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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER. FRIDAY, A CGTJST 13, 1880.
Lancaster 1-ntclUgcncct.
FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 13, 1880.
Tennessee in Better Shape.
The Tennessee Democracy in conven
tion have ratified that part of the Na
tional Democratic platform, pledging the
party te the preservation of the credit
of the states and the nation. The party
in Tennessee could have done nothing
rise and preserve its position in line with
the National Democracy and in harmony
with Democratic ideas. The Tennessee
platform is very decided in its expression
of opinion en this matter, and it was
adopted by a very large majority of the
convention. Twe years age the party
was net wise enough te take its position
boldly en this issue, but for the sake of
harmony adopted a platform which signi
fied nothing and nominated a candidate
for governor who signified less. lie was
a judge en the bench at the time, and was
the author of the platform. Tiie two
together were adopted with about the
same unanimity with which they have
new beeu spewed out. The party has
found that it does net answer te purchase
harmony at the cost of principle, and
te hesitate te defend a vital doctrine. It
is a cowardice which has troubled our
party for many years and earned it many
a dishonorable defeat. Ne Democrat in
Tennesssee ought ever te have failed te
see that it would be as wise as it was
honest te protect the credit of the state
and ward from it the stigma of repudia
tion. New the iweple of the state seem
te be nearly unanimously of this opinion.
The Republican party has declared itself
in favor of meeting the demands of the
bend-holders of the state, and have nom
. hinted a'candidate for governor who has
a decided conviction of the propriety of
such a policy. The question is therefore
eliminated from the contest between the
two parlies ; although a third party will
lie in the field composed of the refuse of
the ether two w he object te the mainte
nance of the state credit. It is net likely
te be of much importance. The Repub
lican hope, however, is that it will take
enough votes from the Democratic
candidate for governor te elect
their man. The repudiation Democrats
showed themselves se weak in numbers
in the state convention, as te make this
result unlikely : and the strong preba
bility is that Tennessee, .though late te
move, will eventually make as creditable
a settlement of her debt as have Georgia
and ether sister states. The debt of Ten
nessee is comparatively small, being but
about twenty-five millions, and the slate
could easily shoulder the whole of it
without feeling it. The bondholders
have offered however te take, in new G
Iter cent, bends, sixty per cent, of the
face of their bends and of the interest
which has accrued for five or six years
past. The state has been disposed te
offer new bends for forty or fifty per
cent, of the debt at four per cent, inter
est : and the final adjustment will be
somewhere between these prepositions.
Ax intelligent gentleman visiting this
city from Texas gives us some idea of the
kind of government which the people of
the Seuth have suffered from in these
sections where the preponderance of the
colored vote placed in power the igner
ant negrees and rascally carpet-baggers
and scalawags. Our informant resides in
one of the three counties of Texas in
which the blacks largely outnumber the
whites and the Republicans have com
plete political control. In that county,
Marien, he says the local government
piled iipsuchau immense debt that county
bends have depreciated te about ten
cents en the dollar. This burden was
largely incurred by the building of a new
jail and court house, which for a corrupt
consideration were se disadvantageous-
ly located, by private influences, that a
new set of public buildings had te be
built, se that the county has two court
houses and two jails, and either of the
latter is se badly constructed that, our
informant tells us, while en the grand
inquest lately, he demonstrated that he
could pick his way into them or out of
them with a barlew knife. He recently
saw the spectacle of a drunken judge en
the bench, asleep, while supposed te be
trying a case, and beside him were three
negre county commissioners, net one of
whom could read or write.
Tiik New Yerk Tribune admitted at
the close of the session of the Forty
fourth Congress that the Democratic
majority in the Heuse had effected a per
manent saving te the country in the an
nual appropriations of $30,000,000 ; and it
is an unquestioned fact that it was the
rigid governmental economies then en
forced and the blessings of Providence in
giving us geed crops and ether material
prosperity that permitted the resumption
of specie payments. The 'Tribune can,
however, no mere be expected te recall
and admit this fact than 7teyci-V Wukly
is likely te republish the picture of Gar
field, which appeared in its issue of March
13, 1873, with the following inscription
above it : " Disgraced in the eye of the
public for owning Credit Mebilicr stock,
which w:us in fact and intent a fraud
upon the government. Alse for deceit
and evasion. The high trust of legisla
tion misused. The people will net long
respect the laws if they lese respect for
the law-maker."
The railroad accident in New Jersey
was caused by the emission te obey the
rule which requires trains te stuy five
minutes behind one another. It is the
same protection that is offered by the
block system en the Pennsylvania rail
road, by which but one passenger train is
permitted at a time in a block of three
miles. The regulations are geed; the
difficulty is that they are net always car
ried out. In this case, it appears, that
the engineer closed up the space by virtue
of another direction which required him
te de se at this siding, se that both parts
of the excursion train might get en it
simultaneously, and thus net keep the
express train waiting. If the rules of a
railroad were indexible, accidents would
rarely occur; it is their exceptional vio
lation te meet emergencies which makes
the trouble.
The Tennessee Demecracydid right te
squarely vote down and out of sight the
repudiation element in their party, and
they will lese nothing by the slight de
fection from them en this issue.
