The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-05

sighted men upon both sides Of the
Atlantic, it Is impossible for that mo-
nentous issue to be much longer de-
layed.
The London Advertiser says: We
cannot but regret the result. In the
nrst place. there is no comparison be-
tween the merits Of the two men. Gar
field Is . third-rate republican party
politician, belonging. not perhaps to the
school Of Blaines. Conklings and Cam
erons, but quite as little to that Of re-
formers like Adams. or administrations
like Sherman He Is the nominee Of
the wire-pulling interests. Hancock
is with few exceptions the most distin-
guished, and without q single exception,
we belisve, the most loyal, honest and
high-minded soldier still In the active
service OF the union. He Is man Of
distinction 50 great that even his OBJ
noxious democratic politicians could
not prevent his retention in the active
service when twenty-nine-thirtieths Of
the soldiers, officers and generals Of the
federal army were relegated to civil
life, and since the younger Adams, no
man Of character equally high, no man
so completely answering to what En-
glishmen mean by gentleman. has been
nominated for president by any politi-
cal party In the United States.
New York, Nov. 4.-The Herald
says: Allowing for the increase Of the
voting population during years, Han
cocks city majority should not have
been less than $1,000, IL the democrats
had their own, but as a matter Of fact
1t has shrunk to 15,967 less than TIL
den's. A similar shrinkage has oc-
CURED In Brooklyn also, through SYM
pathetic influences. 1t is those shrink
ages which have given the state of New
York 10 Garfield. Now, who is re-
sponsible for themf Everybody knows
the responsible man-John Kelly. He
Is the man who broke down the demo-
cratic party in the state last year and
elected republican governor by a plu-
rality Of 42,777, when the democratic
vote, II united, was large enough to
have reelected q democratic governor
by a majority Of 81, ,7s9. This gave the
whole vast state patronage into the
hands Of Hancock's political adversa-
ries to be used in aid Of Garfield this
year. That was the first act in the
tragedy. The second act was played a
fortnight ago when Kelly forced fol-
lower Of his own rs n democratic nom-
inee for mayor, with the desperate de-
sign Of making the democratic presi-
DENTAL ticket carry the load through for
his own personal advantage, no matter
how much harm it might do to the
Hancock vote.
In another article the Herald ad.
vises the democratic wagon, which is
mired, to unload, commencing with
Kelly, Barnum and Senator Randolph.
Finally the Herald says the democrats
ought to get rid Of the people who i'm
agine they can carry an election by the
invention Of Chinese letters. When
Hancock wrote Senator Randolph his
notions about the tariff, the public,
which is not an ass, began to laugh at
poor Hancock; but when Barnum and
Hewitt and other famous democrats
clutched at the miserable Chinese letter
business as their one hope of salvation,
the public laughed at the democratic
leaders. 1t is bad thing for a party
when It's leaders begin to bc looked at
as comic characters.
London, Nov. 4-The Manchester
Guardian, the most influential repre-
sentative Of the provincial press, COIN
cides with the London papers in con-
graduating both parties on the decisive
result Of the election, leaving no room
for disputes. II says:
There seems to be no reason why, IL
the democrats don't change their tac-
tics, the republicans shonld not hold
Office for another twenty years. Prob
ably the former would do well to let the
question Of state rights drop, as far rs
possible, into obscurity. It behooves
them to find another rallying cry. This
may eventually be furnished by free
trade, which succession Of bad har-
vests, or the gradual exhaustion Of the
soil. may bring in the range Of practi-