Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-06
The Hancock Plan.

If General Hancock should be elected
he would probably have a Cabinet, and
it is likely that q good many new ap-
pointments to Office would be made
very likely. 1t would be interesting
then to see the Hancock plan of running
Government, as embodied in the
General extraordinary communication
to General Sherman in 1877, put into
operation on large scale. The reader
will hardly have forgotten that this
plan involved, not the subordination of
the military to the civil power, but the
subordination of all power to subordi-
mates, including the right of q Major
General to start revolution whenever
one of his political friends calls on him
for troops, and to give his superiors
notice that he will obey them or not, as
he pleases. The Tribune, with that
prophetic eye which is to be found
among the apparatus of every first -class
newspaper, is able to lay before its
readers specimens of the official CORE
spondence which would take place if
General Hancock should be elected:
Secretary of War William F. Smith
forwards to President Hancock the fol-
lowing dispatch from Major-General
Boum:
"Have just received your order to proceed
against the Sioux with all possible haste. It is
due to you that you should be app-ised what
my position is in this matter. will thereIore
say that L consider it much easier not TO do
anything of the kind. and that | propose to
stay where am. For precedents sustaining
my course consult President Hancock. He
knows how it is himself. Ta-ta. Yours,
"MAJOR-GENERAL BOUM."
But this is not circumstance to the
following letter, written by Attorney
General Jeremiah S. Black to the Hon
Morrison r. Waite, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court:
"I have observed your decision in the case
of Smith against Brown. 1t is due TO you
that you should be apprised what my position
is in this matter. will therefore say that |
consider the decision bad law, and want it re-
voked at once. II upsets half IA dozen of my
opinions, and is coufoundedly inconvenient.
Please read up a little more carefully on my
opinions"
This is enough to make President
Hancock himself stare, but what will
he say when he sees one of his over
Jealous imitators writing as follows to
the Chairman of the Appropriations
Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives:
DEAR SIR. L beb lHhl COuHTbSSs lOliOWlug
your lead, has appropriated only 81 l0OO,0 900 for
this Department. want S5O,OOO,0y0, and I'm
going to have it. | shall draw on the Treas
ury for the money, and Secretary Wallace
will pay it. He and have had II little decker
on the subject. Yours,
WILLIAM II. BARNUNI,
"Postmaster-Ge
The following, from Secretary Of
State John Kelly, addressed to Sir
Edward Thornton, British Minister,
explains itself:
"DEAR SIR: What you say about the
| Treaty of Washington amuses me. We aren't
keeping treaties much now. We're running
! this Government on the Hancock plan, which
means that all of us can do what we darn
| choose. Receive, sir, the assurances, etc.
John KELLY, Secretary of State"
P. S.-The Tribu1se's prophetic eye
also clearly discerns that General Han
cock will not be elected. But the
moral is Just the same. N Y Trib
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