Any. honest and intelligent man who
takes the trouble te fairly investigate the
facts can see that the Seuth is solid for
that preservation of local self govern
ment which would have made any ether
community solid under the same circum
stances. It is net necessary te ascribe
any sinister reason for the unanimity of
the Seuth when we examine into the
condition of things which the Republi
can party imposed upon it in its abortive
efforts at reconstruction, Following the
close of the war the Seuth could have
been wen te the allegiance of any politi
cal organization that premised it mate,
rial prosperity for the future, and these
who were most interested in it held aloof
from politics for a season te see in what
direction their best interests lay. The
Republican policy of reconstruction
foisted upon them and upheld state
governments that were run . by
the worst class of men nourished
at the Seuth or imported from theNerth.
They plundered the people remorselessly
and imposed upon the commonwealths
without securing any compensation for
them a heritage of debt which will be
a tax for generations that have no benefit
from it. Thus North Carolina's debt,
which at the close of the war was some
eleven millions, was run up te $31,877,-
4G7.85by January 1,1872. Seuth Caro
lina was burdened with an increase dur
ing the same period of thirty-nine mil
lions, Georcia fifty millions, Flerida
fifteen millions, Louisiana forty millions,
and ether states proportionately. Nearly
all this represents waste and plunder. The
Seuth was bound te rise against the
speilsmen ; the North itself felt the ne
cessity of a revolution, and new for the
first time there is a chance for all sections
te heartily approve that policy of self
government in the states through which
alone prosperity can come te the whole
country.
Tin-: Republicans are much disappoint
ed at the results of the census which
fails te give them the congressional
gains they had se fondly expected. Tiie
immense gains in Democratic states like
Texas and Missouri, fairly offset the in
crease in Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota,
while the comparative losses of the Re
publicans in the New England states,
and the even balance of political parties
in the central states make it reasonably
certain that the new apportionment will
give neither party anydecided advantage
in the distribution of congressmen en the
whole. Consequently we hear reports of
" frauds" in the Southern returns, which
are te be made a pretext, no doubt, for
alterations in them for the benefit of the
Republican party. A Democratic con
gress will see that this is net permitted,
and that a fair showing is made of the
wonderful development in the great
southwest since the carpet-bagger's heel
was taken from the freeman's neck.
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PERSONAL.
Dr. T. DkWitt Talmagk tells the Salt
Lake Tribune that " guns alone can uproot
the vile weed Mormeuism."
General Hancock will visit Governer
McClcllax at his home en the Orange
Mountain en Monday evening eT next
week.
Fiianklix B. Gewex, ex-president, and
one of the receivers of the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad, has left Philadelphia
for rest and recreation. It was net ascer
tained as te the direction he had gene, hut
it is generally believed that he has sought
the White Mountains.
Current personal : "Mrs. IIaumkt Lam;
Jonxsex, who presided at the White
Heuse during the administration of her
uncle, Mr. Buchanan, is visiting the wife
of Augustus Schcll, at Newport. The
once famous leader of society, who retains
all her winning manners, will be given a
reception te-day."
B. K. Jamisen, the banker, camped out
recently in the vicinity of Easten, and,
being an admirer of the "superb" sol
dier, named his camp in honor of General
Hancock. A Sunday school picnic nenr
by learned of Mr. Jamisen's action and
paid him a visit, accompanied by a brass
band and cheering for Hancock and Eng
lish. Mrs. Lawuencu Bakuett, the actor,
has written a letter appealing te American
actors te assist in the defense of Edwin
Ferrest's will against the legal assaults
new being made by William B. Ferrest,
who sets himself up as the tragedian's heir
and seeks te divert te his own use property
in New Yerk which serves new te support
the Ferrest Heme for old actors at Holmcs Helmcs
burg. Workmen at the capitol have placed in
position in Statuary hall Vermont's second
contribution, a life-sized statue cf the late
Senater Collamer, who was a senator
from that state during the war of the re
bellion, and who died in 1865. The statue
is from the hands of the sculptor Powell,
it is life size, of white marble and stands
upon a pedestal of Vermont granite, and
is an excellent companion te the former
contribution, a statue of General Ethan
Allen.
At the Bentuick-Livinusten wedding
in Newport, R. I., yesterday, prominent in
the main hall was a gigantic cluster of
sunflowers, the bride's favorite blooms,
Palms and begonias towered en every side
wall baskets and hanging baskets of
flowers threw out odors ; roses and smilax
were grouped in the windows, and the fire
places were smothered in fenis and palms.
The bride and groom steed under a gar
land of roses. Among the bouquets was a
huge one that cost $100 presented te the
bride. The most brilliant of the presents
te the bride was a geld bracelet, scut by
by Prince Leepold. It nearly met around
the arm, and at each end was a ducal cor
onet and a monogram in blue enamel. On
the back of each bracelet blazed a dia
mond. The bride's present from her father
was a check for $10,000 and a receipted
bill for her bridal outfit.
The railroad officials at New Yerk de
cline te give any information respecting
the accident yesterday en the New Yerk
and New Jersey read, near Spring Valley,
where the cars fell ever an embankment.
As far as can be learned enlv a babe was
killed.
James McDonald was instantly killed,
Warren Pase's left lee was badlv crushed.
and Jehn Kctteridge was badlv braised
aueutthe head and body yesterday after
noon by the fall of a Ijrick archway, which
tliey were completing, under an extension
te the Clinten wire cloth company's build
ing, at Clinten, Mass.
FROM THE WEST.
TUc Outlook In Ohie and Indiana.
Special tO the ISTELLIGEXCBK.
IXDLVSAreus, Ind., Aug. 42. Te say
that the Democratic party in Indiana is
net united is simply preposterous. They
stand better te-day than for many years
past, and an unusual amount of enthusi
asm is being manifested all ever the state
te carry the elections in October and No
vember for the Democracy, with a larger
majority, if possible, than ever before. It
cannot be doubted. Letters are coming in
by the hundreds from every portion of the
state daily, announcing the enthusiastic
meetings being held and the large number
uf new recruits from the opposition ranks.
