Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-02
Press Expressions.
THE NEW YORK HERaLp'sn VIEWS.


much about of late years. Here it is actually
put in side by side with incompetence as
of one lot. Call you this backing your
friends? There is one good point very hap
pily put in, which is clear recognition tnaS
the war is over. We are glad that one OF the
parties at least knows this. 1t repeats what
that gentleman says he had foreshadowed In
some earlier verbal remarks, that ne also
will accept the huge trust of nomination.
From this the writer slips into warm eulogy
of Hancock, whom he uses as Hancock does
the Constitution of the United States, with
evasive effect. English expresses in many
forms and words his firm conviction that
twenty years in Office is enough for one party,
and that it is time for the Democratic twenty
years to begin. He touches fraud coldly
and not freshly, and has altogether made
clumsy response"
REPUBLICAN OPINION.
The Tribune says: Hancock has written
a dignifed letter of acceptance. 1t is not
particularly luxuriant in opinions upon the
great questions of the day, and its meagerness
in this respect will disappoint many of his
own party who looked for ringing statement
of Democratic principles. But its tone Is
courteous and moderate. 1t INDUCES IN no
denunciations of the Democratic sort with re-
spect to the circumstances under which Han
United States, reached his position. His let
ter may be dull, but it is decorous, and that
is something to be grateful for. 1t has one
fault as letter accepting Democratic NOM
ination for the Presidency. 1t Is not Dem
ocratic letter. 1t is a platitude on the platl-
tudes which Democrats sometimes preach,
but which they never practice. The greatest
incongruity of all appears when Hancock de-
! clares solemnly in favor of a full vote, tree
Ill - Ill cto Mo
tudes this seems the most grotesque. There
has not been full VOTE free ballot and
fair count in the Southern States for years
past, and Hancock's election would not be
possible if by any miracle they should come
to pass. English's letter is undignifed, and
written in style which may be truly desig.
mated as cheap and trivial Disappointed
Democrats will be forced to conclude that
there is no statesman at either end of the
Cincinnati ticket"
OF SOCIAL TENDENCIES.
The Times speaks well of Hancock's letter,
but belittles and ridicules English's. Of the
latter it says: For banker and man of
alleged wealth, who is said to be nervously
apprehensive for the safety of his posses
sions, Mr.. English has curious leaning
toward Communism. Denis Kearney, Will
lam II. English and Gustav Schwab would
cratic retormers."
GooD-FEELING DEMOCRATS.
The Democratic journals seem immensely
pleased with Hancock's letter. The Sun,
however, evidently sarcastically, says: st
is rather statesmanlike document to ema-
nate from mere soldier, as our Republican
friends call him, in the acknowledged alb.
sence of Judge Black. 1t is as broad and
comprehensive as the continent, as elastic as
india-rubber and as sweet as honey. Han
cock makes only one mistake that we notice.
He speaks of all classes of our people, A
true Democrat ought to know that we have
only one class in this country, and that is no
class. We suppose Tilden would not write a
letter for any one but himself"
AN INDEPENDENT OPINION.
CHICAGO, July 31st = The Times says
"Hancocks letter of acceptance sufficiently
plain and distinct on every important point
to satisfy the most captious of his political
opponents. Immediately acknowledging the
receipt of the official notice of his nomination,
he makes the following reputation of any SYM
pathy with those Bourbon politicians who de-
sire to turn back the pages of history: The
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend.
ments of the Constitution of the United
States, embodying the results of the war, are
inviolable' This he follows with the state
ment that if he should be elected he would
resist, with all his power. any attempt to
impair or evade the full force and effect of
the Constitution. 1t is not very strange,
but it is a cause for regret, that other portions
of the letter do not rise to the level of this in
explicitness. When General Hancock
says: The baYonet is not a fit nstru-
ment for collecting the votes of freemen,'
he is only indulging himself in the use of
bold metaphor. Nobody proposes to col
lect ballots on a bayonet, but it is fair
question, though net since 1877 practical one,
whether the bayonetisn ota proper thing to en-
ploy when shotguns and revolvers and bowie
knives keep freemen from holding political
meetings and from voting as they please. On
civil service reform he says what every one,
from George William Curtis to Mr.. 4 lanna-
gan, Of Texas will assent to- that only good
men should be appointed to Office but the
only way to accomplish this, indicated in the
letter, is the selection of good men to the
elective Offices by the people. After remind
ing the public that the war has been over
fifteen years. and sentiments of friendship
and not of animosity should be cultivated
among our citizens, he disposes of the fnan-
cial subject in the following brief remark: "A
sedulous and scrupulous care of the public
credit, together with wise and economical
managementof our Government expenditures,
should be maintained Certainly no one will
learn from that what sort of financial legisla-
ton General Hancock would approve, and
what he would veto, for even Greenbackers
disclaim any intention of damaging public
credits. The General concludes his letter
with the encouraging assurance that, if he be
elected, he will see that the laws are faith
fully and equally executed in all parts of the
country alike but not even this gives any
idea of what sort of legislation it is proper for
4 l.. b. :,
THE LETTER OF a NOVICE.
The Tribune says: ''Brevity would be
commendable were there not painful con-
seriousness on the part of both of the reader
and the writer that the resort to glittering
genaralities is caused by General Hancock's
almost total want of acquaintance with the
political questions now at issue before the
country. The letter of General Hancock
is not candid it is evasiye and obscure. I'm
der pretense of being an outspoken and
frank declaration of principles. no principles
are avowed, but between the lines may be
discovered the odor, if not the form, of the
most malignant of all the devices of disunion,
strife and civil war-the demon of State
supremacy"
NOMINATED FOR CONGRESS-.
CINCINNATI, August 1st.-The Republicans
yesterday at Lima nominated w. X. Boone,
of Allen county, for Congress from the Fifth
District.
WEAVER HOPEFUL.
WHEELING CIV. Va.), August 1st.-General
Weaver, 10 an interview with an Intelligencer
reporter to-day, said General West, of Miss
issippi, told him at Selma that if Hancock
was elected the spirit of intolerance at the
South would be so great that he tWest) did
not believe he could live in Mississippi day.
Weaver is hopeful of carrying Alabama to-
morrow for the Greenback State ticket,
claiming that the Republicans are joining the
Greenbackers in large numbers, in hopes that
they will thus escape the ostracism under
which they live.