The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-10-09

w hto opiHioHS anu Pun pcooS' IL
staying qualities are remarkable. I
sticks to his friends and hates his en-
|, mics with an equally iron-like tenacit,
When Hancock was nominated for til
presidency, he said, perhaps more as
: blow at his own successful rival, Ga
field, than from any real admiration G
Hancock, ~ havenothing to say agains
General Hancock; his reputation as
soldier and a man is good" job
Sherman, another unsuccessful rival o
Garfield for the presidential nomina
ton, said, about the same time, '"Writ
down the very best statement you cal
make about General Hancock and
will sign it."
The tremendous pressure of party
necessity has proven itself stronger
than the iron will of Grant. Notwith
standing the millions of money invested
by it for campaign purposes, and in
spite of the most vigorous and thorough
campaign work it has ever performed,
the handwriting on the wall, proclaim
ing that the republican party has been
weighed in the balances and found
wanting, has recently become so con
spicuous that its frightened leaders
have appealed to Grant to submit to the
humiliation of eating his own words,
in last desperate effort to aid the fall
ing fortunes of his party, and Grant
has yielded to the pressure.
A few days ago Grants truest and
most powerful party friends, Conkling
and Logan, met him on a campaign
tour in Indiana and Illinois, and the
result of their conferences is Grants
submission to an "interview" with Rev.
DIR. Fowler, of the Methodist Church,
in which Grant deliberately eats his
fine words about Hancock, and stoops
to the degrading and revolving task of
attempting to belittle the lofty charac-
ter of that distinguished soldier, patriot
and statesman, by saying in substance
that Hancock has for many years ex-
hibited vain ambition to secure de-
nocratic nomination for the presidency,
that while he was commanding this
then military district he did everything
in his power to embarrass and hinder
Grant in the execution of the recon
strnction acts of Congress, according to
Grants ideas of how they should have
been executed, and that in so doing
Hancock was merely plotting TO secure
The favor of the democracy of the
'outhern States.
This latter charge has been the whole
took in trade of the republican party
hitherto, so far as its objections to
Hancock have found expression. 1t
vas all Conkling could say against
Hancock in his great speech at New
ork city few days ago. But the
me dominant idea pervading that en-
Ire speech, and coloring the speeches
# all republican orators, and the utter
noes of all republican journals, is that
1ancock's election means the subordin-
ton of the northern, eastern and west
IN states TO "the solid south" in the
management and control of national
fairs, 1t was simply to intensity that
dea, and to give it greater prominence,
hat Conkling and Logan cooked up
he "interview" between Grant and DR..
rowler for the pnblic press.
Poor Grant 1t is not the first time
!e has been betrayed into error by his
riends. His qualification of himself
o save his party will only serve to
insure its defeat, and to tarnish his
avn record. The animus of the
'rant-Fowler interview is SO palpable
hatitw will strengthen the devotion of all
emocrats to their distinguished stan
ard bearer, and will disgust thousands
4 moderate republican and indie
endent voters with the meanness of
be republican party leaders, in stoop-
ng SO low to bolster mp a deeaying
nd crnmbling party Organization
rant has thrown a.boomerang, Itl
Ill rebound, and injure no one
ut himself and the republican party.
VINO Dip llr g-In his recent, speech
t New York City Conkling said that
i 1915 Louisiana rave a rannhl;oan