Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-15
Strafghtenfng its Facts.


Strengthening its Facts.
The NeU Era is needlessly disturbed
lest the INTELLIGENCER should be un-
willing to publish anything that its
friend, Judge Black, says. We have a
habit of publishing whatever we think of
interest to our readers, and as Judge
Black has habit of saying interesting
things we generally print what he writes.
Judge Black has another habit with
which we are i'm sympathy. He says
what he thinks. We like to say what we
think. What the truth can hurt, let it
hurt. We have not thought of hesita-
ting to lay before our readers Judge
Black s opinion of Garfield. If the Re-
publican newspapers can read that opin-
ion with satisfaction, they are very easily
satisfied and are inclined to be thankful
for remarkably small favors. No doubt
in their present desperate strait, a word
of kindness for their candidate from an
opponent has very soothing sound.
They get so few of them and need them
SO much. The parched ground gapes
with thirst and the most moderate sort
OF drizZle is welcome in the Garfield
garden.
1t is pity for our Republican friends
that Judge Black gives them too much
bitter with his sweet, and so joins the
two in close embrace that the honey
cannot he got without the sting. If they
only dared to publish by itself Judge
Black S sleclaratiOn of Garfield that " if
he could carry the principles which reg
ulate his private life into his public con-
duct he would make the best chief mag
istrate we have ever had,'' emitting his
assertion that he would not do SO, and
that Il" / do not know any really good man
who has done, and assisted in doing, so
many bad things in politics as Gen. Gar
feld,'' they would be sweetly happy.
AS it is Gari;eld's wisdom and honesty in
politics about which the people are
chiefly solicitOus. in view of his candi-
tlacy for the presidency, it is not easily
pcrceptible how Judge Blacks opinion
of him is going to aid his election.
The Nc~ Err is not any more fOrtu-
nate in its facts in stating that 1.-THE In
TELLIGENcER was guilty of the same sin
of omission to admire Gen. Hancock"
in 1865, of which it says Judge Black ac-
cl,ses the editor of the Philadelphia
Times. The Judge simply expresses to
Col. Mcclure his qualification that he
has changed his opinion of General Ham
cock and his then particular friends
since 1868, us he did not then " admire
either him or them up to the point of
their merits.'
The editors of the INTELLIGENCER in
1865 were among the ''particular friends
of General Hancock for the presidential
nomination. Both Mr.. Smith and Mr..
Steinman were delegates to the national
convention. and did their utmost to break
the dead lock i'm the delegation which the
combination Of the friends of PendletOn
AMI Packer made, and which kept Penn
sylvamia steadily and use|essly voting for
Packer. In 1869 the INTELLIGENCER
of Hancock for governor of PennSylva-
mia, and was rs fervent and vigorous in
the effort as it WAS in its power to be.
The Lancaster county convention i'll
structed for him. On the day of the
meeting of the state conventions, Il Spe-
cial edition of the INTELLIGENCER was
issued and circulated in the convention
in advocacy of the nomination of Han
cock. lie would have been nominated
but for the lukewarmness of some who
assumed to speak for him and who de-
clared that he would not accept the NOM
ination in support of which they pre-
scented letter written from st. Paul,
where he was then stationed, to certain
gentlemen of Northampton county, in
which he declined to permit the use of
his name for governor. But Mr.. Stein
man shortly before had had per-
sOnal interview with the General,
at the Girard house in Philadelphia,
and was satisfied that although lie did
not desire the nomination he would not
decline it if he was nominated. Mr.. Wal
lace, however, read the letter in the con-
vention, and it was persuaded to accept
il as Il positive refusal to serve. 1t was
thought by us and many other of
his friends that General Hancock could
he elected and that this would
er!ainly give him the Democratic
nomination for the presidency in 1872.
This would have saved our absurd cam.
paign with Greeley, to whom we were
driven in desperate effort to escape
from the bloody shirt. The Democratic
party certainly would have been better
off, even though it had not been success.
full. But General Hancock perhaps has
reason now to congratulate himself that
the effort of his old friends in those days
failed since he now has certainty of
the presidential honor which possibly he
would then have lost if even he had been
appointed to lead the Democratic army.
10 Need for Heat.
Westated the other day Oh the author.