Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
OLYMPIA. WASHINGTON TER.
FRIDAY, JUNE %, 1850.
The Democratic Nominations.

The choice of tn. Cincinnati Con-
yention has fallen upon one OF the
most distinguished and gallant men
of the nation-Gen. Winfield Scott
HaLcook. Although the preference
Of a large proportion OF the party
were very naturally for Mr.. Tilden,
whose election would have been the
most signal rebuke to the managers
of the Infamous electoral commits
sion: by which he was cheated QUITO!
a fair expression of the popular WILL
still no man whose name has been
brought before the people, would
receive more cordial, united or de-
termiued support than Gen. Han.
cock. Nor will this support lie con-
fined to his own party. His war re-
cord will stand the test of the most
exacting scrutiny, while his personal
characters untarnished by the slight
est breath of evil report. MIR. Han
cock is n Pennsylvania by birth, a
native of Montgomery county and
Sc years of age. He graduated at
West Point in the class Of 1874, and
served as Lieutenant in the Mexican
war of 1861, after which he was
employed several years in Missouri.
He was appointed a Brigadier- Gen
eral of Volunteers in 1861 and served
with distinction in the army of the
Potomac in the Spring of 1862. He
took part in the battle of Autie'am,
i'll September, of that year, and
when Gen. Richardson was killed in
that engagement. succeeded him as
commander of division. which he
directed at Fredericksburg, in De-
ce,nber of that year. He command
ed q corps at the battle of Gettys-
burg, July LIST, I'd and 81, 1865,
where he was wounded. In the
Spring of 1864 he commanded the
second corps of the army of Gen.
Grant. His command captured
nearly 1000 prisoners and twenty
pieces of cannon at the battle fought
near Spotsylvania Courthouse, on
tie l2sb of May, 1864. He was pro-
Mo;ed to the rank of Brigadier. Gen
eral Of the regular army in August
Of that year and In. May, 1865, be-
came came "a Maj or-GeDeral. In the
Summer Of 1867, bio was ap-
pointed commander OF the fifth
military district, comprising Houis-
lana and Texas. he resigned that
position in March, 1853. He is now
in command of the Department of
the East, Military Lewiston of the
Atlantic, with headquarters on Gov
errors Island, in New York Harbor.
In the National Democratic Con-
vention of 1868, be received one
hundred and forty-.our and a half
woes as a candidate for the Presi-
dencv.
James Z. English, the nominee
for Vice President, was born in New
Haven, Connecticut. in 1912. He
engaged, in early life in mercantile
pursuits i'll which business he con-
tinued up to 1883, and subsequently
directed his attention extensively to
manufacturing interests. In that
aud the succeeding year he served
as member OF the State Legislature,
,bsequently declining reelection.
He was a member Of the 9th and
18Th Congresses, serving on important
committees, a delcg ate to the Phila-
delphia NItioual Union Convention
in 1866 and was elected Governor of
connecticut for the term ending in
1869. He was reelected in 1870,
blt counted OUT by the General
Assembly, and Marshall Jewell, the
Republican nominee declared elected
by an even hundred votes out of an
aggregate poll Of "a $50.
The Democratic nominations give