New-York tribune., 1879-04-12
CAMPAIGN PLANS AND HOPES.
IN FAVOR OF HANCOCK.

TIE SOUTH DETERMINED TO NOMINATE MAN WHO
CAN wIN-FRANK TALK ABOUT PREsIDLNIIAL
CANDIDATES.
A Southern politician of some prominence,
who objected having his appear In print SAID TO
q TRIBUNE reporter Thursday: " You are all wrong As
10 the Democratic candidate for the Presidency i'll 1850
These Northern Democrats havo got no sense Ihey
don't sec the way the tide is drifting. Now we may be
Rebels down our way, but we are not ID fools We
stndy politics closely Fact Is we haven't much else 10
do Now what do we see In the present ont
looki Why It's plain TO us that the Confederate business
has oycrdOnc. The old loyal element In tho North
is brtstng up and If go IN this way VIII clean
us out again in 1850. Tho North Is getting lighting
mad because thero many Rebel briga-
diers In Congress. and such LOOK OF the
Old Confederacy about the Capital. There are
a few bowling idiots in the South tnat have
made matters worse by printing war-who0ps In the
papers. Now what have got to dot Isn't IL plain
enoughi We must nominate some Union soldier Ike
Hancock. against whose record nobody could say
word We can't carry Tilden through. I'm rather
fond OF tho old man myself; think he's n
statesman OF the old school like to hear him talk
about Jackson and Madison, and all those old buffers
believe he's shrewd and good organizer, too but hes
not the sort Of TO win when the North Is eNcted
against the South Hendricks wouldn't do any better.
either Why I'm told he did nothing during the war Dut
Sit in the Senate and pick flaws in all the war leGlsa-
whom you used TO call COpperheads. He won't do"
Here the Southern gentleman stopped short, and
gancing in the direction OF the hotel bar, suggested
drinks His listener, fearing tho thread OF the DIS
course might not be resumed If subjected TO cOnyyial
interruption, declined, and persuaded him to go on
"Bayard won't do either tell you there's no use OF
talking about any candidate who did not put IN his best
lcks on the Federal side during tho war We've got
10 quiet this excitement which see rising all over the
North We must put up man who was as good soldier
n Grant and strong Union man, or Wen be as badIy
licked as In 1865 when ran HOratO seymour
Wein the South prefer Bayard 10 any other candl-
date After him most Of us would take llendrcRs.
our people don't Tden hut II he could win they
recognize IA logical fitness III nominating hun. MDat VIC
want is 10 win We don't much who the candidate
is II nc can be elected. -,
4" Now you mark my words: When we come to hold
our National Convention the Southern delegates VIII
insist Oh naming candidate that can win We shan ne
beaten everywhere In tho North next Fall and there
no help for it, But by 1880 the storm will have parity
spent its force, the North will find the Confederate
brigadiers are not such terrible fellows after all.
Then we shall nominate Hancock and say, IL
was all partisan clap-trap about our intending 10
oyertuTn the results the You see We have put
mn n big Union General. We don't mean any harm.
Come and vote for him. The Republicans VIII run
Grant He Will be handicapped with all the faults and
odium Of his eight years administration, Whle han
cock will enter the race without any load TO carry