Counties that gave small majorities in pre
vious elections arc new rated in the thou
sands, and the indications arc that the
state will go Democratic at the governor's
election by a large majority. Negroes are
still being imported into the state for elec
tion purposes by the Republicans. They
are far better trained than they were in
the beginning of the exodus, but a quietus
will be put upon it. The Democracy have
a plau which, if carried out, will effectually
purge the state of a large number of
fraudulent votes en election day. A fea
turc of the Indiana campaign is the forma
tien of glee clubs in every county, the
songs for which are new being proposed by
Mr. English after an idea of his own. Of
forty towns in Ohie which your cerres
pendent has visited and talked with
leaders of all parties, he has learned that
if the Republican party carries Ohie it will
be the fault of the Democracy. Grant
men will net be reconciled, and many of
them will vote for Hancock. Sherman
men are doing nothing. Garfield's name
inspires no enthusiasm. Grccubackers are
waiting. Ohie is ours if we want it, aud
with proper aid from eutside sources we
eau have it. Indiana will make her re
cord. II. S.
MINOR TOPICS.
QiEr.n coincidence that the new "king"
and "queen" of the turf should be dis
covered en the same day.
for the crown.
Let them trot
Tiie scheme for educating Indian chit
drcn at Carlisle and Hampton has worked
well, and eighteen Chcycnncs and Arapa
hoc children are en route for these schools.
Ox motion of Secretary Patterson, of the
Mount Jey school beard, brother of our
great and geed Judge Patterson, Editor
Mcssunir el the Alt. Jey Slur has been
" disbarred " from attending and report
ing the proceedings of the Mount Jey
school boa id. It .seems te run in the
fuuily.
Dukine the year ending June 39th,
3,102 new pest-offices were established in
the United States, and 1,328 discontinued, a
much "larger increase than for any previous
year. Of the 42,989 offices new in opera
tieu, 1,701 were filled by presidential ap
peintments and 41,228 by tliose of the
postmaster general. During the past year
11,391 postmasters were appointed, te
cover vacancies caused by death, removals
or resignations.
Pei: had such wonderful power of ana
lysis that when Barnaby Rudgc began te
appear he outlined the story se accurately
from the hints in the first numbers that
Dickens wrote te inquire if his reviewer was
in league with the evil spirit. Such stories
as the "Geld Bug" were written with
such intense and painstaking effort that no
ordinary financial success was any sort of
compensation for them. His imagination
was always held in check by his analytic
faculty, se that he produced with "fasti
dious," and rarely te the satisfaction of
his exacting judgment.
Tin: Press tells us te-day that when the
presence of Jehn II. Harris, a colored era
ter became known at a colored picnic near
Chester, yesterday, "the feeling was ram
pant for revenge. He was knocked down
and beaten and quite severely injured by
the colored people upon his returning from
the grove. It is te be hoped that he will
net again appear here and thus antagonize
his colored brethren." Thus mildly docs
the Press deal with this "outrage." But
then Harris is a colored Democrat. Sup
pose that Harris had been "knocked down,
beaten and quite severely injured" at a
white picnic in the Seuth'.' Hew differ
ently the Press would have told the story !
Tanner Outdone.
Mrs. Emeline Winaus, a lady forty
three years of age, died a week age at her
home, Ne. 179 Newton street, Newark,
N. J., after having been absolutely with
out feed for forty-six days, according te
the testimony of her relatives aud her pas
tor, Rev. Geerge F. Dickinsen, of the
Trinity Methodist church. A reporter
yesterday called upon Mrs. A. E. Jenes,
sister of the deceased, iu whose house the
latter lived, and obtained the facts con
nected with Mrs. Wiuans' case. It ap
ycars that when a young wemau Mrs.
Winans was remarkably fiuc looking,
strong and healthy, of fair complexion,
with very light hair and large blue eyes
Nine years age she was alllicted with rheu
matism and became somewhat crippled.
One Sunday, several weeks age, Mrs.
Wiuaus thought te surprise her sister by
making the fire and getting breakfast. She
was taken with a fit and had te be placed
in bed at once. Frem that day until she
died she never tasted a particle of feed.
Once she asked for some pigeon, but
when it was prepared she could scarcely
taste the soup aud ate net an atom. She
was very thirsty and wanted water con
stantly, which was given her sparingly.
She wasted away te a skeleton. Almest
every hour, day and night she vomited.
She bore her suffering with fortitude and
was the most cheerful person in the house.
Murder Will Out.
A man, named Lark Edwards, has beeu
arrested in Somerset, Ohie, for the murder
of a man named Spurlock, in 1862. Ed
wards has been taken te Londen, Laurel
county, for trial. It is charged that he
recently told some one of the crime, stat
ing hew and where he killed Spurlock, and
hew he left the body lying, having straight
ened the legs and folded the arms, and
upon investigation it was discovered that
Spurlock was killed at the very time and
place, and the body found in the position
as described by .hdwards.
After his arrest Edwards denied the
killing, and says he was a member of Wol Wel
ford's cavalry, and was in jail at this place
when the killing was done. He admits,
however, that he intended te kill Spurlock
if he had net been killed by some one else.
He intimates that a man named Marien
Helt did the killing.
Edwards is about fifty years of age, and
during the war he was regarded as- a dan
gerous, bad man. His father has been a
deputy clerk of the county for a number
of years, and has a large family of grown
children. T
GRATITUDE IN POLITICS.
