Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-10-27
Views Of the Veterans
ON GRANTS VILIFICATI0NS
ON HANCOCK.
The Unworthy Work OF an Ex-Presi-
dent and former Brother in Arms
WAS Grant m His Normal
Mental Condition 2
ORDER NO. 40.
A Suecinct Reuiew Of the Real Ianer
History Of that Grant Document
What 10 Vas.
Ex-Presldent Grants vilncation Of Gen
Hancock.

garded the name of U. S. Grant wit
high esteem have recently had caus
to bc mortified and grieved. The
idol has come down from its podesta
The silent man, once the victoriou
General Of the army, twice Presiden
and alterward the honored of crowne
heads and the guests Of great nations
has so iarjorgotten himself as TO com
down to yituperatiOn and vilfcatior
He has descended from the loft,
height where, sercnely and like q demI
god, he was enthroned, and has wres
tied in tho mud Of partisan polite
like a common ward politician Ii
has caused himself to DO interviewed
He has assaulted with passionate an,
indiscreet words bis former brother il
arms, General Winfield Scott Hancock
now candidate for the Presidency. Il,
has used harsh and belitlling epithet
about hlm, There was no ostensibl,
reasons for the attack. The veteran
will regard this occurrence in sorrow
rather than in anger They regret it
not lOr General hancock sake, bu
Tor ueneial urahts sake and then
own 1t is always grIeyous thing t
have ones ideal destroy cd-to fine
paseness ana common clay where on'
worshiped imagined greatness OF char
actor and heroism 1t shocks ont
terhoiy' heavens uraht demeanlnl
hlmseil WIN words oi OIackguardism
Grant nlng'ng lnud llke a street Arab
Grant yltupeIatlng IKE a BilllngsgatC
hSh' h'wne! Inc veterans VIII hnd II
hard 10 oelleye 1t, yetso 1t seems to be
Ihe interview pGtweGn Genera.
uraht anu inc heV' Dr. fowler pub
lisheu III inc CINCINNATI Gd@eue, ana
tclesrapheu 10 lhe New loik IWeS
anu Afterwards mouihou IN an inter
view WIN u reporter oi the Ch'cagc
IHteI. ocean, Is femarkaOie as regards
itS OBJECT the means employed to eilecl
~ ana the material which composes 1t
Inc intention Oh lhe anthor was TO IN
Juro ueneral hancock prospects IN
ihuiana ana ono me interview oc'
curIeu On the -lst oi september, ~
was hot puoilsheu uhlll the oth ol Oc-
tooer, OF a s9lncient time before the
OctVoer eleG''ons III thoso states 10
prouuce ils uesired erect III was be
i'oVeu thaI the great name OF Grant
Wouiu nave equally great influence
When useu 10 decry hancock
Inc use ol urahts name TO lnJure
hancock was as GViuehtly desperate
as II was uespicaole' III shows that
lho managers OF the game lear that
the potion Is TO oe knocked out OF
'he,r campaiBh' nhey sec the hand'
"iitlhB on inc wall
Inc means ehployeu ior TINS Dusi-
ness was aiso iemarkao'e' An ordl'
nary newspaper reporter would not do.
Methodist preacher Is employed to
40 inc uirty business Inc Methodlsts
are perhaps the largest denomination
IN inc united states. The veteran has
great respect lor them as BODY 1t
was desired 10 eaten their votes An
oruinary slhiui, perhaps mendaclous
secular newspaper reporter would not
insure repu0hcauon in all the Metho-
dist tdenomlnationalp papers. A Metho'
ulsI preacher reporter would give
'rulhlulhess 10 tne account "A secular
reporter might iie' or DC mistaken a
preacher " never whatever IS said
oy such means would be regarded as
absolute truth 80 doubtless reasoned
the men who put up the job, and
they made use OF the kev. MIR. Fowler.
Inc veteran Is aware that the value
oi what II man says depends a good
deal on tho means he uses to promul-
gate his opinions. A drunken, men.
daclous reporter for the purpose of
truth, would be no better than half.
civilized Hottentot. But who is the
Rev, Fowlery He was educated in a
little ircsh-water institution, now ex-
tlnct known as Genessee college. He
is remembered by bis associates as
having announced to them when ho
motrlculated, his intention to study
for the ministry, that profession offer
ing the shortest and easiest cut to "lame
and u good living" Tho Rev. Fowler
followed this short cut and in time,
duly briei, achieved ministerial honors,
He was known very soon as sensa.
tionalist, a speaker OF large elocution-
airy powers without correspondent
scholarship. One Of bis famous dis.
courses was delivered in the old Wa.
bash Avenue Methodist church, CHI.
cago. lie startled his fashionable au.
dience by beginning in this wise: "As
! was coming to church this morning
i saw two dogs fighting in the street /;
one was very large dog and the
other was small dog, and the large
dog had tho small dog down. But,
brethren, God is always for the under
dog in the fight" And Mr.. Fowler
went on drawing his illustration from
the dog fight, and, ut proper oratorical
intervals, clinohing the argument with
the grandly gestured sentence "For
God Is Tor the under dog in the fight |"
while a ripple Of sensation would run
through the audience. This will do
Tor the Kev. MIR. Fowler, who was 80
lected as the medium through which
General Grant, who had been General
oithe army and twice President, should
attempt to injure the prospects Of Gen,
Hancock, who had never sought to do