Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-07
POLITICAL POINTS.



which Mark the Progre.: Of the Campaign
for the Presidency.
Ex-GOv. Hubbard of Texas, who second
ed Hancock's s nomination in the national
convention, will stump the North for him.
A Grant club of sixty-fve members
has declared for Hancock in New Or
leans.
Colfax was a widower when nominated |
for vice president SO was Henry Wilson, |
and VIM. A. Wheeler, and so were Arthur |
and English.
Senator Garfield and General Hancock
| will be invited to be present at the celebra- |
| ton of Boston's two hundred and tiftieth
anniversary on the 18th of September
| next.
| keep, and parties by the men to whose
hands they confide their interests says
the New York Tribune, and straightway
endorses the Republican national COM
mittee for selecting Dorsey for secretary,
| whom it denounced some years ago as
legislative jobber.
| Garfield trusts that " the time is not far
distant when under the crossed swords
and locked shields Of Americans, North
and South, our people shall sleep in peace
and rise in liberty, love and harmony under
the union of our flag of the stars and
stripes'' He had better muzzlc some OF
the stalwarts of his party.
The New York Herald says: " A closer
examination of the Republican platform
compels us to regard it as a joke. 1t is
impossible to imagine that the gentlemen
who drew it regarded it as anything else.
Take away from it the brag and the blus-
ter which constitute its comic portion,
and there is nothing left but common
; place.
Senator Cameron, in giving his reasons
for not wishing to be chairman OF the ma
tional committee, again says if he won he
would not get credit for it. If the battle
was lost the blame would be laid to him.
Besides, it would cost him $50, 600 OF his
private funds, and he would have to live
in New York during August, September
and October, and Mrs Cameron objects to
doing SO.
No sooner had Gen. A. L. Pearson de-
: clared his purpose to support Gen. Han
: cock for president, until the Republican
r organs set up a howl against him in chorus.
They have suddenly made the discovery
that Gen. Pearson has no political infiu-
ence and that his military record is not
l brilliant. Yet Gen. Pearson was of sufti-
cient Importance to hold the position of
chairman of the Republican executive COM
mittee of Pittsburgh.
Hancock, if elected, can celebrate his
"silver wedding" during the first year OF
his term as president, us Mr.. Hayes did,
3 ALSO General Grant likewise celebrated
the twenty fifth anniversary of his mar
riage while president. That celebration
occurred at his cottage, at Long Branch,
4 about the year 1873. General Grant has
an only daughter, Hayes has an only
daughter, SO has General Garfield and 50
had General Hancock.
: In the fall of 1864, during the campaign
of Lincoln and Mcclellan, the officers and
soldiers indulged in pretty free discussions
of the conduct of the war Oh the part Of
the administration. Hancock issued a
general order, which was read to every
regiment, commanding that all this should
! cease. "Our first duty" he said, in sub
r stance, is to stop the rebellion, not to
\ talk. When the war is over you can criti-
, else as much as You like. Until then a
soldiers duty is to obey and fight
In a recent speech in California Gen. w.
S. Rosccrans said: "Until now Ihave not
seen time when it appeared to me great
f and solemn duty to stand out in favor OF
$ actual Democratic work. The Democratic
$ convention at Cincinnati has proposed 4
candidate of the United States, to whom,
when young man, l taught civil and
; military engineering, and know him very
. well. He is clean man. Loud cheers. ]
r A gallant and prudent commander, and a
, brave and chivalrous officer. l think the
nomination promises to do things for the
future which ought to make every mans
heart leap with joy. Loud cheers]."
Speaking of Hancock, Hon. Thos. F.
: Bayard, his leading competitor, says {:
"GOd gave him the same characteristics of
f conscience and of self-control which he
! gave to the great George Washington.
| 1t is not therefore so much for what Han
cock did as for what he refused to do ut
the bidding of the despotic combination
! which iran" the government after Grant $
, accession to power that Senator Bayard
' admires and hOnOrs him. TO use his own
, words: eff you ask me why love Han
, cock, say because know that with him
the liberty of my country will be safe.
The Crawford Journol, Rep, imperti-
nently wants to know of Cameron L" why
he went to the Chicago convention and bat
tied night and day for a nomination he
knew was distasteful to the masses of his
party if his health was poor when he left
l Washington? We do not doubt the truth
} fulness of his ill-health in the least, for
, what he has gone through with in his re-
cent disastrous campaign, beginning in
February last, would break down man of
iron, but he certainly, by his own admis-
sions, shows that he was ready to imperil
; his health for Grants nomination, which
he will not do for Garticld's election
The report that Geo. Bullock, the great
,, manufacturer Of Montgomery county,
would vote for Hancock, having been de-
MED, he wrote to Il Republican friend as
follows: "The report you heard in re-
gard to my supporting the nominee for the
. presidency by the Democratic party, Gen.
Winfield Scott Hancock. is true in every
respect, and if l had u thousand votes
would cast them for him. He has been a
good soldier and a perfect gentleman take
him as you may you cannot find better
man and if elected will please both parties
doing only what he considers for the
best interest of all-and not for few.
The only fault with him is he is Demo-
crat, but knows his country only. Dr. l..
w. Read and others are with me-
Lee and Meade, who commanded
at Gettysburg seventeen years ago,
are dead; but" says the Graph
ic, "the corps commanders whose
troops faced each other at Cemetery
Hill, the key of the great struggle, arc
both in the land of the living, and each of
, them has come prominently before the