Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-26
THE NOMINEES.
A Correspondents thinks that All
Field and Gar Thfr stand no
show I'm n Fight with n Cock
and English Chicken.


EUREKA, June %, 1880.
EDITOR SENTINEL:-Before noon yester-
day the news Of the nomination Of Gen.
eral Hancock was received over the wires,
when the American flag was thrown to the
breeze from the flagstaff, and while a sa-
Lutte of 100 guns were being fred, the name
Of English was also received, making the
Democratic ticket. Hancock, Of Pennsyl-
vania, and English Of Indiana, two names
sufficient to unite the Democracy and in
sure success in November next, almost be-
yond any doubt. At the first unfurling
Of the flag it was borne out and waved ma
jestically northward by a strong southern
breeze. Before night the western breeze
waved it eastward, this morning the breeze
from the north was waving it south, and
now, at 10 o'clock, and within twenty-four
hours, it is borne high by the eastern
breeze, and as if it would never tire seems
alive in response from the North, South,
East, and West.
No better ticket could have been made,
and Democracy, aided by conservative Re-
publicans, will elect it most trIumphantly
in November next. The only objections Of
the most rabid, sectional Republicans, is
to the name, Hancock, and the numbering
of Mrs. Surratt. The name of Hancock is
immortal; the worthy sire having append
ed it in bold and conspicuous letters 10 the
Declaration of Independence in the face of
English power, and at the risk Of sacrifice
ing his own life for the sake Of his coun-
try. Hancock, the statesman and soldier,
whose national honor and love for the
whole country, stands high above any party
lash, who, after hard fought battles and
victory, desired peace and fraternity with
all the people OF all the States. The even
ing paper, in the absence Of anything else,
has to charge Hancock with the murder of
Mrs. Surratt, a shameful subterfuge; and
other Republicans for want of other
charges, have to say there are many rebels
in Pennsylvania which will not support the
ticket because of that damnable infamy,
the murder OF that poor woman. Shame
on a party that would ever want to hear Of,
or raise that darkest of all stains against
a party for a worse than savage revenge on
a poor defenseless woman, for natural SYM
pathy with the South and its cause, whether
right or wrong. General Hancock, it is
charged, was Commander of the depart
ment, and hence, as charged, must be
guilty. While with q moments reflection,
by any one familiar with the transaction,
it is plain that General Hancock did moth
ing but what his sworn duty required. 1t
was not within his power to save the life
Of that woman. Advocate Holt, Secretary
Stanton, and President Johnson, were the
parties responsible, and even their lives
were not safe should they interpose to save
the woman from an Infatuated party,
turned almost into a crazy mob. Had
General Hancock trken an active part to
save the life of the poor woman, his life
would likely have been sacrificed by the
mob. The principal actors in that dis
graceful tragedy, which any m OF
the party should be ashamed to allude to
forever hereafter, have gone to their tnal
Judge to answer for the crime-a blot on
the history Of the Republican party that
ought to outweigh all the good they claim
to nave done. While in their bitter, sec
tional warfare against the south, to be
fought over again under q bloody shirt
campaign, opened by theiI leader, Gar
field, whose only stock in trade will be an
athemas against the Southern brigadiers,
and a laudation of the officers and Repub-
lican soldiers, claiming that there was
none but Republicans in the Union army
The Democracy have placed a Cock Han
cock) and an English chicken in the pit,
against the field, and are willing to stake
all on the fight.
OLD CoMRADE, IN THE MEXICAN WAR.