The Portland Daily Press

INDIANA.
Fears of Trouble on Election Day.
THE STATE OVERRUN WITH DEMOCRATIC
ROUGHS AND REPEATERS.

Washington, Oct. 8. Private despatches received here from Indiana are of an exciting character, and foreshadow possible bloodshed on election day. Roughs, repeaters and bullies of all sorts are arriving in large numbers from Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York, and detectives are constantly employed to keep watch of them. The intensity of feeling is said to be very much greater than it was four years ago, and the corruption fund is large.

Yesterday William H. English, Democratic candidate for Vice President, supplied the Democratic treasury with an additional contribution of ten thousand dollars, and the Democrats are now said to have a surplus at Indianapolis of fifty thousand dollars, which is to be given to-morrow to the Democratic managers in the smaller country districts, especially in the Democratic strongholds, with a view of increasing as much as possible the Democratic majorities there. English, in handing in his ten thousand dollars, is said to have stated "that there will be more if necessary."

Eastern Democratic managers are not satisfied with English's contributions, and telegrams for additional sums to be transmitted by telegraph have been made upon parties in New York.

Meanwhile United States Marshal Dudley has employed a large corps of assistants to see to it that the federal laws are not violated and that fraudulent voters do not succeed in violating the ballot. Dudley, who is a one-legged soldier, is said to be the bravest citizen of Indiana, and the Democrats understand that he will do his duty. He proposes to lodge as many of the Eastern plug-uglies and Kentucky repeaters in the penitentiary as possible.

The Greenbackers still claim that they will poll a vote something like forty thousand. The Republicans do not admit that the Greenbackers will poll more than ten thousand. The Democrats are evidently making large bids for the Greenback vote, and are circulating stories there, on the authority of Barnum, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, that the leading Greenback organs in the country are recommending fusion in Indiana. This story was circulated yesterday with respect to the National View, the Greenback organ of this city, it being reported in Indiana that Barnum had purchased the controlling interest in it. This the owners and managers of the View here indignantly deny, and the View, in an editorial in its next issue, will denounce the report and urge the Greenbackers to stand by their ticket.