Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-08-13
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MAdiSsn Democrat.
Every effort of the republicans to
discover or manufacture any political
capital against Gen. Hancock has
pruved most dismal and disastrous
Failure, The day after the nomination
they arted the chrrgc that Gen. Ham
cock Was the party who had hanged
Mrs SWne,tt, and they forged nm inter.
view With the daughter of the mckleSS
Woman IN which she was made Ia say
that the general was cruel 10 her
mother while in prison, that he WAS
really accountable for her execution.
IN few days, appeared n
Hat and uneqmvocal denial at
every statement ot that interview
and the whole thing was pronounced Il
base tNlschood Ivy the daughter. aud
other members of Mis-. SUR
rats family The counsel for
the unfortunate woman soon after
appeared with n manly statement
entirely acQmtting Gcn Hancock Of
every charge laid against HIM growing
cut of the Surratt execution, The
counsel in fact, compGmcutcd in high
est terms, the manly conduct Of Cen,
Hancock IN the whole matter, There.
AFTER the Surratt affair disappeared rs
y piece of republican, campaign thuu.
der.
Tho next husahoo that appeared, III
Chronological sequences, was the charge
that Cen Hancock hauled down the
United States flag rs an mduCcmrnt for
4. a q al, IL.
This story was very thin from the start,
and few were found who paid amy at
tcutjm To- il, Rut the miserable false
hood was utterly spoiled for campaign
use, when Gen, Roaurcgarl published II
card IN which liz pronounced the story
il fiction made cut Of whole cloth.
But nothing damtcd 10y former ILL
success the SANDER monscrs, led hy
the Chicago Tribune started the charge
that ut the timcot McClelhn'sremoval,
Hancock was one Of several conspira.
tors who proposed ~ march the army
into Washington for the purpose 81
dcspoSlng Lincoln and Stanton. rhi,
story was So horrible that il found NO
believers, Its hest contradiction MAS
found IN the subsequent career of Gen.
Hancock and III the exceptional CON
tjdruce that Was rcpoScd IN him
Ivy Lincoln and Grant to the very
close " the war, II thrc Is
\ lingering fool, who il troubled hy this
story, we invite his attention Ia the fact
that recently the republicans have
sought to mako out that Gen Hancock
is not n good democrat, that he voted
or Lincoln in lS6i, so this yarn has
passed ont Of republican campaign
literature. What ncXt2 Well Gen,
Hancock was the president of M oil
company, and WIS tho means Of dr-
frNudng large number Of investors.
Subsequent facts however showed that
the company like thousands of others
didn't strike oil, and the hooks of the
company showed that Hancock was
himself loser IN the undertaking
and that there Wns no fraud whatever
IN its manag cmpnt But about this
time II was discovered that Garfield had
been prominent rs n 'procurcr' for I'M
Inflated oil company that rNiled and
mulctcd hundreds of people in heavy
losses. G'nrlicd's promiuo nee III get
ting up the company left strong suspic
ions against him, Wen. we have hcnrt
nothing lately from the republicans
about oil spcculations, They are quite
willing to 20 ont Of tho oil business
And lastly. For several weeks th,
vcnomous radical press has been tccm.
ing with grave charges and worse in
situations about n letter that Gen
Hancock wrote to Cen, sherman III
1876, IN which the latter signiiicd his
intention to obey the orders Of Mr.
Tildcn after tile 3rd Of March 1877,
hould that gentleman take the oath
This WAS To blast the last hope ef the
democratic nominee But Cen Han
cock Mt once signilicd his willingness t.
have any letter he had written To Gen
sherman published. And Ms the letter
was the property Of the latter, h,
hoped tho letter would hc printed Tho
republican press continued however
to harp upon this letter and assured
an anxious world that il wts Il
most damaging document. They
hoped the letter was lost or destroyed
but luckily Gen. Shormnnhnd the letter
carefully filed away, and out Of fairness
to his old army comrndc, sent il 10 ih,
public press last Saturday The let
ter was il complete surprise to thus,
who had provoked il publication. i
wns not written FOR publication, but j
is u mastcrly composition, and vii
make lis author thousands Of friend'
and voters among the better class of r.
pubicans. II shows Gen, Hancock tc
be scholar, statesman and true
friend of his country and its people
What viii they undertake ncxt2