Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — SUCCESS ASSURED. [ARTICLE]

SUCCESS ASSURED.

Cliairinan liar mini on the Political Outlook. In speaking of the campaign in Indiana, Chairman Barnum, of the National Committee, said to an interviewer the other day : “I am not one who believes in running a campaign on wind merely, and so I seldom say much ; but on this subject I know what I am talking about. We shall carry Indiana without any question. The news I had from Indiana was not satisfactory, and so I determined to go over the ground personally. I did so, and the result, in my mind, is perfectly satisfactory. ” “Is the State well organized ?” “ You would be astonished to know bow thoroughly it has been and is being done. Mr. English is earnestly at work. He is a man of great executive ability, and he is exercising it most effectively. He hires a man for each county, who goes to work as a matter of business and canvasses the county house by house. The position of every voter is put on record, and the information thus obtained is simply a matter of fact. In the cities, like Indianapolis, the canvass is made, not by wards, but by blocks. • One man is assigned to each block, and makes it his business to know just the position of every man in the block.”' “How about the importation of negroes ? ” “The means which we have taken will prevent any of that. Then beside the colored vote will be largely neutralized by the white vote along the river. There has been of late a large demand for white labor along the river and there has been a large increase in the population in the shape of boatmen and men in that line of business.” “ What do you think of the prospects in Maine ? ” “ The news from Maine is highly encouraging. There seems to be no reason why we should not carry the State. The people there are hard at work. They raised a very large sum of money themselves on the start, and have been going ahead all the while.”