The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-07-23
PENNSYLVANIA ys OHIO DEMOC.
'RAGY


g clep the following comments on th
s campaign in that State from th
N Cleveland Leader:
1t If the result of the political cam
4 paign in Pennsylvania had been q
any time doubtful, every element o
e doubG has been removed by the &C
l. ton of the party state convention il
e selecting their candidates and adopt
n ing their platforms. Unlike thei
brethren in Ohio, the Democrats o
Pennsylvania do not pro Jose to hid
!. their ugly old party hulk under neg
y draperies. They do not appear viii
i ling to take up Union general t,
lead their Copperhead ranks. Thei
I last candidate for governor wa:
b Heister Clymer, the Vallaadlgham
e OF Pennsylvania, and they right,
8 deemed that from him to General
Hancock was TOO wide q step. Sc
they have remained steadtast to the
old traditions and dead issues ol
E half generation ago, and have nom.
mated very good embodiment and
incarnation OF these issues in the
person of Asa Packer, the railway
magnate. There is no "new depar-
, ture'' limited at, either in the nomina-
tions or the platform Of the Pennsyl-
vania Democracy. 1t is the same
bind opponent OF everything like
national reform and progress. Its
platform recites anew the stereytyp
ed platitudes of devotion to the in
terests of caste and oligarchy its
Opposition to the broad and generous
principles of equal rights and equal
Justice for all men. 1t assails, with
characteristic and chronic vehe
mence, the credit OF the government
it failed to destroy through alliance
with armed treason and organized
conspiracy. With purblind conceit
and wilfulness, it refuses to recog-
nize that great war has reorganiz-
ed the institutions Of the country
that its policy has been condemned
by the verdict of history; that the
nation is irrevocably pledged, ty
most solemn obligations, against the
measures it would carry into effect
The platform adopted by the Penn
sylvania Democrats is precisely such
as might have been accepted by the
party before a gun had been fired by
the Southren Confederates, before a
slave had been freed by the federal
government. There is not traitor,
a copperhead, repudiationist, a foe
of human liberty anywhere, who
would feel himself out of place in
standing upon it.
An effort was made by the same
element which in Ohio secured the
nomination of General Rosecrans to
secure the nomination by the De-
pocracy of Pennsylvania of General
Hancock. This would have been u
strong selection had the General
been placed upon var platform. 1t
would have increased the certainty
of defeat had the experiment tried /
al Chicago in 1864, and now being
tried again in this state, of putting a
war candidate an ultra peace plat.
form, been renewed in Pennsylvania.
But General Hancock did not care
to run the risk. He preferred his
honorable place in the army, and the
record of a loyal soldier, to the
probabilities of political defeat
that would have consigned him to
the association in history OF disloyal-
lists and traitors. His letter of alb
solute and unqualified declination
eft the convention without any tim
Der of the patriotic sort, so it fell
back upon the ordinary party re-
put Governor Packer, an
old political hack, at the head of the
ticket, reafiirmed steTeotyped plat
Iorm, originated in the era of south
ern domination and northern dough ,,
aceism.
But the Pennsylvania Democrats
lave succeeded in at least making
heir ticket and their platform con ,
istent. In this they have shown :
superior to the party in !.
ohio. In this state, General Rose
rams is nominated by a party which :
las hated his character and denounc-
d his conduct, to represent a policy !,
lie could not pursue without self :
utilization and a reversal of the !,
and brilliant record made :,
" him as Federal commander.
rhe game of false pretence is so :
'oorly played, and SO transparent in l
Iesign, as TO excite only contempt !"
or its managers. T4e Pennsylvania v
Democrats at least have not made n
his blunder. Determined to aban- =
lon none of their odious and unpop- u u
lar doctrines, they take the chances .
f openly proclaiming their designs, u
nd selecting standard-bearer who >,
J the fitting exponent OF their views. "
Governor Packer is the Pennsylvania =, ~
Ioratio Seymour-like him a sym :. y
athiZer with the south in its rebel u"
on, an enemy to the gOqernment in - ="
s struggle for the Union, and r,
upportcr of all those doctrines y !.
hich have covered the Democratic -
arty with odium and disaster. The :.
latform upon which he has been % u
laced declares anew the pernicious J.,
eresy of repudiation, assails the y
ational credit, denounces the estab- ~
shed and constitutional principle OF - -
egro suffrage, and reaffirms all the ~ ~
ogmas of state rights which have :" ~
cen exploded by war. W. :"