New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-03

General Hancock offered the body of Mrs Surratt 10
the Washington doctors for dissection and that doc
ument1ry proof of the offer is in existence. Inc
story has not been authorItatively denied, so taf
NJ we know. As the Generals friends seem to fear
that it will injure him in the canvass-though we
do not see what 1t has to do with the Presidential
election-THE TRIBUNE offers General Hancock
the use of its columns for his explanation OF DENIAL
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The leading Democratic issue Oh give US
| a change
| In 1876 the Democratic party took the field as
hindrance to resumption. Now 1t is running as a
| bindTance to prosperity.
There is no limit to John Kelly's magnanmity.
Realizing that he bore of all the honors as victor
from the Cincinnati Convention, he has not ceased
for n moment TO offer forgiveness to the Tilden wing
| of the partv To be sure he has following OF only
| rs 600 voters while the Tiden wing has 100000,
but what is that to him Come" he cries, let us
| harmonize Huddle up under my protecting
wing. establish me rs boss Of the whole party,
| and we'll let bygones be bygones. IN promise "
| say nothing about the past II youll come IN anu
| make nv future secure" This is true magnanlmlty;
| OF course the Tiden wing OF the party VIII
accept it as such.
Senator Bayard says he does not see now any
| Pennsylvanian can vote or speak against nan
cock. If he keeps his eyes on the State through
| the campaign till election day nc VIII sec plenty
| of them.
1t is either the Solid North or the Solid South
which mnst rule this country for four years from
next March.
Mr.. English. the proprietor Of the Theoretically
| scaled Indiana barrel, doesn't seem to be an
especially discreet person. lie said III his recent
| ratification speech at Indianapolis 81 10 not
| FORGET the condition of affairs four years ago.
/ hat had gnn
! TO discourage some of did not like the platform
very much we did not like the candidate that was
presented. We recolect what was the state OF
| affairs in New-Yorl When John Kelly, my friend,
| passed through this STATE. many OF us sympathZeu
| with him III his views" It IS Little siupIu "
| hit Tilden over the head and call kelly my
fr1end' in the same sentence. When IiIdeh aiG -
| urgently needed to help the party carry hhslish
! through in Indiana.
There is movement ON foot III Texas to raise
fund to send Southern speakers North during the
campaign This is first class idea. II Ben hlll,
Senator Beck Blackburn. Chalmers, and other
| lilnber-chipned champions of solid Southern
| ideas are included in the speakers sent the
Republicans will raise the entire fund themselves.
New-York is n Republican State when the Repub-
! lean ticket commands the independent vote. mat
vote is solid l0r Garfield and arthur.
An anonymous St. Louis Democrat Who had many
| conversations with Hancock last Winter, re-
members that the General assured him that he dld
not think it proper for Presidential candidate
| to coutribute Inoney to aid his election. Did
| thn General communicate thai idea to 1lIden, tho
! other day when hc called II would hoo s,eh!
! calculated to assist in the delicate process OF
! establishing connection WIN Inc DUIol'
Senator IIoar summed up the situation capitaily
in this paragraph his speech at the taEeml Hall
ratification meeting on Wednesday evening (:
James A. Garfield Is representative OF the
| Republican party. lie represents its opinions, ne
represents its history, he represents It's aspirations
! What shall We say OF lis competitor / would
saw nothing personal OF General Hancock,
but General Hancock is not the representative,
he is the mask Of the Democratic party.
The one thing that you know OF General
| Hancock is that he brave soldier IN war
which the Democratic party pronounced a
! failure. In 1864, when one OF the ihlngS ne mas
| done and well done had been ACCOMPLISHED the
| men who have now put him in nomination pro-
| nOuuccd that they were badly done ana Idllure
l think | have heard that when The IeLsL pickles
! were in an exposed position and the hie grow very
hot they used to think they could stop II by suck
| ing up the uniform OF Union solder; ana this
seems to be the Democratic plan Tor the coming
campaign"
Do Southern Democrats supper, Hancock because
he fought them IL 81, OF because thcy expect 10
| use him III 81
pat brave Hancock in the Presidential chair"
declares the Hon. John Kelly in his Tammany
Grafton, and we viii be- once more a common
country A close study of the somewhat dis
located language which precedes and follows this
puzzlng statement seems TO prove that this is Mr.
| Kelys eccentric way of asserting that the Union
| has not yet been restored. MI. Kelly evidently
believes that the true way TO the country Is to
| surrender all departments Of the Government
to the control of the section which tired 10 destroy
| it and still glOTles IN the attempt
Judge Trumbull is having a bilious time of it
| running for Governor of Illinois on the Democratic
ticket His record as O ary-grabber came up,
| or rather was brought up by the Democrats, to
bother him first and now wher ever he turns he
finds this sentence from one of bis speeches in the
Senate in 1872 staring him in the face The Dem
ocratic party has yet done an act that would
commend 1t TO the favorable consideration of the
people Of the United States, but on the contrary
its traditions and its acts are now and ever have
been a standing menace to the progress and civil
iZation Of the nineteenth century," That is as true
to-day as it was in S72 but is not, nevertheless,
a stimulating Democratic battle cry,
"The Democratic PLATFORM" observes an
admiring Southern commentator is sound and
toush.D 1t so tough i'll fact that the country
will decline to swallow it.
The Democats have "reduced the army" to one
superb soldier"
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