The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-10

Milton has Hancock and Bloxham
club of seventy-five members.
-Bloxham speaks in Milton to-day,
where there is big barbecue in progress.
The Democracy of Georgia are at a
dead lock in their nominating convention
at Atlanta. UP to yesterday noon 81 bal
lots had been taken, the last vote stand
ing: Colquitt, 700; Lester, IS; Harde-
man, so; Gartrell, IA; Warner, 8. Col
quit lacks 20 of the necessary two-thirds.
His friends give no indication of breaking.
The Hancock boom has struck Wis
consin, and for the first time in many
years the Democrats are effecting COM
plete organization all over the State The
veterans in Wilwaukie have formed q
Hancock legion, commanded by Captain
A. j. Langworthy, who has been up to the
present time prominent member of the
Republican party.
Senator Davis of Illinois is out in a
ringing letter in favor of Hancock. Re
ferring to the letter to General Sherman,
Senator Davis says: ellis letter to Gen
eral Sherman recently brought to light
lifts General Hancock far above the past
appreciation of his civil ability. It marks
him as one of the wisest of his time, with
statcsman's grasp of mind, and with
the integrity Of patriot whom no sense
of expediency could swerve from his hon.
est convictions"
/ From almost every county in Penn
sylvania comes the news of the organiza-
ton of Hancock veteran clubs. Cumber-
land county comes to the front with
nearly a thousaI d ex-soldlers and sailors,
who pledge themselves to vote for Han
cock, and York county follows with eight
hundred Hancock veterans. In Warren
county two hundred and twenty-five
names have been enrolled, although the
association is not yet permanently organ
lied. In the extreme western part of the
State the Hancock boom is particularly
active, and large number of prominent
men have joined the movement.
Information comes up from Texas
that what is known there as the Grand
Army of Occupation, an organization
whose object seems to be the invasion Of
Mexico. under General Dalrymple, is as
suming considerable proportions. Three
hundred men are enrolled in Austin and
vicinity, and the first regiment Of Texas
cavalry, Of which Colonel Armstrong, of
Austin, is the commanding officer, has
800 members and recruiting is going on.
Gen. f. w. James, who is General of the
Texas militia, has been given command
of the department embracing Texas. New
Mexico, Arizona and California. He has
appointed staff, and consultations have
been held, but the results have not yet
transpired. The movement is attracting
good deal of attention, and the belief is
expressed that if the government does not
interfere serious trouble will result.
In . speech made by Mr.. Pendleton
at Cincinnati recently, he said: "Mr.
Jefferson, eighty years ago. defined
Democrat as one who maintains equal
and exact justice to all men; the support
Of State governments in all their rights !;
the preservation Of the general govern
ment in its whole constitutional yigor; .
Jealous care Of the right Of election by
the people |; absoluts, acquiescence in the
decisions Of the majority; the supremacy
of she civil over the. military authority (;
economy In the public expense; the hon.
est payment Of our debts, and the sacred
preservation Of ths public faish; freedom
af ysligioni ttesdom ,ofI the press free.
dom ofthe pers0n under the profession Of
the b0beds oospsEs, and trials by inries
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