The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-09
JUDGE BLACK.
INTERVIEW WITH THE EMINENT
JURIST ON THE PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATES.
Speaks Highly of Hancock and EmphatiCalIy
About Galfleld's Tariff Record.

The Philadelphia Press has the follow
ing interview with Judge Black:
"Well, Judge, what do you say Of
Hancock as a Presidential candidate? ?"
when l read his Order No. 40-oi
which am done disclaiming the author
ship-I said, There is the foremost
American Of his time, and the note l
wrote him upon that occasion came from
my heart. l said, There is a man who
deserves the highest honor his country
has to bestow, and l believed that he
would receive his reward if not in life,
then by posthumous fame, which would
descend upon his children, and 1 could
not tear out Of my heart the lively hope
that he would some day be rewarded
with the Presidency Of the United
States"
You do not rate Hancock high mere.
ly as a soldier?'
When General Jackson defended
New Orleans he filed the measure of his
country's glory but when he grappled
with the United States Bank and stran,
gled the monster he rose to the full
height Of craftsmanship and made him.
self his proudest place in history. Gen
eral Hancock was a splendid soldier, but
his civil reCord-0rder No. 40 alone-is
worth more 10 him and bis country. He
showed knowledge of the Constitution
and respect for its legislation not ex.
hibited by any other high officer Of our
army. He took his stand in defense of
the Constitution at time when Thad
Stevens was fouting his contempt for
that sacred instrument, holding that
Congress was iegislating outside of the
Constitution, though he observed that
some people still had splinters Of that
shattered instrument fostering in their
livers. That was the ground taken by
the strongest intellect of his party-a
man who led the Republican party to
lengths to which it would have followed
no other"
Don't you think Stevens believed he
was rightP"
"Thad Stevens was utterly without
moral sense. He had no moral standard.
How could he determine what was right,
believing in nothing, rejecting God and
the devilP Naturally great power, this
lack made him great power for evil. 1t
was under his leadership that the Re-
publican party tried to do what Clay and
Webster predicted the ultra.abolitionists
would attempt-to destroy the Union by
force"
I'm your opinion, Judge, how will the
tariff for revenue plank in the Democrat
ic platform affect Hancock in Pennsyl-
vaniaP"
Is anybody opposing that PROPOSE
tion2"
THE Republican party Aatters itself
that it is opposing it to some purpose"
well. General Garfield isn't opposing
it, is he2 II there is a man in this coun-
try who is anti-protectionist that man is
Garfield. know it, and l know he stood
up for his principles in his own district
when he was urged to declare himself
He said he was not a proteCtionist, and
though they might vote against him he
would stand on his convictions"
But General Garfield Confesses that
he was not too stubborn to learn, that
free trade theories captivated him, while
the practice was obnoxious to him, for
which reason, l believe, he never gave
an anti.protectionist vote in the House.
Judge Kelley put 1t pretty well when
he said recently that Garfield had grown
up to the full measure of protection"
"Well, was afraid Of that-afraid ne