CONSIGNING tUCCTlONALISM TO 01I
UXIOH. Hancock's Klectlea tbe Pledge of Peace and
Preaaatll.
Frem Cel. Jehn W. Feraer Breech la Fall'
aaelpala Laat Xireaiag.
Fer ten years all ear statesmen and all
our soldiers bare, for one purpose or an
other, attempted te restore the Seuth te
full fellowship of the union, and until this
day little success has attended the experi
ment. Ne quick reconstruction of this
union was possible after se dislocating a
destruction. We could net attain peace
by ordinary legislation. We could net at
tain it under the policy of Andrew John John Jehn
eon. We could net attain it under the
carpet-bag governments. We could net
attain it under a mere Republican admin
istration. The panacea for abruisedcoun abruisedceun
try and a plundered Seuth ; yes, the pana
cea for an offending and misguided Seuth,
was that left by the best physician of all.
Abraham Lincoln. And new, following
his example really for the first time
the Democratic party has made that
tender te the Seuth and te the North
which must prove the only practical
method for perpetual peace and prosperity.
And the man who triumphed in war comes
te triumph in peace. The here or Gettys
burg brings the Seuth with him, net as his
prisoners, but as his friends. He lays down
at the footstool of the nation, jipen the al
tar of the constitution, the suffrages of the
whole Seuth the solid Seuth, if you
please andthey in their turn pledge
themselves te abide by the administration
of their conqueror, and, by the succeeding
covenants, te maintain the Union and pre
serve emancipation. New, fellow citizens,
what mere did we tight for ? Te held the
Seuth in the Union, te liberate the slaves,
te overthrew the doctrine of misrepresent
ed state rights, te solidify the govern
ment.
In 1858, when with thousands of ethers
afterwards I broke away from the Deme
cratic party, it was te accomplish these
four things, iwenty-twe years age the
party in whose ranks I was born, and te
whose efforts I gave the best years of my
life, would net listen 1 mean the leaders
new te the lessens which General Han
cock and General Grant and ethers forced,
net alone upon Northern consideration,
but upon the whole institutions of the
country. It is strange hew history re
peats itself! I left the old Democratic
hearthstone with sorrow and with fear.
and when I departed I felt hew much easier
it would have been for me te remain, if
only I could have secured my own censci
entieus consent. I realize again te-day
that no citizen can attach himself perma
nently te a party in any country without
consenting in a large degree te become
that party's slave. It demands signal
courage te assert yourself against the ma
jority. Patronage makes mere cowards
than the battle-held. Misrepresented me
tives keeps many a brave man in compan
ionship with ethers he despises. The
friendly phrase of the hour is that I have
come back te the Democratic party. Yes,
and Columbus like I have come back te
find a vast Democratic party captive te the
truth. I have returned with hundreds of
thousands of ethers, either these who de
parted with me for a little while, or these
who remained te await the vindication of
the cause which was victorious in the war.
Where, te-day, is the Democrat te be
found who questions the wisdom, or does
net admit the necessity of the preservation
of this union ? What Democratic statesman
or politician is ready te restore human
slavery? Ne man, even among the
extreme Southern men. is bold enough te
assert that allegiance te a state is stronger
than allegiance te the whole union. And
if these of the Seuth de this, if they freely
de it, shall net we of the North hail Gen
eral Hancock as a general deliver if he
brines the whole country together in the
same spirit ? The great mistake the Re
publican politicians of te-day are making
is precisely the blunder made by the
Democratic politicians a quarter of a cen
tury age. These politicians de net realize
hew rapidly the world grows. They
cannot understand that there is
no such thing as consistency in
evil. Ne man can live te-day without
changing for the better. JNe party can
exist without yielding te the eloquence of
the facts of science. Adaptability is the
magical logic of the times. Yeu might as
well try te restore the old night schools of
Philadelphia, and educate our young me
chanics there, and demolish your high
school and extinguish your tremendous
primaries, by which hundreds and theus
ands of peer boys and girls are trained te
science aud te scholarship, as te try te re
store the Democratic party of the day te
the position it held in 1860, and net only
the Democratic out tne .Republican party.
Beth have been elevated and evangelized,
and what is gospel te-day of the Seuth
would have been rejected as impiety and
punished with persecution if it had been
preached in 1850. All confess hew true it
is that the bitter waters of the war have
been every where followed by the sweet
fountains of peace. What writer, what
speaker, whether historian or clergyman,
North or Seuth, does net write and speak,
does net philesphize a different language
te-day from the threats and recriminations
preached and written during the het bleed
of the war ? Then mere politics poisoned
the whole atmosphere; politics in the
pulpit, politics in the parlor, politics in
the kitchen, politics in the clubs, politics
in society. Fashion quarantined its divini
ties ; unless, in the Seuth they made Jef Jef
fereon Davis a god, or in the North
accepted Charles Sumner as an idol. But
new hew changed ! Even Jeffersen Davis
reverts te his sincere philosophy before the
war, and Charles Sumner, like Abraham
Lincoln, dies, calling upon the Almighty
te help him in the geed work of spreading
peace and fraternity ever the nation !
The only men that remain obstinate and
unchanged are the Republican office-holders
and the Republican office-seekers.
They are unforgiving because they are
paid te be unforgiving. They reject peni
tence, although no mere qualified te judge
thau ether men, because if they accept
penitence they become penniless them
selves. I am told that in appealing te you
te-night, as I de from my soul, te treat
these people of the Seuth as if they were
your friends and neighbors, as they desire
you te treat them, and as they wish te
treat you in return, I am asked te place
the Government of the United States in
their hands! Well, gentlemen, you for
gave these men of the 8euth. Did you
mean or did you net mean te forgive them?
