Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-02
POLITICAL POINTS.

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The campaign in Cumberland county
was formally opened by Democratic
meeting at Mt. Holly last evening. w.
U. Hensel, of this city, spoke and George
Pontz sang one Of his popular songs. The
Cumberland county Democrats will hold
meeting every night until election day.
Mr.. John Meyer, the oldest voter in
Bath, Lehigh county, having cast his first
presidential vote in the year 1876, last
week joined the Hancock and English
club Of his town, and intends to cast his
vote for tho Democratic nominee in NOvem-
ber, if he lives. He has always been a
Republican.
While Hayes is denouncing tho Demo-
Gratis including Hancock, no sends Long
street rs minister to Turkey, notwith-
standing it was in fighting Longstreet's
command that Hancock was wounded,
and it was Hancock that saved Philadel-
phia from Longstrect's army by defeating
it after hard battle. After whilo some
Of these Radical newspapers will mako the
negroes boliev0 that LOngstreet was on
federate.
The New Era reminds It party that
"when Sam Losch, Of Schuylkill, under
took to surrender tho Republicans of that
county to the remains OF the Greenback
folly, he did well to supplement the act
| with a resolution in favor of his right
bower, Pardon Mill Quay, for United
States senator"
II. S. M'Ilduff, Illinois, says: "The
outlook here is encouraging. Everything
| seems to point to the election of Trumbull
and tho success of the national ticket in
this state. do not doubt that active work
will give us the state by {, 1000 to 10, 600. "
In return for services rendered as q visit
ing statesman the Hon. John A. Kasson,
cf Iowa, las for some time drawn $12, 600
per annum from the treasury Ostensibly as
envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary to Austria. He seems to have
| some qualms Of conscience as to whether
| he has been earning this amount; and he
has therefore hastened home and on the 1st
of September will take the stump in the
West. ae means to continue his work
there until election. Meanwhile he will
| with commendable regularity draw his
salary of q, 900 month and will then re-
| turn to Vienna with the intention of re-
| signing his place before it can be taken
| away from him after the 4th of March next.
| In 1868 Garfield brought bill into Con-
gress to drop the junior major-general.
That was Hancock. It passed both houses
| of Congress and was signed by tho presi-
dent. But before it could bo carried into
effect George H. Thomas, the senior major
general, died, and Hancock, going up one
| grade, was no longer the Junior major
general, and SO the law could not reach
him. Then the Republicans, still led by
Garfield, passed an act reducing the major
generals to three. This was signed by tho
president, but before it could be carried
into effect Meade died, and the major
generals were then reduced to three by
God Almighty. Finally, law was passed
authorizing tho president to drop one of
the major-generals. Before it could be
carried out and Hancock could be dropped
Hallcck died, and Hancock becoming the
senior major general, he could not be drop
ped. The man who survived all these at
tcmpts to retire him cannot be retired.
The Philadelphia Epening Telegraph,
Republican, in an editorial virtually giving
up the struggle and advising its party to
try and capture the lower house of Con-
gress, says: "a very largo proportion OF
tho citizens Of New Jersey and Connect.
cut sleep in that state, have their dOmiciles
there, but their business, their interests,
arc in New York, and they arc virtually
| NOW lOrKerS anu as NOW 1 4Ork goes iii
November. 50 will New Jersey and Con
necticut 60; or, at least, the chances that
they will follow where the metropolis leads
are about nino hundred and ninety-nino in
q thousand. New York has been in the
habit of going Democratic, and in eleven
years has only gone Republican twice, and
then under most extraordinary circum.
stances, such as do not in any degree, how.
ever slight, exist in tho present contest.
If the electoral votes of these states be
given to Hancock, Hancock will be elected
| beyOnd any reasonable doubt.