The Ouachita Telegraph

GEN. HANCOCK'S CHANCES.
[Daily City Item.]

Who shall our standard bearer be for the great presidential campaign of 1880, is a question which is often asked and variously answered. Tilden has been dropped from the roll as no longer available. Bayard has attempted to boom, but his financial views are not broad enough to suit the great West and South. Thurman and Hendricks are good men, but it is uncertain whether either of them can secure the nomination. Who then, in view of the probability that Gen. Grant will be the Republican candidate, should the Democratic standard bearer be? In answer we have no hesitation in repeating the assertion we made months ago, that Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock should be the man. In his favor it has been noticed as a significant fact that he is the second choice of even the Democrats who favor other candidates, while he is the first choice of all those who see the necessity of opposing a war Republican by a war Democrat.

As is well observed by the Washington correspondence of the Montgomery Advertiser and Mail: "Gen. Hancock, whose splendid valor was displayed on so many of its fields, to whom the greatest honor of Gettysburg is due, who shared the dangers and the wounds which were the common soldier's lot, and which some of their generals did not share, is peculiarly the representative of that army which did the heaviest fighting of the war. Gen. Hancock would get thousands of votes in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where the old soldiers of the Army of the Potomac are thick, which no other Democrat could get. But in addition to his grand record as a soldier, he is the solitary officer of the regular army who has made himself illustrious by displaying in the line of his duty a profound knowledge of the principles of civil liberty and of constitutional law."

The Washington Sunday Herald of the 4th inst. came out with a most elaborate and emphatic endorsement of Gen. Hancock as the only man who can give to the Democratic party a strong assurance of success. It says, the candidate must come from the North, or the contest will be hopeless. And in this sense North does not mean Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland or Delaware; it means north of the States which were slaveholding States when the abolition agitation began. Letters from Pennsylvania say: "We can carry this State with Hancock, but with no one else; give us Hancock and I shall go into the campaign with confidence."

The Cincinnati Enquirer's Essay on Man is in one canto, as follows:

Man's a vapor,
Full of woes:
Starts a paper,
Up he goes.