Daily Republican., 1880-07-26
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
Jewels and COrseta.

RAYWORTH WELDlN.
Jewels and COrsetH.
General Hancock has a suit pending
In the Courts Of New York to recover
some $4,000 worth Of jewery which
was stolen from him when he occupied
rooms in the 81. Cloud Hotel, before he
removed to his present residence on
Governors Island. Among the articles
stolen and for which compensation 10
claimed, were q diamond cross worth
$3.50, diamond earrings worth $3.50,
diamond breast-pin worth $S7O, brace
let's worth $500, and many other arti-
cles of more or less value belonging to
q daughter, besides several valuable
articles belonging to the General him
self. The case was first tried before
referees and the General lost the suit,
because he had not complied with the
rules of the hotel by giving his jewelry
into the hands of the landlord to be
looked up for safe keeping. From this
decision he has appealed, bat it is like
ly the case will be postponed until after
the election. It might not be the most
popular eleotioneering card to have the
trial proceed in the heat Of canvass,
for the recovery Of $15, 1000 worth Of
jewelry. The question would naturally
come with the plain, practical farmer
and the hard-fsted mechanic and la.
borer in blue overalls, what in the
name of sense does one man want with
90 much jewelry' $4,000 worth Of
glittering, golden gew-gaws hung upon
the corsetted persons Of General Han
cock and his wife, If elected to the
White House, would be q radical de.
parture from the plain and simple tastes
of the present occupants. Corsets, did
we sayi Yes, we did. 1t is, We b..
ieve, an undeniable fact that General
Hancock does wear corssts to brace up
and round off his graceful proportions.
However, that is merely a matter Of
taste with the General. He has a per-
feet right to wear them II he sees prop
or, and if he wants he can hang $780,.
900 worth of glittering jewelry
around his robust form. That is
his business. 1t might, however,
raise question as to whether man
who spends SO much in the decoration
OF his person would make the best kind
of material for President of Republic
like the United States. Corsets on q
man may serve a useful purpose, but
what a man wants with $l5, 900 worth
of jewelry lying around loose in his
rooms at night to be used in day time
is something incomprehensible. A
weakness for jewelry in man or woman
is worse than parting the hair in the
middle, or twisting it into that abom-
nabls thing called "bangs."
General Hancock is worth more in
diamonds and jewelry than his Repub-
lican opponent, General Garfield, is
worth altogether. The latter like
Abraham Lincoln, earned every dollar
expended in his own education and in
providing for his mother, his wife and
his children, and he has too keen a
Rense Of the substantial good to be &C.
complished with money to invest it in
costly diamonds and jewelry that its
possession may shine in the exclusive
aristocratio circle which is the pride
and boast Of the average graduate OF
West Point. The intelligent voter will
not be long in discovering the differ
ence between the two candidates for
the Presidency. A poor boy General
Garfield lived through his youth by his
daily labor, and it is no discredit to
him that the time when Hancock was
sent to be educated by the Government
at West Point, he (Garfeld) was driven
to follow the humble occupation of =
canal boatman. Rising by his own I'M
aided effort to the highest posts Of re-
sponsibility and honor, he has taken
with him through life the experience
of poverty and hard work, and he has
q living sympathy with the poor and
Woodworking man. The habits of life
of himself and family are models Of
republican simplicity.
On the other hand Hancock was ed
ucated by the Government. He knows
nothing of the vacations and trials Of
life that poverty EIings to the door.
Secretary schurz understood the ques.
ton fully when he said: "Of all classes
of our society it may be said that our
regular army Is the most exclusive, the
most widely separated from the ordina,
~ business life Of the people in point
OF sympathy, duty and habit. II we
have an apart class among us, clags
whose contact with the cares and en-
deavors and business end objects of tho
life Of the masses is only occasional
and unsympathetic, class that in it,
ideas and aims is separated from tho