Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-29
FOR HANCOCK.
WHY REPUBLICANS SD DECLARE.

WHY REPUBLICANS SO DECLARE.
A Variety OF aseasens for Reaching the
Small Conclusion.
A colonel in the United States army,
who has been a Republican, wrote letter
to Gen. Hancock of date July 8, 1880,
from which this extract is made:
"1would recall to you a scene of the
war. At Warrenton, in 1862, the brigade
commanders and some Of the regimental
commanders called upon you to make
known to you the great dissatisfaction of
the troops at McClellan's being relieved.
was the spokesman. After stating the
situation you rose and said
Gentlemen, we servo q country; we
serve no man.
Feeling that you are now the same
patriot you then were, should this nation
be placed in your keeping for time no
man need fear for the result
In Earnest.
Walter F. Halleck, major in the army
stationed OH the Pacific coast writes: "FrOm
my knowledge of General Hancock think
of him as the poet describes tho true man
and soldier:
! The bravest are the tendcrest.
| The loving are the daring
81 propose to work on this coast and
wherever l can he most useful in the cam
paign for the success of Hancock and Eng
lish. General Hancock will be elected,
take his seat and he the president Of the
whole United States-nOt a section of it.
He will receive large majority Of the
votes of all true soldiers-thOse who have
sense enough to realize that tho war is
over and desire to bring about that friend
ly feeling between the sections SO necessa-
ry in order to have \ united country in
fact rs we'll as in name. Hancock clubs
arc organizing rapidly all over this coast
and certainly believe the Pacific states
will all be carried by him. will be east
before tho election and home in time to
vote tic Democratic ticket this year"
Ono of the Old Guard.''
John L. Long, the most intimate friend
of Grant in the West, and 4 leading St.
Louis Republican, in an interview with 4
correspondent has said :"I l shall vote for
General Hancock, and believe he will be
elected. thing he has tho qualifications
to make good president. He will have
the good sense to surround himself with
the right kind of advisers. One principal
reason why am against CART ED is that
he has already shown his intention to be
associated with at least two men for whom
the Republican party has the least pOssi-
ble use-Scburz and Sherman. Almost the
first thing Garfield did after his nomination
was to take 4 long carriage-ride with
Schurz, man devoid of all political prin-
ciplc. The real cause of Schurz's hostility
to Grant is this When Schurz was scna
tor he asked Grant for 105 appointments
in twelve months, from foreign missions
down. He got eighty-three, but made
himself the enemy of Grant because he
didn't get everything he asked for. have
never heard Grant discuss Hancock save
as general, and in that respect he al
ways spoke we'll of him. am a Republi-
can still. have been in correspondence
with many political and personal friends
respecting the political situation, and
shall vote for Hancock"
A North Carolina Republican.
The Raleigh Daily Neus has had an i'll
terview with Mr.. w. A Guthrie, a promi-
nent lawyer of Fayetteville ana one of the
most prominent and influential of the
younger Republicans of North Carolina,
whom his party had been ready to nomi-
nate for governor or for Congress. He
says no will vote for and support Han
cock. Further he says: 81 believe now
the Southern Democrats are heartily sick
of sectional strife and mean in good faith
to yield hearty obedience to tho national
authority; and the election of Hancock by
tho cooperation of the national Demo
cratic party will be conclusive proof that
the South is now rs loyal as the North. [
don't believe that any man could be found
so stupid as to doubt Hancock's loyalty,
and am sure that the Union in his hands
would be safe. l think there is special
necessity just now of having sectionalism
abolished and the bloody shirt elimin-
ated from our politics. Tho development
of our material resources and the pros
perity of the country can never be pro-
NOTED by sectional strife. So long as the
North believes we are disloyal, whether it
be true or not, We can't expect capital
lists to come here and help us to rebuild
our waste places. l noticed day or
two ago in the Ne,cs that Rhode Island
youth was actually afraid to come to Ra.
leigh, the capital of our state, to attend
Judge Strong's law school, because his
friends at home were apprehensive of his
personal safety. l believe that General
Hancock is man of pure private charac-
teri and l know he was 4 gallant soldier.
We need man as president of unimpeach-
able private character to inspire confidence
at home, and soldier of national reputa-
tion to command the respect of foreign ma
tions. General Garfield may be pure and
upright man, but am afraid there is some
truth in what has been said about his con-
nection with the DeGolyer pavement,
Credit Mobilier and legislation of a disrep-
utable kind. Hancock has none of that
sort of thing to answer for. As for Gen.
Garfield's military record, never heard
much of that until since his nomination,
and his friends say he retired from the
army before the war ended and was con-
tent to exchange the epaulets for a seat
in Congress.
have always been Grant man. Though
l voted for him twice, l. never held any
Office under his administration nor asked
him for any. don't aspire to any politi-
cal office now, and what desire above all
things to see is a reunited country with all
political tricksters and machine politicians
put in the background
Another Hancock Republican.
Geo. Wilkes's Letter to William NJ. Hall. Paris
July ls, 1880.
Garfield pleased mo because his name
rose upon the collapse of horrid spectre
which had frightened the county to it's
very marrow but Hancock fills the bill
an honest soldier who knows nothing but
l. Ia. L