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Hayes — a 1 ! Rep F 10 , 6 6 3 6 3 ] ’S ] . t° ■j- 4 11 2J i 21 . s n L ii ii 11 . ii 5 12 8 5 1 ii "2 7 8 7 1 $ 13 13 — 11 5 8 1 V- L_ 15 3 *3 15 3 3 — - 5 9 5 1 35 -- 35 "/< 10 22 3 22 3 10 29 29 4 4 " 7 12 7 ii 8 5 11 1 8 ii - / 5 10 10 5 < 369 185. 184 7 s, //-•DUE CANDIDATES. aaHtiiteia stoat uaucotfe. WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania February 14, 1824, and is, thereforej 56 years of age. His mother’s father was a revolutionary soldier, and was captured at sea and was confined in the Dartmoor prison, England. His great grandfather on his mother’s side and was captured at sea and was prison, England. His great grandly was also a soldier under Washington, and rendered good ser- vice, dying at the close of the revolution from exposure and hardships endured in the field. Hancock’s father served in the War of 1812, and afterwards become a lawyer of distinction in Montgomery county, Pa. At the age of sixteen Hancock was sent to West Point, and had for classmates U. S. Grant, George B. McClellan, J. F. Reynolds, J. L. Reno, Burnside, Franklin and W. F. Smith. He graduated in 1844, June 30, and in 1845-46 served with -his regiment in the Indian Territory, as a Second lieutenant of the Sixth Infantry. In 1847 we find him in Mexico, and conspicuous for gallantry at the Natural Bridge, San Antonio, Contreras, Cherubusco, Molino dee Rey and the capture of the City of Mexico. In 1849 and 1850 he served with his regiment as quartermaster and adjutant, and in the fall of 1850 was married, at St. Louis, to Miss Almira Russell, the daughter of a prominent merchant of that city. He took part in the several Indian campaigns in the West, and in 1857 was engaged in the Southern Florida war. He served in the expedi- tion against Utah, and in 1859 went to California. When he heard of the rebellion he took high ground in favor of the Union, and did much in 1861 to check the secession, spirit then seizing upon California, He applied to Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, for a commission in the volunteers, but the Governor being slow in replying to his application, he obtained a leave of absence and came East. His earnestness impressed Gen. Scott, who ordered him to report to Gen. McClellan, and on the formal recommendation of McClellan, President Lincoln, *on the 23d of September, 1861, commissioned Hancock a briga- dier general of volunteers. He was assigned to a brigade in the division of Gen. “ Baldy ” Smith, and reported for duty at Chain Bridge, Virginia, in the Army of the Potomac.38 SINCE THE WAR. f Gen. Hancock’s career since the war is so well known that it i needs hut little mention here. For his services during the war ' he was appointed a brigadier and afterwards a major-general in the regular army and assigned to the command of the middle department. In 1866 he took command of the department of Missouri, and conducted two campaigns against hostile In-<* dians, taking the field in person at the head of 1,500 men of all arms. In 1867 he was sent by the President to New Orleans to com- mand the States of Texas and Louisiana It was in this field of labor that he distinguished himself by setting the example of an officer of the army with extraordinary powers strenuously insisting upon the entire subordination of military to civil authority in time of peace. Among the military com- manders during the reconstruction period he was conspicuous in this regard, and the positions then laid down in his general orders and correspondence did more than anything else to make him the ideal soldier in the minds of constitutional Democrats. In 1868 he was relieved at his own request, and in 1869, ’70, ’71 and 73 commanded the department of Dakota. Since then he has commanded the military division of the Atlantic, composed of the department of the lakes, the department of Washington, With headquarters at Governor’s Island, New York city. HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE. Hancock, in personal appearance, is tall, well-formed, and very handsome. His height can not be less than six feet two, inches, and he weighs fully 340 pounds. He will make thtr finest looking President who ever set in the White House, ex- cept, possibly, George Washington. His form towers above other men, ana he attracts attention by his mere looks where- ever he goes. His eyes are blue, and have a benignant and mild expression when in repose, but inspiring when m danger His manner is dignified and knightly, and he is courtesy istelf. He is always magnetic and draws men to him by his kindness and general interest in their affairs. His sympathies are easily aroused, and he becomes intensely concerned for the sorrows ana misfortunes of others, striving in every way to relieve them, as though their troubles were his own. Hancock’s kindness to his subordinates always won not only their love but also their con- fidence, and caused them to rely on him as a friend as well as a commander. He gave them a good opinion of themselves, and made each one feel he was of more importance than he ever before suspected. It was this which caused him to have such power over his officers and men in battle, and made them prefer rather to die than forfeit the good opinion of their leader. Gen, Hancock has had two childfen—Russell Hancock and Ada Elizabeth Hancock. The latter died in New York, of ty- phoid fever, when 18 years of age. She was a