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Show A FEKLER FOB HENDRICKS. Tim Democratic Stale Our ml Cum-oiittec Cum-oiittec of I ndiuDik met at Jnli;itiajjulii yctteniiiy and noutioattd lli.n. Thomas A. Uuiidricks lor the I'lCsidoucy. and r.;holved t hat thoy would Jo tln-tr utmost ut-most to htcuie hw notuiiiaii'jii by the Dcuiociatio Cuuvciitiuii, mid his election. elec-tion. Senator UiMtdi'icL.i Itui (tn liuii.iraLiie rocord, i.i undoubtedly a pure Stares-mini Stares-mini and would prol al t unity the jiarty, and -oiljly sl-luic tlio flection, flec-tion, iT nominated. V l.clii Vo he would liiak-s a Rood .'resident and that thu ruat we.tt would ri.-u to hi .nip-port .nip-port as one man. Ili.i position is understood un-derstood on all aide. He L- u pro-nouneoil pro-nouneoil free-1 radar, und does nut enn-.tider enn-.tider it aa 14 binding duty upuii the present generation to pay oil' cory dollar of our cuoruiourt national debt. Mo oe.-i for a reduction of all taxation, and bcliuvc-d that if our puhlio debt U not materially lessened ut thu und of tho present cntury, uobody will be t particularly hurt thereby. . The itrcat State of Pennsylvania wiil hu ticceii.tary to the Democratic party in ordrr to carry the next Prc-ide ntial election. The Republicans may win without it, the Democrats cannot. It ia flufo to a.sscrt that no pronounced free-trado candidato can carry that State for many years to come. No issue in oatioual politic! can over-ihadow over-ihadow the local ona of tariff or do tariff to tbo Taut iron and otbor manufacturing manu-facturing intcroais of the Keystone State. Personal interest would overshadow all other considerations. To nominate a positive and unquestionable unques-tionable free trader then, would be to lose tbo great State of Pennsylvania. The Democratic party is not likely to neglect this important fact The issues of the past are rapidly being sunk to a depth which plummet never sounded. The "Now Departure" simply meana that dead issues shall be slouched off; that the actual and the established shall bo accepted as liviug realities, and that the battle shall now bo waged against absolute, and not imaginary defenses. It means sucoess, and that no plan of campaign, organized or icd by any pio-Adamito formation, can be foisted upon the party. If Governor Seymour were again placed in nomination, nomina-tion, by any subterfuge, however adroit, bo could not stand beforo the country as a candidate foraniuglo week. The torrent of publio Bentimont would sweep him beforo it with resistless power. A now convention would be called in thirty dayn, and a new man would bo selected. The result might bo a loss of the election; but it is not impossible that the very excitement induced would secure the success of the new candidato. In any event it will behoove the convention to see to it, that the great irou State id satis-; tied with tbo inau selected, lie should ! be a Pennsylvanian. He thould bo a man without objectionable political, record. lie should, in this nieo balance! of parties, be an available man. j To our mind no man in the nation so j exactly filU the measure in all particu-1 lara.as Major-General W.S. Hancock of Pennsylvania. lie is the pride of the Keystone State. Ue has uo unfortunate blunders hi politics to explain away, llo has do written or spoken record on tariff or taxation, to recall. A most genial aud delightful gtmtlemau, he yet has been us mute on public topics as Ulysses the Statuosqua. tlo is a noble soldier, a jcenerouj foe, a brave, honest man. Fie would make a firm; strong, great ruler. He would sweep the country like a prairie-tire. If Gen. Grant wore nominated in opposition opposi-tion to Gen. Haucock the canvass would be as one-sided as was that of '52 when the other two Generals-Pierce and Scott were pitted against one another. The working people no insignificant element now would unite on Hancock with tho most earnest aoal. The great cities would one and all declare for Hancock. No human power could defeat him. Tho "New Departure'' means simply to cany the next Presidential election. This might posriblybe done with Hendricks; with Hancock it could not fail. If Gen. Grant becomes a candidate for the second term and wu tee nunc other a- available the election wiil he carried with some of tho enthusiasm of the olden time. It will not be possible to centre that enthusiasm en-thusiasm upon Grant. Win naturo is too stolid to beget any ardent or enthusiastic en-thusiastic outburst. The charm surrounding sur-rounding the name of Hancock would l-e a thousand times more potent than the power wielded by the administration. administra-tion. The one would be spontaneous; the other would be open to the charge of self-interest In the one would be discoverable the vitality uf a newly- awakened enthusiasm; in the other1 the feebleness of a waning popularity. The rreat mas?e, n ruling under many burden?, would hope Jurrelief under the banner ot Hancock; they would anticipate ouiy a continuance j of their prcacot toilsome struglo to! muko both cuds meet, under the! shadow of GraoL It is not impossible that thirty States would cast their suffrages suf-frages for Pennsylvania's bold:erhero. I |