The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-05
NEE BOOM


THE HANCOCK BOOM
Is booming east and west. In New York
city, on Wednesday evening Of last week,
was the grand ratification meeting for
Hancock and English.
Three halls were occupied, and three
outside speaking stands were used, all
with crowds. At the Academy OF Mu'
sic, ex Coy. Samuel j. Tilden presided.
At Irving Hall, Alderman Chas. H. Mar.
shall presided, and at nilsson Hall the
German tongue was spoken, and School
Commissioner Ferdinand fraud was
chairman.
Bands and banners; music and cheers,
gave evidence of the enthusiasm that
prevailed in the crowds, numbering in
all some thirty thousand. Mr.. Remak
of Philadelphia, was the first speaker at
Nillson Hall in German, and we give an
extract translated
If a man takes $4,000 to carry out a
contract, and le chairman of a committee
in Congress, the committee which is to
execute the contract, | ask you if such a
man ia to be honored. | am prepar-
ed to pledge my word that chairman
Garfield was employed in the DeGolyer
business to get through a s. 100000 con.
tract with the Government, and for moth.
ing else. This has all been proven, as
you know, by the record of his own par
tv. The President Of the United States
has greater influence and power than
any sovereign. To such a man as janis
A.. Garfield you should not hand over this
greatest power. 1t is your duty to see
that such a man, dishonest and disaon"
orable-I will not use a stronger PHRASE
-doea mol reach that office. | was at
Cincinnati at the convention that nOmi-
mated Winfield Scott Hancock [Cheers
and | was at the convention Of 1856.
Since the going out of office of the Presi-
dent then nominated and elected, the
Republican party has been in power,and
by a system of terrorism, fraud and per.
jury, it has contrived to maintain itself
in Office. Its fraudulent devices are the
monstrosity of the times, and the plac.
ing of Rutherf} rd B. Hayes in the Pres
idential chair, is an act unparalleled in
a~trocity in American history. The eight
men who declared him elected to that
Office, as a lawyer, l declare them guilty
of violating their oath Ofofice. l am be-
coming warm, | admit, but the lndivid'
ual who stands before you has g re-
ceived a S., 900 fee without working hard
for it, and he never Ewindled the United
States Government for a fee.
Police Justice Marcus Otterbourg fol.
lowed Coroner EIlinger, and said
Il did not come here to make a speech
but to learn something. 1t seems to me
as if all New York was here to pledge it.
-elf to support HinCock and English.
applause l see that my old friend
Ellinger has played me a trick in dealing
with Mr.. Schurz, whom l reserved for
myself. The New York Times in report
ing one of his campaign speeches heads
it, Words from Carl Schurz,' AID it was
nothing but words, hollow words. l
know that the Germans have made too
much progress in politics to allow them.
selves to be triCked by mere words. The
SChurz who uttered these hollow words
for his masters, the Republicans, is the
same Schurz who, when he worked for
the election of Lincoln, was not the last
in Eurrying to Washington ia search of
an office, and four years ago it was the
same Schurz who was not the last there
either. No mar denounced the Repub-
lican party louder than he at one time,
and if Hancock is elected it will not be
p hard task to convince him that the
Democratic party is not as bad as he has
painted it,"
At Irving Hall one Of the speakers
was Senators Jones of Louisiana, and We
give an extract from his eloquent speech:
Fellow citizens, l knew Gen. Hancock
and as a Louisianian | had reason to
know him and to love him. The state
Of Louisiana for twelve years has presen-
ted his name as a candidate at each sue.
cessive convention. 1t was not because
he was a great soldier; it does not be-,
come me, an humble Confederate sold
Ter, to picture the magnifcenCe of Gen.
Hancock as a military leader. He was
nominated because he was the first man
clad with military power, almost des.
potic within the limits for which he was
appointed, who, after the wal had Ceas.
ed, announced that he was there with
the army for the purpose of protecting
and enforcing civil law; that so far as his
administration wal concerned, he should
bow the banners and swords of war to
the reign of smiling peace. (Applause,)
He told the people, strangers to him, i'm
poverished by a wal in which they had
lost everything; a people who had rea-
son to believe they were deprived of lib
erty, who were not permitted to elect
their own officers at the polls, who were
compelled to see the civil law subverted
and subordinated to military rule, who
had seen the verdiCts of their juries set
aside, the writ of habeas corpus denied,
their property disposed of by military
orders of military court martial-he was
the first military commander to say to
them, "Notbing of this kind can prevail
in this department while | command it,"
He said now that the war was over and
peace restored, the right of trial by jury,
the writ of habeas corpus, rights Of
property and the rights of civil and per.
sonal liberty must be preserved; and that
his army should only be used to prevent
interference with thorough restoration
of civil government and peace through
out the department; and the orders Of
his making that announcement and car
rying il out, makes him your candidate,
makes him not only the choice of the
Southern people, but the choice of the
people throughout the land who honor
aud love constitutional liberty. ZAP
%plause.) The Republicans, finding the
record of Gen. Hancock unassailable
have tried to frighten you with the as.
sertion that his administration will be
controlled by the people of the South to
undermine the Union, and opposed to
the interests of the Government. The