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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-23
HANCOCK AND MCCLELLAN.
The Alleged Proposal for the Army to
March Upon Washington and De-
pose Lincoln and stanton.

Ihe Alleged proposal for the Army to
March Upon Washington and De-
pose Lincoln and Stanton.
[From the Buffalo Express.]
In yesterdays Express there was a
brief editorial comment upon q state
ment from the Baltimore american
touching the loyalty of Gen. Hancock at
the most critical emergency of the war.
The Express is able to furnish some In
formation which tends to corroborate
the americans statement. A gentle
man residing in this city was q member
of Butterfeld's old staff, serving at the
Fifth corps headquarters when the order
was promulgated relieving Gen. Nc
Clellan from the command of the Army
Of the Potomac. This gentleman re-
members probably can never forget
the intense excitement and dissatisfac-
ton that prevailed among McClellan's s,
friends and admirers, numbering, in
fact, nearly the whole OF that army.
Many of the officers of the staff and line
met at headquarters, and there was
great deal of wild talk among them.
Gen. Hancock used the most violent
language. He said that the people
ought to hold indignation meet
ings in every town and hamlet, and
pass resolutions denouncing Lin
coin for removing Mcclellan, and
demanding his restoration to the
command. Stimulated by Hancock's
conspicuous example, some of the
younger officers were loudly in favor of
doing all sorts of rash things. They
wanted leader who would march the
army to Washington, depose President
Lincoln, and drive Congress out Of the
two houses. The threatened insubor-
dination became so imminent that Gen.
Burnside, who superseded Mcclellan,
was reluctantly obliged to take notice of
it. He was heard to say that, while he
regretted the change, and deemed Gen.
Mcclellan much better fitted for the
command than himself, he should leave
staff officers at those headquarters with
orders to arrest any one who should
utter any more such reasonable senti-
ments. One arrest was made. Such
was the open talk at headquarters.
Gen. Hancock's extreme partisanship in
McClellan's behalf was not disguised.
But whether all this infamnlatory public
language was followed by regular
council of the leading officers who were.
McClellan's friends is more than our in
formant can say. It is very likely.
Certain it is that the revolutionary pro-
gramme sketched in the Anaericoaa's
statement, and attributed to Hancock in
the alleged council, is identical with
what was loudly threatened at the regu-
lar meeting Of officers at which our
friend was present.
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water-courses and harDors wherever the general

g.
water-courses and harbors wherever the general
interests Of commerce require
Four years ago, as now the nation stood on
the threshold Of Presidential elections the
Republican party, in soliciting continuance Of its
ascendency, founded its hope of success not
upon its promises, but upon its history. It's
subsequent course has beensu as to strengthen
claims which it then made to the confidence
and support of the country.
On the other hand considerations more ur-
gent than have ever before existed forbid the
accession OF its opponents to power. Their
success, If success attends them, must chiefly
come from the united support of that section
which sought forcible disruption of the Union,
and which, according to all teachings of our
past history, will demand ascendency in the
councils of the party to whose triumph it will
have made by far the largest contribution.
There is the greatest reason for apprehen-
sion that exorbitant claims upon the public
treasury, by no means limited to the hundreds
of millions already covered by bills introduced
in Congress within the past four years, would
be successfully urged if the Democratic party
should succeed in supplementing its present
control of the National Legislature by electing
the Executive ALSO.
There is danger in intrusting the control Of
the whole law-making power of the Govern
ment to a party which has in almost every
Southern State repudiated obligations quite as
sacred as those to which the faith of the nation
now stands pledged.
do not doubt that success awaits the Repub-
lican party, and that its triumph will assure
just, economical and patriotic administration
am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
TO Hon. Geo. F. Hoar President of the Republican
National Convention
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-23
The Hancock Plan.

