Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — MEMORABLE WORDS [ARTICLE]

MEMORABLE WORDS

Xiincoln’s Opinion, f Hancock- “ Some of the older general .s have uadi to me that he is rash, and I have said to them, that I have watched General Hancock's conduct very carefully, and [ hare found that when he goes into act'on he achieves his purpose and comes out with a smaller list of casualties Ilian any of them. If his life and. health is spared I believe General Hancock is destined to be one of the most distinguished men of the age.” And to show Low much ho 'bought of him Mr, Lincoln declared that he always opened his morning’s mail and despatches in fear and trembling lest they would contain information that Gen. Hancock had been killed or wounded. Suppose tho Democrats had Garfield tor a candidate—would these Republican journals he apologizing and defending him against these their own accusations? President Hayes has, it is said, suggested a seat for life in the Senate, as a snitablo position for an ex-Presi-dent. Once in office, always in office, is the motto of the Ohio man. A careful examination of Gon. Gar. field’s record in Congress shows that he has never voted against a land grant, or swindling subsidy scheme of any kind. He has either voted for them or has not voted at all. The H uncock Democrat, published at the home of Mr. Hanna, tho wo’dbe Lieut. Gov., who spoke his piece at the Court House Tuesday night, says: ‘Tom Hanna has the best hospital record of any six months soldier in Indiana/* The Alabama Democratic majority has run up over the first estimates until it is now believed the official vote will show fully seventy-five thousand majority in the State. The election was entirely peaceful and large numbers of negroes worked hard for the Democratic ticket. • The Indianapolis Journal of August 10th has seven- columns of what purports to be a speech delivered before some club by Parson Tom Goodwin. Only think of it, seven columns of the drivel of Parson Tom! As a specimen, he repeats no less than four times that Hon. Wm. H. English was repudiated by the Democrats in the old third congressional district of Indiana, they refusing to nominate him for congress in 1860. This ranting ignoramus and falsifier no doubt umant the second district, as Mr,

English nevor lived in (he third, and j i that Gocchvin’s statement is a lie, j manufactured out of whole cloth, is | shewn by the following resolution. : Which was unanimously adopted by the convention wlßcl; nominated Mr. English’s successor: Resolved, That in selecting a candidate to represent this district in the thirty-seventh congress, wo deem it a proper occasion to express the re spect and esteem we entertain for our present member, Hon. W. H. English, and our confidence in him as a pub-® lie officer. In his retirement, in accordance with his well-known wishes, from the position of representative, which he has so long filled with credit to himself and benefit to the country, wc heartily greet him with the plaudit, “Well done thou good and faithful servant,”

Radical leaders hereabouts wire frantic last Saturday evening. The interrogatories with which they were plied, and which they could not answer, set them wild. —..***-- All parties were pretty well repre seated in the radical meeting Tuesday evening, and the attendance fair. Messrs. Hanna and Dice, radical candidates respectively for the offices of Lieut. Governor and Reporter of Supremo Court. The speakers waved the bloody shirt, quoted garbled extracts and manufactured campaign thunder,.but made no defence of the chief candidates, Garfield and Arthur, and tbo meeting adjourned with a dissatisfied and disappointed audience. Imitations have been extended to Gens. Hancock and Garfield to participate in Boston’s coming celebration of the two hundredth and fiftieth anniversary of her settlement. One feature of the programme is to have both presidential candidates in a bnrouchfl together in the great pro' cession. Gen. Hancock has thus far declined all invitations for public parade as a candidate. He holds it inconsistent with his duty te the Government, and beneath his dignity as a presidential candidate to mount tno stump as a professional p olitician. And now it is Maine, the especial and peculiar property of the “plumed knight,” that appeals for the largess wrung from the salaries of government dependents. Breathe it softly oh ye whispering winds, tho “republican star in the east” will respond only to the mightiest efforts to be> kept in line. The “magnetism” of its great commoner fails longer to attract. Janies G. Blaine is our anthority for this. Most piteously he appealed to tho great conclave in NotV York to come up to tho help of his demoral izerl and fast waning host in the throe of disaster. Tho peril is upon them, and tho crisis les tiian a month away. Wichita, Kan., Aug. 10.— P. W. 'Watts, a noted pedestrian of this section, starts from this point on August 21th to walk to the city of Now York, on a bet of SI,OOO that he can make it bv election davand 100 Democratic speeches on the roau. He walks in a costume of blue and grey. Watts is a character. He might justly be called an eloquent and learned tramp ; be is a graduate of college, has one of the best of memories, and has a head stored full of sound learning. He wields the pen of a ready writer and has extraordinary command of language, and very enthusiastic. Like many men of his stripe, ho has wandered all over tho world and engaged in all kinds cl 1 business. In Wichita he has supported himself by writing for the papers and practicing law. Ho is far a-bove the ordinary man intellectually, and if he would set himself to one thing would certainly make a great snccoss. The walk is creating much comment hero, and no doubt will draw out a large crowd th.e day he starts.

A meaty point in this campaign is concisely stated by the* Cincinnati Enquirer, when it says that it differs from all other campaigns in this remarkable fact: The charges, and they are serious ones, made against the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates owe their paternity to members of their own party, and every one of them is supported by Republican testimonyThey are of a character involving the gravest of offenses, and, if true, as the evidence shows them to be, cover Gen. Garfield and Arthur with crime as the leper is covered with sores. These charges involving salary grabbing, Credit Mobilierism. selling influence as a member of Congress to a corrupt ring to fleece the government, made against Garfield and of corruption and of a profligate administration of the affairs of the collectorship of the city of New York made against Arthur by President Hayes and his secretary of the treasury. John Sherman, for which Arthur was dismissed from office, all come from Republicans, and are all proved to ba well sustained by Republican witnesses. All over the State of Indiana, on last Saturday, a formal opening of the campaign was made by the Democracy, and the camp fires burned brightly. Great enthusiasm at all points expresses the situation. Hon. D. D. Dykeman, of Logansport, addressed an audience of 800 or 1000 at this place, and was listened to with close attention. He followed up the record of Mr. Garfield fairly and honestly, and closed with a comparison, of the candidatee. Quite a number of Republicans are canvassing the points made by Mr. D., and tne “boss” of the radical party of Jasper county grew frantic over his inability to refute them. One old gentleman emphatically romarked that “unless the SSOOO DeGolyer bribery was satisfactorily explained, he’d be d—d if he’d vote for Garfield.” In the evening a meeting was held

at the Opera House and a Hancock & English Club organized, with the following officers :> President—R. B. Patton. Vice President—Daniel Duvall. Secretary—Frank B. Meyer. Treasurer—H. A. Barkley. Seventy-five or eighty, mostly young men, a number of whom had , heretofore been identified with the i Republican party, enrolled their names as members. Remarks were made by D. B. Millet and John F. Bor- ! oughs, Esq’s. Mr. B. was. two years ! a o° Secretary of the Republican j Central Committee of this county. - j The greatest enthusiasm and good | feeling prevailed. The Club, we be iieve, will hold another meeting at (he Court House next Wednesday evening.