Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
POLITICAL POINTS.

The betting in New York is all
in favor of Hancock. Hancock men
are offering a commission of ten per
cent. for the securing of opportunities
to bet on their candidate. N Y En-
press.
- General Hancock's letter reads
as if it was written by the author of
order No. 40. Its effect will be to in
crease the chances that the next Presi-
dent will be Democrat. PHILADELPHIA
Record.
- The Republican platform insists
that that party restored specie pay
ments. 1t says nothing as to who sus-
pended them. 1t is simply a boast that
the party repaired one of the many
items in the catalogue of its blunders
and managements.-httsburgh Post.
The effect of General Garfield s
letter of acceptance has been to make
every one of his supporters profoundly
thankful that the etiquette of Presi-
Dental campaign will compel the Chi
cago nominee for the rest of the sea-
son to put his thumb in his mouth and
sit down on his penn Y. World.
Grant says Clarified is the man
for the Office although he has
"nothing against Hancock" Gar
fields letter of acceptance won Grants
heart because of his distant touching
of the subject of civil-service reform,
the very mention of which makes
Grant and his crowd sea-sick and ugly.
-C0urier-JOurnGt.
- The ST. Louis Times, in speak
ing of Hancock's letter of acceptance,
says: cit is admirably short, plain
and to the point. There is no effort at
fine writing about it. Every voter in
the country who understands the En-
glish language can understand every
proposition it contains. 1t is just such
a letter as was to be expected from the
frank character of the man, just such u
letter as the gravity of the occasion de-
manded."
The Boston Post puts it thus
forcibly: The Republicans do not know
what they are talking about when they
say that General Hancock is not a
statesman: How do they know he
they are born; and General Hancock
has given the strongest presumptive
evidence that he possesses the qualities
that distinguish them. On the con-
trary. Garheld's seventeen years of
service have proved that he is only a
politician.
- General Burt, who was post
master at Boston under Grant, has
come to the defense of Cakes Ames
against the aspersions of the Republi-
can press. He says that Ames told the
truth in his testimony concerning Gar
field. and that, although he is out of
politics, he is unwilling to hear the
memory of his deceased friend traduced
by the supporters of the Chicago candi-
date for the latter'S benefit. General
Burt has always been a Republican and
has never voted Democratic ticket, but
this year he is undecided as to his line
of duty.
-Gcneral Hancock's brief but
pointed discussion of the public policy
that most directly affects our great but
long languishing material interests is
ship. The declaration that public Of
flee is trust, not bounty bestowed
upon the holder, is not as elaborate as
Geo rgpre Mi9i g G SpeWs of civilservice
reform, but it has the merit of telling
the truth in the blunt way that gives
the air of sincerity; and when he next
the country that civil-service
reform must first be established by the
people in filling the electoral offices, he
the sincere friends of
better civil-service how to strike the
only deadly blow that can be directed
against the present evil.-PAiladelphia
Times.