Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-06-25
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHNEWS
Oe9cls Of Mr.. Thurman

COLUMBUS, 0 June IS A large mectioe
vas held 10 the state house yard list ti;ht 10
ratiiy the Cincinuaii romiua,ors. Spatches
we're made by Senator Tturman AID others.
Sdnator Thurman said
AR. Chairman Friends and Ne,ehLors. 1t
gives NE si1c:ro pleasure to meet with sou, my
friends and ncghS0IS. to uight to raify. 10 The
clpi;al ct Ohio, the pouiratious m ,de by your
Convection 10 C;pcn.a'i. | say it gives me
pleasure, aud lCr reasons that | shall bri hy
state TO yOa: Pleasure, btc,Use the Domiualioas
are good; = casurc, because they will bring suo
cess to our blnnc'; pleasure, bCclu.o the man
you have nominated will be elcc;ed, and their
election will bring pete, and harmony, and it
Is right and proper that here, ia the capital of
tDls great State. which we mean to rally under
TIC d, mocra,lc banner mex. November cheers, !
that here VIC should set the bal in motion ttas
is to roll on 10 VIC DRY. Now, my friends,
aant to speak as plainly as c,n. for you know
that AN 90! given 10 rhetorical speaking.
leave that TO younger men--to men VITO hsve
moro fancy than have. | want to speak to
you plliuly. and tell you why Winfield Scott
Hancock should be elected President of the
Uoittd States and Mr.. Eaelish, of Iodians,
should be elected Vic, President. First, who is
Wiofield Scott Hancock? There is not m 40
10 this audience; there is not boy 10 this au-
dience who does not know that Winfield SCOTT
Hancock was obo Of tho bIightts, the abcst
aud NEST daring aud bravo of all the soldiers
that WcLt 10 tho WGr to maintain the Uoiop.
Applause. No man who over commanded an
army ever displayed more courage, moro hero.
ism and ever displayed more skill than Han
c,ck displayed from the time ho went into the
war until it was closed 10 triumph. Everybody
knew that. But, my friends, there is one thing
that everybody does not know. Hanc:ck has
been in he army all his life, and, therefore,
you might not at o. c. suspCc! what is literally
tho truth, that Hancock is not only soldier,
but he is constitutional lawyer and a good
American Statesman. Cheers |. | call him a
constitutional lawyer and have warrant fer
what soy; for, when after the close of the re-
bcllon, he was pltc,d a. military governor of
Louisiana and Texas before lhey we're admitted
to representation in Congress and to exercise
their rights IS stats, he showed 10 great con-
tIasi to what come other military governors
showed. He showed he knew there was such
a thing as the Constitution of the Uoited States;
that he knew there WIS such thing as free
republic; that he knew that the truo dtc.rino,
the essential dcc'rlnc ADD tho vital doctrine Of
oVery free republic and every free government
10 that the mitiIy must DO subordinate to the
civil power; that trial by jury was the
right of all American citizsns. 1Applau,e. |
Equal Justice 10 tho courts is tho right of the
American citiz.n. Freedom from unlawful ar
Icst is the right of an American citizen. That
is what makes him the idol of the people of
Louisiana apd Texas. That is what made Louis,
ana the first State to nominate him months
ago in her State convention. When say that
Gen. Harc)ck is statcman, | speake but tho
truth. | do not know that BIO ever made speech
10 his life and Geo. Washington never made but
one. and that was about fifteen miuute. long.
The Senator continued at grta. length and was
immensely appauded.