Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-07-07
The Hascock BooR.


the people receive the Cincinnati nomina-
lions. From Minnesota 10 the Gulf; from
Maine to California, there IL tremendous
excitement. The puny attempts TO con-
meet the name Of the great Democratic
leaders with the Surratt murder meet with
sudden sharp rebuke. The world seems
To have gone Wild over this, the grandest
nomination since Harrisons election. In
deed it seems that we are likely 10 live
over sgain the stirring manifestations Of
the hard cider campaign when Tippecanoe
and Tyler too was the refrain Of the popn-
lar voice; when log cabins were rolled on
wheels; when great canoes with occupant
holding paddles were hailed from county
to comfy. The selection Of Hancock has
touched the popular heart, besides furnish
ing port of refuge for discontinued Re
pubicaus to seek without mourning the
reproach Of desertion. Rash indeed would
be the man who could stigmatze with
any approbious cpithet the Republican
that preferred Hancock to Garfield. Tn.
der ordinary circumstances it might he
different, but 80 great, 81 pnre the reputa-
tion Of the Democratic leader, 80 full Of
good things for the republic would he his
administration, that no blame could attach
to the Republican who supported him
The papers are filled with items like
these: give hundred Hancock clubs or
ganized in Pennsylvania in one day" "a
prominent Republican in Utica. New York,
accepts the presidency Of Hancock club.
"John W. Forncy comes squarcly out in
support of Hancock" And hundreds Of
others equally significant. II verify looks
rs IL vici0ry will perch upon the Demo
cratic banners next November.
Twenty years ago the Government pass
ed from the control of the Democracy.
Two decades of Radical rule have brought
fearful, startling changes upon the nation.
The record. of each successive admnistra.
ton disclose u long list of peculation, rob
bling aud corruption uf every character
that not single leader Of the Republican
party but that has his name smirchrd in
Some way with wrong doing. Perhaps
Conkling might he excepted were il not
that he stands or TALL, 10y his man Arthur
OF all those who were most conspicuous
at Chicago not one conld compare with
n III lrt
about Garfield Blaine stole from wit
ness the letters aud documents that would
prove his dishonesty. John Sherman went
into the Senate poor; be is now rich. The
how would damn him forever.
II the story Of sodom and Gomnrrnh
were to be enacted over again, with the
Republican party as the inhabitants of
the doomed cities, nothing would stand in
the way of n literal reproduction of the
biblical legcnd-surcly not because there
was greater number of honest men.
WORT feature Of all is that official
wrong doing has become 50 common that
in the masses of the Republican party
there seems 10 ne no stntlHltNt 10 us
countenancc all this corruption. II is
looked upon nS matter of course. That
a man has bartcrcd or sold his vote aud
official influence; that he has engaged in
questionable practices does not operate as
bar to his advancement. The only
healthy public sentiment about matters
of this kind is to he found III the Democ-
racy, and in u small portion of the Rcpub-
lican party, whose hatred for the Dcmocra-
cy is generally greater than their objcc'
tions to dishonesty III their leaders.
Can it lie wondered that the people hail
the nomination of Hancock as the means
of pnrtication' Thr enthusiasm is natur-
al in the spontaneous outpouring of the
popular rejoicing that relief is at hand;
that once again honesty will command Il
premium; that official integrity shall be
the rule and not the exception.
There i about the Democratic nomina-
ton a positive purity that arouscs the ell
thusia>m that now couvulSr~ the nation.
| There are honest men and able men who
are so negative in their nature that they
can, in political struggles, be- defeated by
persons much their inferior in every re-
spcct But this ticket seems 10 have MI
the needed magnetism. The people who
| could never have lost their heads over
samuel !. Tldcn, or even Baynrd. grow
/ wild and toss their hats with hnarse hur
/ rails at the mention of the soldier, Han
/ charge At the head of his men, Who fought