The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-06-28
THE ENTERPRIsE ON HANCOCK.

The Virginia Enterprise, which is
recognized as the leading Republican
paper of Nevada, admits that Hancock
IL hard to beat. 1t says:
There is no use IN attempting to dis
guise the fact that the Republican party
has work before it if it expects to win
this campaign. The nomination of
General Hancock is undoubtedly a
strong card for the Democracy, and the
managers OF the party, who We're smart
enough to secure his nomination, are
strong enough to make every point pos
sible tell in his favor. Since 1860 the
Democratic party has been party of
blunders, and their nomination of Han
cock is the only act of common sense
Trey have performed in the two de-
c.des. After five successive Presiden-
tai defeats they have at least got it
through their hitherto obtuse brains
that the only policy that stands any
show of success is one which recognizes
tie Union of the States and &C.
Enosledges that the war for it's preser-
sstIon was right. In selecting Union
scidier for their standard bearer, they
make that admission, and abandon the
doctrine of States rights and dry their
tears for the Lost Cause.
Hancock possesses many elements OF
strength that it will not do to lose
sight Of The halo of military glory
that surrounds him will attract the
bero-worshippers, even though that
glory is of the negative sort. The Off
cecs of the regular army are as clannish
as SO many Shoshones, and Hancock
being West Pointer, will have at least
tie sympathies Of the majority of the
stoulder-strap fellows. There is dis
POSITION among Union soldiers to vote
for Union commander. The South
will vote for him simply because he is a
Democrat. and it wants Democrat in
control of the Government
-l4is is probably in the main correct.
The Democratic party has to some ex-
tent. at least. been party of blunders,
brt now that Republicans concede that
j; las by nominating a Union soldier,
w,ese record as a military chieftain is
scarcely second to that of General
Grant. why not encourage them in this
effort to do right: If Hancock accepts
TIE platform framed for him at Cincin-
nat,. he will undoubtedly carry it out
to the letter. He always. obeyed IN
structlons, even at the risk of his life,
AID AZ he had to make no combinations,
or as Mr. Tritle expressed it, in an.
noi.ncing himself candidate for the
Senate, fused no coin or unworthy
promises to secure his nomination, he
viii have no old party hacks to provide
for 1t the expense of the Government
when lie becomes President. The plat
form Is square ON the Silver and Chi
rese questions, issues in which the peo-
Pie OF this State are much more inter-
ceted than in anything else which
divsdes the Republican and Democratic
parties, and no one will doubt for a
moment that Hancock, if elected, will
s;gn bills to restrict Chinese immigra-
ton and in favor of the free coin
afe of silver at tho mints, on
equal terms with GOLD. The plat
form on which Hancock was nominated
is exactly in accordance with the views
AID votes of James G.. Blaine on the
Silver and Chinese questions, and Han
cock is a man who always obeyed in
structions. Unlike civilians, who re-
gard party pledges, embodied in plat
forms, as traps to catch gudgeons, he
CONSTITUTES them to mean what they say,
ard will carry them out as he would an
amy order--strictly to the letter.