Helena weekly herald., 1880-07-01
OninI0ns of the Press

| VINO nominated OeucId1 houCOCk! Inc SOLID
South" and Tammany Hall. If Hancock
should be elected, who would run him ?-the
''Solid South" and Tammany Hall. The
Democratic ticket looked stronger yesterday
than it ever will again.
The Herald says of the two conventions ::
The result is that the most eminent party
leaders are not nominated for the presidency.
This is a salutarY result. 1t is security
against Imperialism. 1t exempts the country
from any fear that the executive department
of the government will acquire overshadow-
ing importance. There is no danger of in
perialism so long as secondary men are elec-
ted to the presidency Their lack of exper-
ience is small matter. The more conscious
a President is of his lack of civil experience
the more likely he is to select an able cabinet,
and the cabinet after all is that which deter
mines the course of an administration. The
English government is well administered al
though the Queen is mere cipher, because
the ministry always consists of able states
men. We shall be safe from imperialism so
dency and trust to their prudence in choosing
an able body of advisers
The Tribune says: Can the war record of
Hancock lead the American people to con-
done the bad war record of his supporters?
1t is shown that General Hancock's last
active military campaign, that against the
Cheyenne 1ndianas, cost the government
$4,000, 900 and proved failure.
The San says: The responsibility of the
Republican party for the monstrous crime
that overthrew an election by the people in
1876, is not wiped out by any act of any con-
vention.
CHICAGO, June 25.-The Tribune says: The
hand of the "Solid South is plainly visible
in the nomination of General Hancock. 1t
was the widespread opposition of the South
to Tilden which forced the latter out of the
field, even at the sacrifice of the fraud ISSUE
Hancock, as the civil head Of the govern
ment, elected, controlled, and directed by the
military chieftains of the late Confederacy,
is not likely to be the choice of the great mass
of thinking, considerate people whose pur-
suits are those of peace.
LOUISVILLE, June 25.-The Courier. JOur-
nal says of the Democratic nominees: Win
field Scott Hancock is the Democratic candi-
date for the presidency of the United States
The South takes him and will give him her
undivided vote. He fought the South, but
when the smoke of battle rolled away he as
earnestly fought against the imposition of
despotic expediency upon Southern communi-
ties in the military division of which he was
the head. He understood the war to have
been fought to maintain the supremacy of the
constitution over the Southern States, and
when the conflict ended he knew that, loigic-
ally, these were under the constitution, and
that the substitution of the sword for civil |
government was but a new phase of the re-
bellon against the constitution for which the
Union armies fought. The Democrats ac-
cept a military man. They accept him be-
cause they believe he will close the Janus
temple of sectional antagonism. The nomi-
nation of Hancock means the determination
of the people of the United States to remove
old sectional issues out of American politics.
The nomination of any Southern man would
have opened the way for Republican vitu-
peration. They have nothing to say of the
nomination of Hancock. He is the peer of
Grant in military tact He did more fighting
than Grant He was always at the front.
He was soldier of soldiers during two years
of the war. He was scarcely of age when he
received his baptism of fire in the Mexican
war. He was in every battle of note in the
Virginia campaigns. He is Pennsylvania.
He was ever loyal to the flag, more loyal than
Grant to the flag and to the constitution.