IF Gen. Hancock should be elected he
would probably have Cabinet, and it
is likely that a good many new appoint
ments to Office would be made-very
likely. 1t would be interesting then to
see the Hancock plan of running Gov
eminent, as embodied in the Generals
extraordinary communication to Gen.
Sherman in 1877, put into operation on
large scale. The reader will hardly
have forgotten that this plan involved,
not the subordination of the military to
the civil power, but the subordination
of all power to subordinates, including
the right Of Major General to start a
revolution whenever one of his political
friends calls on him for troops, and to
give his superiors notice that he will
obey them or not, as he pleases. The
Tribune, with that prophetic eye which
islto be found among the apparatus Of
every first-class newspaper, is able to lay
before its readers specimens of the Off
-cialu correspondence which would take
place if.Gen. Hancock should be elected:
! Secretary Of War William F. Smith
forwards to President Hancock the fol-
lowing dispatch from Mai. Gen. Boum !:
Have just received your order to proceed
against the Sioux with all possible haste 1t is
due to you that you should be apprised what
my position is in this matter. will, therefore,
say that I consider it much easier not to do
anything Of the kind, and that propose to stay
where / am. For precedents sustaining my
course, consult President Hancock. He knows
how it is himself. Ta-ta Yours,
MAJ. GEN. BoUM.
/ But this is not circumstance to the
following letter, written by Attorney
General Jeremiah s. Black to the Hon.
Morrison r. Waite, Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court: m
l have observed your decision in the case Of
Smith against Brown. It is due to you that you
should be appraised what my position is in this
matter. I will, therefore, say that I consider
the decision bad law, and want it revoked at
once. 1t upsets half dozen of my opinions
and is confoundedly inconvenient. Please read
up a little more carefully on my opinions.
This. is enough to make President
Hancock himself stare, but what will he
say when he sees one of his over-zealous
imitators writing as follows to the Chair
man OF the Appropriations Committee of
the House of Representatives
DEAR SIR: see that Congress, following
your lead, has appropriated only 100000 for
this Department. i want $4,000, 600, and I'm
going to have it. / shall draw on the treasury
for the money, and Secretary Wallace will pay
it. He and l have had little dicker on the
subject. Yours, WILLIAM H. BARNUM
Postmaster General.
/ The following from Secretary of State
John Kelly, addressed to Sir Edward
| Thornton, British Minister, explains it.
self:
DEAR SIR What you say about the treaty Of
Washington amuses me. We aren't keeping
treaties much now. We're running this Gov
eminent on the Hancock plan, which means
that all of US can do what we darn choose. Re-
ceiye, sir, the assurances, etc.
JOHN KELLY, Secretary of State.
?. S.-The I2ibune's prophetic eye
also clearly discerns that Gen. Hancock
will not be elected But the moral
is Just the same -NeU York Tribune.
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THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
Highly Encouraging Reports from
Various Sections.


Highly Encouraging Reports from
Various Sections.
Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune.l
Letters received at Republican head
quarters here contain a good deal of In
teresting political information. which is
perhaps more valuable as none of it was
written for publication.
Winfield s. Bird, Chairman of the Re-
publican Executive Committee Of the
Sixth district of Alabama, writes from
Eutaw: "We have opened an active
campaign in this district, to unite and
solidify the Republican vote in the Au-
gust election, and will then hold it well
in hand for the November election. We
have every prospect of fair election
and fair count in our section, and will
poll 1900 Republican majority in this
county"
Senator Baldwin writes from Detroit !:
The work has commenced in Michi-
gan. Many Garfield and Arthur Clubs
have already been formed, and steps are
being taken for an active campaign
A leading Republican of Chicago says
that the State of Illinois will be carried
by the usual majority, and that Con-
gresham will be gained in Stevenson's
district.
Ex-senator Boutwell,. of Massachu-
sets, is here on brief visit He thinks
the political outlook is very bright for
the Republicans, and has no sort Of
doubt but what Garfield and Arthur will
be elected. he says there is no danger
of Massachusetts going on the wrongside,
and feels confident that New York will
fall in line with the Republican column
in November. Judge Porter, of Indiana,
leaves for home tonight. He says the
advices which have reached him from
his State are of the most cheerful char
acter that the Republicans are united
and thoroughly organized, and he has
no fear but what they will carry the
State in October and again in November.
New York Cor. Chicago Tribune.1
The National Committee-rooms to-
day were in charge Of Col. Hooker, in
the absence of Chairman Jewell and
Secretary Dorsey. The volume of cor
respondence is increasing. Letters come
in from all sections, and represent the
Republicans as making more than their
usual preparation for active work. A
letter received to-day from Indiana was
filed with glowing accounts of the
spirited manner in which the Republi-
cans are entering into the contest. They
are all confident of success, and declare
that Indiana will give better account
of herself than for many years.
From the interior of New York, par
ticularly the northern counties, the ac-
counts are encouraging, and the degree
of interest is indicative of thoroughly
wide-awake condition of the party.
In New Jersey the Republicans say
they will give their opponents hard
shaking up.
Advices from Vermont state that bust
ness-men there who have not taken an
active part in politics for years are now
doing SO, as they say they want to retain
in power the party that has led the
country out of it's financial difficulties in
spite of the shiftless Democratic Con-
gross. They don't want any change of
policy, and will work as business men
against the Democrats.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-23
JUDGE POLAND ON GEN. GARFIELD.

