Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — Address of the Indiana Democratic Executive Committee. [ARTICLE]

Address of the Indiana Democratic Executive Committee.

To the Democratic and Independent Voters of Indiana : The result of tho election last Tuesday is a deep disappointment to us all. The extent of the success which the Republican party has achieved in this State is as much a surprise to the Republicans as it is to the Democrats, and proves that a majority of the Republican party were as ignorant of the means which their corrupt leaders were employing as we were. The temporary loss of our State is a calamity that time will enable us to retrieve, but the injury which our free institutions will sustain resulting from the frauds and corruptions practiced by the Republican leaders to secure their triumph is incalculable. The causes which enabled the Republican party to succeed are now plain. The partial success of their scheme to Africanize our State for political purposes ; the corrupt use of money for the purchase of votes ; the importation and use of repeaters protected by Deputy Marshals, and the aid derived by them from the use of the Federal machinery of elections, under the pretense of supervising the election of members of Congress. In the Presidential election, we will not have to encounter these forces to the same extent as in our State election. Their corruption fund will have to be divided among many States; their repeaters will be at home, and those of them who were discharged from the ar> est of Deputy Marshals on straw’ bail will not be likely to make their appearance in our State soon again. We shall have no Federal Marshals or Federal machinery to contend against. We are thoroughly united in our counsels. Whatever our adversaries may say to the contrary is untrue. We therefore call upon you not to relax any of your efforts. Put new life and energy into yonr county and township organization, and take all measures in your power to bring out your full strength to the polls. The same vote polled by us in October, if polled in November, will secure to us the State. The average majority against us at the late election will not exceed 4,000, and may fall below that figure. This majority can, and in our opinion will, be overcome in the Presidential election. A change of three votes will accomplish it. Remember, you have a leader in this contest who never sounds a retreat, and he commands an army that never surrenders. Wm. H. English, Franklin Landers, T. A. Hendricks, Wm. Fleming, J. E. McDonald, J. M. Cropsey, O. O. Stealey, Executive Committee. Jas. H. Rice, Secretary.