Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-25
OUR NEXT PRESIDENT.

The Cincinnati convention did noble
work yesterday in nominating the patriot SOL
der and statesman, General Winfield Scott
Hancock, as the candidate of the Democratic
party for President of the United States.
The nomination has already awakened the
widest enthusiasm in every part of the coun-
try where the lightning has flashed the joy
GUS news, and dissipated all fears that may
have been entertained as to the wisdom of
the delegates chosen to represent the will of
the people in the most important political
gathering of the century.
A majority of the delegates went to the
convention unhampered by pledges, only
sincerely deslrous to do that which seemed
best for the party they represented, and for
the whole country. They entered into no
scramble on behalf of this or that candidate,
but took counsel together for the purpose of
learning who among the score or more of
eminent men named for the position was
best fitted to adorn the Office of chief magis-
trate of the nationwide would be the most
likely to unite all conflicting interests and
reconcile all differences of opinion. No name
was suggested that bid fair to bring about
the desired results more completely than Gen.
Hancock, and on the second ballot ne was
declared the unanimous nominee of the
Democratic party.
Gen. Hancock's great public services en-
title him to the recognition he has received.
Entering the military service in 1847, he has
ever since devoted himself to that profession,
having risen successfully from the rank of
q second lieutenant to that of ranking major
general of the army of the United States.
Each promotion was accorded him for per-
sonal bravery on the field of battle. His
record during the war of the rebellion was
without blemish. On every battle field his
conduct was heroic and daring. He asked
none of his soldiers to go where he dared not
lead them. In point of personal gallsntry
he had no equal in our armies, while in e1-
ecutive ability and the capacity to handle
men he was the equal of any. More than
almost any other of our commanders he won
and retained the affection of the soldiers
who fought under him, and from the begin
ming to the end of his career there was not
man attached to his army who would not
have boldly advanced into the jaws of death
if he but gave the word of command.
Gen. Hancock has no civil record TO which
reference can be made, save for the short
fipna tbof ha anted oo yn;Iitorv oopoDooo5a.
of the department of the Southwest in
1868. At that time-the reconstruction
period-the military commanders in the
Southern States were doing all in their
power to degrade the civil authority and to
supplant it by military rules. Gen. Han
cook was the single exception. He stead
lastly refused to exercise his authority in the
settlement of disputes in causes where the
civil courts had competent jurisdiction and
power. In his official orders he remonstra-
ted against the disposition evinced by many
to invoke the aid of the military when the
civil authority were fully competent to ad-
minister justice. Because of this bold
stand in defense of civil law, the Repub-
lican Senate refused to confirm his appoint.
ment and he was transferred to a purely
military district. But ever since then he
has been held in the kindest remembrance
by those in defense of whose rights he had
incurred the displessure of the powers in
authority. In all his public acts and utter
ances he has adhered to the same sentiments
he expressed in 1868, and those who believe
in the complete subordination of the mill
tary to the civil authority in times of peace,
can boast of no truer help than Gen. Han
cock.
Our army contained many noble men,
ready to do and to die, to suffer, to sacrifice
and to labor in defense of the constitution
and the laws of the Union, yet it is no dis
paragement to them or their services to de-
clare that the noblest Roman of them all
is Winfield Scott Hancock, the next Presi-
dent of the United States.