Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1878 — HOOSIER POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER POLITICS.

The Outlook as Viewed by a Cincinnati Enquirer Correspondent Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 7,1878. The Republican still-hunt is, in my opinion, a bug-bear, which is about ihe thinnest capital ti at a campaign was ever run upon. The party started in the campaign with an acknowledgment of partical defeat—that is, (hat they expected to lose the State ticket, and their chances have been waning ever since. I have no doubt but that sum of the leaders, includ-

ing Judge Blair, the Chairman of the State Central Committe?, are actually deceiving themselves, which sounds very much like the little boy who sat in the comer and indulged iu self-ap • plause. This still-hunt means a hunt where there is no game for the hunters and they know it. and it now see*s farcical that any one should-ever have thought it amounted to anything.— The party started out with a key-note from General Harrison to the effect any man who did not believe in gold basis was “an idiot,” but as soon as they saw the effect such a declaration would have they fbrced<the little General to explain that he really didn’t mean anybody, but that the expression was a figure of speech, as it were. Of course this is a little humiliating to the man his party has put forward as their man for the Senate, should they carry the Legislature, for Ben is honest, even if he doesn’t know much of politics, and, left to his own volition, would still insist that the populace ought to be in the lunatic asylum. The fact is t General Harrison has learned that the managers are greater than he, and he understands from that, as fhey have put hi:n forward as their representative and Senatorial cand.date, he must come inside the traces aud obey the Iriver, and he is doing it. Two years ago Major Gordon said of Gordon said of General Harrison: “If he should be elected Governor he will, no doubt, make a good one; but no one will ever get to see him unless he can be introduced by two Presbyterian Elders and have them vouch for him.”

He has passed that point now, and, for a man seeking Senatorial honors, does the hand shaking business well. As I said before, he has the honesty to believe in himself and his own conclusions, and he must mourn the harsh fate which makes him kneel before the managers, whose tricks he despises and whose walks in life are entirely outside of the wall which he has built around himself. “A party without organization ”is what a former Republican manager said of his party to me at Lafayette yesterday. “The trouble with our fellows at Indianapolis is that they sit down with asinine serenity at home, and when a little hurrah is to be gotten up Judge Blair comes out and shoots off his mouth, and then rushes bacK and tells the other fellows that it s all right in that county, when if he could see just beyond his nose h ’ would know that things are all wrong. Why, the fact is we’ll have h—)l in this county. The party’s all split and torn up. Part of our local candidates are anything out what they should be in character, and nearly half of our voters are dissatisfied, and yet those fellows over there say: ‘Lay low, boys; we’re on a still hunt.’ Well, they will find it so d—d still that Democracy will waltz away with the offices.”

It is uow plainly apparent that the officers do not know details, and they can uot learn them, for the county organizations are imperfect. They have no canvass made; they insist that the Nationals are drains upon the Dem ocr.itic party, * * • The Democracy, on the other hand, are in good shape. With but three trilling exceptions, I do not know of any divisions in any part of the State, ami iu neither of these instances will the general result be affected in the least, either for the State or Congress. Colonel Shaw, the Chairman of the State Central Committee, is a soldier, and he is organizing his forces as only a soldier cun. Heandhis Adjutant Jim Rice, are at work late and early. I met Col. Shaw to-day, and asked him: “How are you shapingup, Colonel?” “Never better,” was his answer. “You know I have had some hand in Indiana politics since the war, and I tell you the Democratic party never was in such good shape before. Our majority in the State will range away up to war i 20,000.”

“But how about the Legislature?” “I have no doubt now. We will have a majority of not less than three on' a joint ballot, and, of course, a majority in both Houses, though I think we will have but one spare vote in the Senate, but the Lieutenant Governor is on our side. Then there may be a number of Nationals elected, and in the main they will act with us.”

The canvass of Senator Voorhees is the grandest ever made in the State. This being his third general canvass of Indiana, and the two previous having given the State to his party, he has come to be looked upon as the one upon whom all the labors of ?ucc<ss should fall. Until this canvass he has had no prospective personal interest interest in the result, but this time he has, and he is doing as much to earn ic as Caesar did in his campaigns in Gaul to win victory. And he who attends his meetings will soon see that he has the legions behind him to carry him through the fighj.

A Woman’s Greenback Club wan formed in New York on Wednesday evening, seven ladies attending the initiatory meeting. One of the speakers spoke of the necessity of having women interested in every great work of reform, especially one pjomote the happiness of workingmen by giving them plenty of greenbacks. For this end the club would work, and it would insist upon its members attending primary meetings in the hope that they may finally bh made eligible to office. It would also furnish women speakers for the coming campaign, and this would give a new attraction to the canvass. One hundred years of men’s government had brought to the country to a condition that needed no comment, and it was high time for women to take the reins.

Now plant your fall advertisements. Schuyler Colfax has read his bible through twenty one times.—Ex. The divorced wife of a Danbury man is the hired nurse of his second wife’s baby.