The daily gazette., 1880-09-10
THE CAMPAIGN IDIOT STILL
ABROAD,

Gen. Baxter's Interview in Ev'ning News.
General Hancock never heard
shot fired by his corps at the battle
of Gettysburg"
ibid he select the battle ground?"
mo, sir-emphatically no! He
had nothing to do with it. 1t is not
necessary for me 70 repeat the grand
story Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
third day at Gettysburg, when the
gallant Second Corps covered itself
with immortal glory but Hancock
was not there and had nothing TO do
with it. In view of all these facts,
of which l am personally cognizant,
having been on the ground, l have
no hesitation in saying that Hancock
was not the hero Of Gettysburg, nor
did he save Philadelphia and Penn
sylvania from invasion and destruc-
tion."
Editorial in Eve ing News. Rep.
General Hancock was not with
his corps nor within sound of the
battle, and as General Baxter puts
| it, "never heard shot fired by his
corps at the. battle of Gettysburg"
He did not select the field of battl e
and did not do any of the several
things represented by Mr.. Forney
and on the basis of which he claims
the gratitude of Philadelphia.
From Philadelphia Times.
THE LATEST HANCOCK RECRUIT.
The latest and most efficient of
| recruits to the cause of General Hancock
is General Baxter, of this city, and he is
| likely to earn all that he has been prom
ised or paid to promote Hancock's cleo
lion. He is wiser than most of the Han
cock recruits from the Republican ranks.
They bave, as a rule, denounced Gener-
al Garfield and proclaimed Hancock as
the Hero of Gettysburg; but that role
has been nearly or quite exhausted,
| and General Baxter has struck out in an
| original and certainly most effective
| plan to make the soldiers cluster al ound
| the Hancock banner.
| General Baxter has been induced OF
employed to declare, In public inter
view, that "Geperal Hancock never
heard a shot fired by his crops at the
battle of Gettysburg" and that "be had
| nothing to do" with that great struggle.
| This is novel aud startling and it puts
| General Baxter In tho very front rank
| of those who desire to elect Han cock
/ President.
| 1t is so out of the beaten way that it
attracts attention. Soldiers will all read
| IL; all of them will be more or less indig-
nant at the idiotic assaults upon one who
has been accorded the highest praise by a
Republican Congress, by Republican
President and by the whole loyal North
| FOR his conspicuous skill and heroism al
| GETTY sburg, and General Baxter need only
] keep I'D his defamation of Hancock
vigorously for few weeks, to add ten o.
| .wenty-lhousand soldiers to the many
Union warriors who are now supporting
| for President the man they saw In the
flame of battle at Gettysburg.
The experiment may greatly damage
Lbe reputation of General Baxter, but as
that damage has already been done, he
can now afford to 60 OH to the end with
| increasing profit to Hancock and without
any increasing disrepute to himself. The
employment OF General Baxter as allan
| cock recruit, is certainly one of the
| shrewdest exhibitions of Democratic
strategy the campaign has furnished, and
| if dozen Baxters could be thrown into
the eddy of battle of PenI sylyania, there
| is no telling where Hancock's majority
would stop.