Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-05

over an unbroken line of smooth-shayen
grass and carefully tended hower-beds.
these extending from one square to an
other. Between the sidewalks and the
trees there is narrow strip of grass,
which is kept as neatly and we'll rolled
as the plots next the houses. Outside
are the rows of trees, and in many streets
there is double row, one inside, and the
other outside of the sidewalk.
Grant-Gart,eld- Hancock.
Of fifty millions sovereigns, who shall
be head? Our Grants, Blaines, Wash
burns, Conklings, Shermans, Logans,
Tildens, Bayards, Davises, Hendricks,
Thurmans and Hancocks, each Magnus
Apollo in his circle, all possess substan-
tial virtues. -
In the Chicago and Cincinnati conven-
tions the popular strength of these repre-
sentative men was tested, and, as often
occurs in the course of human events,
the last became first.
. The charges and skirmishlngs of the
delegates for their respective favorites,
were valiant, their tactics splendid, their
management original and persistent.
This is especially true of the efamous 3O6,
Spartan band-the Old Guard-whose
names should be set in gold on velvet.
Backed by millions of men and money,
their candidate, the most renowned citi-
zen and hero in the world, of tried
ability, his administrations compared
favorably with those of Washington and
Lincoln, how could they fail? Peace,
order and prosperity would be assured;
the union and constitution magnifed;
the welfare of every section promoted,
and the national supremacy vindicated
by showing it's teeth. From their stand
point, so happy and imposing was the
outlook, how sore then their disappoint.
ment.
The first communication I ever saw in
print favoring Grants second term, was
from my own hand. I have We'd with
the most earnest in commencing his pat
riotism and achievements, and would
gladly see him again in the presidential
chair-no fear of third term, no fear OF
Bonapartism. But the convention,
staunch Republicans, sharp and saga
cious, after ten days careful deliberation,
studying well the situation in their COM
bined wisdom and discretion, concluded
to rehnquish all the prominent candi-
dates, and chose one not in the arena
the Office seeking the man, and not the
man the Office. And what of him
Character, bedrock, of pronounced con-
victions, prompt, methodical, civilian
and statesman, gentleman and scholar,
a logician, a philosopher, in discipline
and culture pre-eminent. AS a good
Republican, the majority ruling, I am
bound to support the nominee, and with
the old guard let me say "amen."
The Cincinnati convention, ignoring the
antecedents of the Democratic party
their persistent denunciations of the mil
itary as humiliating and degrading, as
tending to monarchy and despotism-
strangely chose a lifelong professional
soldier, accomplished in his line, brave
on the battle field, but in civil affairs a
novice. From boyhood in the regular
army, proverbially separate and apart
from the rest of mankind. Such nom
nation can only be accounted for by
considerations Of sympathy with state
sovereignty, secession and revolution.
There is method in this madness. Gen.
eral Hancock's election would be calam.
ity; a rebel triumph; a stride toward
anarchy and barbarism.
TO this the friends of the Union and
constitution simply object. The victo-
ries for justice and humanity, gained by
the bullet, they will defend by the bal
lot, contending manfully under the
hampionship Of the Republican nomi-
nee, one whose loyalty was never be-
clouded, JamesA Garfield. A man who
in that dark hour Of 1865 when the news
Of Lincolns assassination reached New
York, and the people gathering in crowds,
were ready for violence, raised his hand
and with words of confidence in God and
in the government stilled every evil pas
sion; the man who in 1864 rebuked Alex
ander Long in the house of representa-
tives, for his encouragement of the re-
bellion, declaring secession to be the toe
sin of eternal war; the man who, at the
recent dedication of soldiers monu-
ment in Painesville, Ohio, spoke in elo-
quent and forcible terms Of the heroes
who fought and suffered and died for our
glorious Union, kindling afresh the fires
Of patriotism in every loyal breast. He
is the man by nature, education, expert
ence, and all his surroundings fitted to
stand at the head of the great American
republic.
The election of General Hancock would
mean surrender to the south, the
abandonment of all the issues and gains
of the war, costing 81, 500, 900, 900 OF
moneyand 200, 900 precious lives, most
ly our own kindred. It would mean
ignominiously resigning the q. s.
Government to those who have t-ampled
it's banners in the dust. When Wade
Hampton pledged the 1873 votes of the
solid south to any northern candidate the
convention might endorse, he we'll m
derstood that such nominee would be un-
der southern dictation. Itwas agrand bid
forpower, power; the control of the govern
ment. Good Lord, good Devil, Gabriel
or Apollyon- any body, anything for
power. With this aim the Democracy
supported Horace Greeley, a lifelong
enemy, and with this aim, after all their
denunciations of the military as STEP
ping-stone to Imperialism, they now
adopt General Hancock. O, consistency,
thou art a jewell! Should not such utter
lack of principle be thoroughly rebuked?
Who would trust our free institutions to
such hands? Let no loyal man be de-
ceived or found mapping. Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty. Every
man to his post-better die than be a
traitor and coward.
Rockford, ILL.,, July Goth, 1880.
MEAD HOLMES.
Monarohs Of the Forest.
The Calaver as grove of giant trees is
the most motherly yet discovered and the
one best known. It is situated on the
Stockton and Calaveras trail to the Yose-
mite, and is distant 164 miles from San
Francisco. The number of trees Of larger
size is not far from 100, with many
smaller ones on the outskirts. Most of
these have been named, and tables have
been published giving the exact height
and dimensions Of each. Here are at least
twenty five trees above $50 feet in height,
and thirty trees over $50 feet in height.
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