Yeu- quarrel with your neighbor ; you
pass him en the streets for years without
speaking te him. Yenr quarrel is accept
ed by your wife and your children. Yeu
revel in scandal of these you have long
levea. At last some geed Samaritan
comes along, some honest optimist, and
restores peace. By this reconciliation de
you make that neighbor your inferior? If
you attempted it he would kick you out of
his deer, xeu are glad te receive him in
your arms. Yeu are happier because you
hated him. Yeu are se proud and glad te
be restored te his favor, as be is te yours.
that you de net weaken the restoration of
geed feeling by the word forgiveness. Iu
fact, true benevolence makes the object
forgiven often the superior, precisely as
when the prodigal son came back he was
made a sort of household divinity because
his very sins glorified him te these who
forgave them.
Then if the Seuth are your equals, if yen
have made them your peers by your par
don, and they shld evtrete yem at the
polls, surely yea re net ready te enact
the farce of 1878, and te de' as the 'old
Whigs did in 1838, after the election of
Governer Perter by the Democratic party;
yen are net willing te treat the election of
1880 as if it had never taken place ? There'
must be an end of sectionalism in this
country, as there is an end of small-pox,
and te naturalize sectionalism is like in
corporating pestilence into your daily life.
Hew is sectionalism te be ended? The
Seuth well knows that we of the North
would net elect any candidate they might
proffer such a man as Jeffersen Davis, or
Alexander H. .Stevens, or Rebert E.
Lee, if he were living. Here they
are honestly sensible of the mis
take they made in the rebellion. And se,
when Louisiana joined hands with Ver
ment at Oincinuati, en the -iJu et June,
1880, and presented Winficld S. Hancock
as a peace-offering te the North, and as a
love-offering te the whole nation, Dough
erty, of Pennsylvania, glerilicd, aud Daniel,
of Virginia, accepted the pledge. What
better could they have done? They took
the union soldier, who only sevcutecu years
before, te speak of no ether fields en which
he fought, and te make no invidious com
parisens, overthrew them. One would
think such a concession would satisfy even
the patriot, Jehn Cessna, chairman of the
Republican state committee, who remained
se long in the Democratic party opposing
the sentiment which gave peace te the coun
try, and new stands out the fierce adversary
of Winfield S. Hancock, who conquered the
Confederates at Gettysburg in 1863. But
men like Mr. Cessna, new held the purse
strings of the nation and the municipali
ties, reject Hancock because he is a Demo
crat. Beil down everything that is said
against Hancock, and take up in detail
every accusation, and all that remains is :
He is a Democrat. I remember while I
was in Washington from 1858 te 1861, te
1865, this objection was net se fashionable
as it is new. When a Democrat came in
with a Pennsylvania regiment wc were as
glad te sec him as if he had brought a
mine of geld. When Stephen A. Doug
las, in April of 1861, met me en Penn
sylvania avenue, after I had declared
against the Democratic party, because of
its sympathy with the Seuth, m reply te
my question : " Where are you in this
fight ?" he said : " I am with you. There
is but one side te take, the side of the
country." I felt as if he had brought his
whele party into the great cause. And
when remembering the fact that every suc
cessful soldier, without exception, was
born in the Democratic party, and still re
tains that lingering love for the party
which all men retain for the home in which
theywere reared, is it strange that the
hearts of the masses wero Democrats, or
whether they were Republicans, are proud
that such a soldier should have been put
forward for president.
There arc some powerful considerations
in connection with this branch of the sub
ject. Think of it. 2,000,000 men fought
for the old flag between 1861 and 1865.
Twe million six hundred thousand ! I am
net standing here te-night, ghoul-like, te
grind cuvenemed teeth into the sacred
dust of these who died among these my
riads of soldiers. Te find out which was
a Democrat and which Republican ? Ne,
my friends. But at least I may say for
the dead, as I feel proud I may say for the
living, whatever politicians may say, both
the silent audience that have joined the
great majority and these waiting for their
turn te be called into the shadowy army
beyond the grave, that all would recoil
with horror and scorn from this attempt
te degrade aud dishonor a brave soldier
because he preferred te remain with the
party in which he was born.
Let me put a case te you. General
Hancock was almost fatally wounded en
the 3d of July, 18G3, just as the tide of
battle had been turned. 1 steed, a lew
days age, in the Emmcttsburg read, below
that terrible stene wall ever which the
fiery columns of Lengstrect and Pickett
were hurled iu the effectual effort te fight
through that hell of fire, and iron, and
lead, and smoke, poured into them from
the Union batteries, and I saw where
Hancock and his staff had passed just be
fore the unparalleled assault and repulse.
The whole picture grew into life before
me. Rethcrmcl has painted it en his can
vas, and you have seen it. I could almost
hear the shrieks of the weuuded, the shouts
of the living, the clash of arras, the
whistling bullets. I recalled the two days
previous, when my old Lancaster school
fellow, Jehn Fulton Reynolds, fell mei tal
ly wounded, and I thought, as I think new,
as peer Hancock was borne te the La
Pierre house in Philadelphia, and thence
te his father's home in Norristown, family
and frieuds wondering whether that grape
shot had net finished him, whether at that
moment if our pcople had thought of
politics, as the ring Republicans de te-day
if Hancock had been put forward for
any office in your gift, the fact that he had
been born a Democrat would have been
whispered by a single man between
the Delaware en the cast and the Ohie
River en the west, between Lake Erie en
the north and the Susquehanna en the
south. It would have required an extraor
dinary detective te find a man, woman or
child in Philadelphia who was net ready te
bless the very name of Hancock. Grati
tude is as Lord Chatham said when he
called confidence a plant of slew growth.
