Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — EVERYBODY SING. [ARTICLE]

EVERYBODY SING.

A List of Prominent Bepnblica.it* Wbo Have Bade Farewell to the Bloody Shirt and Bullied Hound the Hancock Flag-Hurrah, Boys, Hurrah. [From the Rochester (N. Y.) Union and Advertiser.] The Pittsburgh Volksblatt, heretofore strongly Republican, has deserted Garfield and run up tho Hancock flag. Peter Wilson, a prominent Republican lawyer, heads the call for a Hancock club ut S treator, HI. Hon. Horatio King, ex-Postmaster General, supported Hayes in 1876, and will take the stump for Hancock in 1880. Hon. George R. Wendling, of St. Louis, once a leading Republican Congressman, has declared against Garfield and will take the stump for Hancock and English. He will be remembered as the gentleman who replied to Bob Ingersoll’s lecture. The Hon. S. W. Moulton, a former Republican and member of Congress from Hlinois, and Judge Mocser, Republican County Judge, astonished the Republicans of Shelbyville, 111., last week by openly declaring for Hancock and English. Lewis Lovelace, a prominent Republican of Pike county, Ind., and formerly a candidate of his party for Congress, has renounced his connection with the Republican organization, and is out for Hancock and English. Edward Butler, ex-stalwart editor of the New Haven (Ct.) Palladium , lias declared for Hancock. Col. John A. Wimpy, heretofore a prominent Republican in Georgia, has announced his intention to vote for Hancock. Mr. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, is another Grant man who has all the symptoms of being for Hancock. Hinton Rowan Helper, author of the “ Impending Crisis,” has written a letter in which he announces himself in favor of Hancock and English. Don H. Powers, a prominent Republican of Eastern Maine, a well-known member of the Penobscot bar, and brother of ex-Congressman Lew Powers, has joined a Plaisted club at Newport, and will do all in his power to elect Gen. Plaisted and the Union ticket. Five other Republicans of Newport have joined the same club. Hon. N. C. Towle, for several years Recorder of the District of Columbia, by appointment of President Lincoln, and for nearly a dozen years officially connected with the Government service, has addressed the following open letter to the Democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency : Brookline, Mass., July 18. Hon. William 11. English. My Dear Sir : I congratulate you and the country upon the result of the meeting of the Democratic National Convention at Cincinnati. It has submitted to the American people a ticket characterized by great ability and sound constitutional principles, But this is not all—it is a clean ticket. The names borne upon the ticket are not only illustrious by their deeds of heroism and statesmanship, but they are unstained and undimmed by even the suspicion of acts of a questionable character. The supporters of this ticket have no use for lawyers or politicians ; they have no indictments to defend and no mysticisms to clear up. Here i 3 no taint of Credit Mobilier to be deodorized, and no spoils of the Tweed or Shepherd rings to be accounted for. The people want a clean, [mre, constitutional administration of tho General Government, firmly maintaining its dignity and authority, and respecting the rights “ reserved to the States and people,” and the people see in this ticket a reasonable guarantee for such an administration, and, if I am not mistaken, will elect it by such a majority as will render the counting of the vote no difficult task. I trust to what I hope is still remembered as a friendly acquaintance of thirty years ago, and my personal interest in observing your long and brilliant Congressional career, as my apology for the mode I have adopted in offering you my sincere congratulations. I have the honor to ho very truly yours, N. C. Towle. Capt. M. M. C. Griffin and Capt. A. J. For graves aro numbered among the converted Republican members of the Hancock and English Chib at Council Bluffs, lowa. They can hardly expect to carry lowa, but evidently they desire to record their preference on the right side.

A correspondent writing from Standifcli, Mich., says: “The President of our Hancock and English Club is Mr. M. McCormick, who lias voted the Republican ticket for twenty-seven years, but is through with that party now. Our Vice President, Mr. Oliver T. Rugg, is a veteran of 82 years, the oldest citizen in Standisli, and a man who has always he retofore opposed the Democratic party. We have on our list tho names of six other working members who have been Republicans up to this time. We are all enthusiastic for Hancock and English—in some respects the best ticket the party has presented since the days of Jackson.” Col. Williamson, of Shreveport, La., declines tho Republican nomination for Congress, and announces his determination to support Hancock. Hon. Patrick Jones, Postmaster of New York city under Grant, and a lifelong Republican, has declared for Hancock and English. One solitary case has been discovered of some solitary personage out in Wisconsin who claims to have been a Democrat, but intends to. vote for Garfield. We mention the fact for what little consolation it may afford the friends of the Credit Mobilicr candidate. A PROMINENT MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN FOR HANCOCK. v. [From the New York Sun.] Gen. Patrick H. Jones has received the following letter : Jackson, Mich., July 14, 1880. My Dear General : The following appeared in the Chicago Times of yesterday : “Among the accessions to Hancock the Democrats count Gen. Patrick H. Jones, at one time Postmaster of New York.” Shake! Yours truly, E. W. Barber. Gen. Barber succeeded Gen. W. H. Terrell as Third Assistant Postmaster General under Gen. Grant. He was the stanch friend of Zach Chandler. It was at Chandler’s request that he was appointed to the Postal Department. NEW YORK REPUBLICANS DESERTING GARFIELD. [New York Telegram to Chicago Times.] The State Committee met to-day at the St. James Hotel. There was a large gathering of prominent Democrats, who, of course, reported universal enthusiasm over the results of the convention. In all parts of the State Hancock and En-| glish clubs are organizing, and in some of the counties every town and ward has its club already. It was stated that many Republicans have enrolled themselves in these organizations. In one Hancock club in the interior of the State forty-five former Republicans, have signed the roll. In Western New York, the stronghold of Republicanism, young Republicans in great numbers have announced their intention of voting for Hancock, among

them Col. E. G. Marshall, formerly of the regular army, and Gen. Quinby Grant.