The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10
Political Notes.

General Hancock has no CIVIL rec
ord and his party has too much.
Can the sectional issue be buried
by putting Solid South on top of it :?
Reports already come that English
is as likely to tap his barrel freely as
turnip is to shed blood. This will
chill the Reform ardor.
Can the good war record of Han
cock lead the American people to
condone the bad war record Of his
supporters A? That is the question.
The Solid South is power, but it
has been defeated more than once by
a greater power which will defeat il
again in November-a solid Republi-
can party.
Ex-senator Gordon, of Georgia. is
one of the Democrats who said that
the Cincinnati ticket would not be
as strong in three months as it was
on the dsy it was made.
The Dragging on Hancock at the
present time is strongly remndful of
the first week of the Greeley cam
paign. Democrats were then ready
to bet anything that Greeley would
be elected, but it somehow happened
that.he was not.
John C. New, who is Republican,
and was formerly the business parts
ner of English, thinks that Garfield
will probably carry Indiana, as the
nomination of English is peculiarly
offensive to Hendricks and the soft
money Democrats.
AS contemporary Democratic ac-
counts of the battle of Gettysburg
would seem to in dictate that Hancock
surrounded the enemy all by HIM
self, it is worth while mentioning
that General Meade had something
to do with that battle.
The poetry of Babyhoed is turned
into the blankest kind of prose when
enc has to walk the floor all night to
the ceasless music of colic-suffering
baby. DR.. Bulbs Baby Syrup pre-.
vents all such scenes and troubles by
its unfailing influence.
Democrats make a vast mistake
when they imagine that the compli-
ments paid by Republicans to Gen
eral Hancock personally are an indi-
cation of Republican party weakness.
The truth is that Republicans can
afford, by reason of the strength of
their position, to be courteous and
fair.
Hancock is good soldier and moth
ing more. But Garfield also proved
his soldiership, and besides that is
trained statesman and legislator, a
man familiar with all the needs Of
the country and thoroughly under
standing its political and commercial
currents. There can be no question
as to which would make the safest
president.
The Democrats talk ia their plat
form about the fright of free bal
lot, the right preservative of all
rights" and after they have said it
proceed to claim the South solid for
their candidate. Well. a tissue ballot
which one man can vote over ], 800
times in one day, as one did in
Charleston not long ago, is certainly
"free" enough. The able platform
builder was shrewd enough to say
Stree" instead 'of "fair."
What does The World newspaper
mean by putting quotation marks
around Garfield's title of General :?
Is the idea meant to be conveyed one
of contempt for the volunteer officer
as compared with the regular army
officer? If it is, there will be lively
Republican hopes that all the other
Democratic journals will adopt the
style. There is an impression that
the volunteer soldiers had something
to do with saying the Union.
In their fear of trouble over the
Surratt business, the Democrats have
been comforting themselves with a
statement going the rounds of the
press that General Garfield was a
member of the military court that
sentenced her to death. This is not
the fact. General Garfield had moth
ing to do with the Surratt, case, direct
or remote; and the only case involv-
ing the powers of military court
with which he had any connection
was the famous Miligan case. In that
case he was associated with Judge
Jere Black as counsel for Miligan,
and made powerful argument before
the United States Supreme Court
denying the power of a military court
to pass sentence of death upon a
civilian.