Gratitude is te my mind a plant of rapid
death in the party besom. And I think
that ether English satirist who said that
gratitude is a sense of favors te come,
better typifies the modern statesman
whose prerogative it is te forget these who
serve their country, and te forgive these
who plunder it.
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If the election for the presidency in No
vember next could be conducted without
the omnipresence of office, if the men paid
out of the public treasury te de the work
of the government were net a regular
pneterian guard, there would be no mere
chance of a decent vote for General Gar
field in November next than there would
for Mr. Weaver, the gentleman who has
been named as the Greenback candidate
for that high office. But as it is, this
official army, blind aud deaf te reason,
driven by men who receive almost
royal remuneration for doing nothing, is
an influence that would be entirely rest
less, if in this world of a republic
there were net ether agencies before
which the hired dependencies of the gov
ernment must quail and fall. The argu
ment I have attempted te address te you
te-night, my fellow-countrymen, would
fall upon cold years if I had only te ad
dress the adherents of power. But there
is another audience, an audience that earns
its own wages, an independent, inquiring,
fearless audience, made up of the skilled
labor of the United States. It is the happy
fact of the present time that while an im
mense amount of money is squandered in
what is called civil service, there arc mil
lions of men who cam their livelihood, net
only by mere physical labor, but by their
skill of band, by applying art te mechanics
by making industry a science, and by ele
vating what are called the trades of the day
te a higher plane, until the word artizan
dignifies and signifies a human product
without parallel.
It is among these millions that I find the
antidote te the disease of official interfer
ence in our elections and in the manage
ment of our parties. The substantial col
leges of the country, and in tl.eje, as I am
talking te you te-night, there are feuud
thousands of abler men discussing the great
issues we are new debating. De you think
the skilled workingmen of the United
States, free te think and fearless te act, in
the present struggle, sympathize with
the officeholders? De you think they
read the blighted record of 'James
A. Garfield and accept the party
cry that it is net a faithful picture of
his public life ? De yen think these men I
have read the thrilling history of Winficld
S. Hancock without enthusiasm, above all
can you conceive that they are cold and
unresponsive te the present condition of
the Southern people? I knew that many
of these remarkable workers in all the di
visions of labor, first accepted the Repub
lican creed as their best ideal ; that many
have gene te extreme measures in past
times ; that they were a solid wall made
around the administrations of Abraham
Lincoln and General Grant. I kuewwhat
a power they have been and still arc.
Hut I knew that no class of American citi
zens have improved mere than the high
class of workmen. Before the civil war,
these men were largely Democrats ; yet
when the war broke out the mass rushed te
the defense of the government. It is a fact
quite reconcilable with this theory that
most of the leading manufacturers of the
North were old-line Whigs. But when
the war broke out, master and men,
with very few exceptions, became
Republicans. New things have been
reversed, and the Democratic party
is receiving back the contributions it
made te the ceurtry twenty years age, and
the name of General Hancock, like that of
General Jacksen, comes te the mind aud
te the heart of every intelligent working
man in this country with a double charm.
Because Hancock means a higher and no
bler and purer evangelism than party, aud
because Hancock means comradeship, and
unity of hearts and hands, the visible and
the invisible relationship between states
and sections, the friendship that binds the
mechanic of Philadelphia te his friend in
New Orleans, te his friend iu San Fran Fran
ciseo, and te his friend in Bosten. Such
arc the magicians silently and rcsistlessly
working te the same common end.
ANNIHILATING TIM IT.
The Twe Fastest Alile Heats Ker Mmte.
Maud S. and St. J alien Kaeh Tret :i Mlle
In 2-11 The Fastest Mile Ever
Trotted or Paced.
At Rochester yesterday Driver wen the
unfinished 2:19 race ; Parama took the
2:30 purse in 2:21 and Darby beat Hope
ful in three heats out of live in the free-for-all
race. making 2:16$, though Hopeful
made 2:15$ in the first heat.
Then came the event of the day aud a
memorable one it proved in turf annals.
St. Julien and Maud S. were te trot iu
separate heats te beat 2:12;.
At the start the peels rather favored St.
Julien, from the fact that he was regarded
as mere likely te beat his record than
Maud S., while the betting that the time
would de bettered was even. St. Julien
trotted first. He came down te the wire
as steady as a rock, and went te the first
quarter in 33 seconds. On the backstretch
llickek seemed te nurse his horse a little,
and the half mile was reached 'in 1.07. a
second slower than the first quarter ; the
three-quarters in 1.11, at the same rate as
the first quarter, and the mile was made in
2.13i, being trotted without a skip. Al
though this was fast time it was net up te
anticipation, and better time was looked
for in the next attempt.
When en Maud S's first trial the first
quarter was reached in 32 seconds, there
was no longer any doubt but that the gal
lent mare was te reach for the purse en
this heat. Several watches were held in
the reporters' stand, aud the time agreed
exactly with the official record. Frem the
first quarter the marc trotted a magnificent
gait te the half mile, which was reached
in 1:05, and when the three
quarters was reached in 1:38 1- the
spectators began te grew excited, as it
was evident te every one that unprecedent
ed time was being made. Down the stretch
the marc fairly flew without slackening
her efforts a particle, and as she ncarcd
the stand one vast shout rent the air,
which was kept up until the wire was
reached, and the beard showed the magic
figures of 2:11J, The excitement at this
announcement was indescribable. Hals
were raised, ladies waved their handker
chiefs and Bair received a perfect ovation.
