The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1880-07-03

A UNITED DEMOCRACY,
WHICH GAVE Us \ TICKET
For TIE WHOLE. COUNTRY.
INA PERSON WHO, 1NWAR,
WAS A CHIEF, IA BATTLE,
WHOSE BLADE -"CLAsHED
AND RANG,a AND IN PEACE,
a CHAMPION OF THE CIVIL
OVER THE MILITARY LAW.
Well has tho Cincinnati Conyen-
ton discharged the great trust com
mitted to it. 1t has presented
Maior-Goneral Winfield Scott
Hancock, Of Pennsylvania, for
President. In nominating him the
Convention wisely determined TO
discard the. work Of machine poll.
ticians, cliquos, clans and caucus
rulersin and ont Of Congress, and to
ignore Tho wishes ofmoney man
ayers, corporations, monopoly
builders and job hunters, and to
look 10 the true interest Of tho I'M
organized people. This purpose
was displayed when the unpreten-
tious States Of Maine, in the North,
and Louisiana, in the South, led
of, on the first ballot, for Hanccck.
powered all around by Northern
and Southern States, voting alter
nately for him. This first display
quickensd the general purpose 10
give 10 the country q candidate
outside Of tho roach Of political
manipulators. Another good and
patriotic purpose dominated in the
Convention, and that was TO put
=upon=tho censtant
and silly clamor about @solid
South, and TO drive into oEscQrity
that Haunted :sbloody shirt, 50 un5
ceasingly@an d=unmeaninglydis.
played by tic snall-fry politicians
and paltry partizans, in hunt Of Of
flee, who pretend to want to fight
now, but would not when they
could. In Hancock, We have SOL
llicr, who was n AEurat in many
tinted fields, and none 10 unhesi-
talingly selected by General Grant,
for the Forefront, rs he. 4 Demo-
crat in war-n Democrat in peace,
Glorying in the SUCCESS "tt!'"t war,
10 which ho contributed 90 COLI
spicuously TO terminate. and When
terminated, lie remembered that
VIC had Il Constitution and an en-
tire country. For such a man, the
blue and The gray can nNlto.
This nomination makes it i'm
possible to got up a bloody shirt
campaign, which has been repeated
so Professionally TO divert invesIiga-
ton from NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
grave questions Of internHl polity.
The mendacious cannot draw the
South into the canvass. The South
will not hesitate, because tho Con-
vcntinn lus presented Il candidate
who was one Of the most brilliant
Generals of the war for the Union.
They arc pleased to show that they
can act in good faith to the nvow-
ais made BY thea at the conclusion
Of that bloody strife.
Tho nomination blots out sec
tionul issues from our politics, and
places thv canvass upon q bread
national plane.
How splendirlly 'lo the bread
views and acts Of General Hancock,
in and ont d 'e'r, contrast with that
Credit MuI;iier, DC GolIycr lmrHJ""
Of virtue, presented to It's by the
Chicago Convention? Garfield,
but Il few days since, in presenting
IL much better lnNn than himself
TO the Chicago Convention, Us re-
ported in the MtslIGgcncer, INDUCED
as follows:
"rllo Republican party offer 10
cur brethren Of the South tho olive
branch Of peace, and invite them 10
renewed brotherhood, on Ills eOm''i-
tion, that il shall be admitted for
ever ind lurcvcrmore that in the
war for the Union, We were right
and they were wrong"
There is low breeding in this.
".BrMus hut rather De rilt"geT
THIN rtpnte hiatssy" foO Of Romc
Under such hard conditions"
Ills utterancc, after fifteen years
of peace, displays the donOsosuc.
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