Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-26
ELI PERKINS ON HANCOCK.
Luxurious Style Of the Demo.
cratic Candidate on Gov
ernor's Island.
Contempt of the Naughty Chief for
Civilians and Peaceful Avoca-
tionS.
A warning Voice.

NEW YORK, June 3d. I sstcrday
| went over to Governors Island to
see the military candidate fer the
Presidency, Gen. Hancock.
The General occupies sixty.four
acres of land, worth, if it were sold
for city residences, about SIS, zoe, 900.
Governors Island has ceased to be
of any value % defense for the city
or harbor. 1t is simply used as the
residence OF some pet commanding
General. A gun fred from Govern
or's Island at passing ship would
60 crashing into the heart of Brook
Ign. II public enemy should ever
get within reach of Governors Island,
with the new Improvement in long
range guns, he could send q shell
through the Aston House, Trinity
Church, the Stock Exchange or Sub
Treasury. Here on this fifteen mill
lion dollar farm, surrounded by sew
eral hundred servants, the tax payers
of America support Gen. Hancock
Here seventy five soldiers make Gen.
Hancock's garden, dig in his door-
yard, trim his grapevines, and wait
upon him az il be were king. At
his command il . steam yacht, with
steam always up, ready to take the
General over to Delmonico's to din
ner, or down to Coney Island for q
sea bath or Irritation with the ladies.
Though we live in times Of peace,
everything around Gen. Hancock is
on q war footing. An armed senti.
mel stalks up and down in front of
his private residence all day long
and on through the weary night
What for nobody knows, but, tired
and jaded, in sunshine and storm,
this poor soldier must walk up and
down before his great master. At
the Generals residence everything is
done in psdantic, military way. No
ordinary citizen can see the General.
An orderly, buttoned up and baking
in RECITATION uniform, receives your
card. A naughty chief of staff ex.
amines it, and, If your clothes are
good enough, he will permit you to
stand before the General moment
while he sits, listens, and then waves
you away. The ordinary Illinois
farmer, with his face Drowned and
hands calloused with honest toll,
would nsver be allowed to enter the
presence ofthe commanding General.
HOW GEN. HANCOCK LOOKS.
The frat thought as you look al
the General is that he must be Bar
NUNS fat boy grown old. His face
Is gross and sensual. His cheeks
puff out like the fat boys, and then
his whole head grows smaller and
smaller till your eye rests on hi.
forehead, which is low and narrow
The General is q great eater and 9
liberal drinker. He takes wine al
every meal and whisky whenever be
feels like it. High eating and liberia
drinking have given him flabby
sensual double chin, which hangs
down and rests over his smashed
down shirt-eollar. The General il
SO years old. He wears white mil
itary mustache, and weighs abou,
25o. He is not o good talker. ani
never succeeded in making the
Simpl0st semi public speuoh. He /,
lazy, phlegmatic, and does nothing
but eat, drink, and enjoy himself sen
sually. He never reads books. II
be were not a Major G eneral he
would be country-la ndlord, whe
sits around and let his wife do the
cooking while his son attends TO the
bar. If elected President he will dc
nothing himself. He will simply bs
lump of dough in the hands of the
Rebel Brigadiers of the solid South.
The sixteen Southern States hate
Hancock as they do the old flag, bu,
they have taken him up as a swee,
bait with which to catch the North.
ern Democrats and the soldiers vote
The North once in the trap, Han.
cock will be used to turn out North.
ern effice.holders and to stock the
country with Southern Brigadlsrs. II
he is elected the solid South will dc
it, and they must have their reward.
That reward will be to cell back the
officials who have gone from Illinois
and Indiana aud fill up the country
with rebel Marshals from Loulsians
and Mississippi, and Consuls from
among the Confsderates. If Han,
cock is elected, $30,OoO,0o0 nov
paid annually to Union men in the
North will be paid to the disunionist.
of the South. The Northern mar
who votes for Hancock will vote
against his own country, his OWE
people, and vote for the enemies OF
the Republic in the solid South. The
man who votes for Hancock will vote
to have S30,000,00O taken away from
the North and distributed among the
hungry Sscsssionists of the South.
GEN. HANcoCK's FAMILY.
Mrs. Hancock is pleasant ordi.
nary woman. She has no ambition.
She likes ease and comfort. If she
was in the White House she would