Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1878 — Maine and Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Maine and Indiana.

On one account we are glad the Maine election resulted as it did. We do not mean to say we are glad the Republicans failed to carry the State, although their failure to do so is far more honorable under the circumstances than the success of their opponents. The Republican party has Jost an election, but has maintained its honor, organization and prestige; the combined Democrats and Nationals have partially won an election at the cost of everything else. Those who regard politics as merely a series of schemes to secure temporary success will say the Democrats and Nationals have achieved a triumph; but those who regard the preservation of political principles arid party organization as of anv account will say they have suffered a disastrous defeat. But, putting this phase of the question aside, we repeat we are glad on one account that the election resulted as it did. It has shown the Republicans of Indiana precisely what they have to do. Their work is now cut out for them. They have to beat the combined forces of the Democrats and Nationals. The result in Maine shows - that these parties have “pooled their issues,” to use the language of one of their leaders. In Maine the Greenbackers swallowed the Democracy. In this State each party is trying to swallow the other, the "only question being which has the biggest maw and the most accommodating stomach. It matters little which succeeds. Each is willing •to swallow or be swallowed, as circumstances may seem to require. So far as the Republican party is concerned, it is of no consequence whether the Democracy swallow the Nationals or the Nationals the Democracy. The Republican party has got to fight them both, and we do not hesitate to say that in our deliberate judgment it can whip them both. We do not mean that it can whip them in the long run, for of that there is no doubt whatever. The ultimate triumph of the Republican party over the combined elements of dishonesty, inflation and repudiation is assured beyond the possibility of a doubt. But we do not refer to the final outcome. We say the Republicans of Indiana can beat the combined forcesof the Democrats and Nationals this year. They not only can, but jirilh—Jheywould do it if the -election wereto take place to-morrow, and they will do it far more certainly in October. Every day that passes the Democratic party in Indiana is becoming more demoralized and the National party is losing strength. Every day that passes the Republican party is, gaining ground and votes. It has not been mas good shape for many years past as it is day in respect of organization, effectiveness of party machinery and harmony and hopefulness of feeling. All that is necessary to insure a Republican victory in the State is to bring out a full Republican vote. Indiana is a Republican Stbte, and nothing cap prevent it being so recorded in Odtober except apathy on the part of Republicans themselves, or fraud on the part of their opponents. The Maine election, by showing them, preoisely what they have to do, should, and we believe will, spur them to greater efforts in the caupe of honest money and good government. The Republican party in Indiana is much stronger than if it Eatidered to the Greenback craze. The democratic party is all the weaker for having done ao7 If Republicans do their duty they can gloriously beat the hybrid combination opposed to them. —lndianapolis Journal. ——. * i— • The most notorious girl; of. the period is now known as Em Bezzle,