Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-25
MAJOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT
HANCOCK

hANOOOA.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men. All hail to the
Democracy of the United States. The ma
tional convention has nobly responded to the
will of the party, the spirit of the age, and
to the demands of advancing civilization.
Cheers of approval are greeting the splendid
work of yesterday. Not a note of
discord is heard throughout the
land. Once more the North
and the South, the East and West are shak.
ing hands in a harmonious union. The day
of darkness is passing away, and out of the
clouds appears prosperous union resplend-
emit with all its stars, peace within its borders,
honored among all nations, free peopls and
an honest government far in advaLoe on the
highway of nations.
The Democratic party with its million
majority of the people, 80 long ruled and op-
pressed by tyranical and domineering mi
nority of oficeholders will approve the NOM
nation of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock for
President of the United States without one
dissenting voice. The chosen delegates of
the people deserve the plaudits of we'll done,
good and faithful servants. It is the best
nomination that could have been made. 1t
was made in the proper manner. 1t was
confirmed upon the bounding life pulses of q
gladdened people. The nomination is
worthy of the illustrious names, clarifying
with living light the rec
ords of the party, it is worthy
of sixty years of honest government in
the past, it is worthy of the radiant splendor
of the nation in the future.
Gen. Hancock, the next President of the
United States, is in the prime of life. He
was born at Montgomery county, Pennsyl-
vania, February "a, 1924, and is in his fifty
seventh year. Reared, graded almost, in
arms he has served his country in the wars
in Mexico, in Florida, and from Bull's-Run
to Appomatox and its famous apple tree.
Siuce the war be has been commander
of the three Eastern military
departments of the government, and now is
in charge of the Atlantic department, with
his headquarters on Governors Island, New
York.
At New Orleans, his firm action and pat
riotic words gave hope to lowly, stricken
people, and grateful Louisiana has placed on
the hero's head her crown of thanks. Nom
mated by his native State of Pennsylvania,
Minnesota from the first, South Caroliana,
Virginia, Texas, joined the standard of the
keystone State, until the swelling
tide burst all limits, and the whole conven-
ton with one voice proclaimed the heroic
soldier and honest gentleman the choice of
the people.
What shall we say more? Words are poor
vestments for nations joy. Gen. Hancock
is man, like Washington, of well balanced
character, prudent, modest, and of sterling
common sense. At New Orleans, he proved
himself statesman of the greatest ability,
and his words to the people of that State and
to the government at Washington
echoed the principles of the founders Of the
republic. Justice is one of the great, king
ly virtues of life the government Of men,
the government of God on high, rest upon
it. Justice is the law of Hancock's life.
God made his heart without wrinkle. Pro
fessionaly, he is Union soldier, socially, he
is an honest gentleman, politically he is a
true Democrat, personally he is one of the
most polished and sociable of men. He
is of magnificent physique, standing
over six feet in his boots, and
weighing close on to 300 pounds, but grace
full, active, brave. All the gold of the uni
verse could not bride him to a mean act. He
is truth and honor, and his hands are clean
from par isan strife The third tenn has
gone DIV beneath the waves of broken
and stormy sea. The beacon light of Han
cock rists high above the murky waters.
The tempest may rage, the ocean heave
from It's depths, the eternal bills trem-
BILE upon their rocky thrones, and the Devil,
dered needle may wander from its path, but
Hancock will be
As consistent rs the Northern Star
OF whose true fixed AMI resting quality,
There is no fellow in the armament.