The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-03
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why the Hormer shouId be Preferred
me views OF two famous independent
Journals.
In reply to correspondent who wants
to know what the Springfield Republican
expects from Garfield asa President that
journal says: !
"Ii General Garfield should be elected
we should expect that he would hold the
service up to the standard Of purity, eff
Cheney aud abstention from political SER
vice which Hayes has reached, and per.
haps improve upon It. Garfield Is q man
Of the Hayes type, but with higher
pressure OF steam on and complete
mastery OF the ins and outs OF the public
service. We expect more reform from
him Than we have had from Hayes from
me character OF the man simply. We can.
not conceal, on the other hand, our ap.
prehension that the real danger oil
he success OF Hancock lies In
It's effect upon the civil admin;
istration. We have ne fear OF the Solid
South or OF rebel supremacy" Wehave
no fear but that on great constitutional
questions and matters OF legislation Han
cock would be sounder and saier than
ever Grant was. apprehend no great
disaster TO the country from his accession,
no change Of policy imperilling the results
of the war or the bulwarks oil our institu-
fiona But we do see that any Demo-
cratic accession would be likely TO empty
savsnty.flye thousand offices and fill them
with Democrats, and the accession OF q
soldier, with the training and the associa-
tons OF the camp, would pc lar ground
for the apprehension that he might pick
ont the seyenty.five thousand new incum-
bents from precisely the material which
General Grant gathered around the White
House for eight years, TO our national hu.
initiation and disgust"
The N. Y. Nation in its review OF the re-
suit Of the Cincinnati Convention, says:
"soldier for soldier Hancock is vastly
preferable 10 General Grant. He has not
won as many fights, but he has won
enough. We are supe he would keep bet
ter company and take much higher view
Of his own official responsibilities. But
he has Just as little political experience as
General Grant had, and Is considerably
older than General Grant was when the
latter was elected to the Presidency. He
would probably make more discreet use
Of troops at the South, but there are no
troops 10 use at the South any longer. He
would be beset at Washington by prob.
lens more serious than those which beset
General Grant, and there is no reason to
be found In his-experiences or pursuits or
studies for supposing he would be. any
more competent TO deal with them.
There is every justification for believing
that he would pass very rapidly, as Cen,
eral Grant did, into the handso OF a group
or syndicate who would undertake to
deliver him from the theorists and ideal
ists,' and show him how earthly govern.
ments have in the present condition OF
human nature to be carried on. !tWould
mot be the old group which carried Gen.
errl Grant through his difficulties, but
does any rejecting man who knows any
thing Of the ruling influences In the Dem.
ocraiic party suppose itwould be any bet
Ter? Can any one think without alarm OF
The results Of clean sweep in the adj
ministration effected under its auspices?
Would 1t be any consolation to US to
know after General Hancock had surren-
dered himself to its guidance that he
had held the cemetery at GettysburgP
Does any rational man want TO go back to
the regime under which the country was
forced 10 rejoice because the soldier Presi-
dent when he sat down TO approve the in
fation bill, which would probably have
ruined the National credit and disordered
all private business, by happy stroke OF
luck changed his mind while he was
writing the message, got more paper and
composed q glorious veto? Is this the
kind of government OF which great COM
mercial people, fifty millions strong, wants
a continuance2 1t would not be good
enough for Turks; is 1t good enough for
lAmericans?