Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — PENNSYLVANIA FOR HANCOCK. [ARTICLE]

PENNSYLVANIA FOR HANCOCK.

The Old Republican Ship Lurching and the Sea Black with Departing? Bats. [Letter from Philadelphia.] The Democracy of this State is in better heart than it has been since 1856. The Harrisburg Convention settled all divisions in the party, and the Cincinnati nominations have filled it with enthusiasm. Hunt where you wifi, you cannot find a sorehead or a croaker. There is not a Democrat in Pennsyl■Mua who does not believe that Hancock be elected, and scarcely one who does not believe he will carry his own State. They say: “The last Democratic President was a Pennsylvanian nominated at Cincinnati, and so wifi the next one be. ” There are in this State 80,000 soldiers who served under Gen. Hancock or with him. The people, without regard to party, are grateful to him, not only for his splendid services to the Union on distant fields, but for the irngiediate

preservation of their homes and firesides at Gettysburg. There is no name that would have stirred Pennsylvania feeling to a greater depth than Hancock’s, and it is exactly true that his nomination was fedeiVed in every city* town and Village with a general outburst of applause. He will poll the full party vote, a large independent and Republican vote, and pretty much the whole soldier vote. Under these circumstances the talk of carrying Pennsylvania is anything but wild. Hoyt is a minority Governor. The majority against him on the combined vote of the opposition was about 60,000. The Riot bill, the pardon of Kemble and the other bribers, and other measures of a most disgraceful administration have seriously disgusted and disheartened the Republicans. These scandals afford local issues which will materially aid the Democratic electoral ticket. On the other hand, the Republican party here is in the worst condition since it was born. In order to carry through the third*tettn scheme, Mr. Don Cameron and the machine managers committed a series of outrages upon the rank and file that cannot be forgotten. They failed, and in their failure the machine was smashed, -its power dissipated, and the old and experienced leaders buried in the rubbish. Mr. -Cameron has disappeared. He is heard of only through a dismal groan from the White Sulphur spriugs, or somewhere else far beyond the scene of conflict. His father, the old General, has covered his head and turned his face to the wall. None of the ancient set, who have held the State for years by their energy, their money, and their thoroughly-organized system, will turn a hand for the election of Garfield. Why should they ? They have had enough of Hayes and his kind, and they know that the high-handed means by which they undertook to force Grant on the party can never he forgiven. What can they expect from Blaine, and Sherman, and Garfield, or from the Republican people, who were compelled to imperil the very existence of the party —to fight them to the verge of disruption—in order to be rid of their audacious tyranny ? They will regard Garfield’s defeat as their vindication, and they look forward to that event in November a 3 confidently, if not as hopefully, as the Democrats. There have never been so many changes reported at this stage in any campaign. In many places we hear of Hancock and English clubs composed exclusively of Republicans. Some of the deserters are men of national reputation—among them E. Joy Morris and Col. John W. Forney, who have already thrown themselves unreservedly into the canvass. The old Republican ship is lurching and sinking in full view, and the sea is black with departing rats. The flight of some of these—old and sagacious fellows—is, in the eyes of Pennsylvanians, a sure sign of the coming victory.