Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 22, Number 31, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 July 1880 — Page 3

MAJ.GK'. W. S. HANCOCK, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.

What tke Xeertaatlen Dees. The lint aad moat obvious result of GeatTd Haaeoek's aottttalhm k to elisaiaate the Southern que-tioa from National politics. It hst Inert a disturbing; elf meat in our National life for half a century. Demagogues have con-

&tatly appealed to sectional interests I meant for a continuation of the old line mh! pitwk, to gain their en. Is. Doubt- 1 of party tactics. Despairing of carryless tb slavery question could Have ing a single Southern State in the elocWea SMtbfactordy adjusted on a bis tion the Republicans hoped to make of gradual enwMicipatfon with a grsdu- Northern capital by reviving the old ated cxMafteHMtiuM but for the use ( war fatties and revamping worn-out ms4 of it by political seheiwers and , tales of crime never committed to send imercats who cared neither for the , new thrills of terror through the North. Union hot for the negro, but oly to j But the nomination of General Han

sel (HKcm And sine the war ended , bv the total surrender of the Southern States, their hearty acceptance of the HOX. WM- H. F-NGLISn, DEMOCRATIC new erderof things. and their unquestionable loyalty, the Southern question ka still been kept alive aad thmat Torward a the sole political mm of any mtportaaee. In 188 Grant was chosen l'r4W to complete the subjugation fthe South, although he announced that he wm for peace. In 1872 the oUl cry wm revival; the bloody shirt was wared more energetically than ever; ail the bad tmcwiotta aad blistering memories ef the war were enkindled afresh; stork of Southern outrage becgaring nelief were manufactured to onler for campaign prpos; the South waa represeated a just o the eve of a new reWttia t overthrow,- the Government awl re-n4ave the colored people, and all tin Mack aad lucid images partisan hatred emM conjure up were evoked to Are the Northern heart agaiwt the pewpte ef ten great States, ami merely u keep the Kejmblican party ia power, la 1S76. in spite of the paciHc eftMoiM of Mr. Hayes which none of his supporters took any notice of, the campaign was waged on thk old sectional war hk, ami graves were reopened, and the bones of dead soldiers were dag out of the !ut to swing from t la tttoaaa ta ar4U Viw-tkra eitizens to r' w..i.i:. .,.iuli ii .I,: .t. tLVvoai-isitx Haves rama nn iw aero ? v. w - - w-v laaH'nirated the Kemiblican managers in Uongres ami eiewnere nv keiit h the old yells against "a solid Smik,h "rebel Brigadiers,1' the "massacres 4 nejrroes," ami the determinattea 9t the South to seiae the Government. True. e9ible men hal learned that these erifs meant nothing in partkukr, hut were the trieks of demaggw t 4eeir the mawes. Xeverthujtoo they ware peteat for misehief, i n , t

ami they prevented the union and good feeling and devotion to great material interests which the good of the country required. Unquestionably the nomination of Garfield, who was a political soldier in the war and Una been one of the de

nounce! s of the bouth ever since, was cock a non-political soldier, a thor ough Unionist and patriot who had the fought for his country against CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. Indians ami in Mexico uciore the Rebellion began, whose lirst speech was for the Union against sucession in . V 0 . California, whose heroic conduct on twentv battlefields earned for him the highest military renown, whose con duct, as commander, in subordinating the militarv to the civil power, and act ing as the servant of the laws instead of their subiiieator, stamped him as a true statesman and oatriot has com pletely upet Republican calculations. And General Hancock was first nomi nated bv Louisiana. Ho was the bouth era choice. He represents the Union sentiment, the Union idea, the Union If anvbod v is entitled te appeal to the soldiers who fought and bled for the Union, it is this soldier, whose horse was shot under him at Chancellorsville, and who, returning to duty before his wmimis were neaicu, was uuiiguu to riI to the fnmt in a carriage. All tlu. mirsibltt trumnen and sectional luva in fomier camnaiens have Imh naralvzed bv tho nomination of tliiM brave soldier, who incarnta tho patriotism, the loyalty, the Union sentiment of the American tuiib. Th blomlv shirt has been buned, antl the outrage-mill as a pollti I r1 frinr has roue, never to return. ' Sectionalism has .truck its latt blow. otutnttlititu has struck its Thf neonli. North as well as South, are ick to death of this stale and musty mhhlcih about reliels and neirro ranK Thewarentled fifteen ya ago by a intl surrender of all combatants. There is nothing to fiht about, riui only States now nre the loyal United States of this Republic. The people know no North nor South, hast nor Wet, but oh gre;.t, prosiierous, hapnv coastrv. with one ?et of Interests, w .

