The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-07-23

bill In the Forty-fifth Congress; but he
may be able 10 accept the anti-Chinese
plank In the Republican platform. IL
Is not very severe in its anti-Chinese-
ness
No stain on his record rs sol
der, no reproach against his character
as citizen. Hancock is as completely
the antithesis Of Garfield ms honesty Is
Of dishonesty. We want the agreeable
variety Of President with pure hands.
-Erchange.
- Colfax and Garfield were In tho
Credit Mobilicr dickcr 70 precisely the
same extent. The people Of Indiana
have not been very clamOrous for the
4 vindication'' of the former since
Cakes Ames' terrible exposures. Nor
are the people Of the country hankering
TO do for Garfield what he has not been
able TO do for himself. -ErchGnge
- The cool way the third-termers
drop into line and undergo reconstruct
ton reminds one Of the old salt who was
boasting his infallible knowledge as .
navigator. :" know every rock. snag
and obstruction in these waters" and
just then, with a thud, the vessel
struck, "and that" he imperturbably
added. lis the very worst Of them. -
50. Louis Times.
The charges made against Gem
eral Hancock thus far are decidedly
damaging. Item, he Is gentleman;
item. graduate of West Point; item,
an Episcopalian; item. corset-wearer;
item, he was engaged in an expensive
Indian war; item, Mrs. Surrat. was
hung. These things are enough to
make an American citizen forswear tho
land Of his birth. - Chicago Times.
- Conkling has ventured the pre-
diction Of Republican majority of 3d.
600 over a united Democracy in New
York next fall. Two weeks ago Roscoe
might have found a few countrymen
credulous enough to believe such
statement; but his prestige as prophet
has been so demoralized that his pre-
dictions will henceforth be judged by
the rule Of contraries. boston Post.
The New York Herald tells
General Garfield that If he has MOTH
ing to confess or explain, If the whole
Credit Mobilier story and whole De
Golyer story are malicious fab
rications," he should begin proceedings
against the New York Sun. and we
suppose other papers that have quoted
the records against him, for libel The
suggestion is good one. If injustice
has been done the Republican candi-
date, the courts would doubtless protect
and vindicate him.
General Garfield. it appears, Is
/" too Undetermined to be bitter
partisan" This is an improvement on
his condition in 1876, when he was .
visiting statesman in Louisiana. and pre-
tended to believe the terrible tales Of
Eliza Pinkston and Madison Wells.
Also upon his condition in 1877. when
he was q member Of the Electoral Com
mission, and decided that the truth was
admissible in Oregon, but aliundc in
Florida. Y. World.
Mr.. Blaine's nomination for Pres
ident was twice defeated by the pre-
vailing belief that his hands were not
quite clean. A candidate whose private
character is not above suspicion is .
heavy load for party to carry in close
canvass. If the facts in Mr.. Gartield's
record and the opinions Of Republicans
| in 1873 about his connection with the
Credit Mobilier bribery had been as
well known to the country three weeks
ago as they are to-day, he could not
have been nominated The number OF
Republicans everywhere who are ask
ing themselves whether Mr.. Garfield is
fit man to receive the votes of honest
men for President is very large.--N y.
Sun.
-Wehave got you on that ticket,
Republicans. You never sought states
men for your candidates. You prefer
to be the "war party" You put Grant
in two terms because he was Union
soldier; you put Hayes in one term be-
cause he was Union soldier; you nomi-
mated Garfield because he was Union
soldier. We now give the country .
Union soldier, the superior Of all these
men. We now give the country Union
soldier whose orders and letters during
an important period Of our history show
him to be also q statesman. You can
not match him. You have not matched
him. Go back to your old moldy drivcl
about rebels and loyalty, and you
will make your defeat only more over
whelming. The people Of the United
States. through the length and breadth
of the Union. will show you that they
will not put up with bilious Republican
leaders who have never advanced be-
yond the year 1864, and who see no
hope for Office except in the generation
Of disunonsm. hatred and sectional
ism. That party Is the party Of dis
union which fails to recognize all sec
tons Of our country as equally Ameri-
can, equally true to the Constitution
and the Louisville C0urier-Jour-
nal.
AN archaeological discovery Of sim
gular interest has been made at Sande-
herred, Norway, where whole ship Of