The Portland daily press., 1880-08-18
burlington Hawkeye.l
Under Which King, Bezonian?"

Young man. you may have heard there is 60
ing to be an election in this country pretty
soon. 1t may be that you have never before
voted for President. In that case it is time
for you to be making up your mind how you
win vote next Fall, and with which party you
will work in tho mean time. Which is it, Gar
field Hancock? Will you be radical or con-
sentative? Radicalism is progress, conserva-
tism is standing still, and standing still in this
age is going backward. Radicalism moves on
the highway, abreast Of the times, keeps pace
with the railway, the telegraph, the telephone,
the steamship. Conservatism sits in the grave
yard, dwelling among the tombs and mourn
ing over the good old times. Choose you be-
tween the two. ie,f es -,ss.s 8a
And if you choose to go with the Democracy
and vote for Hancock, let us see what kind of
company you will have on your way to the
polls: .-r sorsi4 ,1t..r. ~ 5a,1
20 The man who murdered General McCook
will vote for Hancock.
Every man who rejoiced at the assassination
of Lincoln will vote for Hancock. 3
Every man that ever put on a Kuklux mask
and assisted in dragging an old negro out of his
bed at midnight and hanging him, will vote
for Hancock. 70
The brigands who rode after QuantrelI into
Lawrence, Kansas, and sacked the town and
murdered the inhabitants, will vote for Han
cock +;
Boss Kelly will vote for Hancock. II 3
Every swindling scoundrel that is running a
moonlight still, and defrauding the govern
ment and shooting the revenue officials in the
mountains of Tennessee, will vote for Han.
cock. sts y ..r..t =
The murderers Of Judge Chisholm and his
daughter are still at large and will vote for
Hancock say, i
Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice President
of the so-called Southern Confederacy, saws he
was the Original Hancock man." and will
Wade Hampton, who in 1868, publicly and
repeatedly urged the social ostracism of Re-
Puhlicans and advised from the platform that
no Democrat should give Republican en-
ployment or trade at store kept by Repub-
hcan, has taken the field for Hancock
Gen. Butler, of South Carolina, the Ham
burg butcher, will vote for Hancock
william ID. Barnum of Connecticut the
well known mule dealer" will vote for Han
cock.
The sentinels who stood guard around the
Union prisoners at Andersonville, and shot
dead the starving soldier of the Union, your
nelghbor, your friend, your brother, as he stag
gered across the dead line, will vote for Han
The man who shot Gen. Mcpherson will vote
Tor Hancock.
Barksdale, the Yazoo county murderer who
Killed Dixon because he wanted to run for the
same office. has declared for Hancock.
Currie, the Texas assassin, who shot an nm
armed actor just because it was his day to kill
somebody. has beeneacquitted by Texas iurv
and will vote for Hancock
jeff Davis says if he had a vote he would
cast it for Hancock
Beauregard, who fred the first gun at the
nag OF his country at Fort Sumter, and now
writes to New Orleans paper that he "does
not repent it because his conscience does NOT
reproach him for it," will vote for Hancock.
Samuel j. Tilden, politician SO UNANIMOUSLY
and VIGOROUSLY corrupt and unprincipled that
even his. own party dared not could not and
wound pot renominate him, will vote for Han
cock. tsf 81 's
Now there they are, young man, just a few
OF mem. II yon like the crowd go into it. If
you want the friends who now respect Won and
the people whose respect you wish to retain: if
you want your old father who is proud of YOU
and looks up to you to perpetuate the family
name and honor; if you want your mother.
VINO sees In you the best and dearest and man.
hest OF sons; II you want your sweetheart or
wife, who has made you the ideal of all that is
noble and true, the very soul of honor, the
perfection OF honest manhood and spotless in
tegrity; II Byou want all these friends who
.himk anu Deueve you to be pnre and exalted
In life and sentiment; if you want them to see
you marching up to the polls with that mob.
thinking as this motley array of Union-haters
and negro-shooters think, voting as thew vote.
applauding what they endorse and making
your sentiments, your aspirations, your homes
and wishes, your plans and your ambitions.
your motives and your actions, identical with
theirs, why, it's free country, go up with
them and be one of them, and then come back
and hate yourself to DEATH Go with that
crowd If you will, but take warm bath he
fore you come back to your family. Fumigate
yourself before you come back into the house
For decency's sake, in the name of manly pur-
ity, have the virtue to be ashamed of YOUR.
But If you don't like the crowd, and we
honestly hope and believe you DON'T keep out
OF it and keep away from it. Be stalwart Re
radical in everything. March up to the polls
under the f1uttering, ragged battle-1ags your
fathers and brothers Carried for the Union.
when these other fellows were shooting AT
them: Go to the polls in company with the
son OF Abraham Lincoln, rather than arm in
arm with Barksdale of Yazoo Walk beside
the son OF Stephen A Douglas rather than
Currle OF Texas. Go to the polls with Grant
rather than Pemberton, both for the honor of
the thing and the certainty of victory. Walk
beside such men as John G.. Whittier. rather
than the masked night-rider who helps to hang
and shoot Republicanism out of Miss;ss;nn;
Go to the polls with decent, honest men # Is
for you to make your own choice. Let ms i'm.
plore you to so choose that you will never have
reason to be ashamed of the companv with
which you cast your first vote.