The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-07-29
General Hancock.

A St. Louis correspondent of a
Northern paper gives an account
of a formidable movement among
leading Democrats of Missouri, IT.
respective of former antecedents,
to bring forward General W. s..
Hancock as the next Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. At
the head of this movement are
such leading men as Elk Senator
Polk, who served in the Confeder
ate army, and Samuel I. Glover,
the head of the st. Louis bar, who
was always q Union Democrat. 1t
is also claimed that Governor
Brown and Senator Schurz would
support Hancock if the Radicals
should persist in running Grant
for a second term.
1t would be an easy matter to
secure the Missouri delegation to
the National Convention for Han
cock, and it is certain that the cleo
toral vote OF the State will be cast
for the Democratic candidate.
whoever he may be, even without
the assistance of Schurz, Brown
and the liberal Republicans. Han
cock married in st. Louis and
spent much of his time there while
young officer in the United
States Army. Besides being pop
pular, socially the people of Mis-
souri, have a high admiration of
his military capacity and of his
civil and administrative abilities
as shown by his conduct of affairs
in Louisiana at 4 most critical pc
Rod. His Missouri friends have
put forward u pamphlet contain
ing full statement of his claims,
and efforts are making to gain
over leading men in other parts of
the country. 1t is said that the
recent able article in the Mobile
Register was inspired at ST.
Louis.
General Hancock, while COM
handing at New Orleans, endear-
ed himself to the people of the
State of Louisiana, by his able and
humane course in the administra-
ton of affairs in the department.
The delegates to the National Con
vention from Louisiana cast their
votes for him in 1868, and if a
Convention were held to day he
would doubtless be the favorite of
the Louisiana Democracy over
any other man in the party.
Among other things which tend
to give prominence to the candi-
dacy of General Hancock at this
time, is the admitted necessity of
so shaping the course of the De-
mocracy in the next campaign as
to secure either the State of Penn
sylvania or Ohio. A Democratic
victory without one of them is
scarcely probable. though not
impossible. OF those two Penn
sylyapia is the most reliable and
will be the easiest to carry. Now,
General Hancock, who claims
Pennsylvania as his residence, is
! immensely popular in that State,
and would secure the votes OF
many war Democrats and Conserv.
alive Republicans, who would
hardly cast their votes for any
other Democratic candidate. The
Pennsylvania election next Octo
Der will, therefore, have an impor
tant bearing on the nomination Of
the next candidate.
We have stated before that we
would be perfectly willing to see
the South abstain altogether from
4 sending delegates to the next Ma
tional Convention. We are will
ing to trust the Northern DemOc
racy with nominating candidate
and are more than willing tina
one should be taken who is per
fectly acceptable to them. w
believe that nothing should re
commend a candidate so much a
availability, as we are going int
the next campaign to win, regard
less of all other considerations
If, however, ability, and availabil
ity should unite in the candidate
} as they would in the candidacy Q
, Hancock, the Democracy of th
South would have abundant re;
: sons for giving him their supper
Il AIerondria Democrat.
The Memphis Appeal calls tb