The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-02
what The Democratic practice Is:
poLIrIUAL NEWS AND GOSSIP.

THE Springfield Republicans paper that
prides itself on its reiability-says that
HanCock's profanity during the war was
terrific" How he is in that way at this
time is not stated.
THE Philadelphia Ledger advises the
Presidential candidates not 10 indulge in
elaborate letters OF acceptance, but to 'cut
it short" 1t warns them that the more
they say the more opportunity they will
give their adversaries to say back.
NorlNo the proposed Cabinet appoint.
ments marked out for Hancock, the
Charleston Is. o. Netgs (Dem.) says: "0i
course the states differ somewhat in their
composition and arrangement, but they
all agree in naming Bayard as Secretary 81
State" rs
Bon INoRRsoLb on the Hancock ticket:
at Is indigo and copperas. Just enough
Indigo to catch the boys in blue, and the
rest rebel butternut." Somebody told him
Hancock's father was Baptist and his
mother an Episcopalian. "Well," he ask.
ed "what kind OF religious mule does
that make"
The Chicago Tribune reproduces for the
benefit OF ex-senator Trumbull, the follow
ing extract from speech made by him
before he joined the Democracy:
"The Democratic party has never yet
done an act that would commend 1t 10 the
favorable consideration OF the people oil
the United States, but on the contrary its
traditions and its acts are now, and ever
have been, q standing menace to the pro-
gress and civilization OF the nineteenth
century.
THE Springfield Republican thus closes
another careful review OF the Credit Mo.
biler charge against General Garfield:
"The committee OF which Judge Poland
was chairman, deemed It probable that
Garfield had taken the $500. Whether he
did 30 or not must always be determined
by balance Of probabilities; but his de,
fence, which he had no opportunity to
make in full before the committee, and
which he made directly to his constitu-
ents, goes far 10 re.establish him as man
OF integrity"
TINS is the way John Quincy Adams
consoled himself:
3lst OF August, 1910. The bitterness
and violence Of Presidential electioneer-
ing increases as the time advances. 1t
seems as II every liar In the country was
at work day and night to destroy my
character. It does not surprise me, be-
cause have seen the same species OF rib
aIdry year after year heaped upon my
father, and for a long time upon Washing
ton. have finally concluded TO take q
month OF holiday 10 visit my father and
dismiss care.
The Boston Transcript seconds the sug.
gestion that the Republicans send some Of
their best speakers 10 the South, and says:
at ia our belief that there are In every
Southern State tens oil thousands Of Re.
pubhcans who have been so cowed by the
treatment they have received at the hands
OF the Democrats that they have no heart
for organization. But Il the National Re.
publican Committee would send some Of
its best speakers into the South during the
summer, lee them see aud talk with the
local leaders there, and address public
meetings, not in the cities only, but In the
country as well, 1t Ia our belief that the
Republicans would take new courage, and
while there Is small hope that asingle
Southern State would be returned for Gar.
field, its popular vote to the contrary not
withstanding, seed would be sown which
would come 70 something in time"