Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — STILL THEY COME. [ARTICLE]

STILL THEY COME.

Recruits for tHe Hancock Lra nil Army. OOL. HENRY B. HAYS, OF PITTSBURGH, DECLARES FOR HANCOCK. [Pittsburgh Telegram to Cincinnati Enquirer.] To-day the announcement was made public that Col. Henry B. Hays, who has been a life-long Republican, had espoused the cause of Gen. Hancock. Col. Hays is one of the wealthiest coal operators in the Pennsylvania bituminous region, and is known at all points along the Ohio river as a man of great liberality. He has stood in the foremost rank of the Republican leaders in Alleghany county, and has always contributed largely of his means to insure the success of the Republican ticket in times past. He says, however, that he will open an extra barrel for the hero of Gettysburg. He was at one time Secretary of the Legation to Denmark, and has a gallant war record. His change of political faith will have a great effect, upon thousands of coal miners, who have always looked up t > him as a leader aud a guide in matters political. The announcement of his allegiance to Gen. Hancock fell like a chilling frost on the Republican party here, and, as lie is a man of irreproachable record and commands the respect of all classes, they have not presumed to express any opinion in the matter, but are waiting apathetically to see who the next convert will be. GEN. HAMILTON, OF WISCONSIN, COMES OUT FOR TIIE nEKO OF GETTYSBURG. Gen. C. S. Hamilton, of Milwaukee, an old friend and West Point classmate of Gen. Graut, ex-United States Marshal and a stanch Republican, predicts the election of Hancock and English. He has just returned from New York, which State, lie says, Hancock will probably carry by 40,000 majority. Gen. Hamilton was sorely disappointed over the defeat of Grant at Chicago. He will cast his first Democratic vote for Hancock and English. THE OLD SECOND CORPS TO THE FRONT. [Prom tho Now York World.] Ever since his nomination G n. Hancock has been receiving congratulatory letters from the soldiers of the Second corps pledging their fidelity to him iu the Presidential campaign. The following is a copy of a letter lie received yesterday, and is only a sample of the hundreds brought by every mail : Major .General W. S. Hancock: Dear Sir : I take the liberty of writing to you, as I am one of the old soldiers belonging to your Second army corps, Second division, Third brigade, Fourth Ohio Volunteers (Carroll’s). I think I have a right to address you. My first vote I caf t when in your command iu front of Vicksburg, Va. 1 voted for Abraham Lincoln. I have voted for every Republican candidate from that day to this. I have had yonr photograjdi in my album for sixteen years, and, as soon as you received the nomination, I said I would never go back on my old commander. I will support you with all my heart, hoping you may pull through, as you often did in the days of 1863 and 1864, and that you may do as well as we did on the morning of May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House. “Carry the works.” Yours respectfully, Charles A. Smith. THE GERMANS DECLARING FOR HANCOCK. The most influential German paper in Northern Ohio, the Cleveland Wachter am Erie, lias abandoned the Republican party and come out for Hancock and English. • So has the Pittsburgh Volksblatt. The German vote is the only tiling which has saved Ohio to the Republicans for the last four or five years. Garfield’s wobbling letter and tainted record, with the surrender to the machine on the question of civil service reform, have evidently convinced the Germans of Ohio that their best chance of contributing to administrative reform and public prosperity and harmony lies in supporting the Democratic ticket.

Enthusiasm and Confidence in Ohio. The gathering of the Ohio Democracy at Cleveland gives happy and hopeful prophecy of Democratic victory in Ohio in October. The conditions are favorable. There is absolute harmony. The gentleman who heads the ticket is a man of high character, <sf fine abilities, and he was nominated by acclamation. There was no bitterness upon any question of candidacy, and there was scarcely a contest upon any question. The ticket is excellent. The cause it represents is made more gloriously hopeful by the harmonious action of the Democrats assembled at Cleveland yesterday. Harmony and enthusiasm characterized the proceedings of the Democrats who met at Cleveland, whether • delegates to the convention or attendants upon it. Nothing was done to kindle animosities within the Ohio Democracy. Everything, that was done was done with the plain and successful purpose to produce unity and good feeling. There is enthusiasm, expectation, confidence, among the Democrats of Oliio. —Cincinnati Enquirer.

Many Able-Bodied Editorials Spoiled. Gen. Sherman’s declaration that he has “no recollection of ever hearing anything from Gen. Hancock about taking orders from Mr. Tilden ” knocks the wind out of many able-bodied editorials,

Tlxo report was, it will be remembered* that in response to an inquiry from Gen. Sherman, during the electoral troubles of 1877, Gen. Hancock wrote to the forqW that, believing Mr. Tildon elected, look to him for orders if Congress declared him the President of the United States. Asked if this report were true, Gen. Hancock simply referred his interrogators to (Jen. Sherman, who, he said, was at liberty to print every letter that hud ever passed between them. The whole tiling was a mare’s nest. It makes no difference whether Gen. Hancock wrote such a letter or not, provided his superior officer asked his intentions ; but the presumed state of facts has been the text of many columns of denunciation of Hancock as a traitor, and it is perhaps well that Sherman has spoken. Next! —Philadelphia Times (Independent Republican).