with one Coaetituthm, and one glorlotu Nationality. All the interest of all the

uvnianii iraiarnuy aut ooneoni. It would be easy to fill a whole jwge ol our paper wim iuiicj snowing ho the inaiiufHOturing, the mereantliH, the commercial, the social Interests of out Northern States rejuire the immediate implication and fullest, recognition of the South, ltuild up that rich section in industry and enterprise, develop its wonderful resources, put capital and machinery and mechanical skill at its disposal, fill it with Intelligent people- trained t labor in modern ways, invigorate it? waste places with the stimulus of a new civilization, and evorv city and town in the whole North wilf be the richer for it. Tltii noiuinatioii of Hancock means just this practical "ood'Vvill ami fra ternity. It means death to all pestilent sectionalisms. It menus a new Union wiin no wade uiscorus nor urly memories to alienate State from Stnte. It means a now Nation cemented indissolubly by tho blooil of threo wars, without a seam in its indestructible Nationality. It means Massachusetts and Now York and Michigan, in all that makes these Commonwealths rich and great, all the way to tho Gulf. It means the Amorioan people us ono body, with ono mind and one mighty purjjose. And his eluction will begin a new era in tho historv of tho Groat Re public. N. . Jixprese. An Interesting Letter. Hinton Rowan Helper, the author of tne " Jnipenuing crisis, lias written the following letter to the St. Louis JkpHblican, m which he declares his intention of voting for Hancock and Endibh. and explains why ho will uo so: Sih: More tban a dozen years airo the mat polltkntl ixrty, which, to the Iniperigbable Honor or its wHscut una ikhi rounic,sswar(i, Adam. Lincoln and Ulatr, bad Hbollsheil slaver) hiiU inHlntaliml ttiH lntKrltv or our Ix'tMiinj HwlicHl Htiil whmik. Siiict) that time union, c'eti to ucueimuiiuHit Him riKBi. anu tho jarty livlii(f ootiiraituM the monstrous iiikI ut)iaruo:mUie blunder sues a blunder as iHiiyrmiu wouiu nnvo very propcriy ueiiounoeti m worse iohh u crime m reootr structltiw the Southern State on h baxis of the moat rt'Voitinir lifnoranee aim uiHCKnest", it na-t rcceivcauo voto inm inc. anu wm ceruuniy never receive aiiothcr whilst, on many lmP'jrtant irtiies Natiotml and international, it reina iu) soil ainetrlcaliv finoaseil to the laws oi nature and to the plainest dictates or comIt hhm convenient for me to be in the City of Wiwhliizlou at the very tlino that cuacusfs of UrmililicHii Henators and IteireentHtive9 were being hekl there with a view of Klvltur tbeuarHKe to the neitroef, as nevcralor the more irratl iwl Uebublicazu proposed to give it. imUfcrlmtaately, and without requlrlntr any quallHcatlon whatever, of cither educawhich met for the purpose of turthering'that exoeedlutrly unrepuWioan and nefarious detKniurDnmeriy. At xae iirst jfenerm caucus Hlifn a. 1 liapiten to know from one of its inwnberw there were present 1W Senatoni aad lteureoeutHtlves: of wlioin. after much dteculoii of the question, and even on tho very iwt ballot ot the evening, only 2 voted lor the measure. iikih pity ana it is biHMMt tL Kreat a mystery as a pity that tho 121. who were then widely iatrlotle. t-houid ever have yielded, ai in Mihepient oanciiscs they dia yielu, to these, wuo were so looitsBiy One of the mot persistent and successful advocates of the false and alHMninalHe system of recooetructlon, who was wenk enough to Biiim se that my InJorH-ment and co-oimj ration WOUta ue tspeciHiil neipim in iiiuiiuiiik kvut ... ..it,. i i . . j . .i ..... end acfjulescence in the coniHracy, seKmg for hlmMlfHnd certain of the other ptott era. oflered me, if I would but eHrnwtly Join and Mfetlst thetn. the intiiKMioe of the Adralnlstrat Ion for th ixaitii;n ot Ckintrressman from one