New-York tribune., 1880-07-02
Hancock should call on John Kelly next

Hancock should call on John Kelly next
Did Tilden whisper in lIancock's ear that the
| bung was loose ? That Is the question which 0gi-
tatcs the soul Of the Democracy.
There is to be Mayor elected in this city this
Fall and in order that the union of the Democrats
may be fervent as well as complete TIE TRIBUNE
suggests that the party nominate John Kelly. Tho
enthusiasm with which the Irving Hall brethren
would fall in and support the ticket would insure
Democratic in the Presidential election III
would also insure the future Of the party III this
city by slowing it away IN Mr. Kellys pocket
The Democratic newspapers have discovered an
old letter OF Jcre Blacks full of ecstatc admiration
for the order which Jere Black wrote and Hancock
signed. The unprejudccd author tells the gifted
sguer that the order was admirable" and that
WASHINGTON never said thing i'll better taste or
better time" That Is modest OF Jere, and comph-
mcntary TO Washington.
Indiana Republicans are more confident every day
that they can carry the State in October. If they
do the November election will be a mere walk-over
in New-York.
The Democrats are now sally thinking of Uncle
Sammy's tightly bunged barl.
The free-trade plank in the Democratic platform
doesn't appear to mp the iron men of PennsYl-
yania into a fervid enthusiasm Tor HancocA.
why isn't 1t Hancock and Reform" this time
Four years ago Moses declared in his plat
form that Reform was necessary" while
" lilden and Reform" was the Democratic
war cry. Has Republican administration accom-
plIshed all the reformation which the country
needed
The South is solid and enthusiastic for Hancock
because of his conduct in Texas and Louisiana
after the war. They say he accepted Southern
rather than Northern ideas then, and he can be
depended on to do the thing again. The
Northern Democratic journals are sustaining this
Wow with quotations from Andrew Johnson
warmly commenting Hancock for his
This Is probably a sure way to consolidate the
Democratic vote but what will be the effect upon
the independent voterl Does he wish to see tire
Government in the hands of a whom the
Democrat, claim is first last and all the tire
sympathzer with solid Southern ideas Of the Con
StitutIOn2 If they are right III those ideas, then
the war was useless.
The Democratic party seems to have been the vie
tim of a confidence game IN the matter of its Vice
President He voted once for Grant once for Lin
coin and once for Oliver p. Morton-admirable ac-
tions which only emphasize the pity of it that he
sholld now be found in his present company. If he
would only tap the barrel freely they would not
mind, but this respect ne is just as eccentric
he IS about his voting
The abolIsb-the-army party Is running a
superb soldier" for President.
Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, shares the preva-
lent belief that Hancock's strength is waning He
does not believe the Democratic parry is bit
stronger to-day than has been for fifteen years.
" | dent believe" he assures reporter of The
Pbiladelphia Press, that Hancock viii poll any
apprcclabe number of Republican votes citizens
or soldiers. The Democratic party weakens Han
cock to greater extent than he streng thens ii.
The combination can't win because the people will
discover that the mixture of candidate and prln-
c.ple ncongruOus. Over and above partisan poll
ties there is a steady and true conviction that our
present prosperity is natural fruit OF the policy
of the Republican party. GaI field and Arthur will
be elected" As for PennsyvaDia, the Governor
saws Hancock has not the slightest chance OF carry
ing il, thereby completely lguOTing the fact that
John W. Fornel has swung out with perfect cy-
clone OF rhetoric for the . superb soldier"
The Democratic party angulshes for some other
law.
There is nothing more beautiful in the present
somewhat peculiar political situation than the fe-
rocous loyalty of the Democratic editor He has
already demonstrated that the Republican editor
was little better than n rebel during the war; and is
now laboring to show that the whole Republican
party Is now aud always has been the bitter enemy
of tie Union soldiers. Tins evidently going to be
an arduOus campaign for the Democratic editor.
Does anybody except Democrats ask for change 7
Does anybody doubt what kind of a change they
want