The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-09

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- TfaH OF PENNSYLVANIA .-
I, ~ OUR NOMINEE. 3a-
re We publish in this issue several ex-
tracts showing the decided and increas-
ing favor with which the name of Gen.
w. s.. Hancock is hailed in our own
and other States, as the next Demo-
cratic nominee for the Office of President.
The spirit with which the Republic
cans Of the North have opened the
campaign of 1880, has finally drilled to
the foregone conclusion that they can
not safely prosecute 1t, with fair chances
OF success, without the candidacy of
the sssilent man." With him as their
leader, sectional asperities and preju-
dices and the issues of the war at once
become main factors of triumph, and in
his character and candidacy assume a
sharply defined embodiment. His
great military services, his personal
popularity, his fixedness and persist
ence of purpose, and, above all: his
subserviency to party purposes, when
called for by the exigency Of the case,
have seemingly made tho other candi-
dates for the Presidency, like bats and
owls, sshunt their holes" when his NOM
ination for the third term is considered
necessary to heal the dissentlons of the
party and lead them to victory. Thor
oughly impressed with the perils of
certain defeat without him, their recog.
nized leaders have forgotten, or, in the
dread Of Democratic success, have ut
terly ignored all the traditions which,
thus far in the history of the govern
ment, have controlled the action of all
the Presidents who have been elected
for a second term, and, as am unwrit-
ten but we'll understood part of the con-
stitution, have forbidden the candidacy
of any of them for third term. Hence
these Republican leaders, or ut least
the great majority of them, have
sought to defend their action in this
matter by alleging that the peculiar
circumstances of the case in 1880, in
point of fact, absolutely demand his
nomination as the only means Of saw
ing the country from the peaceful dan
gers Of Democratic rule, and that, since
he has been relocated to the pleasures
of private station for four years, offer
no violation of these sacred traditions.
Grants love of power, his fondness
for parade, station and wealth, con-
cealed beneath a savage Indifference,
characteristic of the man upon all occa.
sions, may possibly deceive himself,
but certainly cannot deceive others in
to the belief, that in case of his accep-
lance of the nomination of the Repnb-
lican party for third term he is obey
ing the trumpet call of his country in
her time OF need, and not the decep-
tive suggestions of personal ambition.
Under these circumstances SO GER
tainfy existing and as certainly in
tended to be unscrupulously used by
leading Republican politicians for their
personal and party benefit, the Demo-
candidate tor the same Office a man
who cmbodics in his character a moral
purity, n strength and clcarness of in
tellect, broadncss OF statcsnlanlike
views, a disposition to subordinate the
military to tho civil authority, and,
above all, personal magnetism which
alone can make him the successful
leader of his party and attract to his
enthusiastic support the prudent and
thoughtful elements of the Republican
party which tho nomination of a third
term candidate is most certain to evoke.
Such n man we have pre-eminently in
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, whose
loyalty, patriotism and military ser.
vice and fano make him fully the nee,
in everything but nominal military
rank of Con. Grant; and whose states
manfike views and regard for the
rights of his fellow-citizens in the exer
else of even military power over them
incomparably his superior.
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