young lady of great promise. Russell Hancock, the General’s only son, is living, and is a planter in Mississippi. p *William IF. English. WILLIAM H, ENGLISH, of Indiana, Democratic candidate for Vice-President, is fifty-seven years old. He was educated to tlie law, and lias practiced in the United States Supreme Court, He has been Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, a member of Congress for four consecutive terms, and has de- clined many offices offered him by a arious Presidents, After leaving Congress he went into banking, but in 1877 retired from business, and, although a man of wealth, he does not own a dollar’s worth of stock in any corporation. OPPOSED TO SLAVERY. In 1851, in Congress, Mr. English vas conspicuous for his opposition to the extension of slavery into the territories. In one of his speeches in Congress he said* ‘T am a native of a free state, and have no love for the in- stitution of slavery Aside from the moral question, involved I regard it as an injury to the state where it exists, and, if it were proposed to introduce it where I reside, would resist it to the last extremity.” On another occasion he said: “We do not like L is institution of slavery, either in its moral, social or political bearings, but consider that it is a mat- ter which like all other domestic affairs, each community ought to.be allowed to decide for itself.” ANTI-KN O W N 0TH1N G. During his second congressional term, Know nothin gism was rampant. Mr. English was an able, fearless and persistent op- ponent of the heresy^and in him the opposition to proscription, found a powerful and trusty leader. FIGHTING SECESSION. The movement of the South toward secession was ardently lought by Mr English. “The great Democratic party,” he said, that has so long and so justly boasted of its nationality, must not degenerate into a mere Southern sectional party, or a party that tolerates the sentiment of disunion; if it does its days.are numbered and its mission ended.” FINANCIAL POSITION. Mr. English’s posh ion on national finance is sufficiently set forth in an interview which he gave while he was President of the Indianapolis Bank. He said: “I want our money to rank with the same standard recog- nized by all the great commeicial nations of the world, I want no depreciated or unredeemable paper forced upon our people. I want the laboring man when pay-day comes to be paid in real dollars that will purchase just as much of the necessaries of life as the dollars paid to bond-holders or office-holders, and with as great purchasing power as the best money in the best mar- kets of the world. Honesty, in my judgment is the best policy, in finance and politics, as well as in morals generally, and, it politicians would take half as much trouble to instruct and en- lighten the masses as they do to take advantage of their sup- posed prejudices, it would be far better.”TIE HE OF IS. SWT. A Futile attempt to Make General Han- cock Responsible for it. Since the nomination of General Hancock at Cincinnati, some of the Republican papers, led by the New York Tribune, have been engaged in an attempt to complicate General Hancock in the mnrder of Mrs. Surratt in 1865. A brief and simple state- ment of the facts in the case is all that is necessary to com- pletely foil this attempt.g IHere it is: Mary E. Surratt was accused of complicity in the plot to as- sassinate President Lincoln. T at the woman was wholly in- nocent of the charge has since been fully proven. The first Step in the governmental action was taken by President Johnson in procuring from James Speed, the then Republican Attorney- General, an opinion that formed the basis of the action which fol- lowed. The President opened his firs: order as Commander-in- Chief with the following: “Whereas, The Attorney-General of the United States has given his opinion that the persons * * * are subject to the jurisdiction of and legally triable before a Military Com- mission, it is ordered that such a Commission be appointed to try them.” This Commission, as thus appointed, consisted of Gen. David Hunter, Gen. Lew Wallace, Gen. A. Y, Kautz, Gen. A. P. Howe, Gen, R. S Foster, Gen. J. A. Eikin, Gen. T. M. Harris, Col. C. H. Tompkins and Col. D. R. Glendenin. It was, - packed to convict. The prosecution was conducted by Judge Ad-42 gress from Ohio, W. E. Doster of Pennsylvania, F. A. Aikin of District of Columbia, W. S. Cox, John W. Clampit and F. Stone of Maryland. The Commission which was in session from May 13 to June 29, condemned the accused and sentenced Mrs, Surratt to death. On the 5th of July the Republican President* as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the United States,issued an order through the War Department directing Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock, the commander of the military divi- sion in which Washington was situated, to execute his order directing the sentences of the Military Commission to be carried out. This is the first point at which Gen. Hancock appears S had nothing whatever to do with the Milita the case. He had nothing Military Commission or its findings and sentences, and, as a soldier, no option but to obey the orders of the Republican Commander-in- Chief, under the supervision of the Secretary of War. Last November, when Gen. Hancock’s name was promi- nently spoken of as a candidate for the Presidency, the Indian- apolis Journal, the leading Republican paper of Indiana, coined and set