New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-16

nose, even il lie honestly differed WIN no
leaders rs there Is no proof that he ooc'
Does anybody seriously desire change Oh
the issues Indicated 7 Does any Northern
man wish to see the war not only pron0unceo
but proved failure by the capture OF lhe
civil Government by the rebel BrlGa leFS
l. there anywhere in the North any ardent
desire to change the character OF o'u
National currency or bonds, or to see Do'n
deprecated by the bare prospect OF the ac-
acknowledgement of the millions oil reooi
claims7 is there any wish to go back 10
financial chaos which doubt, consequent on u
change of policy, would inevitably bring ABOUT
and rapudiate and undo Resumption vi W
abandon the policy Of Protection, which mas
enriched the Nation in the past rs 1t Is daily
doing now
Ii may be that such is not now the poiicy
of the party Well, there is no assurance OF
that. Such have been its declarations IN the
past and we see no evidence of change eX-
cept that the party of reputation and peace
at-any-price now advances wearing mons
robe instead of carrying the ASS head, as III
the past There is no question of doubt as 10
the policy and principles of the party winch
opposes General Hancock with General U'lr-
field. 1t is the same party which fough' Tue
war to complete and signal success; winch
established our National currency ana iha'h-
tanned It's credit during twenty years OF wal
and distress which brought about kesump-
ton against all opposition OF the Democrats;
and which framed the tariff during the exi-
oencles of war, wisely modified it in minor
resnects when peace followed, and has sus-
tanned it in all essentials to prosperity ever
since. The Republican party is as positive
and clear in the utterances OF its principles
and policy as the other is weak, vacillating
and inconsistent.
Admit for a moment that personal gov
eminent is possible, as it Is not III this conh-
try as now constituted, what clam has Ten
eral Hancock over General Garfield Tor the
confidence of the people9 What public utter
ances of his do his partisans quote as his
recommendation He declared several years
AGO that the civil power was superior to that
of the military Well, nobody in tins land has
ever thought to the contrary, except the
rebels, when they took mp arms to overthrow
civil authority and the most glazing illustra-
ton of practice to the contrary which we can
recall lust now (thoueh at a time when
| the circumstances of the rebellion fully
warranted IT'D. was Vben General Han
cock induced President Johnson to sus-
pend the Habeas Corpus act, that the
case of Mrs. Surratt, condemned by military
court martial, might not be reviewed by civil
| Justices In an order issued years ago he as
| serted the right of trial by jury, but he de-
! hycIed over the right to unrepentant rebels
who controlled every jury which they sum
moned. He has argued at great length that
| the Army should have nothing to do with
elections and the installation of Presidents.
Nobody has ever claimed that it should, and
everybody in the Republican party has re-
GREETED that ever rebellion and persecution
and fraud made interference necessary. These
utterances of General Hancock, 80 frequently
quoted with admiration by the Democratic
press and speakers, are the merest trulsms
which nobody pretends to deny. But on the
vital questions of the day he Is either silent
or equally trite in his utterances. General
| Garfield, on the contrary, is most outspoken
and positive on all these questions. In three
wears of military life he fought for these
principles and during seventeen years oil
civil life In Congress he has been an active
originator of some and the constant advocate OF
most of these measures. Between the posi-
tive candidate of the party which maintained
the Union and restored to 1t peace and pros
perity, and the negative one who Is used rs a
mask by the party which brought on the war
and has opposed every measure leading to
restoration of the country, there ought not to
be any hesitation of choice. As between the
one trained in civil rule. coming direct from
the people and in perfect cOnsonance with
the party he leads, and the soldier educated
| in no other school, living all his life away
from the people in the secusiOn OF camps,
and in accord with party which simply
Uses him to get INTO power, the choice should
be early made.
| SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH.