Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-07-09
THE CAMPAIGN.

Senator Wallace, OF pennsylvania, the
first organizer in the country, is to accept
the Craftsmanship of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, pretty well settles the
loss of Pennsylvania to the Republicans.
A number of prominent Republicans have
come out in support OF Hancock and among
them John w. Forney is devoting his
paper, the Progress to the advocacy of
the hero of the stainless sword. We copy
from our exchanges giving our readers
the drift of the campaign:
Potter Palmer, Of Chicago, and Colonel
McMunn, of Pittsburg, are the latest Ham
cock recruits. The Latter Was d delegate
to the Chicago convention, but says that
| he and six hundred more that he knows IT,
dlvidually, of the old ID army corps in
| PENNSYLVANIA, cannot desert their old
commander. An intelligent gentleman,
and one by no means too sanguine, who
left New Y ork last night, told me to day
that the bottom had dropped completely
out of the republican tub in that city. and
State. too, and that the general opinion
there was that Hancock would sSm eep the
country. - Wash. Cor. Aler. Gazette.
Col. Thomas Scott is an ardent supper
ter of General Hancock. If he be as sue
cessful in running presidential ticket as
he has been in running the Pennsylvania
Railroad, ne will land General Hancock
| in the White House on the 4th of next
March without any difficulty.
Hons. James g. Blaine and J. Donald
Cameron, NOW sO-jOurneylng at the White
Sulphur Springs, have been invited to the
Garfield and Arthur ratification meeting
proposed to be held by the Federal Office
holders in this city next Thursday night.
Richmond Dispatch.
Gen. A. L. Pearson, a recogniZ d repub-
lican leader of Pittsburg, Pa, has declared
for Hancock He is chairman OF the re-
publican committee OF Pittsburg, and was
recently States attcine has been a
staunch friend of the Camerons, and la
bored for the nomination of Gen. Grant at
Chicago. Gen. Pearson went into the late
war as captain and came out major.
general. He addressed a democratic rati-
fication meeting at Greenbnrg, Pa. Fri
day evening, and predicted that Hancock
would not only be elected, but that he
| would carry Pennsylvania. Gen. Pearson
has addressed a letter to Gen. u. S. Grant,
chairman of the Union Veterans national
committee, resignIng his connection with
| the committee, "having reluc' antly come
| to the conclusion that the Influence OF the
| great historic party is ended and ought to
! end, That those who pretend to keep up its
organization are doing so for Office and
gain. and that its encouragement of sec
| tiOnal hate is constant menace to the
Union" Gen. Pearson has also rendered
| his resignation as chairman of the city re-
| publican executive committee of Pitts
burg.
Senator Bayard will, it is learned, can
vass New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana for Hancock and English. He
says he considers Gen. Hancock as good a
constitutional lawyer as there is anywhere
| and that he will make an honest, straight
forward, constitutional President. He
says there will and can be no trouble what
ever about the counting of the vote.
The white shoemakers of this city, ire
| spective of nationali y, are about to Or
game Hancock English campaign club.
Richmond Dispatch.
Gen. Hanc )ck having expressed desire
| to call informally upon Gov. Tilden, the
general met Senator Wallace, of Pennsyl-
vania; Gen. Franklin, of Connec! icut;
and Mr.. Henry Watterson, of Kentucky,
| Saturday morning at the Gllsey House by
appointment, whence the party repaired
| to the well-knoWn mansion in Gramercy
| Park and were received and entertained
| by Gov. Tilden with cordial hospitality.
Gen. Hancock is conducting the Warren
court-martial inquiry at Governors
Island. He was the recipient Friday
| morning of large locomotive and tender,
| composed of flowers. having on it the
| words, ION to the White House, This
was sent by G. w. West, from the Burnett
| House, Cincinnati, and on his card at
tached was .sCincinnati sends greetings
to President W. S. Hancock"
The New York journal of Commerce, -
which is the great exponent Of the bust
ness men of the country, has the follow
ing editorial, which we are happy to lay
| before our readers:
sFOr the first time in dozen years the
Democratic party in the United States has
given full evidence of returning sense.
| The proceedings at Cincinnati have been
| in marked contrast with the long, inglori-
| Gus wrangle in which the Republicans in-
dulged at Chicago, and the nomination
which heads the list IS one eminentIy tit to
be made. Winfield Scott Hancock is more
than a brave soldier who has been tried on
many a battle field. He is wise states
man as WELL learned in the arts of peace,
noble, honest man, with no experience in
political tricKery, and above all no charge
of guile. There is not stain on his rec
ord from the day he graduated at West
Point to the present time.
Aleck Mcclure writes in the Philadel-
phia sTimes:''
The really doubtful States of the contest
will be Indiana, Illinois, Nevada, Cali.
fornia, and Oregon, with not more than
one chance in dozen for the Republicans
in Indiana, and with about like chances
for the Democrats in Illinois and the Pa
ciic States. Looking dispassionately over
the field at this early stage of the conflict,
the indications point strongly TO Demo-
cratic President, Democratic Senate,
and Democratic House on the 4th of
March, 1881. IN! tn z
Delaware is more than enthusiastic over
the work of the Cincinnati Convention.
Large ratification meetings have been held
all over the State. On. Friday night the
Young Mems Hancock Club, of Dover,
was organized with over 100 members. On
Saturday night ratification meeting was
held there on the public square and was ad-
dressed by Senator Salisbury, EX-Gov.
Salisbury, James L. Wolcott, ]. T. Sauls-
bury, J. r. Salisbury. j. R. Nicholson, j.
A. Fulton and Ex-Attorney General Pen
nington.
There is in process of formation in
Brooklyn, N. Y, an organization to be
known as the Hancock Legion of Brook
Ign, which is to be limited to 500 officers
and men, to be divided into ten companies
of fifty men each. Members are to wear
uniforms, consisting of dark trousers,
scarlet blouse with blue trimmings and
bell-buttons, and white cap with blue
band, bearing in gilt letters. Hancock
Legion of Brooklyn"
From one point of view, the nominal
ton Of Gen. Hancock is a great mi stake.
He is lacking in the elemsnts which are
almost essential in the success of man
who appeals to the American people for
support. That which he lacks is that he
is gentleman. There are the same objec-
tons to Mrs. Hancock. There is nothing
so far as has yet been developed, to show
that she is anything but lady, Or ever
has been anything else at any period of