afloat the story that “j|ie absolutely refused to let Mrs. Surratt see a clergyman of her church (Catholic) after she was sentenced.” Thereupon, Father Walter, who attended Mrs. Surratt In her last days, published to the world the following: Truth and justice compel me to deny the statement with ref- erence to Gen. Hancock’s participation in the execution of Mrs. Surratt, which appeared in the Washington Post this morning. I attended Mrs. Surratt on that occasion, and met with no in- terference on the part of General Hancock General Hancocks had great sympathy for this unfortunate lady, and waited until the last moment, hoping for a reprieve. I consider it an act of justice to General Hancock that this statement should be made. (Signed), J. A. WALTER, Pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, Washington. The feeling of General Hancock in regard to the execution may be gathered from the following statement of Judge Clam- pit, the only surviving attorney for Mrs. Surratt. Speaking of the day of the execution, Judge Clampit says: “We had hopes to the last of a reprieve and a pardon for her, and I waited at the arsenal hoping against Impe. Gen. Hancock rode down and approaching him I asked, ‘Are there any hopes?” He shook his head slowly and mournfully, and with a sort ©f gasping catch in his speech, said: "“I am afraid not; there is not.” He then dismounted and gave some orders to orderlies and walked about for a moment or two. Returning, he said to me: “I have been in many a battle and seen death, and mixed with it disaster and victory. I have been in a living hell of fire and grape shot, and so help me God, I’d sooner be there ten48 thousand times over than to give the order this day for the exe- cution of that poor woman. But I’m a soldier, sworn to obey, and obey I must.” This, it will be seen, disposes most effectually of the respon- sibility of Gen. Hancock for the hanging of this unfortunate woman. GENERAL HANCOCK AND THE CATHOLICS. From the Catholic Review: The nomination of General Win- field Scott Hancock for the Presidency, by the Democratic Na- tional Convention at Cincinnati, has apparently given satisfac- tion to every one, even to the Republicans; though in their case the satisfaction is somewhat marked by the reflection that “he is a hard man to beat.” We, who are not politicians, rejoice that this is so; for we could deplore nothing more than the nom- ination of a man whose personal vices or weaknesses, or whose political crimes made him an easily defeated candidate. General Hancock has been for many years standing in the fierce light which beats upon possible Presidential candidates and the only thing that had ever been alleged against him was the fear that possibly he had incurred the hostility of the Cath- olic body by unnecessary cruelty to a Catholic prisoner, Mrs. Surratt, ana to her confessor, Father Walter. It must be noted that those who have been most violent in alleging this, are not Catholics, and care very little for Catholic feeling on the subject. In view of the distinct and emphatic testimony of Father Walter, of Washington, D. C., and of Bishop Keane of Rich- mond, Va., it is uuite manifest that General Hancock was not guilty of the cruelty alleged to have been shown to his unfortu- nate prisoner and her confessor. Judging from the platform and candidate, to those of the Republicans, Catholics are not likely to be deterred from voting for General Hancock by this fabrica- tion.Qamfimld and Amtmum, 1 MUD FLINGING. Our Republican friends just now are very sensitive on the subject of “mud flinging.” They charge the Democracy with inaugurating a campaign of vilification and traduction, for- getting that in the past and in all the campaigns for the last twenty years Democratic candidates have been reviled and slan- dered by the entire Republican press and Republican stumpers If to quote hcan commit- to an extent that has nauseated all decent people, the Republican records, the reports of the Republn campaign. nud flinging, CREDIT MOBILIER. [From Garfield’s sworn testimony before the Poland Committee, January 14, 1873.] I NEVER OWNED. RECEIVED, OR AGREED TO RECEIVE ANT STOCK. OF THE CREDIT MOBILIER OR OF TBE,lFNION PACIFIC RAIL- ROAD, NOR ANT DIVIDENDS OR PROFITS ARISING FROM EITHER OF THEM. [From Judge Poland’s report, February, 1873~Garfield’s Testi- mony Perjured.] The facts in regard to Mr. Garfield, as found by the commit- tee, are that he agreed with Mr. Ames to take ten shares of Credit Mobilier stock, but did not pay for the same. Mr. Ames received the eighty per cent, dividend in bonds and sold them for ninety-seven per cent., and also received the sixty per cent, cash dividend, which together with the price of the stock and interest left a balance of $329. This sum was paid over to Mr. Garfield by a check on the Sergeant-at-Arms, and Mr. Garfield then UNDERSTOOD THIS SUM WAS THE BALANCE OF DIVIDENDS AFTER PATING FOR THE STOCK.45 rfy^tJFiom the New York Times, Hep., Feb. 19,1878] . Messrs. Kelley and Garfield present a most distressing figure. Their participation in the Credit Mobilier affair is complicated by the most unfortunate contradictions of testimony. [From the New York Times, Rep., Feb. 20, 1873.] Thp-ch&racter of the Credit Mobilier was no secret. The "source of its profits was very well known at the time congress- / 4nen bought it. Though Oakes Ames may have succeeded in concealing his own motive, which was to bribe