Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1878 — The Canvass in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

The Canvass in Indiana.

There is literally no money being used in the canvass, and the parties are unable to distribute political documents in any great quantity. There being no national contest, ’and the is ues being purely of a financial and business character, they are not; such as to awaken a deep feeling among the people. It will not, therefore, be surprising if there is not a full vote polled. The business men of Indiana have, however, a peeuliar interest +n the coining election, and if they neglect that interest thev will only have themselves to blame. The issues are being fully and intelligently discussed, both 011 the stump Rad by the press. There will, before the close of the cuhvnss, have been meetings held and .speaking done by both parties in every school district in the state, nnd every man will have had an opportunity to hear tho issues presented. There has been no canvass made since the organlzaitlon of the republican pttuty in which the republicans were more clearly ami distinctly in the right, and thedemocrats more radically and distinctly in the wrung, than in this. The republicans of Indiana have, after many years of vacillation and doubt, assumed a position on which they nre ns sure to prevail in the end as that tlje government endures,, democrats have, on th# other hand, ,undertaken to prevail by coquetting withdoctrines and combinations that must carry them down, and that speedily. The republicans nre not yet all in earnest in supjiort of these doctrines; t|iey are growing more unanimous wit h each returning week. We have now less thin twenty days in which to complete the canvass.' We have a’lfew specific; appeals to moke, and’ vineerely ■ trust republicans Will heed them. They nre thesfe: First, let no business mart fail to exert every influence in his power, front.; infw iiutil the day of the election, to in-erea-e the-reptrblietHv vote; secund let no man induce you, under nny pretense, or by any appeal, to siy-ateJi yu> name upon the republican ticket; third, let every republican in the state set himself to work to procure uno vote ibr the ticket between now and the election; fourth, let no republican, from any cause, fail to ba at the election and vote. Wu say to the republicans of Indiana, in conclusion, if you fail in the coming contest it will be on account of your own apathy and indifference. — India' »•<polis Jvui’nalt ;