The Credit MObilier Charge Again.
The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press says
that the Hon. Luke P. Poland has
written the following reply to letter
from ex-Gov. Ryland Fletcher, Of that
State:
ST. JoHNsBURY, VT, July q $780,
have mislaid or lost my copy of the evil
dence taken by the Credit Mobiher Investi-
eating Committee and their report, and, al
though have very clear recollection of the
general features of the whole matter, should
not attempt to say anything in regard to details
without a reperusal Of the volume. But if
had it before me it does not seem to me that
there is occasion or need that should review it
for the purpose of replying to such attacks on
Gen. Garfield as you have copied from the New
York Express. or similar ones which may be
found in many other Democratic papers. The
transactions of Mr.. Ames in Credit Mobilier stock
were more than dozen years ago the full IN
vestigation of the matter by the committee of
which was Chairman was over eight years ago.
At the time of the investigation the public
mind was greatly excited on the subject, and
it involved the character and reputation of SO
many prominent men that probably no mere
personal matter ever was SO thoroughly cam
vassed and discussed by the reading and intel
Hgent people of this country. After the most
exhaustive discussion and reflection, the judg-
ment Of the people of this country was made
up as to each man who was named as connected
with it. Saying nothing in regard to any ether
man, think l may most truthfully say that
this public and popular judgment fully and alb
solutely acquitted Gen. Garfield of all wrong
either in action or intent in relation to the mat
ter. No man could have been continued in pub
lie life and constantly risen in public standing
and in the public estimation by the con-
sent and approval of the best men of
both parties as Gen. Garfield has, if there ex-
listed suspicion of wrong-doing against him.
Iregard this popular and continued verdict of
the people as conclusive. Every effort to re-
open and unsettle it will, in my judgment, only
recon upon those who attempt it. In my judg-
ment the Republican press and Republican
speakers who may spend their time in reargu-
ing a matter SO many years ago passed into
final judgment will only waste their breath.
The great issues between the parties, which so
largely affect the welfare of the people and the
country, are the topics to be discussed and de-
cided in the coming campaign. These are
what the people desire to be enlightened upon !;
they are already satisfied that the 1929 case
was finally and properly decided many years
ago. presume you have seen short note
sent to the State Convention. In that I said
oil wished to say. LUKE P. POLAND.
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rtY IabOTs In educatiOn :

A system of fostering and protect
ing education" which has brought
about the result that one person out of
five or six cannot read or write should
be subjected to close scrutiny before a
more extended field for its labors be
opened to it. The coincidence between
ignorance and Democracy is found too
often to admit of it's Interpretation as an
accident Of nature. The connection be-
tween the two is a necessary one and
admits of formulation.
Rule to find Democratic majority
In State where one person out of six
or less cannot read or write, divide the
whole number of those who cannot read
or write by three to get the number OF
Ignorant voters; the result will be ap-
proximately the Democratic majority in
that State.
Arkansas GA, 095-:-3-21, 1865 ignorant voters
1918 Dem. maj. 1876.
Missouri. ISL 763-:-353,9 21 ignorant voters.
54,389 Dem. maj. 1876.
Virginia 123, 528-:3-41, 178 ignorant voters
A, 112 Dem. maj. 1876.
In the coming campaign the Demo
cratic party has about as much right to
carry the banner of enlightenment as it
has to carry the banner of patriotism.
It's professions are quite up to the intel
lectual standard of those who believe
them without examination. albany
Journal.
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ga Standing Menace

The Democratic party has meUer get
done an act that aUould commend 1t to
the favorable consideration Of the pe0-
pile Of the United States, bit, on the
contrary, ats traditions and ats acts are
noaU, and euer haze been, q standing
menace to the progress and ciuitigataon
of the nineteenth century,
TRUMBULI, Democratic candidate for
Governor of Illinois.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-23
Letter from John G. whittier.
The following letter from Mr.. John g.
Whittier was read at Garfield and Ar.


