Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-29
THE TICKET.
Fresh Opinions on the Demo.
cratic Nominations from
Friend and Foe.


Friend and Foe.
TRUE EXPoNENTs."
Columbus (0.l Journal, Rep.l
Hancock and English are true. ex-
ponents Of democratic doctrines.
WITHOUT BLEMIsH.
st. Louis Times, Dem.l
The ticket takes its character from
its head, and that is without blemish
or reproach.
WITHOUT REPRoAoH."
Madison Qnd) Star, Rep.l
General w. S. Hancock is a pure
man, a sterling patriot, and an Amer
lean without reproach. He is good
enough to be a republican, and if the
democracy are to rule this country,
which we don't concede, we are glad
that in a lucid interval they have
placed their party in the hands of SO
good a man,
HOW BADLY THEY FEEL.
St. Louis Globe-D Democrat, Rep.l
While the nomination Of Hancock
is a piece of political hypocrisy as the
unconscious tribute which vice pays
to virtue, there is no denying that it
is the strongest nomination the con-
vention could have made. 1t will
call out the full party vote, Just as the
nomination of Garfield will call out
the full party vote, and while repub-
licans need not underestimate the
strength of the ticket, they need not
fear it.
DIR. LUsE WHISTLES FOR COURAGE.
Indianapolis Journal. Rep.I
The ticket, as a whole, is a weak
one. 1t will create no enthusiasm in
Indiana. Garfield was as good a sol
der as Hancock, and is a statesman
besides. With Garfield and Porter
the republicans can sweep the state.
The nomination of Hancock creates
no enthusiasm among the Indiana
democrats. That of English is a wet
blanket. However it may be in other
parts Of the country, it is a weak one
in this state.
OBJECTS TO UNION MEN.
Chicago Journal, Repl
As an "expediency'' candidate Gen.
Hancock is supposed to be a strong
man, but it must be confessed that as
a president of the United States he
would probably be a great failure,
This fact would no doubt become
more obvious as the campaign pro-
crosses. After nominating a union
soldier for president, the convention
proceeded to nominate one of the most.
notorious copperheads of the war
time for viee-president-William II.
English, of Indiana.
A STATELY SOLDIER.
Cincinnati Commercial, Rep.l
The democratic party, as a matter
Of e%xpediency, in terror Of the bloody
shirt, have escaped from their states
men--from Tilden, Hendricks. Bay
ard, Payne and Thurman, and taken
refuge in the arms Of a stately soldier,
who has not given as satisfactory evil
dence Of being a good democrat as
Zachariah Taylor did that he was a
moderate wing. We have no doubt
the democratic party will be able to
evolve from its own robust conscious
ness as a degree Of enthusiasm, and it
will be pleasant to see the southern
confederates marching again in DO
%litical professions, under the flag and
keeping step to the martial music of
the union.
INDIANA ACCEPTS.
indianapolis Sentinel, Dem.l
Indiana accepts the ticket with the
loyalty that has ever distinguished her
in the past. Now, as ever, measure
not men" is the motto of the rank and
file Of the democratic party of Indiana.
Casting behind her disappointments,
and remembering her struggles only
for the glory they shed around her
name and the name Of the distinguish
ed citizen she has delighted to honor.
Indiana, truo to her ancient renown.
will place her past in the keeping of
the sacred archives of the democratic
party ofthe state and of the country.
while she goes forward with steady
and stately step in support of Han
cock and English, the democratic
ticket TOR the campaign of 1890.
AN HEROIC EMBLEM oFTHE UNION"
Cincinnati Enquirer, semi-Dem.l
There are a million of soldier votes
in the north. There are more than
five hundred thousand soldier names
on the pension list. Hancock is the
ranking major general Of the army,
and were he not to be president he
would have been one day the general
Of all the armies of the United States,
unless death interviewed. Hancock is
the illustrious soldier who, when the
war closed, was the first to place the
civil authority above the sword. He.
was the first to proclaim that the bay
onet should make obeisance to the
civil power. His name not only
stands as an heroic emblem of the
union, though its cost should be
death, but as the splendid symbol that
civil liberty is the commanding gem
eral Of armed men. How ought the
million Of union soldier voters in the
north TO vote in this election? While
rebel soldiers are voting for this emf
nent union soldier, will union SOL
diers refuse to vote for himq
FIGHTING THE WRONG.
81. Louis Republican,
The nomination of another persen
than Mr.. Tilden is not to be REGARDED
as in any sense a setting aside of the
distinguished statesman or a forget
ting OF his eminent merits. Mr.. Til
den was out of the contest by his own
deliberate act. He had withdrawn
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