The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-07-02
Our Candidates.
FEW EXPRESSIONS BY NEWSPAPERS OF
ALL PARTIES,

always know where to find Handbook.
-lGrant in the wilderness.
You'll find him in the White oHuse after
March 4, 1881.
Happy is 1t for the democratic party, for
tunate is 1t for the people OF the United
States, that the delegates at Cincinnati made
so wise decision Washington Post (aem.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald esti
Inmates that "thc Surrat Islander is making
votes for Hancock at the rate of 10, 600
day, and the campaign has four months to
run"
The original G rlield man Is not as numer-
Gus now as he was ten days go. The original
Hancock man is of more Importance aud
there are many applicants for his situation
-Phaadelphia Times.
In making up its White House gallery the
Times struck three out of possible four
candidates Hancock, Garfield and English
all filled inches in that collection of states
men. 1t was not supposed that the republic
can party would get as far down as Arthur.
-Fhitddelphia Times.
1t is the harbringer of vict ,ry. Itunites
and solidifies the American democracy and
nervessthem for the autumnal struggle with
full assurance of success at the polls, and the
profound conviction that neither force nor
fraud will be able TO wrest from the people
the fruits of victory. The nomination is
| cell he, al ,bo a,
burg Post (dem.)
| BY the nomination of Winfield S. Ham
cock, a soldier of the republic aud an ire
proachable citizen, they have re, established
some claim to polite Il sagacity as well as to
get en- rapport with the best sentiment of the
people PttsJurg Dispatch (rp.)
A brave and well tried soldier of the Un.
ion, General Hancock is at the same time a
sincere and thorough believer in the demo-
cratic idea that evil government must al
ways be superior to military authority, and
that the people are Intimately greater than
the army, which they employ and pay.-N
Y Sun (ind)
His imbemished character in private life,
his high attainments, his social standing, fit
him to grace the Presidential chair His
public acts as brave and daring soldier in
war, and as a considerate and liberty loving
soldier in time OF peace justify the trust that
has been reposed in him. Philadelphia Rec
ord lind
Not since 1856, when the democracy of
Pennsylvania under the lead of John w.
Forney in this same city of Cincinnati nom.
mated james Buchanan for the Presidency
and reterned home resolved to elect him by
every means known to human ingenuity and
by every effort in the reach of human energy
has there been an event which will so in.
spirit the party as the nomination of Han
COCK Philadelphia Press (rep.)
But the General among soldiers was the
one named yesterday by the Cincinnati con-
vention as the democratic nominee for the
presidency Hancock.
phia Ledger (ind.)
This day has cast great shadows &C ross
the path of James A. Garfield. The nom
ination of Winfield Scott Hancock as his
competitor for the highest civil trust of the
world, by the spontaneous acclaim of a
democracy, forecasts contest that under
even the most favorable circumstances for
Garfield must be doubtful in its issue, and
that gives more than even promise in its
sweeping Hancock in every northern state.
l-PhaadeLphia Times editorial Telegram.
The republic can boast of no citizen whose
private life, and whose public career have
been more worthy as being held up as the
purest and most praiseworthy types. Physi-
cally, mentally, morally General Hancock
is one of the best of class which happily
is beginning to furnish many illustrious ex-
amples in the adornment of public affairs !;
and while we could esteem as nothing else
than calamity the success of the Democratic
party we must recognize from the begin.
ming that its defeat in the coming campaign
will find no promoting cause in any lack of
personal deserving on the part of its most
distinguished candidate for the Presidency,
North American (rep.)
His nomination appears to be the result of
the deliberate choice of the convention, and
he will undoubtedly make strong candidate
before the people. His public record is
without blot and his private character is
equally stainless. The democracy ought to
have no apprehensions for the result of the
election next November - Wilmington
Every Evening (indl
The Republican party is now put upon a
purely defensive campaign, for its candidate
has matters to explain, while Hancock has
nothing. As the things now look the Dem.
ocrats have the call, unless they shall COM
NIT most fatal acts of indiscretion during
the campaign.-7he Day, (rep.)
"This is strong nomination-probably
as strong as they could make" Mayor
Stockley.
sit is very popular nomination." Col
onel Charles Thompson Jones.
"They could not possibly have made
a stronger nomination." General A. IL.
Bingham.
4" 1t looks to me as if they had lucid in
terval-the first they have had since the
war;" Colonel NJ. S. Quay.