Whittier was read at a Garfield and Ar.
thur meeting in Amesbury, Mass:
1 regret to find that cannot, as intended,
be present at the formation of a Republican
club for Amesbury and Salisbury. must not,
however, let the occasion pass without express.
ing my hearty sympathy with the movement,
and my desire to cooperate with you in your
labors in support of candidate of pure char
acter, wise craftsmanship and lifelong fidelity
to the principles of the Republican party. the
union of the States, and the security of the
rights of person, property and franchise. For
myself, I would gladly find an excuse for
retiring from active participation in the
coming election, and would welcome with
inexpressibe relief any decided mani
festation of more generous and enlight-
ened policy on the part of Democrats toward
the people of color. But I look in vain for any
good evidence of change which would justify
relaxation of zeal and vigilance on our part. I
have no words of personal disparagement for
the Democratic nominee, and do full justice
to the sincerity and patriotism of many of his
supporters but as rule, the party remains as
it vas at the close of the war. The time has
not come when it will be safe to intrust the
financial interests of the country and the vel
fare of the emancipated class to party whose
President can only be elected by compromises
with the Greenbaek heresy and the virtual SUM-
preston, by fraud and violence, Of the vote of
the colored citizens of the Southern States.
Massachusetts is not doubtful State. Her
vote will be given to the Republican nominee.
But let us see to it that her voice at the coming
election has the strong emphasis Of the DAYS
of Sumner, Wilson, and Andrew
JOHN G. WHITTIER.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-23
Greeley ON Hancock.

Horace Greeley once wrote:
i"NO COMMANDER IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES HAS INTER
FERED WITH THE CIVIL AU-
THORITY MORE THAN GEN. HAN
COCK"
This was his idea of Hancock's states
manship. Greeley was the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency in 1868.
He ought to be good Democratic author
itv
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-23
THE SOLID SOUTH.

Resort to the Old Familiar Tactics of
intimidation and Fraud-AttOrney
General Devens ON the Situation.
washington Telegram to Chicago Inter ocean,
Attorney General Deyens, speaking of
the a,countsteceived Of the status Of the
Republican party in the South, says
that they DO not harmonic with the in
formation he has received through the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-23

"YoU had better change that rug, :"
said lady to her servant. "Don't you
think it corroborates better with the car
pet in this way?" was the response. It
was the same girl who told her mistress
that gentleman with predicament in
his speech had called to see her.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-11-03
MA As REED.

RAMSEY Y-WILsON- Oct. 9TH, 1880, by
Rev Samuel Kerr, Mr.. c. c. Ramsey and Miss
L. NJ. Wilson, both of Mercer county, Pa.
BROWN-GRAHAM-O Oct. 18th, 1880,
by the same, Mr.. G. B. Brown and Miss Ella
j. Graham, both of Mercer county, Pa.
MCCANDLESS = STIELWAGGON = On
Oct 27th, $780, by the same Mr.. f. L. Nc
Candless and Miss Melissa Stillwagon, both of
Butler county, Pa.
WEITZEL-DOERR-I Butler, Pa, on
the evening of Oct. 2Sth, 1880, by Rev. f..
Cronenwett, Mr.. Adam Weitzel and Miss Elisa
beth Doerr, both of this place
RISON-WILSON-On the goth of
Oct, 1880, by Rev. James A. Clark, Mr.. S. G..
Morrison of Centrevile and Miss Ida j. Wilson
of Prospect all of Butler cornty, Pa.
N-STEWART-At Farming
ton, Butler county, Pa, Oct 10th, 1880, by
Rev. w. Branfield, Mr.. A. d. Carnehan and
Miss Maggie NJ. Stewart, both of sis Points,
Butler county, Pa.
WORCESTERSHIRE - Oct. goth
1880, by Rev S. Williams, Mr.. d. NJ. Morrison
and Miss Lizzie NJ. Stephenson.
MCCANDLESS-M S-MCCANDLESS- 2Sth
1880, by the same, Mr. Joshua Judson McCand-
less and Miss Sarah Eta McCandless, ALI Of
Butler county, Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-11-03
A SPLENDID MILL!
The Best of Modern Machinery
Brought TO Butler and Put
i'm Place i'm Reiber's Will
by Experienced MILL
rights.
All the Latest improvements
Made. and tie Mill Now
Turning out aS Good
Flour as is Made Any.
where.

