Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — Garfield’s Petty Warfare on Hancock Baffled. [ARTICLE]

Garfield’s Petty Warfare on Hancock Baffled.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Winfield Scott Hancoefc will be the next President of the United States. It is written in the book of fate, and there will be no electoral tribunal to reverse the returns, Hancock was born both handsome and iucky. He is a man of destiny. Why, just look at the r *cord. In 1868 Garfield „ro’t a bill into Congress to drop the junior Major-General. That was Hancock. It passed both houses of Congress and was signed by the President. But before it could be carried into effect George H. Thomas, the senior Major-General, died, and Hun cock going up one grade, was no longer the junior Major-General, and so the law could not reach him. Then the Republicans, still lsd by Garfield, passed an act reducing the MajorGenerals to three. This was signed by the President, but before it could be carried into effect Meade died, and the Major-Generals were reduced to three by God Almighty. Finally, a law was passed authorising the President to drop one of the Major-Gen-erals. Before it could be carried out and Hancock could be dropped, Halleck died, and Hancock becoming the senior Major-General, he could not be dropped, The man who survived all these attempts to retire him cannot be retired. The man who led them—Garfield—will, as a fitting consummation of his act, fall a victim to his intended victim. Hancock will be elected Garfield will be retired—at least from the Presidential field.