The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-05
Political Notes.

that New York. New Jersey and Con-
necticut will 60 for Hancock "as sure as
the sun shines"
- Reports of the departure Of negroes
from Kentucky to vote the Republican
ticket in Indiana continue to come in.
The Indiana Democrats should be watch
full.
= "The war is not ended," says the
Philadelphia Bulletin. Then your party
has been lying terribly whenit announces
in its platform what it has done "since
the war closed" How is that?
= The Philadelphia Press (Rep. says
that ex-senator Conover, candidate for
Governor, is load on the Republicans
of Florida, and that he Should be elm
mated from the campaign"
= Gen. Hancock is reported to be
rich man. Besides all his other proper
ty in Missouri, he has some excellent
coal mines, which he refuses to sell and
does not at present care to open.
Jewell plies the screws by levying
two per cent. on Federal employees
salaries, with prompt discharge from ser
vice if the tax is not paid. He goes for
Schurzs department in the same way.
Schurz had hitherto protected his clerks
from such raids, but the party "must be
saved" now.
= The Boston Post says: "Gen. Gar
field is in one respect the most unfortu-
nate of candidates. OF all the serious
charges brought against him in relation
to his public life, not one originated with
the Democrats. They were preferred by
his own Congressional associates, his own
constituents, and his own party friends"
- Gen. E. G. Marshall, a prominent
Republican Of Pennsylvania, has hoisted
the Hancock flag. He says: ~ have
known him for a life time, having been
with him as young man in the United
States infantry, and from his boyhood to
the present time have never known a
man more pure than Gen. Winfield Scott
Hancock"
- The Utica IN. W Observer has this
to say of the Republican stampede to the
Democratic party: "rhe great mass of
the Republican party are lukewarm or
worse. Not a few arc openly hostile to
Garfield. We shall print a list Of Utica
Republican signatures to Hancock roll
in few days which will pleasantly as
tonish our Democratic readers. What is
true of this locality is true of the whole
North. The tide is everywhere setting
strongly in our favor. It will not reach
it's full until election"
- The Philadelphia Times, in COM
menting on Garfeld's letter of acccp.
tance, says: GAS to the policy Of a
Garfield administration the country is
quite as much in the dark as ever. The
letter is, therefore, great disappoint-
ment. The passing tribute of a glance
is all that it can claim. There are in it
no thoughts that breathe, no words that
burn, to hold the attention or command
conviction. 1t will not revive droop-
ing campaign F; it will not make converts;
it will not recall deserters; it will be
simply read and forgotten"
- The facts stated in this paragraph,
from the Pittsburg Post, are full of sig
nifcance: owe have not noticed the
hanging around the corners the old set of
Republicans who kept their pocket books
out, bantering democrats to bet on the
election. They don't appear to have any
heart or change to invest in this cam
paign, in which is fair indication they
have no confidence in the result. We do
hear of some pretty sick chaps who bet
in Ohio on the election of Garfield, and
have since been in Pennsylvania, and
finding the tide running one way. would
like to hedge"
= The Philadelphia Times closes an
article on the political battle that is to
be fought in that city this year as follows:
Everything points to contest of unu-
sual desperation in Philadelphia, and
the largest poll by many thousands ever
given in the city. The Republicans have
three-fourths of the election boards and
the machinery necessary to resolve all
doubts in their favor; but they will now
be met with the most confident, defiant
and desperate Democratic army they
have encounted since 1860. 1t will be
Greek locking horns with Greek, and the
Republican supremacy in the city will be
contested at every step by the Democrat
ic faith that looks for Hancock triumph
in the State"
When Hayes announced to the
Senate that he had dismissed Arthur
from the government service, he said:
"With my information of facts in the
case, and with deep sense of the re-
sponsible obligation imposed upon me
by the Constitution, to "take care that
the laws be faithfully executed" 1 re-
garded it as my plain duty to suspend
the officer in question and to make the
nomination now before the Senate, in
order that this important office may be
honestly and efficiently administered"
That is, the Office had, under Arthur,
been dishonesty and inethcieutly admin
istered, and with this Republican testi-
mony of Arthur's entire unftness for any
office, the Republican patty nominated
him with shouts of joy at Chicago.
The Scranton (Pa.) Times, an Indc-
pendent journal, speaks its mind very
plainly in this sbrief article: "The Times is
for Hancock, because he is Hancock, and
not because be is Democrat. This paper
has favored no candidate but Hancock,
and since he has been nominated we pro-
pose to show a little independence by
speaking a word for him and through
its columns; whether it has effect or not
we will do our duty just the same. And
right here we want to say that we believe
one party is as bad as the other-if not a
gread deal worse-and when the Demo
Gratis put up good man, and when the
Republicans put up bad man-as see
the New York Times and Tribune both
Republican papers, of Feb. 10, 1878,
concerning the Kelly Garfield Credit
Mobilier affair-we are for the Democrat,
although we never voted for one in our
life, and you'll find all the independent
voters and at least two thirds of the
greenbackers will be for the same man
next November-Gen. Winfield Scott
Hancock, man who has a bigger, no.
bier and truer beart than all the wiry
politicians in the land"
No GooD PREAcHING.-No man can
do a good job of work, preach a good
sermon, try law suit we'll, doctor pa