The daily gazette., 1880-06-28

STATEsMANsHIP.-T There has been
o sad want Of real statesmanship in
this country for number of years.
And this want has been mostly in the
controlling party. Had real states
manship been practiced, there would
have been less to complain of, and lit
2 tie hope for the success of any party
that might attempt to defeat the Radi-
Gals with hundred thousand civil
officers at their back, and literally an
army of military officers spread all
over the country whose pay rested
upon the taxes the Radical legislators
could gather from the toiling millions.
There has been plenty of practice in
the study Of state-craft and political
scheming to devise modes for keeping
power in the hands of those who had
enriched themselves at the expense of
the labor of the million. In this sort
of work the Radical leaders for the
last two decades have had experience.
Craftsmanship is the reverse of this ;
and the people may be glad that the
Democratic party has chosen a stand
ard bearer whose absence from the
seat of government has left him free
from such experience"
The bald impeachment for the want
OF experience is mere repetition of
the old notes uttered against Wash.
ington and Jackson, and Polk, and
Pierce, when those great men were
put forward. The friends of the
Adamses, and Webster and Clay were
champions who were accounted great in
experience in craftsmanship, were held
up as vastly more to be priced than
the plain, stern virtues for which
Washington and jackson and Polk
were noted. But the people were no,
deceived then and they will not be de.
ceived now.
Andrew jackson was not noted fol
experience in statecraft, yet lie was
found to be equal to the duties of the
great Office to which he was chosen
over Adams and Clay and accom-
phshed more as a statesman than
either did Or would have done.
io 1t took him but short time to set.
tie difficult questions that had per.
picked the country for years under hi.
predecessors. And his success con.
n vinced those who had opposed him on
the ground of want of experience in
craftsmanship" that he was the most
accomplished statesman of his day,
Entering upon his duties with a debt
Of $13, 100000 upon the country. in
eight years he had the satisfaction OF
? seeing it all paid and a balance Of
about $3S, ,0OO, 900 of surplus none,
in the Treasury which was SUBSEQUENT
ly distributed among the severa
States. ... l..
James X. Polk, was derlded apt
scoffed at as man of no experienc,
in craftsmanship, but the last year O
his official life as Chief Magistrat,
? closed upon one of the most brillian
and successful Terms of the Presl.
dental office that the history of tn,
country records.
iu It was as illustrious for its civil caree
az for the glory of American arms
and more fruitful of conquests an,
additions to the Republic than all pre-
ceding ngadministrations-acquiring al
the region now known as Texas, Ne,
Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, and Cali
fornia- .n..
In this work of conquest Winfiel,
Scott Hancock was an active partici
= pant. His gallant deeds in Mexic
are well remembered by his friend
and admirers, as are those in NOR
recent years at Gettysburg and in tn
. Wilderness. And it is folly to sup
pose that man like General Hancock
reared in the national school, educated
for. all the work his government shoulc
call him to perform, and who hac
shown such vast ability in the mos