The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-07

damned the constitution; who sub
scribe TO the higher law doctrine, who
purchased the returning boards of Louisiana
and Florida, who fosted fraudulent presi-
dent upon the country. II. The ballot-bo1
suffers the southern outrage manipulators;
the negro exodus instigaters and those who
hate the principles of a Republican govern
ment longing for Capitalization. u. The
whisky ring spectators who swindled the
government; the Credit Mcbilier disciples
who believe in putting bonds where they
will do the most good the bribe'tskers and
paving-contract apostles; the back salary-grab
advocates; the men who use position and the
influence it gives to further their peculations
and to rob the people; the bloody-shirt
shriekers; those who hate the south and its
people; those who have come south, birds Of
passage, to peddle in politics; those who favor
subsidies from the government for every
thieving job that can be put up; those who
have swindled the Indians, and who want
the opportunity; those who use the govern
ment as a machine to aid them in speculat-
ing in bonds and the currency of the coun-
! try; those who want protective tariff, that a
few may grow rich at the expense ofthe many.
Look upon these two pictures and decide for
yourself which man should be chosen to
govern this country. Hancock is the ex-
ponent of free government, of honest govern
ment, of constitutional government. lie
stands up for the rights of the people against
the expressions of those who are now in
power. He has not only proven himself to
be soldier but he has proven himself to bea
statesman as well. From the time his
MAIDEN sword flashed like CLEAN of light
over the bloody fields of Mexico, and blazed
amid the dun clouds of the Wilderness and of
Gettysburg, to the days when no commanded
the department of Louisiana and Texas,
taking the constitution as his chart, and
standing as a cloud by day. and apillar of
FIRE by night in behalf of civil liberty, and
the civil law, and the liberties of the people,
up to the present time, he has proven himself
to be man TO honor, to love, to reverence, to
trust in any position. His gallantry and his
proves is emblaaoned in the brightest annals
Of the worlds history, but his glory as a
warrior is eclipsed by the grandeur of the
civilian. He has proven himself no less
a hero after the thunders of the artillery, the
rattle Of the musketry, and the grosns Of the
dying in war times have been hushed by the
gentle influence of the olive branch of peace,
by his devotion to the laws Of the land and
their behests, than he was when he led his
legions into the red jaws of death, into the
aaming cauldron OF humiliation. He drew
his sword at the call of his country, and
when that call had ended, he lay it sheathed,
all wresthed rs it was with the laurels of II
neverdying fame, upon the shrine of con-
stitutional government. Compare the history
and the character of this man with that Of
Garfield. Hancock never was bribed to give
his influence as legislator in behalf of an
| iniGuitous measure with creCit mobilier
stock, but Garfield was; he never received
money to aid paving contractors to swindle
the government, but Garfield did; he never
aided in frsudulently seating into the presi-
dental chair man who was defeated, but
Garfield did. He never voted himself money
from the public treasury for services he
never performed, but Garfield did when
he passed the back salary grab bill, after
pledging his honor as man and a gentle
man that the bill should not be brought up
during the absence of certain gentlemen
opposed to it. Look at the two men and
their records and choose ye between them.