The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-24
Gen. Garfield's Qualifications Con
trasted with Hancock's.

| Here are questions that the people will ask:
What are theGualifcations and Wsqualifca-
tions of the candidates for the presidency?
! What are Gen. Hancocks qualifications?
| He was gallant Union soldier.
What are Gen. Hancock's disqualifoations?
He was educated specially as soldier
| He has never mingled with the people.
| He has had no experience of the stru ggles of
the people.
! He has no experience of the necessities of
the people. ~
| His life has been spent in the narrow circle of
military routine.
His acquaintances and friendships are large
| ly confined to the regular army.
| He has no opinions EN- the tariff.
| He has no opiuion on finance.
| He has no knowledge of the wants of com
merce.
He opposed the reconstruction policy of Con.
| gress. hrF
He was willing instrument in the hands of
Andrew johnson.
He resurrected the buried hopes of rebels in
| New Orleans.
He favored the election of Horatio Seymour
| to the presidency in 1868.
He endorsed Frank Blair's revolutionary
| Broadhead letter.
He favored wiping ont the reconstruction
| laws with the bayonet.
He was Democrat. when the Democrats
| opposed the 14th and 18th amendment.
He was Democrat when the Democratic
| party would have destroyed the national cred
it,
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party favored the repeal of the resumption
act ts
He is supported by Hampton, Beauregard,
Chalmers and jeff Davis
He is supported by every unreconstructed
rebel.
He is supported by every man in the South
who curses the national government, derides
its flag and defes its authority.
He . supported by every "ku klux" ands
''white liner"
He is supported by every murderer and beat
er of negroes and stuffer of ballot-boxes in the
South.
He is silent about the recent frauds and
crimes through which the Democrats carried
Alabama by 10000 majority.
He is Democrat.
A. Garfield?
He was gallant Union soldier.
He is man of the peoble. s-e
He is link ed to the people by bonds of'com-
mon hardships; struggles, trials and triumphs
He is a trained scholar.
He is possessed of a sympathetic nature.
He is familiar with the wants of every indus
try, and of every class of the people.
He has had II years experience in civil ad-
ministration.
He is unselfish.
He is courageous. ~
He is incorruptibly honest. I'D
He never faltered in his devotion to free
dom.
He never faltered in his resistance to op-
preston.
He is sound on the tariff.
He is sound on the currency
He believes in honest government, an hon.
est payment of debts, and honest money.
He is born leader of the people.
His friendships are among the purest and
ablest Republicans in the country.
His career as chairman of the appropriations
! committee of the House of Representatives is
guarantee that his administration will be eco
nomical.
His financial record is guarantee that the
country will reap the full benefits of the pres
ent prosperity.
His character is pledge that his cabinet
and appointments will be selected from the
ablest, purest and best Republicans in the land
He is brilliant orator.
He is O broad and enlightened statesman.
He will be supported by nine-tenths of the
men who fought to preserve the Union.
He will be supported by ninety-nine hun
dredths of the survivors OF southern prison
pens.
He is Republican.
What are Gen. Garfeld's disqualiications?
NONE!
many disqualifications Gen. Garfield has
numberless qualifications and not one disquali-
fication. This is the difference between the
two candidates