Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — No Clause for Discouragement. [ARTICLE]

No Clause for Discouragement.

Indiana is unquestionably a Democratic State, and our friends must not be discouraged by a reverse which, in the nature of things, must be temporary. At the November election we shall not have to encounter the united strength of the whole Republican party, as we have in this election. In many of the Northern States the Republicans of those States will be fully employed at home. Philadelphia will need all her roughs and her repeaters, and the campaign fund must be divided between twenty commonwealths instead of being turned merely upon one. But, more important I still, we shall not have the fearful machinery of elections to contend with. There will not be imported into the State repeaters and illegal voters, and they protected by Deputy United States Marshals. We call upon our friends throughout the State to consider these plain facts, to take heart like men, and to stand to their arms. Let them move forward to the contest in November with an unabated courage, and an absolute assurance of the victory which awaits us if we do but prove true to ourselves and to our cause.— lndianapolis Sentinel. The effect of Ohio and Indiana in the October election upon the Democracy of the Union will certainly be as invigorating as the effect of Maine in September upon the Republicans. Four years ago the Democratic party lost Ohio and carried Indiana by only 5,000 votes, and still elected a President. The vote of Indiana is not needed to elect Hancock. The vote of Ohio was not expected in order to secure the election of Hancock. If Ohio and Indiana had voted for the Democratic ticket on Tuesday, the Presidential contest would have been ended by common consent. As they did not so vote, the November contest is still open. The Democratic managers East do not accord with the Democratic managers West. Maine and Ohio are recent illustrations. The Empire State furnishes a better illustration. New York was Democratic in 1868, when the passions of the war were hot. There is no doubt that the Democratic electoral ticket will be chosen in New York in November, and New Jersey will vote with New York. No Western .vote, however given, could affect this fact about the vote of New York. The Empire State, that voted for Seymour in 186 A, will vote for Hancock in 1880. New Jersey will vote with New York, and only three more electoral votes are needed to give the Presidency to the hero of Gettysburg.— Cincinnati Enquirer.