The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-17
Press Opinions.

Garneld's nomination is received
with much greater satisfaction by Re
publicans than Hayes nomination
was. Hayes was then recognized as an
inoffensive good man and fair candi.
date. Garfield is recognized as an ag-
gressive, strong man, a great states
man, and an admirable leader. The
enthusiasm is general. Mexican
Miner.
General Garfield has a national
reputation and is one of the ablest
statesmen in the country. A fine
scholar, II learned jurist, splendid
speaker, with few equals as an orator,
and above all patriot in whom there
is no guile, he will be acceptable to all
Republicans and all citizens who are
opposed to the accession of the Dem
ocratic- Confederate party to power
Columbia Courant.
Now, as in other critical periods
in the history of the party, it has
risen courageously to the demand of
the observation-disclosures the great un-
derlying principal of the Republican
Observation-Disclosures for a free and
fair ballot inside the Republican lines
and laying aside personal preferences,
names the next president of the
United States.-[ Gettysburg Star and
Seminal.
West Chester RepuJHcdn: "Let
the Republicans now unite as one
man and resolve that as we are one in
purpose and sentiment, so shall we be
in action, and by the combined, un-
daunted power of the party which
saved the Nation when threatened by
the party which now seeks to control
it, drive them back, as in the days
gone by and make the victory greater
and grander than any in all our his
tory.
Far and wide this will be regarded
as one of the best results of the Chi
cago decision. And while many peo-
pie will feel a pang of regret that the
men whose prowess broke the power
of the third-termism, James G. Blaine
and John Sherman, are themselves
laid low i'll the conflict, they will still
rejoice that there was spared out of
the wreck of battle so able and So
good Il candidate us James A. Garfield
of Ohio.-[Pittsburg Leader.
"A correspondent of the Press says:
THE action of the Chicago conven-
ton was received at Hazleton with
marked approval. During the after
noon, after the result of the final bal
lot had been ascertained, flags could
be seen in all portions of the town.
In the evening II national salute was
fired after which the Union Rcpubli-
can Club, accompanied by band
of music, paraded the principal
streets and screnaded prominent Re
publican citizens.n
Out of the prolonged deliberations
of the convention ut Chicago the Re
publican party comes newly born. Its
strength is renewed, it begins afresh
At the end OF twenty years, in which
time il has performed such service for
the country as no other party ever did,
it returns TO the citv where its first
successful candidates were nominated.
and bathes itself anew iii the convic.
lions and feeling out OF which if came
in the West Chester Vii
lage Record.
1t was because we knew that the
friends of Blaine and sherman fully
realized that the Republican party and
the country would be subject to n great
peril if the traditions of the RcnuhIic
and the repeated declarations of the
party apainst n third term werc
tramp!ed upon. that we never doubted
the ultimate failure of even 50 coupact
and skillruIlv. handled a machine as
that of the Senatorial triumvirate to
force the nomination of General Grant.
-rLancaster New Era.
The nomination Of J,mos 4 Car.
fold for tho ofTi,o or prasidont of tho
Trritod Stoto. will orou,o oroot ontbu-
siosn, in tba RonuhIicon nortv and
.o,op tbo canvass with on oss,ronoo or
s1ocoss Tho BonuhIicors Of POM
svIvonia ore aoain bitterly disor-
nointed i'm tbo .Iorobtor