The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-07-10
THE HANCOCK BOOM,
did in 1871

THE HANCOCK BOOM
The Hancock boom Is rolling on. Nearly
every prominent paper we open brings thu
name Of some conspicuous republican who ha
cast aside ms old party trammels and de
clared for Hancock and English. Among thu
more conspicuous we find In a paper before
lus
/. Gen James A. Gindlay, Of Utica, N, y
He had tor many years been leading repub
lican of that city and a few months ago was
chairman Of Conklng's county convention
that sent Grant delegates to Syracuse. A
week ago the democrats Of Utica organized &
Hancock club and Gen. Grindlay came
% the front and accepted the presidency of the
club. On taking the char he said:
/ never went INTO any any movement with
greater pleasure than this one for the purpose
of organizing to support such good soldier
as General Hancock. I congratulate the
democratic party on giving US the chance to
vote for such man. His election is a fore
gone conclusion. He was elected as soon as
he was nominated. He will give us a superb
solder.president. He will receive the votes
of the blue and the gray. His utterances dur
ing the war showed him to be statesman,
Those who served under him will be glad TO
rally 70 his support
2. Gen. A. l.. Pearson, Of Pittsburg, Pa, a
soldier who won his brigadier's epaulettes by
gallant services in the war; and since then had
been prominent republican politician in Al
legheny county, member of the National
Union Veterans Committee, secretary of the
Republican, Executive Committee of Pitts
burg, &c, has come out boldly for Hancock
and English. Last Saturday he made an el.
oquent speech for Hancock at Greensburg,
and to an interview next day he SAID:
am not the only soldier in the Allegheny
country that has made this jump. | was met
by a comrade this morning who SAID he had
learned from my speech at Greensburg last
night that | was a deserter, and he SAID since
have thought over the matter guess ! will
turn deserter with you" The general added ::
$50 il will be with every soldier who reads
and thinks. He will vote as he shot, by cast
ing his vote for Gen. Hancock for president.
g. The National Association OF Veterans
of the Mexican war met in Washington on
the Sd inst. The society, by its atfili atoms,
numbers some eight thousand members, scat
tered all over the Union. Hitherto it had
kept itself aloof from politics, but at this
meeting the members being reminded that the
passage of the bill to grant the Mexican vet
Grams pension had always been defeated in
Congress by the opposition Of republicans,
Hoar chairman of the Chicago convention,
having strangled it in the senate last winter
and Garfield and other republican leaders
killed 1t IN the house the year before-it was
decided that the time had come for a change
of policy, and the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
Resolred, That we recommended to our
kindred associations of Mexican veterans
throughout the United States to organize cam
paign clubs, and cordially invite the eX-sol-
dIers of the republic III the north and in the
south, in the east and IN the west, to enroll
their names with US and rally around the old
flag IN a grand army of American warsmen
in support of the nominee OF the Democratic
party for the presidency, Gen. Winfield
Scott Hancock, a gallant soldier and states
man, in whom every patriot who ever bore
arms in defense of what he honestly deemed
to be right may, with confidence hope to find
friend and wise counsellor.
And so we could 20 on by the column. The
democrats everywhere are confident jubilant,
making accessons by the score and hundred
while the republicans are dlsheartened and
gloomy. Rewards are freely offered for the
name of single democrat who has declared
for Garfield, while republicans who support
Hancock are plenty everywhere The boom
Is sweeping on and will carry everything be-
fore it,