re-
ceived II, 226 votes or more than twice as
many as were needed for defeating the
democratic candidate. The republicans of
luuluust Gull HitNc Ao IcdSouuoic eApcCthtioi
of giving the electoral votes of the State to
Hayes, but they can take them away from
Tilden by going over in body to the Peter
Cooper ticket. They could have no scruples
of conscience in doing SO, for. no longer
ago than the 22d of February, they declared
for imitation, and demanded tho repeal of
the Resumption act in their State platform.
1t would not go against the grain for the
Indiana republicans to vote the greenback
ticket. They would be quite at home in the
greenback camp. They left it for mere rea-
sons of party expediency, and if they can
promote the interests of their party by going
back to their first and their real love why
should they hesitate? If the republican
vote and the rag baby vote in Indiana had
been united in the recent election they
would have carried the State by much
larger majority than was achieved by the
democrats. BY such union they can take
the State away from Tilden, with some
chance of electing Hayes and almost cer-
tainty of preventing o choice in the Electoral
Colleges if Hayes is defeated. They would
risk nothing by the experiment (the State
being already as good as lost) and in SO
close contest they would have chances of
saving the Vice Presidency, even if they
should fail to elect their candidate for Presi-
dent.