Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1877 — Republican GAINS IN iNDIANS- The Party United. [ARTICLE]

Republican GAINS IN iNDIANS- The Party United.

Tbe popular elections which have taken place in this slate within tji® last lew days present some points of general political interest. Tbe fset that Mr. Hendricks, tbe defeated candidate for vice-president, has hhi home here, and that the deptocruoy of this state have been especially noisy in their “war talk,” hep served in some degree to. keep up the popular interest in our state politics created by the summer campaign add the October-election. For some reason or other the opinion seems to prevail tbroughmrtthe country' that tbe democracy in this state are exceedingly will organ ized and very aggressive, and that the republican party is moreor less sh attered and demoralised. Neither of these opinions is correct, and the latter is especially incorrect. The democratic party is not as strong in this state to day »• it was on tho day of the presidential election, while tbe republican party is undoubtedly, stronger. The democracy are making a great deal of noise, but it neither scares nor disconcerts the republicans. On this head the following facts are significant and conclusive:

Witiiin a few days three elections have taken place to fill vacancies in the state legislature—one in Jefferson county, one in Madison and Delaware, and one tis Parke and Montgomery. Id the October election Jefferson county gave a Repub lican majority of 310, Madison gave a democratic majority of 860, Delware a republican majority 1,300, Parke a republican majority of 010, and Montgomery a democratic majority of 133. In the recent senatorial election tl\e republicans carried Jefferson county bySlO majority, and precisely the majority given for Harrison in October; they carried the Madison and Delaware district by 1,700, showing a net republican gain in the two counties of about 1,200 over the Dote* ber vote; and they warned the Parke and Montgomery district by about 360 majority, showing a net repolioan gain since October in tne two counties of nearly 000. The county of {Madison,.which in October gave a democratic majority of 850, now give a republican majority of 170, showing a net republican gain of 1,032, while Montgomery comity, on a square vote between the democratic and republican parties, shows a net republican gain since October of 803. These are very signileswt facta. They prove oonciasiycjjr ifeai th» democratic party in Indiana is not as strong to-day as it waa three mouths ago, and that the republican party is stronger and move united. They prove ftwtlMtr that the rank and file of the democracy do not support the leaders iu their office-seeking crusade and their howl for “Tildeii or war.” The democratic party haa lost the respeet of peaceable* law-abiding men by the fillibutUering course it has pnrmcd, white the republican party has g»i«ed strength add vote* by pursuing an opposite course, and by standing firmly ou the constitution and Jew*. The vote in Madiaoncounty ia especially significant. That baa been considered’a demo* eratio stronghold, and the leader* there have bHSn nMsy and persistent in their howl’ lyr “Tiluen or blood.” The recent el otiou, allowing a net republican gain since October ot 1,032, shew* *h»t the masses aro not with them. It shows, moreover, thst they have not neared nor disconcerted the republicans by their lu** and fury. The same l* iraa of the party throughout <he state. So tar from being demoralised or intimidated by the buccaneering policy of the demoerfcey they are solid as a Stone wall in tb. ; eoWviption that ei lea of the republican party are right, and that tihay.rauet and »baU be mauitaived.-* Jmdinnoftohe Jourpaf. ‘' *■' ’-■« «