The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-03
FOREwARNED FORVARMED.
Shall the Blundsr and Crime Of
1875 be REPEATED in
1880?
Correspondence SALT LAKE HERALD. [
CHICAGO. June Q7. 1880.


Whether the CirciDnati conventio
immoitAiizst himself by naming To
mex. president or not is questiol
that November can oUly decide, o
1 rather that the ides of March viii
have 10 determine. Should the re
publican party manage 10 create
situation somewhat like that o
1867, the democracy, should they
clearly elect Hancock, might have L
encounter and resist, or succumb to-
the executive dictation of Mr.. Hayes
10 behalf OF the party that irauuu
lently placed MIN in the Whits
House. The fraudulent president,
though very reticent Ia regard to bic
purposes. is now evidently en- rapport
with the radical leaders, and might
reclprocate their generosity by a re-
cognition OF Garfield as his successor,
on some trumped-up plea of fraud in
southern states, or illegal action by
Congress in making the count, should
1t come to that Such course is not
now looked for, but the desperation
evinced by the republican party four
years ago may be repeated in an in
iensified degree, as their end draws
nigh. mr. Hayes has shown, i! be is
not great statesman, that he is mas
ter OF the small tricks and bubbles
of the small politicians, and being so
thoroughly in accord with the ex.
treme s:alwarL ring that he can veto
any political bill the democrats send
him, he mast be regarded by
the Hancock men as al important
fac:or in the political campaign. 1t
can never be predicted what man
OF Hayes calibre viii do when an oc
caslon may arise for extraordinary
action, and after the democratic ex.
perience of 1867, it may be as well
for the party to be prepared early in
the campaign for any conceivable
emergency at its close. The Garfield
men are getting excited. They are
discouraged In view of their poor
prospects of success. This cam aign
has not opened with any degree of
enthusiasm or force. The Conklipg-
Logan men are lukewaTm, and do
not appear sorry that GaTfield's weak
points are exposed, or particularly
annoyed at the democratic en-
thusiasm. Some Of the Garfield
men go SO far as to threaten civil war
If Hancock should be elected, in the
attempt to iDauguIate him. The re-
publican press has opened the crusade
against Hancock in its weakest DOS
sible style. The Chicago Tribune,
usually able in its investigation, is as
indigni6ed, slangy and cheap as any
tourth-rate county organ, and nothing |
in the way of misrepresentation OF |
the democratic candidates can
sppsl it. Its account of the splendid |
Hancock outdoor ratification meet. |
ing, last evening, was contemplate.
Let the enthusiastic and guile
less democrats prepare. there
fore, for every emergency of
the campaign in advance. 1t
would be pity should they waste
their ammunition solely on paradee
and speeches. There will be no
work. Oar campaign, with
little guiding, will run itself. or
rather the people will manage that
there shall be no lack in the earnest
efforts and irresistible force necessary
to overwhelm republicanisuI at the
polls. Nothing can stand In the way
of the democracy when aroused, IS
they are in 1880, 10 the necessity of
action. The danger to be feared is
that sufficient attention will not be
paid to the harvesting Of the magnif-
cent crop of votes that will be cult
waited and assured. This the national
committee will have TO attend to
The details Of The campaign should |
be carefully arranged with a view to |
such contingencies as l have limited
at The republican party l0iU Rerer |
relinquish roluntariiy the national
poWer they achiered Gy the most desper-
ate and illegal results Forewsrned.
foresrmed. This will be the last
democratic opportunity to take the
government by peaceful means out |
of the hands of the usurpers. Now
or neser
Hancock is, perhaps, after all. the
best man who could have been Sc
lected to lead the party that is to res
cue the nation from the revolutionary
men who row manage it The limo
cent, unsuspscting nature Of the
democratic lealers in 1876. and
the fatal inaction of their
candidate, led the party in
to the tremendous blunder
OF Understanding the mischievous
ability for intrigue, ialsehood and
villsiny of Zach. Chandler and his
subordinates. This mistake 10 itself
was sufficient reason for The defeat
of Mr.. TildeD at Cincinnati. The in
stincts of the masse. are more reliable
than the ambitions or preferences OF
the magnstes OF any party. There
are democratic civilians o. equal
character, forc3 and patriotism with
Gsn. Hancock, nut II there Is any
thing in the dangers | have men-
toned, our candidate is the right
man in the right lace. He that
takes the sword shall perish by the
sword" Let the republican leaders
attempt. through their fraudulent
president, to carry cut their whispered
threats of multiplying the election OF
Gen. Hancock, our candidates mill
tary experience, bravery and devotion
to the country. sustained by million
of voters, would permit tue repetition
of the great blnnder and crime of