The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-01-28
GFN. HANCOCK.

6FNe 0ANCOCAs
We find &c alleged In the columns of
tho IndIauapolis Journal that Gen.
Hancock was s.badly beaten candi-
datefox President. -
Thie phrase Is conspicuously mac |
cuEate. No defeated candidate for |
President ever came nearer being cleo |
ted than Gen. Hancock did. A few
thousand more votes In the city of New
York would have made him President;
and these he would have had, and
more, but for John Kelly's fhreachery.
The above, heading included, is
clipped from a recent issue of the New
York Daily Sun, a Journal whose abil-
ity, noless than its influence, is unques-
toned, and both have been unsparipgly
employed In denouncing the political
course Of the Hon. John Kelly, who,
albeit, was but few days ago re-
elected, and without opposition, we
believe, the leader of the Tammany
Hall democracy In New York city.
What reply Mr.. Kelly has made, or
may make, to the SUMS persistent at
tacks on his Democratic fealty, we cam
mot say, not receiving either of the two
journals he is said to control, but we
are not without a strong conviction
that the course of the New York Sun
in the recent presidential election had
much to do with the defeat of General.
Hancock.
While the Sun did not waverin its
support of the Democratic party, its
support seemed to come more from OPP
position to Republican leaders, than
from any great admiration of, or devo-
tfon to the platform or candidates of
the Cincinnati convention and If, as
that Journal can urge, Gen. Garfield
was conspicuous in its columns daily
asa perjurer and bribe-taker, Gen. Ham
cock, on the other hand, was equally
conspicuous for want of warm editorial
commendation. Any attentive reader of
theSon-and no doubt there were hun
dreds Of thousands of such and in the
Republican party-couid but be con-
WINGED that the Sun was partially
eclipsed by the failure of Tilden to
secure the nomination at cincinnati,
and that the ghost of that distinguished
son of New York was more powerful
in controlling its course than the ami
mated presence ofthe soldier. statesman,
Gen. Hancock.
We were made familiar with the idea
throughout the campaign, from reading
the Daily Sun, that the Cincinnati
convention had committed an unpar-
donable blunder in nominating Gen.
Hancock instead of Mr.. Tilden, and
impressed with the belief, predicated
upon the same source of information,
that the friends of Mr.. Tilden in New
York keenly felt the assumed injustice
of his defeat. and gave Gen. Hancock
a support mainly of that character
which arises alone out of necessity.
We do not believe that either Mr..
Tilden, or his near and influential
friends in New York, the SUMS editor
being one, ever forgave the Cincinnati
convention for shelving Mr.. Tilden,-
in our Judgment a most sagacious step;
but we do believe that John Kelly and
the Tammany Democrats had no griev-
ance to sulk over, and entered the can
vass heart and soul for the Cincinnati
nominees. Pending the canvass, diff
ferences Of local character arose in
New York, the city particularly, which
led to the disaster suffered, no doubt
but the country cannot Judge, with it's
experiences in the rottenness of New
York politics, which of the two factions
had the better cause. The results of the
vote In certain districts prove nothing,
since John Kelly has shown that in
many Tilden counties there were large
Republican gains, just as anti-Tam-
many has shown there were large
Republican gains in many Tammany
districts of the city. The Sun should
not forget in arraigning John Kelly,
that the brightest beam 1t threw upon
Gen. Hancock was when it announced
him to the world as a candidate pos.
scsaing the ponderous merit, and infer
entially the sole one, of weighing t,co
hundred and .,Uty pounds John Kelly
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