Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-11
raE COMING PRESIDENT.
A Wartn Endorsement From Prominent
Religious Paper.

A Warm Endorsement From u FTohttHeh
Religious Paper.
TX Northwestern Chronicle.
Among the millions of Democratic voters
through this extensive republic, few indeed
experienced more satisfaction with the Gin
cinnati Democratic nomination than the edi
torial staff of the Northeastern Chronicle
We watched With much interests the life
and death struggles of the Chicago Republi
can stalwarts, headed by the irrepressible
Conkling, Logan and Cameron. till some
three dozen ballots extiuguished all possible
chances OF third term policy. The country
will rejoice that the ambitious soldier must
be politically content with the Presidential
periods of Washington, Jefferson, Madison
and jackson. With almost uni
versal acclamation from the tech
nically courteous hrst bal
lot, we find our late gallant neighbor and
friend the nominee of the great Democratic
convention of 1880. General Winfield Scott
Hancock-one of the most prominent and
successful soldiers of the Union struggle
stands registered as the standard bearer,
who will happily emsncipate the vast ma ori-
ty of the citizens of this great republic, from
a degrading political servitude, little less OPP
pressive than old plantation captivity. We
have no hesitation in giving tho fullest as
surance to our readers, that the nomination
of Gen. Hancock is almost synnonmous with
election next November.
We have thoroughly enjoyed the numer-
GUS Republican expositions of Hancock s
political and executive incapacity, since his
national prominence at Cincinnati. As a
Presidential candidate he is compassionately
represented by his political enemies as utterly
untsught, and hopelessly incapable of hold
lug the helm of State, which now-aft3r
some twenty years about to pass, per-
haps for nearly generation, into the hands
of the constitutional and conservative De-
mocracy of the country.
As thoroughly Christian gentleman and
soldier, he is utterly incapable of indulging
in some of the celebrated projections OF GER
tain Republican statesmen. he cannot lie,
curse, swear, steal safely, figure In divorce
courts, or test the laws of gravitation, when
imparting or receiving inequalities. These,
no doubt, are considerable drawbacks for a
thoroughly aspiring Christian statesman.
Nobody expects Gen. Hancock to increase
our already costly standing army, our nu-
merous rotting vessels, that IN the words of
Admiral Porter, cannot fight or run from
the foe. We will have no celebrated sur
roundings in political or social life, like Shep-
herd, Babcock, Robson, Williams, Belknap,
brother-in-law Casey, or the equally cele
brated whisky manufacturers of st. Louis,
alternately skulking and parading within the
shadows of our long desecrated National
Mansion.
Our gallant nominee does not enjoy the
proud distinction of feather bed generalship,
when his nominally gallant opponent was
safely encased within the walls of the Con-
gressional capitol, or in the comfortable lodg-
ings which two years of Washington political
pay enabled him to exchange for the
natural perplexities of battle field eagage-
ments. What d humilitating con-
trast with the record of the great battle OF
Williamsburgh, in the repulse of Hooker,
when Hancock lowered like castle wall, or
with the gallant deeds at Fredericksburg,
Gettysburg, and various other engagements
till the fall of jackson, and the memorable
surrender of Lee. Military annalists will
ever proudly record these memorable en-
gagements The students and professors of
constitutional law will cherish the great pro-
clamation of Military Governor Hancock
when charged with the department of Texas
and Louisiana as an exampler of civil ascend
ancy over military despotism, when every
brave man within the limits of secession
had either fallen with his face to the foe, or
had sacredly shielded his sword in submits
sion to the conqueror. The delegates to
Cincinnati from Minnesota stood like old
warriors to the political fortunes of General
Hancock, and we join them in anticipating
Democratic victory for the commander of
Fort Smelling, which will be Congressionally
registered spite of all the rotten returning
boards of carpet bag ridden States, no mat
ter how many John Shermans, Stoughtons,
Negroes, or Mrs. jerks may join in the I'M
holy renewal performance. Like needles to
the pole-be true to Hancock.