Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-10-25
REPUBLICAN, NOMINATIONS
WHICH CANDIDATE, GAR
FIELD OR HANCOCK

will support at the election, Tuesday,
Nov. I'd. The character. ability and
peculiar fitness of the candidates for the
presidency is of much Importance, but
the greater thing to be decided is, which
party with the candidate named will
give the country the best administration.
This question ought to be decided as
question of business, not of party. Every
man ought to decide political matters,
as he does other things, and vote and
act for his business interest.
Gen. Hancock is doubtless a man of
pure intentions and patriotic impulses;
his life has indicated this. If his party
is successful, be will undertake to ad-
minister the affairs of his government as
wisely and we'll as possible. He is a
man of fair talent; his education and
his training have given him superior
opportunities for acquiring military
education; his success in the army
showed that he possessed, not only the
genius of soldier, but great courage.
His opportunity for acquiring knowl-
edge of matters relating to government
has been as good as those of most men,
not active participants in the actual
affairs of government. Gen. Hancock,
or Gen. Garfield, whichever is elected,
will be a creature of his party. No
president since JacksOn's time has been
able to rise much above his party, nor
is it possible, in the nature of things,
for a man in the presidential chair,
to control to any important extent,
much less to coerce his party. Andy
johnson undertook to force his party
and signally failed. Gen. Grant wished
to effect somewhat radical change in
the civil service, following the sugges-
tons of the best men in his party, but
gave up the matter in disgust. Presi-
dent Hayes struck out in the same line,
but has only partially succeeded. Gen.
Hancock, if he should ever be called
upon to administer the government, will
be almost completely in the control of
the leaders of his party. AS the great
majority of his party is the party of the
South, he will find himself in the hands
Of the South. The people of that sec.
tion of the country are accustomed tc
rule. Whenever they vote for northern
men, they do it with the expectation, il
not the understanding, that the candi
date, if elected, will be subservient t.
their will. 1t was so with Franklin
Pierce and James Buchanan; it hal
been so with speaker Randall and will
nearly every Northern democratic con
gresham who has held conspicuou
place in congressional committee.
The 1873 electoral votes of the Soutl
will entitle that section to a controlling
voice in the formation of a democrati
cabinet, and it is not difficult to Sc
where the lions share of all offices vii
fall. Gen. Hancock, on account of ir
experience in national affairs, must pu
himself into the hands of his advisers
and we doubt whether they will be tn
men who will advise best for this sectio
of the nation. With a democratic &C
ministration comes change of the so
900 Ulcers in government service. Ger
Hancock will be utterly unable to eve
learn the names of this horde Of hungr
place seekers his cabinet, democrat
members of congress, and his politics
fuglemen throughout the country wi
virtually select this great number
men, who, without experience, some
them dishonest. are expected to run tn
great government. Nobody believ'
that it would be possible for this arm
of inexperienced men to do the ofici
work of the government as we'll as it
being done. A change in all these of
ces, were it possible to ill each pla
with an honest man, would be expense
if not disastrous.
But the democratic party is sections
in numbers, influence. and ruling pow
it is Southern. Note the proceedings
the last five sessions of Congress. The
are measures which the South, as a S,
ton, has urged and will urge in &C
gress. Some of them thought rebelli
right, and all of them would think
right to obtain pay for their slaves
at liberty, for injuries done by destrl
tion of property in the war, and for O
err pecuniary losses they sustained. Il
spirit as been shown by the vast NUM-
of claims presented to congress and u
waiting on the calendars of the I
Houses for an opportunity to be voted
These men and the whole South wish
receive back something for the loss
war. Does any one believe that wit
democratic congress and a democr;
president all of these claims would
rejected
There is another kind of claims p
by the government, that the South