Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-10-15
PRESS COMMENTS.
The independent Press on Grants
Overflow OF Biie Toward Hancock.
Ctjtago rjwe>.

aOle attacks on ten tta0COCk, NSlCra4
I'll. w. Slocum who is Stumping Ohio
and Indiana for the democrats, said III
Cincinnati, last evening. that ii Grant
had made the statement attributed to
him about Haneock'S conduct nj
Gettysburg, he was, 10 give the speak
er'S oNn MordS-a lar. Army officers
1T Washington declare that Grant is
intensely Jealous of HancoekS grow,
ing popularity. ana that he Is himself
so crazy to- I've president"
,hat he forgets himself orca-
Sionally. Politicians nj the
capital and elsewhere see III Grants
illumination scheme on the part ot
desperate men behind him 10 keep
Garfield i'll the background and make
the eN-presidcnt the central figure in
the campaign, in the hope OF helping
the cause now. and making him the
nominee in 1854 Newspapers not
wearing any party collar, pronounce
Grants course dcplorahlc and explicit
BE. His previous Endorsements Of
Hancock 5 military record and persons
III character art quoted against thu ILL
tempered filings now given To the pub
lie. GEN Hancock himself is unwjl-
ling to believe that Gen. Grant MS been
correctly reported, but announces that
he is prepared to meet amy accusation
which may be brought against him.
NEW YORK 1tERNrp.
The person who gayo the public the
report of Grants conversation concern
ing Gen Hancock certainly did him no
service, but a great injury, Ii viii not
raise Cen Grant i'll the esteem even of
republicans Ia see him descending to
the abuse of fellow soldier, whose
gallantry and devotion ia the union he
has ON previous occasions acknowlc-
dyed. 10 say now, ill the heat and cN-
citcment Of political canvass, that the
democratic candidate is vain, that he is
ambitious of the presidency, that his is
petty character, only brings to every
hodyS recollection that III his cooler
moments. and before he was moved 10y
what viii be generally est, cmcd parti-
san rmlror. Cen. Grant said There
arc men in that organization (the dem
ocratic parity men like Bayard, Me
Glcllan, Hancock and others whom !
know They are rs loyal and patriotic
ms amy man. Bayard, for instance,
would make splendid president, |
would not hc afraid OF the others III
that Office Recalling This language
we may pass over what the general
now says of his fellow-so,lier rs mi
ehulitiou of partisan spleen, which, rs
It is now unworthy of him, the public
ought 10 overlook and forget. 1t has no
weight, nor any Importance, except Ms
II rolses regret IN generous minds to
see So eminent n man SO forget himself.
pniTApI rlIlA TIMES.
\ month after the nomination. of
cen. Garfield. and when Grant WAS
sulkng away in the mountains, au in
teryiew With him hy l.. q. Enr'ght, An
old Pacific friend of his, was reported
IN detail in the public Journals, and
never contradicted Ivy Grant. In that
interview hc spoke freely of Gen. Ham
cock, saving that, III his opinion, mo
better or snf,I man could he elected Ia
the chief magistracy. ThrcedaNs ago
another interview WAS given IN the
party organs from Grant, as reported
6y Rov. nr Fowler, a prominent
McthodlStmnistrr The interview Was
50 grossly Vltupcrativc. of both Han.
cock and the south, that il shocked
even tic friends 81 Garfield, and Grant
FASTENED to modify the statements of
his ministerial interviewer, but
after AL the explanations that Grant
made. shc stands ON record MS
fal-IlNmg about Gen. Hancock. When
dlG Cen. Grant speak the truth about
Gen Hancock? Was he truthful Nh,n
he declared, after Hancock's nomiua-
ton. that M better OF sntor man
could he elected to the chief magi'-
tracy. on ST. y he truthful when lie de-
clarctl llancock To he crazy IT, bc
president amd ambitious, yaia, ana
weak = In ode oi these s;atrmeats,
like his directly conflicting statements
respecting the south, Gen Grant told
what he believed to he the truth, aud
in the other he could not have done 50.
1t will be remarked that when he VIM
Dictated tho south and commended
Hancock rs one of the best and safest
men for the presidency, ne was not
prompted by politicians, hut spoke
Voluntarily and for himself; and that
when lie condemned the south and
Hancock he spoke Immediately after
conference with Garfield ,Conkling, Cam
eron and Logan, who gathered in Ohio
to save Garield's own republican state
to the party. Very many men Of all
parties will profoundly regret that
Gen. Grant has been so strangely for
getful Of the integrity Of his public
opinions, and henceforth he will rank
only with the desperate politicians who
deluded him to defeat ut Chicago and
whose friendship must be fatal to all
his hopes Of political success in the fll.
ture. lie has effaced all the little gild.
ing that was left on the thirdtcrm
banner, and that is an achievement for
the country, but it il at fearful cost
of once freely protIered homage to our
great citizen and soldier.
The Yale Outrage.