Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1879 — Indiana Threatened. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Threatened.

[Washington Special lo New York Sun.] The Republican managers, who do not feel syre of getting the vote oj New York next year, have planned a campaign to break the Democratic column by a flank movement against Indiana. The scheme proposes to colonize negroes enough in that State with sufficient residence to give them votes to overcome the existing majority. It has been successfully tried in Ohio at several elections, and Mr. Fost< rflhad the benefit of many black patriots imported from Kentucky in his recent contest against General Ewing.. The first installment of this ja Fading force, numbering about 60 negroes from the interior of North Carolina, passed through Washin ton last week on the way to Wayne county,lndiana. They had been persuaded to leave their homes and associations under the|promise of profitable employment; and when they reached the capital they were utterly destitute of means or supplies, and were detained in the cars, which had transported them, for two days, until money was collected to send them forward to their destination. This plan of introducing voters into a dislantcState is encouraged md promoted by the so called Emigrant Aid society, headed by Senator Wind om, which has charge of the exodus business. It was organized to aid the Republican party by appealing to Northern sympathy, under the false pretense that these deluded colored people were driven to seek new homes by denial of their rights But it seems that after enticing them away the originators of the movement leave their victims to starve by the roadside or to depend upon the charity of those against whom it was directed. That political society is now soliciting money through agents in the Northern cities and iuterioi towns, under the disguise of assisting the colored brother to escape from a new form of bondage, when in fact every dollar that does not stick to the tin gers of collectors is to be appropriated to tbe exportation of voters into Indiana aud parts of Ohio for the presidential election. Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, is well qualified for the management of the scheme. The scandal attaching to his first election to the Senate proves him to be a man of enterprise and of much business capacity. He had learned the ropes in the House of Representatives, and when he passed into the close corporation called the Senate, where the Republican managers parcelled out tne spoils by a tacit agreement, it was not difficult for an experienced ecou omist like Mr. Windom to become rich and to set up a grand establishment at Washington on the savings of his salary. With rare exceptions, his associates were nearly all fortunate in following the example of John Sherman,