The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-01
What Nobody Knows.

1rage or against IL Z NOBODY Knows.
Is Gen. Hancock for Hard-money or
Soft money? Nobody knows.
Is Gen. Hancock for pensioning
rebel as well as Union soldiers? No
body knows.
Is Gen. Hancock for Civil-service
reform or for the old Jacksonian spoils
system? Nobody knows.
Is Gen. Hancock for Public I'M
provements or for a strict construction
of the Constitution =? Nobody knows.
Is Gen. Hancock for continuing the
silver coinage till resumption will be
upset, or for stopping it? Nobody
knows.
Is Gen. Hancock for pensoning
everybody who served in the Mexican
war, whether wounded or not, and
whether rebel or not ? Nobody knows
Is Gen. Hancock for enforcing or
for nullifying the amendments to the
Constitution by which the fruits of
the war were secured? Nobody
knows.
Is Gen. Hancock for controlling
the railroads and other common car
riers by Congressional legislation in
the public interest, or against it? No
body knows.
Is Gen. Hancock for maintaining
the Election Laws intact or for giving
the South full swing in carrying itself
solid by fraudulent elections? Nobody
knows.
Is Gen. Hancock for or against ap-
pointing enough new Democratic
Judges of the Supreme Court to upset
the war amendments to the Constitu-
ton and SO revivify the rebel debt and
pension the rebel soldier? How far, in
short, is he ready to go to show his
gratitude to the ex- rebels, his late
enemies in the field to whom he now
owes his nomination and by whose
votes he must be elected? Nobody
knows.-Bnfalo Express.
Go in boys; give 'em Hail Co
lumbia shouted Gen. Garfield, as he
threw aside his coat and led an assault
upon Humphry Marshall's rebels at
Paintville, KY, in 1862. .'Give 'em
Hail Columbia" will be the siguificent
battle cry of the pending campaign.
Let's see: General Hancock
fought for the Union and he is now
the nominee of the party that fought
against the Union. The whirligig of
time shows many changes. The
country is in no deadly peril. When
it was, the Democracy would have
preferred to hang Union General
rather than nominate ehim.-Rocheste
Democrat.
The New York Tribune prints the
following despatch from Meadville, in
this State: "The half dozen students
who represented Democracy in A lie
gheny College got together and sent
congratulatory telegram to General
Hancock. If the General could have
been in the college chapel and heard
the cheers that greeted the announce
ment of the nomination of Garfield,
and could know the fact that by actual
vote all the faculty and over ninety
per cent. of the students are for GAR
field, he would not derive much en-
couragement from that despatch.
Such death bed devotion to the
soldiers will deceive no one, least of
all the soldiers themselves. The nomi-
nation of Hancock will be recognized
by all sensible men simply as a despe-
rate attempt of party which has been
out of power for twenty years, and
whose long fast has given it the hun
ger of the wolf, the assurance of Il high
wayman, and the brass of Satan him
self to climb once more into place and
power and provender by an exhibition
of fervent regard for great American
soldier. The people of this country
are not fools. The meaning of the
nomination is too transparent to de-
ceive them.-Albany Journal.
An Englishman who travelled up
'iiN NiiS SlatSo tiliJ HIS btuTu, WHICH
at home was straight, soft, and silky,
began Immediately on arriving at
Alexandria to curl, and to grow crisp,
strong, and coarse. Before reaching
Es Souan it resemblcd horsehair to
the touch and was disposed in ringlets.
He accounts for this by the exceeding
dryness of the air, and considers that
II the course of many generations it
permanently curled and crisped the
hair of negroes. The hair on tn
travellers head was not affected.
English, the tail of the Demo-
cratic ticket, was so strongly pro-sla- |
very that he has been on the retired |
list every since the war Before that
he was Northern man with Southern
principles. We can therefore tell where |
he stands to-day when the "solid |
South takes him to redeem their
lost cause" But who can tell what !
Hancock believes? He has neither
spoken or written concerning his be-
lief.
mot long ago." remarks the Ca.
yuga Chief, "Alonzo b. Cornell and |
Chester A. Arthur were removed from
their positions at the port of New
York bU prao;lapt g..