Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-26

| opinion shall also be free among the officers
and agents Of the government.
HANCOCK AND ENGLISH.
PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Tho Ball Keeps Rolling-One Days List OF
! Conversions to Democracy-Names
| and Places.
| In Spencer county, Indiana, Ben. T..
Smith, one of the last Republican county
clerks, and twcnty-sevcn other Repuhli
cans Who voted for Hayes in 1876, nave
Joined Hancock and English clubs.
Ex-Governor Dunniny. of Indiana, who
has trained with the Republican party for
twenty years, introduced Franklin Landcrs
at 4 Democratic meeting in Bloomington,
Indiana.
The two sons of ex-COngrcssman Dc
Brulcr, tho National candidate for lieu
tenant governor of Indiana, have de-
clared openly for Hancock and the state
ticket.
Hiram Buswcll, postmaster 1T Warwick,
n. H.. for sixteen years and 4 lifelong
Republican, has announced his intention
to vote for Hancock and English. lie says
he cannot swallow the Credit MObilicr and
| DcEOlycr scandals. \ young mems Demo
cratic club has been formed with efficient
officers.
John ii. Marlacllcr, OF Railway, N. j.,
writes "Of the cighty-iiye members OF
the Silvus Democratic club of this city,
ten arc young men who have left the Re-
publican party. We are all pulling hard
ut the same end of the rope for Hancock
and English, and expect to sec $4,000
majority for our ticket in November"
| ID. L. Holden, Of Washington, Warren
county, in a letter of August 23, says
Several Republicans have signed the roll.
Henry G. Miller, an active Republican
since 1860, in 4 speech before tho club an
nounccd his intention to support Hancock
and English. Great enthusiasm prevails
throughout Warren county for the Demo
cratic ticket, and the indications are that
the majority Of 1000 for Tillen in 1876
will be increased to 2, 500 for Hancock
In tho meeting of the Dauphin county
Democratic committee yesterday, Casper
Dull, esq.,, was unanimously selected rs
the candidate for district attorney. a let
ter from DR.. Umbcrger declining the nom-
ination for senator was presented and the
declination was accepted. A special com
mittee, consisting OF Mcssrs. Thomas j.
| -. AZ
and the chairman, was appointed to select
a candidate to take the place of DR.. Um-
berger and to report to subsequent meet
ing of the committee.
In the New York Interior.
Judge William II. Henderson, of Catta-
rausus, writes rs follOwcs: "In 1876 in no
one of the thirty-three towns of this coull-
ty was there Democratic club or = Til
| u Of, lind N
1880, at midsummer, and before the doors
of your committee room were open, i'll all
the villages and in many of the more rural
townships, large Hancock and English
clubs were formed and organized, and soon
every election district in the county will
boast of its Hancock and English club. In
every neigliborhoOd there are Republicans
who never acted with us before now advO-
eating the election of Hancock. AS spe-
cimen brick, in the adjoining town VIC had
forty-eight votes for governor last fall, and
Hancock club was Orgagizcd there the
other night with nirety-six names on the
roll at the start. I know Of not single
voter in the county who acted with us in
1876 that is not now for Hancock"
Will vote as He Shot.
Colonel George w. TOrrencc, Of Victor,
Ontario county. has written the fOllOwin.
letter to his friend, Colonel SchGffel, OF
Rochester:
V1cToR, N. y, August 16. 1ss0.-Tt
Colonel r. 4. SchGDel, Lieutenant Colonel.
| Oh dTHirtcenA-DEAR SIR: Your letter OF
the 10th inst. was duly received and in
reply will say that !. have no objections to
defining my political position in the pre-
sent canvass.
You arc aware that for the past seven.
teen years have acted with the Republi-
can party. But the time has como when
every man should consider the danger OF
a perpctuatiOn of power in the hands OF
one family or party, and l, for one, believe
that tho Republican party has had its day
of usefulness, and VIC should regard a con.
tinuatiOn Of its power as dangerous.
And when an opposing party presents
good men to fill the same positions, nc
harm can come to the government by Their
election. can speak with the greatest
confidence of the man whom the
Democrats have placed ut the head OF
their ticket, for rs boys we played together
and as men VIC fought together on the
same battlcfields, shared the privations OF
camp in q foreign country, and l have yet
to learn of one solitary act of dishOnOl
charged to Winfield Scott Hancock. With
such man at the head of our government
we have nothing to fear. The purity OF
his character, his intelligence, his patriot
ism, all admonish me that he is the right
man in the right place. Hence | say to
you that my humble inilcnce will be cast
for Gen. Winfield s. Hancock.
Yours respectfully,
G. W. TORRENCE.
More Plain Talk.
Judge G. p. Nicoll, long leading Re
publican of Jersey City, and Republican
since, the formation of the party, spending
his money and energies in its behalf, an
nounces his purpose to support Hancock in
letter, in which he says: " am sick
and tired Of this continual waving of the
bloody shirt, which keeps the two sections
of the country divided, and, believe, has
seriously retarded the prosperity of both,
and l feel that should take a
stand that is going to bind me regard
less of party. Republicans tell me the
country was never more prosperous than
now. can't sec it. own large guam
] r. fo o1p Il