Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-17
4ancaster fntelltgencer.
A Bright Outlook.

Interviews with representative Demo- |
Gratis from all points of the country
give every indication of most healthy
condition of the political atmosphere.
It was highly significant of the general
interest felt in the pending campaign
that at the recent meetings in New
York of the Democratic national and of
the notification committees there was a
very full attendance, whereas at the
meeting of the Republican national COM
mittee nearly half of those present were
substitutes, and half of the latter were
old political hacks run in to misrepre-
sent states in which they do not reside.
John A. Logan, for instance, voting in
the name of Pennsylvania. The organi-
zation of the national committee was
effected with auspicious unanimity.
The personal introduction of our can
didates to hundred of the leading Dem
Ocrats in the country, representing all
states, impressed all who came in con-
tact with them with a sense of their fit
ness for the high responsibilities imposed
upon them. They bore themselves with
dignity and affability, and they talked
with good sense. There are sympathy,
cordiality, confidence and close associa-
tion between General Hancock and Mr..
English, and splendid as are the record
and the presence of the head of the tick
ct, Mr.. English will be found entirely
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up his end of the line.
A view over the national field presents
most encouraging report, the singular
ity of its being that all the doubtful
states are among those which the
Republicans have to depend upon
to get anywhere near success,
while the Democracy are sub.
stantially sure of enough states to elect
their candidates. Mr.. Barnum will see
that Connecticut is not in the doubtful
list, and the probability of Frank Jones
being the nominee of the Democracy fOi
governor in New Hampshire gives the
party there the liveliest hope of carrying
it on the state and electoral ticket. The
fusion of the Democrats and Greenback.
cTs in Maine on a single electoral ticket
will keep Mr.. Blaine busy at home; New
York and New Jersey are assured 10y
larger majOrities than Tilden had ; every
inch of ground in Pennsylvania will bt
hOtiy contested, and the most cOnserva
tive and thoughtful leaders of the Ohit
Democracy assure us that the enemy vii
not be able to spare man mol
motion from that state except at TIN
risk of its loss to Garfield. Mr.. Englisl
and Mr.. Macdonald and Mr.. Hoard
Hendricks law partner, give us ever!
pledge that Indiana cannot bt
carried against us Illinois is very hope
full for Trumbull, and even Massachu
sets will not he carried for Garfield, eX
cept by most desperate contest and TIN
strain of every nerve. John w. Daniel
the keenest intellect of Virginia, declare
that there need be no concern whateve
for the old Dominion in some way o
other its eleven electoral votes will g
for Hancock.
When it is remembered that with tn
solid South the Democrats only need New
York and Indiana, or New York, Con
necticut and New Jersey, to elect Han
cock, the utter hopelessness of the Re
publican cause is manifest. IIeretOfOr
they have been able to concentrate al
their efforts on a few states, but witt
their necessity to maintain a doubtful
warfare i'm Ohio, Illinois, Massachusett
and Pennsylvania, how can they hope t.
even ''hOld their Own,'' not to speak o
recovering any Of the Democratic groun'
of 1876.