The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-07-17
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election.
Senator Bayard proposes TO visit Ohio and
Indiana, as well as Pennsylvania and New
York, to do campaign work.
Elk Senator Poole, of North Carolina, hith
erlo the maia standby Of the Republican
party in that State, has declared for Hancock
Col. Peter Mccullough, an influential vii.
mingtOn, Del. merchant, who always has been
q republican, has decided TO support bis old
commander, Hancock.
TheSpringtield Rcpubiicaa Prints the state
ment that Edward Butler, who was a republi,
can and editor OF the New Haven Palladium.
has declared for Hancock
Judge Black has telegraphed to New York
By cable denying that he had anything TO do
with the authorship Of General Hancock
Louisiana letter or orders.
The Messenger, democratic paper pu b.
} llshed IN Fremont, Ohio, denies the report
that 1t had gone over to Garfield. The editor
says his paper is more democratic than ever.
| For ways that are dark and tricks that ARE
vain, Garfield is peculiar Witness the sala.
~ grab; witness that loan OF $500 from
0akes Ames, and that fee of $1,000 from
! De Golyer.
A large Democratic ratification meeting
was held in Music Hall, Cincinnati, on Sat.
/ urday evening. Hon.W. s. Groesbeck, Sen.
I @tNA tNAANlOu Auu dEhtfnl samuel r.
Carey were among the speakers.
| Gen. Patrick II. Jones, leading Republi.
I can and former postmaster Of New York city,
4 has declared his intention To support Gen.
1 Hancock. IL will now be in order for the
organs to bespatter him with abuse.
/ When the old coon in tho tree understood
that Captain Scott was at the foot thereof,
/ rifle in hand, be Is reported TO have remarked:
4 "All right, Captain Scott Don't ere. I'll
come down. Similarly, the Republican coon
will come down to the man whose middle
name is Scott
Gen. Alpheus Baker, of Louisville, South.
ern man, proposes that the soldiers who fought
on opposite sides in the late war, and the
/ irlends.ot representative government 10 the
United States, assemble on the field Of Get.
/ tysburg and there ratify the nomination Of
+ Hancock and English
( The letter en- has heretofore been a lucky
one in the names Of Presidential candidates.
We find il exemplifed in Washington, JefTer-
/ son, Madison, jackson, Van Buren,, Harri-
I sou, Buchanan, Lincoln, Grant and Tilden.
/ Now we have Hancock to be the next Presi-
/ dent az sure as there is an IN in his illus
/ trious name.
The candidates for the Presidency now be.
! lore the country are as follows Republicans,
James A. Garfield, OF Ohio, for President;
/ Chester A. Arthur, of New York, for Vice
I President. Democrat, Winfield s. Hancock,
I OF Pennsylvania, for President; William H.
| English, oil Indiana, for Vice President
Greenback, James A. Weaver, Of Iowa, for
President; +. j. Chambers, Of Texas, for Vice
President Prohibition, Neal Dow, OF Maine,
for President; A. NJ. Thompson, oil Ohio, for
! Vice President
I Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock is the sou Of
benjamin +. Hancock, aud grandson Of John
Hancock, President Of the Continental Con.
gress and signer Of the Declaration of indie
pendenee. Gen. Hancoek's father was a
lawyer, at Norristowu, Pa, member Of the
Baptist Church, and Superintendent of the
Sunday School. Gen. Hancocks wife is an
Episcopalian, and is the organist at the Church
on Governors Island, New York harbor,
where the General has his head quarters.
He is iifly-six years of age, six feet two inches
high and weighs $40 poands.
We fail to see any necessity for General
Hancoek's resignation of his commission in
the army. Neither General Scott nor Gen.
eral Grant resigned on becoming presden.
lial candidates. Nor has Mr.. Garfield vet
resigned either of his Congressional Offices.
But the matter is, OF course, one for General
Hancock himself to decide, and whatever may
be his decision his party will accept it as the
wiseSt under the circumstances. lle will be
obliged to resign before March next, and il
is therefore merely matter of remaining a
few months longer in the army. His resig-
nation at the present time will compel Garfield
20 resign both his seat in the house aud the
Senatorship which be would otherwise occupy
after March 4 next.
David Dsdley Field tesiiies -" Some
years ago had the good fortune to act as
counsel for Gen. Dyer on court OF inquiry
formed Of Gems. Thomas, Hancock and Fer.
ry. From my observation Of Gen. Hancock
on that occasion, ! know he has judicial quail
ties Of high order And Senator Thur
man declares us follows Sc Hancock has
been in the army all his life, and therefore
you might not at once suspect what is literally
the truth, that Hancock is not only soldier,
bat he is constitutional lawyer and a good
American statesman" We rather think Mr..
Field knows Judicial qualities when he sees
them; aud Mr., Thurman is as reliable an ex.
pert upon craftsmanship as we have. What
Gen. Hancock's critics really mean when
they say he is not a statesman, is, that he is
not politician, there is quite difference.
For several years past the greenbackers
aud the Democrats have run separate State
tickets in Maine, but this year an agreement
has been made between them, which includes
everything, aud the ticket agreed upon will
receive the combined vote of the two parties.
The combined vote Of the two has since 1877
exceeded the republican vote very consdera-
bly,, and there seems no douGJs that such will
be the case next fall. Ia this event the re.
publicans will be left out in the cold ON the
Governor, the electoral ticket and the United
States Senator.
General Garfield ia compelled to play the
hypoerite upon the Chinese question. He is
Gu record on this issue The Republican
party is also on record upon this question by
the most solemnly formal acts. Gar6elds
words IN this letter cannot balance his votes
ia Congress. The words in this letter on this
subject mean next TO nothing; but If they
meant tenfold more they would be unayailing.
His party would aot permit him to antago.
uize its record on this question. 1t is the
same party that caused President Hayes to
veto bill providing for restriction Of Chinese
importation, and Garfield is the same Garfield
that labored and.yoted to sustain that yeto.--
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The letter in which Mr.. Garfield accepts
the nomination made at Chicago is printed in
tall on another page. We think it will be q
surprise to the people. There has existed
for number Of years general impression
that the Ohio Congressman was able and
brilliant. His friends have, since his nomi.
nation, laid particular stress upon his claims
to respect as a talented and capable states.
man. So far as our observation goes, il has
been the disposition of the Democratic press
TO concede these claims. We confess to hav.
ing shared the notion that Mr.. Garfield was
endowed with more than the usual amount Of
brains This charitable delusion is rudely
dispelled by his letter Of acceptance. We do
not think Mr.. Garfelds best friends will be
proud Of the letter, either from party point
Of view or as a contribution TO our political lit
erature. The composition is throughout the
essence ofcommonplace There is not a sen.
tence In il which has not been public proper.
/ ~ for twenty years. There is not an idea in
1t upon which the changes have not been rung
ever since the war.-Ufioa Obserrer.
Metamorphoaes of the Army Worm.
Ga the 18th Of June DIR. 7. W. Simmons,
Of Hagerstown, put two army worms in a class
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