New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-27

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General Hancock's visits to Tlden are declared
by admiring friends TO be for the purpose OF absorb
! ing "statesmanslp" from the Sage. "Copel-
| hagen is the cipher name for it,
II is the quiet vote which is going to elect Gar.
field. Men who think for themselves and make no
proclamation Of their purpose. are the ones whose
votes make the maiorities They are business men
and farmers, who are saying quietly among tbr1n-
! selves Well, business is good now, and the
conn try is prosperous think we had better vote
/ in favor of keeping business good and increasing
| the general prosperity. The country Is iail u
this kind OF voters, and the louder the Democrats
demand "a change, the stronger becomes the public
| opposition 10 one.
What viii Wallace do with the evidence which
he was forced 10 receive from DaycDport' lie
does not want it, and his party does not care to
have it printed as official Democratic report
/ He has a good precedent for not doing anything
| with il. The Cipher Report has never been printed
| and will not be so long as the Democrats car re
! vent 1t.
The hungry Democracy shouts: Give US
change" And a prosperous country responds:
Oh, give us rest"
II is evident that if John Kelly were to step on.
of the way, Democratic harmony in this city would
speedily follow. Yet no friend Of honest govern
mcnt here can wish for his abdication He ~
strong partisan and thorough believer IN DeaO-
cratic methods of dividing spoils, yet he Is M
Gr,sstionaby honest in administering the duties Of
his Office There has been no scandal IN the Con.
trollers Office while he has been at the head OF it.
and 10 one has charged ham with dishonesty.
This is Z Democratic clty, aud we must submit 70
have our city and county finances IN the cOnlrO. Of
that party. Somebody must be Boss OF Ian
many Hall, and If we can have an hohe'I man N
that position 50 much the better Tor us. HatinODy
with Kelly ont of the way would DO pretty likely
To mean grand combination scheme loi puOiIc
plunder.
The friends Of Conee-P Pot Wallace represent him
as very nervous at present and they especially re-
quest that no mention of Davenports name be
made in his presence Tor some time 10 come
The current specimen of Democratic campaign lie
is the meancst on record. Even Louisiana liar
would blush to father 1t.
Secretary Sherman has returned 70 Washington
entirely confident of Garield's election. he says
that tie North is thoroughly alarmed by tho THREAT
of financial disturbance which the DemOcratlc
party makes and he is convinced that the present
condition ofpublic temper makes Hancock's election
an Impossbity. Thus is the view OF every man
who travels abOut among the people. The Demo.
Gratis have called for change at the very moment
when a change Is the one thing which the people
do not desire.
The Republican campaign IN Ohio Will open Tor.
mally on August 90 and will be kept up with great
nent speakers already promised are Secretary Sher.
man. Senator Blaine. Senator Logan, ex-Secretlry
Robson, General Hawley, and possibly Secretary
Schurz. Garields majority is yarI0usly estimated,
some sangune Republicans declaring that be Wll
get % 900 more votes than any other man who ever
ran in the State. He is certain 10 get enough 70
carry the State no Democrat denies that
Is it fact that Immediately after his last visit to
Tilden, Hancock telegraphed to Barnum Failed
again TO cOnnectT
General Hancock wrote letter in 1865 cordially
indorsing the nomination Of Seymour and Blair
and declaring that he would commit a crime
against his country" if he did not acquiesce in the
work Of the Convention which made the nOnIna-
ton Yet that Convention declared IN its platform
L" We regard the reconstruction acts $50 called OF
Congress- as such, rs usurpatOns ana uncOnsiitu-
tional, revolutionary and void" General Hancock
is now the candidate of the party which not only
made this declaration in 1865, but has since been
steadily and peIsistenty doing all in its power TO
carry the declaration into effect. 1t has made the
reconstruction acts void in the South, and will
make them void in the whole country if it is
trusted with power.