congressmen, their acceptance of stock was not on that account innocent. The dishonor of the act, as participation in an obvious fraud, still remains. Some of them have indulged in testimony with reference to the matter which has been contradicted. The committee dis- tinctly REJECTS THE TESTIMONY OP SEVERAL OP THE MEMBERS. This can only be done on the ground that it is untrue. But untrue testimony given under oath is morally ip not LEGALLY, PERJURY. It is the clear duty of Congress to visit with punishment all who took Credit Mobilier stock from Oakes Ames. [From the New York Tribune, Rep., Feb. 19,1873.] James A. Garfield had ten shares; never paid a dollar; re- ceived $329, which after the investigation began, he was anxious to have considered as a loan from Mr. Oakes Ames to himself. Well the wickedness of all of it is that these men betrayed the trust of the people, deceived their constituents and by evasions and falsehoods confessed the transaction to be disgraceful. [From the New York Tribune, Rep., Feb. 26, 1873.] Mr. Ames establisjjfesj^ery deary the point that he was not alone in this offense/*IJpHE is to be expelled por bribery, THE MEN WHO WERE BRIBED SHOULD GO WITH HIM. HALSTEAD ON GARFIELD. The Cincinnati Commercial, Rep., Murat Halstead’s paper, and then, as now, the leading Republican paper in Ohio, imme- diately after the presentation of the report of the Poland Com- mittee, to-wit: on the 31st of March, 1873, made a picture in a leading editorial under the heading, “The Inside works of the Credit Mobilier Swindle,” in which was shown the connection of Garfield with that infamous transaction. Speaking of Gar- field’s action when under the fire of the committee, the Com- mercial then said; “And Garfield’s noble soul was sadly perturbed He looked46 upon the scene with grave apprehensions and regarded this un seemly persecution of the righteous with such horror that his soul was sick within him. He came near making a fatal blunder once. After Ames had testified the second time as to the guilt of Garfield, fixing it upon him clearly and unmistakably, the General at once notified them that he would come before them and refute the vile slanders that the mendacious man from Massachusetts had poured out against him. The day and the hour came, but simultaneously came not Garfield. He had heard that Ames (who was then reluctantly producing the receipts that Patterson had signed), had in his possession other sucn doc- uments to prove the correctness of his testimony in respect to others, and the gallant General, whose flashing blade was wont to gleam adown the line, in the gory days of the past decade, found that to stay away was prudent, and he never appeared. The complacent committee forebore to question Ames further as to Garfield’s statement and his own, and the papers were consequently never produced.” TESTIMONIALS FOR ARTHUR. JR. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, January 31,1879.—“You have made the Custom House a centre of partisan political manage- ment.” JR. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, January 31, 1879.—“With a deep sense of my obligations under the Constitution, I regard it as my plain duty to suspend you in order that the office may be honestly administered.” John Sherman to Collector Arthur, January 31,1879.—“Gross abases of administration have continued and increased during incumbency.” Secretary Sherman to Collector Arthur, January 31, 1879.— “Persons have been regularly paid by you who have rendered little or no service; the expenses of your office have increased, while its receipts have diminished. Bribes, or gratuities in the shape of bribes, have been received by your subordinates in several branches of the Custom House, and you have in no case supported the effort to correct these abuses.” Will the gentle reader please bear it in mind that every said here about Mr. Garfield and Mr. Arthur is quoted froi highest Republican authority. . word rom theGEMS FROM THE LETTER OF A PATRIOT A JOT A STATESMAN. The bayonet is not a fit instrument for collecting the votes of freemen. We are in a state of profound peace. Henceforth let it be our purpose to cultivate sentiments of friend- ship and not of animosity among our fellow citizens. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend- ments to the Constitution of the United States, em- bodying the result of the war for the Union, are inviolable. No form of government, however carefully devised, no principles however sound, will protect the rights of the people, unless administration is faithful and efficient. J It is only by a full vote, free ballot, and fair count48 that the people can rule in fact, as required by the theory of our Government. Take this foundation away and the whole structure falls. Public office is a trust, not a bounty bestowed upon the holder; no incompetent or dishonest persons should ever be entrusted with it, or if appointed, they should be promptly ejected. If called to the Presidency, I should deeta it my duty to resist with all of my power any attempt to impair or evade the full force and effect of the Constitution, which, in every article, section and amendment, is the supreme law of the land. The war for the Union was successfully closed more than fifteen years ago. All classes of our peo- ple must share alike in the blessings of the Union, and are equally concerned in its perpetuity and Jn the proper administration of public affairs. W. S. HANCOCK