Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-07-30
WHOLE NO. 1925.
OF 40 West Fifth-eighth street, this
city, and a prominent member Of
the Cotton Exchange.
Gen. Hancock.

NOAs AAOuCOChs
Col. Duncan, of Kentucky, was 9
strong supporter of General Han
cocks from the beginning, and If
that candidate for the Presidency
may be said to have had q I" BOOM"
it is to the brilliant son of the Bour-
bon State that he is indebted for it.
He relates that in 1868 such good
judges as Senator Blaine, General
Rawlins and Colonel Mcclure ad-
mitted to him that had Hancock
been nominated he would have car
ried the State of Pennsylvania.
Since that time his popularity has
increased rather than diminished:
and what he would have been able
to do then he can do now.
He says: "In Ohio there are 4O,-
600 living soldiers who served under
Hancock and were devoted to him.
My information is that the Grand
Army of the Republic, which extends
everywhere in the North, and num-
bers 100000, men, is morally COM.
mitted not to oppose brother men,
Der when civilian runs against him.
With the brilliant military record of
General Garfield, we will simply
throw The election away if we at
tempt to elect a civilian. How could
we more sharply define the issue be-
tween the two parties than to con-
trast the action of General Hancock
and General Garfield in Louisiana?
Hancock disobeyed orders and gave
that State free government, and
ran the risk of being cashiered when
he wrote the Peace letter."
It will be remembered, we may
add, that q determined effort was
made to remove General Hancock
from the army for his championship
of civil liberty, and formost among
those who abetted the attempt was
General Garfield. This radical plot
failed because it was clearly shown
that Hancock had acted within the
limits of his authority, and no case
could be made out against him. II
General Garfield ever apologized for
this injustice toward gallant COM
panion in arms, there is no record
of it.
But the point on which Col. Dun
can chiefly relies is that the l,200,-
600 Labor and Greenback votes
would be drawn to the support Of
the Democratic ticket by Hancock's
nomination, thus taking Ohio out of
the list of doubtful States, and added
her to the Democratic column.
1t is true they have q nominee,
but, as practical men the time will
come when it is evident they can
elect or defeat the Democrat. If an
obnoxious man is put up whose
whole record bristles with hostility
to them, it would be idle to expect
any aid from that source. Gen.
Hancock has no record at all TO ex-
cite their opposition. The pivot of
this election will be in September,
when Maine and California speak
out. Gen. Plaisted, one of the
most gallant officers under Gen.
Hancock's command, and one year
ago Republican, is the nominee by
acclamation of the $1,000 Green-
hackers. Twenty-iv thousand DEM
ocrats have indorsed him also by ac-
clamation, and no electoral ticket is
vet selected. That is left to the
two Executive Committees. With
Hancock as our nominee, the Maine
soldiers who served under him by
thousands would 90 to work to elect
Plaisted, and that election would
break the backbone of Radicalism
in the Union. California would
take similar action. And in Massa-
chusetts, as we'll as these others, q
Joint electoral ticket would be made,
and would carry in November.
These statements enlarge the ba-
sis of Democratic calculations, now
confined to what are known as the
d" doubtful States" and encourage
the belief that even such Radical
strongholds as Maine, Pennsylvania
aud Ohio can be weaued from their
idolatry. They are attractive be-
cause they offer the excitements OF
an aggressive campaign, and place
the enemy on the defensive in local
tiles where they had not considered
it necessary to erect intrenchments.
Col. Duncan is deserving of thanks
for having furnished material TO as
sist the convention in is delibera-
tions concerning the availability OF
one of the most prominent candi-
dates to come before it. II the
claims of every other distinguished
Democrat mentioned as u possible
choice were as clearly and as ex-
haustiyely presented, the conven-
nomE labor; would be materially
lightened.