of the district of Xorttt Carolina. In reply I frankly liuonneu mm tuat i nn no amiminn whatever to le a Contcreman on any such, term?. He Ihen offered mo a Cotlectortship or customs, whcln was, he said, with Mti.iryand peniuisiti'S, worth Ax tho-isand dollais a year. My reply in this cafo was HiilMtautiatly the Mine km t nan iiihuij i mi nm propiwiiion. He then oe ed jnetiMilt hlcrher otacc. which. iw ha decla ed. wiw worth I itXX) M?r Miniim, to I .......i;-. t....i.. itt. m.. nf lir.patmnci-, I replied that then were not then, ono'.inn in the t'nlted States to prevail on me t. recommend w ofuffraifeor any other sort of dubiotii and icM?nani suifrajre, except only on bases of twt t ffW-Sr'SSr ho gH-allod itcptiWtcnn party, mireanu mc in'ctloti with tho kfn.-f. wtildi ilmi l huv fiihiT vottMl the Deal- ' wratle ticket or have not voted Ht all. 1 Four years airo I haa tne pleasure oi aiuim by my ballot in tho election to the Presidency and Vice lre.llency or those two eminently aide and excellent civilians, TIMen and Hendricks, who, however. through tlio mitchiiiHtions ami lrauns oi Itailleal detnairoKties, were denied tho honor of entering uMn the dlschanreof their (JonstltutloiiBi.uiitios; ana i anuci-Htie tae new IIasur of aiding in a correspondlnir raaaner this year in the election to the same sunwrlativovMcesof two oiUHliy capable and worthy statesmen-Hancock antl KtiKilsh who, I feel cmtiditttt. will lm decisively and Irreversibly elected acconllngtH all the provislmtsof law and with a popular majority or at least rW.OOO. Hut fur the fHct that the ItadlOHl party bad already put in nomination for the Presidency and vlcv Presidency two Generals (iarflehl and Arthur-there Rilirht be at least a shadow or force in the objection to llanox'k m account of his very Eromlnent BtnJ powcrrul position in the armyi ut the spli-ndld reoonl of the latter as a vol untary exemplar and defender or tne prin ciples which i ecojrnlise the duty of always holdin aer miiiiHry power tuuwniiuiiiB iu mo olvll HUthorltles, renders his candidacy wholly unobjectionable on that score, while in every other respect his nomination is entitled to the heartiest approval and praise. It is my candldoplnkm that the conitmr Administration or Hancock and Ktntlls is fortunately destined to usher In at lt tho srolden era of Amcrtoaa irood feclimr, wise and honest Government, and iretieral prosperity and happiness; an era which, when It shall arrive, we outfit to perpetuate lnviclste and unimpaired to the end ot time. , Only a few week ao, while on a visit to my mother, still HviitK at an wivanced & in North Oarollna, I saw much of the people or that State, and ats: of Kentucky, Tenness;e, Alabama, Qoonrln and South Carolina. For tho miM part, tney were, s wd2r, orderly and Indust rk us m the people or New Ilualand, or an) other pottion or our rcmil-llc: aye, ami nude as n-idy to yield inject obedience to all reanmWe and Jut laws. The attempt of the IJa.llcal iHtrtv M kwp ths wclMlssieil ami worthy people of the South forever debarred from tho emittdenoonf the Nation, is far worse than menly partisan and unpatriotic; it Is nrrow-mlnilednes inexcusable, cowardice completions, ami mennni-ss unutterable. A eiHitintianeeor the practice of the cardinal vlrtuw by the Southern people, as they are now practlelmr them, will, I Vbt not, wvon Vw well rewanlel be tho elevation to the Presidency awl Vle Presidency or the two Imiadheaded and lllKjral-hearied Homlaees ot th Cincinnati Convention. IHNTOXltOWAX UtSLrilK. St. Louis, July 1, im. Hancock will take care of tho bloody shirt aud English of tho money question. Fair notice is served on the Republican party that they will havo to conllno themselves in this campaign to tho pleasant occupation o whitewashing the stai&s on Garfield aad Arthur.