After the crowd had shouted themselves
hearso Maud S. was led te the stable. This
time is the fastest ever made by a trotter
or pacer, being half a second faster than
Sleepy Tem's pacing record 2:12.
Whcu Maud S. had been stabled the bell
rang for St. Julien te make another effort,
and the California horse was net long in
putting in an appearance. On the third
scoring llickek nodded for the word and
his horse appeared literally te fly. The
first quarter was reached in 31;, three
quarters of a second better than Maud
S. On the backstretch the pace
was terrific, and when the half-mile
was reached in 1:04 many believed
that MaudS.'stime was going te be beaten
The three-quarter was made in 1.3SJ, half
a second slower than Maud S, On turning
into the hemstrctch llickek seemed te
think that he was losing ground, and from
the turn te the wire the pace was geed.
By a singular coincidence the time made
was exactly the same ashy Maud S. 2.11--
The ovation given te St. Julien was equal
te that given Maud S. and the enthusiasm
was of the wildest character. Several of
the Vandcrbilt family were in the stand,
as was also Mr. Frank Ellis, of Philadel
phia. It was rumored that Vandcrbilt
premised Bair $5,000 if he succeeded in his
attempt, but no confirmation of this rumor
could be obtained.
cumuus suiciek
Of a St. Leuis Weman.
Mrs. Jesio Langelct, wife of a deputy
marshal in St. Leuis, has shot herself in
the head. She was found lying en the
fleer of her sleeping apartments, her face
turned upward and her form straightened.
Her right hand rested across her breast,
the ether hand dropped carelessly by her
side. A revolver which looked as if it had
fallen from the hand en the breast was ly
ing against the left rfrm. There was an
ugly bullet wound in the right temple,
from which the bleed had oozed out and
soaked into the carpet. She had been dead
some time.
A sadly interesting feature of the terri
ble discovery is that the young wife had
made the neatest and most careful prepar
ations for death. She had denned a new
night dress of spotless linen, with white
embroidery, bad encased her tiny feet in
the daintiest of buttoned kid shoes, and
done up her heavy, silken brown hair in a
large braided loop. Doubtless she knew
she would appear handsome in death, even
with the dark scar showing en her white
temple. Nothing mere is known of the
cause of the suicide ether than that Mrs.
Langelct was an intimate friend of Mary
Hendersen, the young girl who shot and
killed herself in East St. Leuis last week,
and read and spoke of that affair as if she
took a mere than ordinary interest in it.
She took her husband's pistol from the
bureau drawer en Sunday, and had a
neighbor te show her hew it worked. It
was with this weapon she shot herself.
Mr. and Mrs. Langelct lived happily and
the distracted husband cannot undcr
that there was any motive for the rash
act.
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Firemen's Tenrnaincnt.
In the Colorada state firemen's tournament
the Bates hose, of Denver, wen the belt
for hose trains, running 500 feet, for mak
ing the connection at the plug, for laying
200 feet of hose, breaking a coupling, at
taching a nozzle, and getting water in
thirty-live and a quarter seconds. In run
ning off tics for hook and ladder team,
Heek Ne. 2, of Denver, wen the belt, run
ning off 500 feet raising a twenty-five feet
ladder and putting a roan en top in twenty-five
and a half seconds, the best time en
record.
The straight-away race for hook and
ladder companies, a distance of 600 feet,
was wen by the same team in twenty-three
and three-quarter seconds.
The straight-away race for hose carriages
a distance of 700 feet, was wen by the
Alphincs. of Georgetown, in twenty-seven
and a half seconds.
LATEST NfiWS BY MAIL.
Baseball : At Cleveland Cleveland 8,
Worcester 3. At Buflale Trey 7, Buffalo
1. At Chicago Providence 6, Chicago 4.
In Trenten, N. J., the wife of Jehn H.
Sutterley hanged herself in her own
house, and when found was dead. The
cause of the act is unknown.
William Heiler's fur factory at Bush
wick, L. I., was burned yesterday morn
ing, furs valued at $50,000 being de
stroyed. Philip A. Maltz. jr.. ban been arrested
in Ashland county, Ohie, for bigamy, the
first of his two living wives being at Wil Wil
fiamspert. He deserted her and her bev
there and wedded another in Ohie.
The information from Maine indicates
that the Democrats arc hard at work with
geed prospects of siwccss and that the Re
publicans arc alarmed at the size and en
thusiasm of the Democratic meetings.
Afire at Sherlock's mills. New Yerk,
destroyed the steam mill belonging te
Rebert Sherlock, a store and twenty
dwellings. The less is severe. The insur
ance is about $10,000.
Annie Jacksen, a servant in the Carlcten
house, corner of Frankford and William
streets, New Yeik, fell out of an eight
story window of that house yestcrday
morning while asleep, a supposed, anil
was instantly killed.
The police raided, yesterday morning,
en the low dens of Baxter street, New
Yerk, aud captured ever forty wretched
men and women, all of whom were subse
quently sentenced te terms of imprison
ment en Blackwell's island.
At the soldiers' reunion in Columbus
yesterday there was a grand parade of vet
erans of the late war in the afternoon.
Each regiment organization, with its old
battle flag and ensigns, preceded by the
attending military companies and followed
by a great troop of cavaly. marched in a
precession whicn was ever three miles
long and 15,000 strong. Scvcnty-five
thousand siectaters were present. Mr.
