The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-07-28
mo. 49,.
COL. F0RNEY,'s MECCA.

COL. F0RNEY'S MECCA.
CHARACTERISTIC s OF THE CROWD THAT
Is BLOCKING To sEE GENE
RAJ HANCOCK.
Governors Island is now the Mecca
Of tile faithful, and the daily scribe de-
tails their visits a. the average homage
of the crnw1s mat wait aEon' 81 royal
lpefson. General Hancock ia, in fact,
holding his republican Court inadvance
lot his election. at Is Interesting to
stn,ty the various people that come
lhare daily. The first thing not ceable
isthe presence Of Repd biicaas ,lespeci.
| ally Republican soldiers They are
moved ny an impulse common to
thousands of others, bds Hancock en-
lndiys sthe sentiinent that grows in
them with rvefyt year NY dove for
lthel men / fought with ID defense of
Is,ny conntrS. aaia one If them to me
yesterday, lis differ ent from the -friend-
iship ct mr. playiBates, or aiy school,
mates, or of,tAe confidence born Of in
timacy in business That wears out
with time, but the seeds planted in
the army, nurtured Id the blond Of
battle and growing in love 10 the life
of the march and the trials of the
camp, produce q devotion that never
weakens, but increases with years and
8 sanctif1ed by a deathless memory"
Here comes also the Older and ripr
minds of the great city. General Han
cock has been fortunate in securing
the friendship, as we ha, seen, Of his
avn immediate chiefs, and by his
quiet dignity and regular habits Of
administration the regard of merchants
like Henry Hilton, the successor of A.
T. Stewart, and that exact old MILLION
aire, Peter Copper. Men like these,
with the directors of public opini iu
the newspapers, social leaders, bank
ers aud railroad magnates, gather to
his levces, and now that the depart
lnent has relieved him Of special work,
and even dispensed with his services
at tlemilitary trial of General Warren,
he is Mt leisure to attend to the new
duties resulting from his nomination
for Presi,lent.-f Colonel w. j. Forney
IN Progress.
THE Two PLATFoRMs.-The N. Y.
Herald, the great Independent news
paper, has recently published editors
ally critical review of the Democratic
and of the Republican platforms, and
commences its article by saying, "that
it caunot be denied that the Demo-
cratic platform is an honest business.
like document, and in this respect is
very unlike tile Dragging and buster
ing Republican platform" After ar
gning from this stand point, the Herald
closes its able and impartial leader
tlius:
Finally, it must be admitted that
there ia little brag also in the Demo-
cratic platform, but it is on a point
where the party has a right to boast
ofitself. 1t ''has reduced the public
expenditures forty millions a, year."
say the Democrats, and they might
lave added that it did this against the
sneers and the open and covert oppo.
s'tion of the Republicans in Congress.
This Democratic boast ia well founded.
They had the courage to be unfasllion-
ionable. From the day they regained
control of the House of Representa-
tives they have fought for rigid econo.
my, sometimes with poor Judgment,
but coarageonsly and regardless of the
outcrIes and resistance of the Repub-
licaDs. The lobby has disappeared
from Washington since the Democrats
came in; that lobby which was once
so powerful that IN the last House
which Was nnder Republican rule the
Speaker was publicly presented with
q piece Of silver as testimonial from
"the king of the lobby
1t was said BY one of the sllrewtiest
men in the Democratic party some
years ago: 81 don't believe we Dem.
ocrats will ever win until we dare to
be Democrats" Well, the platform
this year is q genuinely Democratic
platform; the party seems at last to
have turned Democratic. IL has re-
gained it's old time boldness and
directness; it dares once more to say
what it means. Who knowsi perhaps
it will win. 1t looks a little that way
just now. ~