The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-08-26
Colonel Forney and hancock.



a Correspondent 'oho Recalls Tie
Coionets Prdise of GarfeM
Zen Years Iyo.
From the Pbila. Press.
Colonel Forney in bis Democratic
speech on Thursday night last said,
in speaking Of the Republican. Con-
vention, "They rushed in hot haste
to confer the Presidential purple up.
on an Ohio politician, who is so bar
nacled and blasted, and tabooed with
offences against the law, that since
he has been placed upon their ticket
for the Presidency it is daily becom-
ing question whether they shall not
pull him off as hastily az they put
him ou.' Had the above been sail
Ivy onr friend Colonel Mcclure but
little would have been thonght Of it.
but coming from the lips of Colonel
Forney II seems out Of place. From
Colonel Forney's writings regarding
the merits Of General Garfield, up to
within a few days after his nomina.
ton, | had An idea that Garfield was
his ideal Of statesman, Christian
aud q soldier; but when he states
that II is daily becoming o question
whether he shall not be taken of the
ticket as hastily as he was put on
Colonel Forney makes use of an as
sertion that will do him no good and
General Garfield no harm. I,venture
the remark there IL not ono Repub
lican in Pennsylvania to-day who re-
grets Garfield's nomination, and no
person better knows it than Foruey
May ] ask. right here. Mr. Editor, If
the Colonel Forney who is asking
votes for General Hancock is the
same Colonel Forney who wrote TnE
PnEss from Washington, May 80,
1868. and speaking Of the ceremonies
on Decoration Day, said. General
Garfield, the orator OF the day, was
in fine health and spirits. General
Hancock, handsome. but naughty,
was not in the procession to the
graves at oil, evidently hating The al
fair because IL ,cas not intended 10
honor rebeis! Hancock is evidently
beginning to discover that he caunot
be the Democratic candidate for
President without turning bis back
on all those who stood by him I Is
he the same Colonel Forney who
wrote THE Press April IL, 1865
speaking of General Hancock's con
duct while in command of the Fifth
Military District, and said: The
recent rebel administration of Geuer
al Hancock has made treason bold
aud defiant throughout the State
(Texas) ? and that sin consequence
Of his General Order No. 40, upward
, OF sixty murders were committed
, within six months after he took com
, mand' 7. II what Colonel Forney
has written regarding General Gar
{ field for the past fifteen years, and
up to within a few days after his upm
ination, is true, aud no one doubts
. it, he is certainly deserving OF the
support Of the people if what he has
said of General Hancock is true, and
no one doubts it. the superb is
certainly not the man to fill the high
est office in the gift OF free people
The statements he now makes abou,
Hancock and those made years age
are SO very different regarding his
loyalty that it is an open question
|, with many whether or not the Colo
mel Forney in question is one au(
the same person. In conclusion let IN
, add /. A prominent Democra said tC
to the writer to. day "that the taril
plank in our platform would cost u
many votes in this State, but i
Andy Dill did not keep Sunset
- Cox out of the State with his free
trade speeches, aud at once quie
down Senator Wallace and John Fo
ney, that they had better sell out an
o retire from the campaign So i
goes Go on, gentlemen it is you
fight. not ours. r.
Phiia,leiphia Aug. l3, 1880.