Hayes and General Sherman were honored
with prolonged cheers.
Hcbcr Gaboen, Angus Mclsaae, Benja
min Burke. Duncan Campbell and Edw.
Cunningham were picked up at sea in a
dory, en the morning of the 6th hist., by a
Norwegian bark en a voyage from Spain te
St. Margaret's bay," The men belonged te
the schooner Laura Nelsen, of Gloucester,
and had been adrift thirty hours when
rescued and lauded at Sambro, N. S.
American consul Jacksen has takcu them
in charge, and will forward them te Bos Bes Bos
eon. 8TATK ITEMS.
AValter Hawk, a miner, was instantly
killed yesterday afternoon by falling down
a new shaft at Forty Fert, near Wilkes
barre, a distance of seventy feet.
J. 31. Gifferd, editor of the first and only
daily paper in Clarien county, died
at Edcnburg a day or two ajje. He
printed the Edeuhurg7A'ivfMfortwe
years.
Geerge Cexell, son of 3Irs. Louisa Cox
ell, of Reading, was killed by a switch en
gine at St. Leuis en Wednesday afternoon.
He was for a number of years a conductor
en the Wilmington and Northern railroad,
and about four years age left Reading for
the West.
Fred. S. Swartz, a postal route agent en
the Reading railroad lwtwccn Philadel
phia and Pottsville, was arrested yesterday
by Inspectors Camp and Barrett for rob
bing the mail. Marked money mailed in
letters ycsterd-iy was found en his person,
although thcre was no trace of the letters.
Swartz was held in $2,000 bail.
Michael Grattau, -10 years old, residing
at Fifteenth and Stiles streets. Philadel
phia, who was at work upon the demoli
tion of Enochs' Varieties, en Seventh
street, near Arch, yesterday morning, fell
te the ground aud was crushed under part
of the wall. He died at the Pennsylvania
hospital shortly after.
Hall Lane, a foreman, and Bartholemew
Feley, a driver, for the Knickerbocker ice
company, had a dispute en Wilsen street,
Philadelphia, Lane declaring that Feley
was tee slew about serving his route,
Feley called him a liar and they fought.
Lane seized an ice axe aud struck Feley
ever the left eye, fraturiug the frontal
bone.
The third annual clam-bake of the Fat
3Icn's club of Pike county is te be held
at 3Iilferd en the 26th instant. Governer
Ileyt, of Pennsylvania ; Hen. S. S. Cox,
Hen. Rebert Kletz, member of Congress
from the Eleventh district ; Hen. Allen
Craig and ether notables have lccn invited
The gathering will doubtless be one of
the largest ever held in Pike county.
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SKVr.NTV KILLED ANI INUKKIF.
The Accident te the Kxcurstien Train en the
West Jersey Kaitreud.
The collision en the Atlantic City branch
of the West Jersey railroad at 3Iay's land
ing en Wednesday evening, has proved te
be of a far mere serious nature than was at
first supposed. Sixteen deaths had taken
place up te midnight last night, while fifty
three persons arc suffering fiem inju
ries, the lives of at least half a dozen of
these being despaired of. Twe young girls
who participated iu the excursion have net
been seen since the collision. The follow fellow follew
pcrsons arc reported dead since yesterday
afternoon's telegraphic report : 31'Gevern,
aged twelve years; Rese 3Iurphy and
Kate Sluiphy, sisters, aged eighteen and
twenty respectively, and 3Iary Gallagher,
aged twenty-two. Sarah Wright, aged
sixteen, died at her residence in Camden
in the afternoon, and last night the death
of her mother, Elizabeth, occurred.
Harry Bender and 3Iary Green died in
Philadelphia; 3Irs. 3IcCrystal died at
3Iay's Landing, and 3Ii.ss Lillic Grace will
net recover. Engineer Edward Aiken and
Conductor Charles Heaglad, of the
colliding train, were put under arrest by
the coroner and held in $1,000 bail each
pending the result of the inquest.
" KOSY."
;nrlic!r Old Ceniuiuiuler.
Gen. W. S. Jlesccraus has written a let
ter te the Democratic national committee,
from San Francisce, under date of July
2S, 1880, in which he says :
" We organized a Hancock legion seme
two weeks age. I think we shall erganize
at least five thousand strong in the city and
probably ten thousand in the state. The
nominations please the Workingmen, who
are uniting with the Democrats, and in
fact it appears mere like a popular uprising
than anything known en this coast. Wc
arc desirous et perpetuating its effects by
getting the lcst brain and energies of the
country se enlisted that wc .shall create a
new Democracy."
General Re.-ecrans encloses in his letter
a circular which has been distributed
throughout the state calling upon all sol
diers, without regard te party, creed.
color or race, te unite for the purpese of
procuring the election of Hancock and
English.
At the Nutlennl Capital.
The Democratic ratification meeting in
Washington city en the 26th will be one of
the finest demonstrations ever made. A
platform is te be erected capable of hold
ing 500 people and te be profusely decorat
ed. 3Ir. W. W. Corcoran will preside
ever the meeting, and among the speakers
expected are Senater Bayard, Speaker
Randall, S. S. Cox, Senater Vance, Lieut.
Governer Dersheimcr and Jehn Kelly.
About fifty delegations will attend from
the surrounding country. Daniel Dough- ,
crty has premised te speak, and Dorsheim Dersheim
er is expected te reply te Snhurz's Indian
apelis speech. ;
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