The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-18
NOT A WALK OVER.

cially one of the stalwart, bloody-shirt KIND
like the Graphic, it does not hesitate at
what it says, editorially, nor what it carri-
cstures pictorially, SO it is of nature to
damage the Democratic party and help the
Republican cause In late issue the
Graphic says: democrats might as well
understand that they have no walk over
before them three months hence. The
ground is to be contested inch by inch-that
is, where contest will be Of any service.
And where contest can result in nothing
it will not be entered upon. Concentration
of effort is the only way to insure success.
Republicans will endeavor to hold their
own in regard to southern representatives
They do not propose to lose the few seats
they now have if they can help it, but have
an active electoral campaign, at least until
after the October elections. The battle is to
be fought in the north, and the Republican
leaders are cear-sighted enough to see that
fact and bold enough to proclaim it. Mainein
September, and Indiana and Ohio in Octo-
Der, are for the'present the great objective
points. New York's turn will come in No
vember. No one can say..hercaiter that he
did not know where the line Of battle wss,
as the Republicans, with their usual prompt
itude, have cut out the campaign" If the
Democrats at any time have ever believed
that they would have an easy time in any
contest with the Republicans, they were
wrong We do not believe that they ever
have, that is to say, the great Democratic
statesmen Sho guide and direct the affairs
of the Democratic party, who, by
their ability, by their wisdom,
shape the ends OF the party, and by thus
doing serve best the country. Because they
did not believe that they had walk over,
they burst bombshell in the Republican
ranks by nominating General Hancock for
the presidency at Cincinnati. BY this NOM
nation the party has done the Republicans
almost irrcparabe damage and it has been
followed up ever since. Tho Republicans
have been put upon tho defensive, and with
the skillful generslship, the wise strategy of
Scipio, the Democrats have carried the war
iato Africa. Still it is one continued fight
from now until tho ides of November shall
have come, There will be no surcease in the
Are of the artillery, the rattle of the musket-
ry, the charges of the cavalry. The Repub-
lican plan of battle as developed is weak.
The "bloody-shirt" that has been Haunted
until it has lost its force is again waving;
''rebel claims" "southern reputation" and
the public debt" have all had their day,
and been SO often answered and demolished
in days gone by that they are of no effect,
yet the Republicans cling to them
as the rallying cries of the. campaign. They
will not bring Mr.. Garfield single vote.
The "northern heart" has been "hred'' SO
often by these same Republican slogans, and
the Outrage mill" has ground out so much
grist OF this kind that it has become common
and the great hosts of the north pay no heed
longer to such stuff. The fact is the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Garfield put the Republican
party on the defensive. Puck, of recent
date, hada cartoon representing the Repub-
lican party carrying Mr.. Garfield, while that
gentleman himself had Mr.. Arthur in sack
upon his back. There was an idea in this
cartoon that spoke.".whol volumes. Mr..
Gsrfeld's record is such that honorable Re
publicans try to make no answer for it, but
hang their heads and sigh. They know that
their party cannot stand up under the en-
dorsement Of such candidate. They know
that Republican committee of Republi-
can congress found Mr.. Garfield guilty of
credit mobilier bribery. 1t is true that Judge
Poland, who was chairman of this commit
tee, and General Banks, who was a member
cf it. have stultifed themselves by saying
that they did not mean what they said by
their report, but that only makes the matter
worse with thinking people. And then Gen
eral Hancock is invulnerable. Not word
can be said against his public or private
character; not word can be uttered againat
him as citizen or as soldier. Some of the
most INSCRIPTIONS of the partisan sheets
charged him with the murder Of Mrs. Sur
raft, but mere statement of the facts that
he was only in command of the department
in which Washington was when she was
tried, and that he only obeyed the order of
the court-martial which tried and convicted
this unfortunate innocent woman, and that
he did all in his power to savo her, explodes
this charge. Then it was charged by this
same class Of newspapers that he had been
president Of an oil company in Pennsylvania
that was but a bogus concern that had failed
and defrauded hundreds of people, This,
too, fell still-born, because there was no
truth in it, he having only been stock. holder
in the concern, losing as heavily by it as any.
one else did. Then he was accused of hay
ing written letter to General Sherman. in
which he proved himself to be traitor in
which he had stated that Mr.. Tilden was
elected president and that he would obey the
orders of Mr.. Tilden if he addressed any to
him, and mighty howl went up smong the
stalwarts over this charge A clauor arose
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