Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-21
AN IMPORTANT FLOPPER.
4 Prominent Republican journal Deserts
Garfield,

And llOists the Names of Hancock and
English, the Glorious Leaders OF
the Democracy.
The Germantown Commercial, which has
heretofore supported Garfield and Ar
thur, in this weeks issue takes down the
names of those candidates and substitutes
those of Hancock and English. The edi-
tor explains his course as follows
When OH the morning of the 18th Of
May, 1864, Gen. Hancock hurled his eager
forces Oh Johnson's division of Early's
corps, the surprise could not have been
relatively greater than will be the an
nouncemcnt VIC make in this issue of the
Commercidl, that henceforth its COL
umns will be devoted to the maintenance
Of the principles enunciated by the Dem
| ocratic party ut Cincinnati, and imperson-
ated in these glorious leaders, Hancock
and English.
eve have not reached this conclusion
without long and calm consideration, cal
| culating the odds that are against us in
this Republican stronghold. But after
the most patient thought and thorough ex-
animation, We have concluded that the
welfare OF our country. economy i'll our
public expenditures, the interests of labor
and capital, the growth OF our manufacture
| ing establishments, and, consequently, the
steady employment of our people-in fact,
all our national, state and local concerns, can
best be subserved and protected by the
election of General Winfield Scott Han
cock and the defeat of James Abraham
Garfield.
''In arriving ut this conclusion, VIC have
been materially, almost altogether, assisted
by the Republican party's own comments,
through their newspapers, and their con-
ventiOns and by committees Of investiga-
tion, in arriving at the point that Garfield
| and Arthur are entirely untitled for the
place to which they have been nominated.
1t is hardly necessary that we should
cnumerate the clearly proven charges that
rest on Republican authority as against
their own nominees. The world knows of
them--the world believes them-and yet
We arc expected to remain in the rank
sweat of their enseamed bed,' and daily
with the proved dishonOr of their candi-
dates. We prefer to get out from between
the unclean sheets. We prefer to be-
lieve that the congressional committee
Of Congress, composed of Mr.. Garfield S
own friends, told the truth when they
found him guilty rs a bribe-taker and 4
well-paid lobbyist Of pavement jobs in
the District of Columbia; we prefer to
| believe that President Hayes and Secretary
Sherman were just rs truthful when they
denounced Arthur for his mal-admiEistra-
/ ton Of the New York custom house, and
dismissed him thercfrom in disgrace.
Since the foundation of the government.
no two such disreputablc candidates,
stamped with dishonor and venality,
were ever presented for the suffrages of
1 fl,n \ in1arip1n Nnor,ia and Sr,,o11, r. nnf
be possible that the people will ever per-
nit these hitherto pure and exalted sta
lions to be d:shonorcd by their election.
! In gratefully s:Iuting General Hancock.
and extending to him and the principles
he represents cur humble yet earnest sup
port. VIC feel that VIC are in the company
of thousands Of hitherto devoted Repubii-
cans, scattered all over this land he so
bravcly shed his blood to save. In graf
! itude for his great and mcritoriOus services
acknowledged by Republican Con-
gress, and consecratcd by the ye:,rn-
| ings OF millions of hearts who want to
see him president, VIC are for his cleo
! tion with all and more than all the ar
.Ior which VIC have hitherto unwittingly
bestowed on Garfield. Great as Hancock
| is rs {. soldier, he has shown himself still
greater in the exercise of civil functions.
Clothed with the iron power of Il military
governor, he. did not see ''banditti'' in peace
able citizens, but preferred to see in them
citizens loyal to the government he had de-
Tended !!c gave the civi! power domin-
ancc in times Of peace, and held rs sacred
the great charter of civil liberty. He never
puts pen to paper without illustrating the
virtues that made Washington ''first in
war, first in peace, and first in the hearts
of his countrymcn.' Who can say the
! sam" of Garficld?''