The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-06
GENERAL HANcoO2s LETTBR

Tho letter written few days ago in an.
swer to nm inquiry as to what he would do in
case no should DO elected, il an effort was
mndo to pay what the Republicans are
pleased to tenn "rebel claims" was manly
outspoken expression of candid gentleman,
"A statesman and true patriot. This letter
has ELECTED favorable comment from all
Democratic papers, and not q single Repub,
lican paper has hal the indecency to attack
it, so far as we have seen, the
New York Evening Mail coming
nearer to it than any other paper
in little effort at sarcasm about the effect
of the letter. General Hancock takes the
only position in this letter that sensible
man could take--one Of unequivocsl oppo-
sitiou to the paymcn. cf any claim in favor
of any southern man growing out Of the
late war. In the first place such claims
could not be legally paid, and no southern
man who espouscd The cause of the south in
the late civil war will ever present any claim
for payment There were, when the Repub-
licans had possession of both houses of con.
gress, number of war claims from union
men, or $50 called" union men, who lived in
the south during the war, but these claims
were always chaperoned by Republicans
and voted for by Republicans. There has
never been tho slightest ground to fear that
when the Democrats got into power that
they would run their bends into tho public
treasury to pay southern war elaine. Why
should they do it any more than tho Repub-
licans? 1t is the supreme of folly for the
Republicans to claim that they alone saved
the union, and fought the battles Of the
northern side. There were as many Demo
cratic generals and privates as there were Re.
publicansand Democratic governors of north.
ern states, and Democratic mrmbers of con,
gress were as prompt in iivngaii to the union
cause, and of whatsoever character needed. as
we're the Republican governors and members
of congress. The Democrats are quite as
much interested in the welfare and prosperity
and economical administration Of the govern
ment as the Republicans. They have quite
as much at interest as the Republicans, and
they must suffer just as much as the Repub.
ilcans from any INSTRUMENTATION, any ex-
travagance, any wrongful appropriation OF
money on their part. As General Hancock
says, this claims business was settled fifteen
years ago, and it is only political bugaboo
conjured by the Republicans from their
prolific brains for sensations. 10
nave effect ifpossible, in this campaign, for
9ardelds benefit, But the people have beer
humougged so much by mere political clap
trap, they have heard the cry of wolf so offer
when there was no wolf, that they hay,
about determined to think and act for them.
selves and pay less heed to the political thin
BILE Triggers. All independent Republican,
who were in doubt before as for whom 70
vote, have given over their doubts, and hum
dreds of them in every northern and westor,
state have declar ed their intention :,
support Hancock since they saw his le,,o,
on the so.called "reb oil claims" This lettsr
that Republicans were so clamorous for
has acted something like boomerang. They
caused it to be thrown upon the people, ant
instead Of creating CONSERVATION and havoc
IN the Democratic ranks, it has recoiled upo
their own, and dismay is everywhere visibl
IN 'ner columns. They ought to hay