Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-01

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THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
The announcement of the nomination OF
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, of Pennsylva-
mia, by the National Democratic Convention,
for President of the United States, meets a
genuine and enthusiastic endorsement by the
party througho 1t the whole country. OF
pure and spOtlesS character, with record as
splendid in war as it is illuStriouS in matters
of civil administration, he stands before the
people the embodiment of all that could be
desired in the chief magistrate of the Nation.
In the North and East, he is recognized as an
able, honest and prudent man, great i'll war
and illustrious in peace, his military service
emitting him to the profound gratitude OF
that section for which he fought with such
signal valor. The West will recognize in him
one, who as the commander of that Depart
ment during tie most critical period in our
history with the hostile Indians, restored quiet
and secured to the people of the border immu-
nifty from the red men, which, had he been
retained in that command, might have con-
tinued uninterrupted until this day under his
sagacious control. While an Eastern man,
he is not the representative of moneyed rings
nor the pet of bond-holders, nor has he eN-
treme views on questions of currency, calcu-
lated to withdraw from his support influential
capitalists of either section. In the South
his nomination till be- heartily endorsed.
Though in the Union army he was a tower OF
strength, yet Southern people recognize and
acknowledge true manhood and a chivalrous
nature whether found in friend OF former
foe; and in Hancock have been found all the
attributes of an intrepid soldier, a conserva-
tive ruler and patriotic citizen-who, when
the Union was restored, took firm stand for
the constitution and the laws, and as COM
mander of the department of the Gulf, en-
bracing the States of Louisiana and Texas,
fearlessly maintained before the whole coun-
try and the petty tyrants at Washington, that
military power in time of peace should be
subordinate to civil law" This sentiment
alone will survive the clash of arms and out
live sectional strife. Thus he is endeared to
all sections of the country, and the good men
of the North, the East, the South, and the
West, will alike rejoice that this hOnored, true
and exalted patriot has been placed first on
the Democratic ticket.
Though South Cardinals preference was
Bayard, who, "yithout a blot upon his life,
public or private, without fear and without
reproach the most fit candidate for President
of the United States," yet in unbroken COL
umn her Democracy will fall in line to the
support of Hancock, and make good hewords
of Hampton who on the floor of the conven-
tion, after the nomination was made, said:
''In behalf of the solid South, which was once
arrayed against the gallant soldier, 1 pledge
to him the solid vote.'
Hon. VIM. II. English, of Indiana, who
occupies the second place OH the Democratic
National ticket, was born in Scott county,
Indiana August 9th, 1922. He received
good common-school education, and spent
three years at the University of South Han
over; studied law and was admitted to prac-
tice in 1916, but when at home is chiefly de-
voted to agricultural pursuits. In 1S43 he
was elected clerk of the House of Represen-
tatives of Indiana. During President POlk's
administration he was clerk in the treasury
department. He was clerk of the State Con-
stitutional Convention in 1850; in 1851 he
was elected to the State Legislature, and Of
iciated as Speaker; in 1852 he was elected a
representative i'm Congress from Indiana re-
elected in 1854, and made a regent Of the
Smithsonian Institute; again elected in 1896,
and during the first session of the Thirty-fifth
Congress took part in the Kansas compromise
chairman of the committee on postOftces and
postroads. He was reelected to the Thirty
sixth Congress, serving on the committee Oh
postoffices and postroads. Mr.. English has,
since his retirement from Congress, main
tanned his popularity and high standing in his
native State, where there is with the excep-
tion of Hendricks, no stronger man to-day
AS an omen of success to the ticket next No
vember, the statement is made that he has
never been defeated as candidate for public
Office in his State. He is personally friendly
and acceptable to Governor Hendricks, and
will have his hearty sympathy and support in
the campaign.
With ticket finding such favor as it does
in all sections of the country, and firmly
uniting all former discordant elements in the
party, the result of the next election may he
safely predicted for the National Democracy.
We shall publish next week an extended
biographical sketch of Gen. Hancock, giving
in detail his prominent acts as public man.