The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-16

since developed, at Babcock's trial, have
shown Bristow to be cowardly, truculent,
and willing to allow Grant, Babcock and
Douglas to be guilty of acts which he had
not the williams pluck to commit directly,
himself; so he may be considered out of the
field no,v. Governor Hayes, of Ohio, is
endorsed by 10, Washburne, by 4, Grant,
Fish and Morton, each by 8. Judge
Breese and Harrison, of Indiana, have
each a similar number, while the heredi-
tary aspirant from Massachusetts, Charles
Francis Adams, is earnestly advocated by
the Springfield Republican. Two papers
urge General James B. Eads, thinking,
no doubt, that the engineering skill he
has shown on the Mississippi jetties will
enable him to protect the government
against dangerous currents. The Pits
burg Gazette supports Judge Strong, a
leader of the men who want TO ''put God
in the Constitution" while, for various
other eccentricities, Joe Medill, Senator
Logan, Congressman Wheeler, Judge
Holt, General Sherman, Ex-senator
Ramsey, Ex-Governor Fairchild, of Wis
consin, and General Garfield, (the FIVE
thousand dollar advocate of rotten wood
pavements, while Chairman of the Com
mittee on Appropriations each has a
journalistic admirer. This list is far from
complete, and must yet embrace P. 7.
Barnum, Gen. Babcock, Ben. Butler, Boss
Shepherd and Henry Ward Beecher.
DEMOCRATIC AsPIRANTs.
From all that one can CLEAN in the
Democratic journals, it would appear
equally as difficult, on that side, to take
any mans chances against the field. In
the list, we notice sixteen papers for
Hendricks, eight for Thurman, twenty
seven for Tilden, eight for Bayard, three
for Governor Allen, two for Pendleton,
and two for Black. General Hancock
has three journalistic hackers, and the
Shreveport Times, of La, advocates Ex-
Governor Hoffman, of N. Y. The papers
from which these names are taken come
from all portions of the country. A large
majority are unpronounced. This shows
that public sentiment is still drifting, and
has not yet fixed upon the candidate who
will embody them. Much, entirely too
much, is being left to chance. Even
when State Conventions have declared
themselves for candidates, there is an
apparent want of earnestness, as in Penn
sylvania for Hartranft, and Indiana for
Morton, where, by the way, the Republi-
cans have put forth platform, said to
have been written by Morton, which
straddles very wide on the money ques-
tion, and solemn!y enumerates old and
unassailed doctrines of Magma Charta in
corporated into the Bill of Rights, as if
they were new principles of party action,
or exclusively the property of his party:
Platform building has become an art Of
such delicate workmanship, in which
dexterity of manipulation is so much
more apparent than honest workmanship,
that it is growing out of favor with the
people. They have seen little regard
paid to Particles of faith" in the practice
of parties, and think it as well to abridge
that sort of lying as much as possible.
In Presidential campaign, although
there may be numerous issues of princi-
pie involved, there is always paramount
issue upon which hinges the success of
the party. He is q wise man who dis
Germs what is that paramount issue, and, Sc
lecting his candidate to suit it, gives him
as little other baggage to carry as possible.
THE CAMPAIGN coAiMENcED-eov.H HEN
bricks AND THE GERMANS.
It is gratifying to be able to announce
that the National Democratic Committee,
whose headquarters are in Washington,
is industriously at work, arranging plan
for conducting the campaign. The ad-
dress to the people of Louisiana at the
Agricultural Fair in that State, by Gov.
Hendricks, opens the campaign: 1t is q
matter of deep regret among the many
friends of the distinguished Indianian
that number of leading German politi-
clans and journalists of several States
came to Washington, during the late
meeting of the National Democratic
Committee, to warn the members of that
body, and the Democrats of both Houses
of Congress, that the nomination of Gov.
Hendricks for the Presidency would alien
ate the entire German vote of the coun-
try from the Democratic party. Their
reason for believing this is that the Ger
mans are dissatisfied with the action of
Mr.. Hendricks in regard to the liquor
question in the State of Indiana. They
say that, during the late canvass, in his
speeches and in private, he expressed
himself as opposed to prohibitory or
strict license law, and yet, after his elec-
tion, when the Legislature passed strin-
gent license act, it became law by re-
ceiving his signature. A German who
had been canvassing Indiana in the in
terests of the brewers of the United
States was here at the same time, and
affirmed that Governor Hendricks could
not get dozen German votes in that
State for the Presidency. 1t lis contended
by the friends of Gov. Hendricks that
all these Germans have been unconscious
ly duped by the Republicans, who know
that the Governor would be strong man
before the people, as the Democratic
nominee, and are, therefore, anxious to
kill him off at once. K.