Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-07-27
HANCOCK WOULD HAVE OBEYED
TILDEN'S ORDERS.
boston Transcript.

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General Hancock has been interviewed,
according to the Brooklyn Eagle. which
is respectable Democratic authority
What the General said will not enlarge
his support among refectiaS citizens. l.
shows a vordancy in politics that nigh,
be expected of an army officer who knows
nothing outside Of his profession, but not
of one whom his adhcrents set up as Il
Statesman. Mark the simplicity OF the
statement that there ought 10 be no
trouble about Pennsylvania. | had a
Conversation this evening with an artist
who had been down in the county where
was born making sketch of the house
of nv mother. lie says almost every one
he met would vote for me, Republicans
as well Is Democrats If this is true, it
shows 4 desire on the part OF the people
for a change. am Of the opinion that
the people Of this country are DESTROYS for
change Of administration, but they
want a man on the watch tower who will
see to il that there shall be no inter-
ference with what has been accomplished
in the past Colonel Mcclure, the edi-
tor of the Philadelphia Tones, and sup
porter OF General Hancock, knows some
thing about Pennsylvania politics. He
SAYS il is q mistake to suppose that Han
cock OF any Democrat in the party can
revolutioaize the State OF Pennsylvania.
General Hancock states that the people
are DESTROYS OF change OF AdmInlstra-
ton. lie probably has not scanned the
returns of the latest elections, which IN
dicated that the change wished for was
one not at all favorable to the present
Democratic Congress. Ii man Is
wanted ION the watch-tower who will
see to it that there shall be no interior
ence with what has been accomplished in
the past, the masses are not going to
select as their agent the officer who
proved such facile tool in the hands of
the reactionis,s who controlled Andrew
Johnson's administration. They will
make assurance doubly sure by electipg
General Garfield. 1t remains to be
proved that majority of the electors
wish to inaugurate such change as
would annul all safeguards around the
ballot box, continue the disfranchisement
of hundreds of thousands of voters at the
South. institute tariff for revenue only,
and restore the era of issuing irredeem-
able paper money. The people have now
sufficient change in their pockets not to
desire the change General Hancock 5
election would give.
The General admits that he had made
up his mind not TO obey his superior Of
fcers in a certain event. With all the
dogmatic assertions possible, he declares,
Il am of the opinion that General Grants
term as President ended at midnight,
March 8. After that | should have paid
no more attention to him officially than |
would to the man in the moon. The
houses of Congress alone had the power
to count the electoral vote and declare
the result, and they were the constituted
authority. My position on this question
cannot be open to misoonstruction.' A
little more modesty BELTS an officer like
General Hancock in deciding upon legal
and constitutional questions. Most mill
tary men of high rank, whose opinions
are at least as valuable as those of Gener-
al Hancock on the question which he so
promptly and oracularly decided. would
have suppressed their private belief and
obeyed orders from those holding still
more elevated military positions.