The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-09-08

nder no circumstances will there q
e auy danger of two electoral Dem i
cratic tickets being permitted to I
the result. Public meet {
ngs are already being held, which {
how that the people will control
his, whatever schemes the leaders
nay propose.
THE BLOODY SHIRT.
with wave of the pencil you
may therefore set down the 1873
Southern voters which so horrify the
Radical mind with visions of solid
South and Southern brigadiers who
are to commit such horrid atrocities
under Hancock's administration. In
the North there has been such rapid
progress by the voters in advance
Of the politicians and the commit
tees that it may be said the people
have nearly organized the States al
ready. Clubs for Hancock, both
civilian and veteran, have sprung up
by thousands. And from the letters
and kilograms shown TO me by Cen
eral Mitchell, chief Of General Han
cock staff, from all parts of the
country, the accessions OF Republi,
cans are something wonderful. The
Radicals say that it is not such a
shower after all and that more went
over to Greeley in 1872. But they
forgot to add that hundreds of
thousands Of Democrats then either
refused to vote or supported Grant.
Over 100000 Democrats in Penn
sylvania alone refused to vote for
Greeley.
A FORLORN HOPE BAND.
Now can find in the Radical
papers only a record of four Demo
Gratis who have deserted Hancock ::
Mr.. Elmore and Mr.. Orion. of Wis
consin; Mr.. E. A, Ferguson, of Gin
cinnati, and j. s. Thompson, of Los
Angeles. If there were others we
would soon see them paraded in the
newspapers"
"Where did you obtain these fig
ures?"
"General Hancock had over two
thousand newspapers sent to him
and I went through the columns Sc
lecting the list of prominent Repub
licans by hundreds who have already
declared for him, AS for the quiet
men who say nothing and the less
prominent Republicans who are fol
him, they number thousands in ev
cry State. Take for example the
Cotton Exchange in New York city,
which is nearly unanimous for Han
cock. There are about five hundred
employees of the cotton merchants
heretofore Republican, who have
promised to support Hancock. In
Brooklyn the record of 487 members
Of a club was shown to me, Of which
one-third were Republicans. And
on the veteran rule of New Haven
out of $50, 50 were Republicans last
spring. This change has taken
place everywhere, and must, from
my observation, already exceed
three per cent. of the Republican
voters. A close observant who has
reliable information, can just az
easily calculate the result of an cleo
ton, as he can elucidate another
mathematical proposition.
HANCoCKS ELECTION CERTAIN.
"And already l am satisfied tina
General Hancock's election is sc
cured beyond all other contingenciel
than those of absolute stupidity and
ineficiency on the part of those en-
trusted with the management of the
canvass. There are not more astutc
politicians anywhere in the worlt
than the Radicals, and they will
leave no stone unturned under which
TO find the worm of success. The.
have tremendous resources of none,
and the great corporations to bacl
them. But, in spite Of all that, the!
are going to be educated. Their
were doubtful factors in our polite
three months ago. which now ar
daily becoming more defined. Th,
Greenback and labor element will
not support General Weaver, bu
fully three quarters Of the 10000
voters, who, were independent il
1878, will vote for General Han
cock. l do not consider that Weav
er will poll a vote exceeding 300, 900
KNIGHTS or LABOR.
"Outside OF the greenbackers is {
vast element in a profoundly secret
association called the Knights o.
Labor, Heretofore they have beer
non-political, though numbering
100000 voters. They are not at all
communistic, but conservative, and
their chief. officers are Powderlyr
Mayor of Scranton, Pa, and Litoh
man, member of Legislature, Mar
blehead, Massachusetts. Acting
unitedly, they can to-day carry the
States of New Hampshire, Maine,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey,