Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-26
HANCOCK.
What tho Newspapers Sa!

WilliamspOrt Banner, Dem.
The name of Major General Winfield S.
Hancock will electrify the whole country.
Philadelphia Bulletin, Rep.
Republicans must bear in mind that they
have, as competitor Of their own gallant
candidate, ''a foeman worthy of their
steel' English is a man Of good
character, of respectable abilities, and of
some experience in public affairs.
New York Herald, Ind.
If any Republican stump orator shall
pretend that the government cannot safely
be trusted to General Hancock he will be
laughed at. Nor can it be said that Han
cock would be nose of wax in the hands
of other men. He is man of his own
mind.
| Easton Argus, Dem.
The Democratic national convention
honored itself to-day by placing in nomi-
| nation for president General Winfield S
Hancock, the brave soldier, the friend of
| the constitution, the son OF PENNSYLVANIA
The people will ratify the nomination in
| November and he will be seated in the
| White House.
Philadelphia Telegraph. Rep.
The Democrats yesterday nominated a
very stOng ticket; and if there be any
Republicans who have not as yet clearly
recognized that fact, the sooner they
bring themselves to recognition of it the
better it will be for themselves and for
their party-fOr it means hard fight and
a determined fight if the Republican party
is to maintain its control over the execu-
tive branch of the government.
Philadelphia Record, Ind.
| His Observation-Disclosures in private life,
his high attainments, his social standing,
fit him to grace the presidential chair.
His public acts as brave and daring sol
dier in war, and as considerate and lib
erty-lOving sOldier in time of peace, justi-
fy the trust that has been reposed in him.
The Record, as at present advised, declares
for Hancock and English.
Wilmington Del Every Evening. Dem.
His public record is without blot and his
private character is equally stainless.
Though, as is we'll known. he was not the
first choice of Ecery Erening, still we have
no hesitation in expressing the belief that
with him as its standard bearer the De-
mocracy ought to have no apprehensions
for the result of the election next NOvem.
Der. General Hancock against Garfield
| will present to the country an issue the
determination of which with those who
have not yet lost faith in the wisdom and
integrity of the people certainly ought not
to present difficult problem.
Lancaster Inquirer, Rep.
| The ticket is strong one, and will com.
mand the full Democratic vote. Gen.
Hancock is a brave and able soldier, and
rendered his country valuable services
during the war Of the rebellion. He is
not the man whom the Democratic leaders
would have selected of choice, but he is
without doubt the strongest candidate
that could have been taken from their
ranks = To defeat Gen. Han
cock will tax all our resources. lie
will start off with the solid and ell
thusiastic support of the party which
nominated him, and the undivided elec-
tOral vote of every Southern state. His
| reputation as soldier will give him sup
por, in the North which could not have
been obtained for any other candidate the
Democrats would have named.
Philadelphia Ledger Ind.
In making their choice for the Presidency
who are, beyond all doubt, their most de-
sirable candidates. Senator Bayard is the
other. Both are men of high character
and distinction, justly standing high in
the favor of their country. and either is q
far more formidable candidate than any
other in the list before the convention.
Bayard has the largest experience in pub
lie affairs, but he was threatened with an
attack on his war record. The war issue
continuing to be uppermost in party poll
tics, notwithstanding the lapse of fifteen
years since the suppression of the rebellion,
it is this which cOnStrainS conventions to
to turn their attention to military celeDri-
ties, and it is this which moved the Gin
cinnati convention to concentrate on
General Hancock, who is by far the
strongest candidate the Democrats could
have put in the field.
New York Sun, Ind.
Gen. Hancock has ever been true to the
Union. Brave among the bravest of the
soldiers who marked with their blood the
battle fields of the civil war, there is no
citizen. living or dead, whose life more
than his illustrates the sentiment of 10y
atty to the old flag, of devotion to the in
tegrity of the republic. Upon the es-
cutcheOn of his fidelity there is not the
shadow of single blot. He is a straight
forward, OutspOken, sincere man. What
he says he means what he means he does.
Under his administration We may expect
economy, dignity, boldness, truth and
honor. The old Democratic principles
which stand like bed rocks in the cOnsti-
tuition, will he the rules by which he will
act. The reformation and renovation of
the government will he the object toward
which his efforts will be directed The
convention has done we'll in giving us
such a candidate.
PHILADELPHIA North American. RcD.
But it is the simplest justice to him who
has been honored, and the most unavoida-
BILE need of praise to those who have con-
ferred the distinction, to say of Winfield
s. Hancock, that the Republic can boast
of no citizen whose private life and whose
public career have been more worthy of
being held up as the purest and most
praiscworthy types. Physically, mentally
and morally General Hancock is one of
the best of class which happily is begin
ming to furnish many illustrious examples
in the adornment of public affairs; and
while we could esteem as nothing less
than calamity the success of the Democrat
ic party, we must recognize from the be-
ginning that its defeat in the coming cam
paign will find no promoting cause in any
quality or lack of personal deserving on
the part Of its most distinguished candi-
date for the presidency.
Baltimore Gazette Dem.
The action of the Cincinnati convention
has solved the presidential problem, and
once more reinstated the Democratic party
in the affections of the American people,
Throughout it's entire proceedings the de-
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