Flat, Stale an4 UnrHUM. Preaident Hoar of tits Chioaco Con-

venliou gave the keynote, In his opening addrNw, to the Committee on Kegolutions, and the members oi that committee pitched their tune in strict ac cordance therewith. The result hi that it ia exceedingly flat--as flat, if so startling a change iu metaphor be iiennisaiDie, as (lisiiwaier. J we oniy ining mat it does reasonably well or with any appearance of euthushfiin i tlie " jiointing with pritie;" and this has so long ceased to be regarded, even by the par ties who expect to atijiport platforms, as worth doing at all, that its being well done can hardly lie claimed M a striking success in the matter of plat form rm building. Kven iu this respect te platform k only constructed well hi . general way. 1 ho descent into dcth a tails ncutrali-sea wholly tlie sweeping claim that the Republican party has been covering itself with glory " a with a garment'1 for the past twenty years. vtien tne piauorm cans aiienuon, for instance, to the alleged fact that the party " has raised tho value of our pa per currency trom iinriy-oignt per cent, to tho par of gold," it invites' a kind of comment which is not at all calculated to swell the Republican bosom with pride. It suggests, in the lirst place, that it is to tho Republican party ami its abominable financiering the country was indebted for the debasement of its currency to thirty-eight per conk; and it suggests, still further, that but for the economy and retrenchment which tho Democratic party introduced, tho boasted appreciation would even now bo in the dim distance. It calls attention, moreover, to the grave doubt which still exists, in the minds of prudent men of all nnrtios, as to the permanency of the financial result so much exulted in. Eoually damaging, and moro nonsensical, is tho crediting of tho Republican party with the increased mileage of railroads and tho increased preponderance of exports over imports. Had the framcrs of tho platform " pointed with pride" in general terms and grandiloquent language to the startling growth and progress ot the country, and stopped at that point, they might have had some effect on the unthinking portion of the party or of tho people. But when they give a name t J the progress and prosperity and measure them in miles of railroad, the least thoughtful man in any party sees at a glance that tho party is boasting of that which it had no hand whatever in bringing about. Some few railroads have been built, perhaps, which but for the KeEublican party would not have been uiit. But it waa because the party gave away huge slices of the National domain as subsidies to tho builders; and so obnoxious haa this unwise generosity become that the party long since resolved not to continue it, and in this vorv nlatform expressly doclaros that 44 no further erant of the public domain should be made to any railway or other corporation." If, therefore, tho party is to be credited with the increase in railroad mileage it is because it has followed a nolicv so odious that the warty conventions havo been compelled to condemn and repudiate it. As for tho remarkable excess of exports over imports last rear which, the platiorm overstates, by tho way, to the extent of the Republican party is no moro respon sible than it is for the immense crops, and .1 I t.l - 1.S..1. I.. . iiiu iavorauiu seasons niuui iuruu me I crops possible. It was injudicious, moreover, for the tjommiiteo on iteso Unions to refer to the commerce of the country. In dome so thev remind tho 1 Ptiblie that lioth the imports which they i bchttlo and the exports they magnify were carried across the sea in vessels of foreign build, because the policy of tho party has wiped the American ship come the owner of forciirn-built ships To tho rest of tho platform there is no force whatever, hven m tne enun ciation of the nartv doctrine of central ization it is as feeble as it well could be, though it indicates unmistakably that the party will when it can give tho Federal Government control both of the schools and the churches. It is still more feeble, if possible, in tho treatment of the Chinese question. The plank on that noint contains iust enough to irri WlC Hie J-asiern uepuuiicaua, wnuw ji m . B A ' f A . . it -r. . , 1.1! .... M - ! - .. , .... 4i plo of the Paci lie Aopo. a j..i.a.uu-i iJ"" " mlUMwIiiok fnmed tho plmfomi nd ' ?Mmir r S than a coniosi in wnicu pnuunims wm in at Saann TliBtr will tinil t hninsfllVAS verv much in error, however, when the contest actually basins. From this time to the socpnd of November they will be kept so busy defending the past of their nartv that they will have no onnortunitv to point with pride. Thoir feoble nlatform will bo found utterly in sufficient to furnish the party standing room much less lighting room. Del rot Free irm. If "Credit Mobilier" crashed Schuyler Colfax, why not Garfield? Colfax was more sensitive, and shrunk awav from its crushlnr effects. Garlield, with more brass in his make-up, .lwwV-il It. tlirmurh. ThaRadical nartv consigned the one to obscurity while it names the other for the Presidency. Indiana Sentinel. - There is to lie nothing defensive In the Democratic campaien, The nomination of Hancook settles that Ho has no record to explain, excuse or apologize for. That sort oc worjc wm be left foc Df Golysr GariekU

ruunoiL roixw. Garnekl opposed the anti-ChiaW bill ia the Forty-ttfth Congreaa; bat he may be able to aecept the aatl-Ckiaeee plank ia the Republican platform. It , w not very severe ia iu auti-Cklaeee-II (MM f No stain on his record as a soldier, no reproach agalaet his character as a citizen, Hancock its as completely the antithesis of (Jarfleld a hoaeety w of ilhihoneety. We want the agreeable variety of a President with pure haade. Exchange. Colfax and Garfield were in the Credit Mobilior dicker to preeUelv the aame extent. The people of Indiana