Mr. Geo. Reiber, of this place, miller, ha:
lately had his Touring mill. located on the Con
noquenessing a short distance above Butler, en-
tirely overhauled, remodeed and furnished
with the best of new machinery and all the
latest improvements.
This machinery was put in place and the i'm
provements made by that well-known and ex-
perieneed mill-wright and contractor, Mr.. K.
r. Brvson, assisted by Messrs. p. A. Stewart
and Henry Yeakel, who are also mill-wrights,
and the mill as it now stands speaks for itself,
as everything is perfectly arranged and the
workmanship and finish cannot be beat.
The mill is a three-story building, with a
basement, all of which is occupied by machin-
cry.
On the first floor are the four grain hoppers,
all new and of the latest pattern two for wheat,
one for buckwheat and one for chop; also the
burr for grinding the mddlings, from which
the best -four or what is commonly called the
'patent" -four is made. The -four bins are also
on this floor.
On the second floor are the midlings purifier
patent machine for removing the bran from the
middlings and making it ready for grinding IN
the middlings burr also a long. large, hand
some box containing the boiling cloths. This
box was made and cloths put in place by Mr.,
Bryson and his assistants and cannot be exeell-
ed in the county. The cloths are arranged in
four long cylinders from two to three feet in
diameter and perhaps twenty feet long. The
cloth fine netting is of the best quality Of
silk and is imported from Germany.
This floor also contains an apparatus for
heating the grain to make sure that it is
perfectly dry before reaching the hoppers, and
also corn shelter, buckwheat bolter, and 9TH
er machinery.
On the fourth floor are the separating and
cleaning machines, buckwheat huller the bolt
ing box which extends through from the second
floor, machinery for the hosting rope, and
some grain bins
In the basement are the boiler and engine,
water wheel, crown wheel, and the other ma
chinery necessary for running the mill by eth
er steam or water power All the machinery
is in perfect order and runs smoothly. Mr..
Hance Frazier is the miller. He has initiated
himself in all the mysteries of the new machin-
cry and is now tnrning out as good an article of
flour as can be made anywhere.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-11-03
Jury List tor December Term.
1850.

1850.
Grand Jury for first week, commencing Mon
day. December 6.
Allegheny F. Jamison.
Buffalo-John Har bison, John Murphy.
Butler township-Benj. Dixon. Jno. ~chaffner
Butler borough. j. Elliott, l.. o. Purvis,
John McQ. Smith
Conncquenessing-P. Barnhart.
Crauberry-Austin Graham, Adam Kirsciler.
Cherry-J. b. Kelly.
Concord-A G.. Meals.
Clinton-Henry Seton
Centre-Simon Young.
Farview township-hIichael Andre. Andrew
Blakeley W. "a Mckee.
Mierstown-H. l.. Westerman,
Oakland-J. NJ Beatty.
Parker-J. G. Daubenspeck.
washington-Thomas Campbell, Jr.
Worth-John Boyle, Jr
Winfield-Henry Deer. Sr
rRAyERs JURORS FOR WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY,
DECEMBER 10 1880.
Adams-T. M. Marshall, William Mentzer,
James Parks
Allegheny-J L. Rosenbury, Crawford Dom
aldson.
Butler borough-Christ Stock. Casmer Wise.
G. ". Miller. H J. Klinger, Jacob Geible.
Buffalo-John Sarver.
Brady-Henry Double. William Moore
CIay-James Findley.
Concord-John Chapel
Connoquenessing- Thomas Edmundson, Thos
Galloway.
Centre-Alex. Pollock.
Donegal-Leroy Delemater.
Fairview-R. NJ. Hepler, Philip Dabeuspeck.
Daniel Evans Fl. w. Jamison Isaac Kavlor
Harrisville-H. A. Ayers, Alec. Black, Joseph
Pew.
Jackson-James Jones, Ezra Tiken, James d.
LvtIe. William Roth David B. Shontz.
Jefferson-Alfred Maurhof, Benson Shrader
Lancaster John Myers Joseph Powell.
Muddxcreek WIN. Dowler.
Mercer-W. A. Roberts, j j. McGarvey.
Prospect John Hyle, Jr.
Parker-David Jackson d. p. Kelly.
Slpperyrock- Gerwick.
Washington-N NJ. Shira.
Winfield-Frederck Welty, Argus Keck
Worth-Mathias Bennett.
Zelienople-E, V. Randolph.