have not lieen very clamorous for the vindication" of the former oakea Ames' terrible exposures, aro the 14M)ple of mo country han srnoe Nor ieonle of tho country hankerinr to do for Garfield what ho has not been. able to do for himself. Exchange. The cool way the third-termers drop into line and undergo reconstruction reminds one of the old salt who waa boasting his infallible knowledge as navigator. M I know every rock, suae and obstruction in these waters," and just then, with a thud, the vessel struck, "and that," he iniperturbably added, 4 is the very worst of them." St. Louts Time. The chargos made against Gen eral Hancock thus far are decidedly damaging. Item, ho is a gentleman; item, a graduate of West Point; item, an Episcopalian; item, a corset-wearer; item, he was engaged in an expensive Indian war; item, Mrs. Surratt waa hunsr. These thines are enough to make an American citizen forswear the land of his birth. Chicago ZYiwes. Conklinsrhas ventured the pre diction of a Republican majority of 60,000 over a united Democracy in New York next fall. Two weeks ago Roscoe might havo found a few countrymen credulous enough to believe such a statement; but his prestige as a prophet has been so demoralized that his predictions will henceforth be judged by. the rule of contraries. Boston rort. Tho Now York Herald tells General Garfield that "if he has noth ing to confess or explain, if tho whole Credit Mobilior story and whole De Golyer story are " malicious fabrications," he should begin proceeding against tho New York Sun, and we supposo other papers that have quoted tho records against him, for liboL The suggestion is a good one. If injustice' lias been done the ltepuoucan canuidate, tho courts would doubtless protect and vindicate him. ' General Garfield, it appears, ia too judicial-minded to be a bitter partisan." This is an improvement on his condition in 1876, when he was a visiting statesman in Louisiana, and pretended to believe the terrible tales ot Eliza Pinkston and Madison Walls.. Also upon his condition in 1877, when he was a member of the Electoral Com mission, and decided that the truth waa admissible in Oregon, but aliunde in Florida. 2V. Y. World. Mr. Blaine's nomination for Pres ident was twice defeated by the prevailing belief that his hands were not quite clean. A candidate whose private character is not above suspicion is a heavy load.for a party to carry in a close canvass. II the tacts in mt. uarnom s record and the opinions of Republicans in 1873 about his connection with the Credit Mobilier bribery had been as well known to the country threo weeks ago as they are to-day, he could not have been nominated. Tho number ot Republicans everywhere who are asking themselves whether Mr. Garfield is a lit man to receive me votes oi uonosv men for President is very large. N. Y. Sun. Wo have "got" you on that ticket, Republicans. You never sought statessoldier: vou nut Haves in one term be cause he was a Union soldier; you nomi nated Garliold because he was a union soldier. We now give the country a Union soldier, the superior of all these mon. We now give the country a Union soldier whoso orders and letters during an important period of our history show him to be also a statesman. You can not match him. x ou have not matched him. Go back to your old moldy drivel about rebels" and "loyalty", and you will make your doioat oniv more over1. -.1 ! fTM. 1 TT,,W..1 WllUimtnZ'. Alio lieuiuo ui mu uuirau of the Union? will show you that they will not put up w It i bilious Republican J lXZtiM ism. That nartv is the party of dis- - , . wi.ioir fails In reeoimlze all mc I union wmv." io iu .... tions of our country as equally American, equally true to the Constitution anil tne laws. jjvuurvme wmrwrwmp nal. As arclueoloeicai discovery of sin gular interest has boon made at San deli erred, Norway, where a whole ship of the Viking times has been found imbedded iu a sandhill. It is supposed to be a relic of the eighth or ninth eenturv. When the last report was made over seventy feet of the vessel had been unearthed, together wiin numerous tools of a thousand years ago, such as spades, shields and many marine imple ments, it seems aiso mat ine veeei has seen service at sea. It is supposed to give a complete idea of the Viking; era, although us age is almost as nsys- . .... kt. ...... r.. ...i.st. it tenons a mo niauiiBi. in nniun k mi to be buried in a sandhill. It will be placed in the museums of the University at Christiana, The subject is suf ficiently interesting to warrant this unsatisfactory, because iacoMpieU, a) ncmneeweat.