, 1872-10-31
What Has He Done?

What Has He Done?
At the beginning Of the present can
vass in this Territory, we asked the above
question in regard to Mr.. Garfelde's
services as Delegate in Congress, and
partially answered the same by quoting
from the Congressional Globe the index
Of every measure he introduced during
one long session, in which there was no
act for the general benefit of the Terri
tory. For this we have been sailed by
s1r. Garfielde in public speeches, and by
his personal organs in public print, as a
liar and falsifier of the records. But
the record still stands, an unimpeach-
ed witness of the literal truth of our
statements, open to the inspection of all
who choose to refer to it, and proving
beyond the possibility of doubt or ex-
p]anation, that Mr.. Garfielde himself
and his suborned witnesses are the liars
and falsiders of the public record.
Convicted of deliberate falsehood by
tho record, he consumes from two to
three hours in each of his public spesches
in plausible excuses for not doing, and
specious pretenses of what he has done,
for which he has no documentary evil
dence to show; nothing, in fact, beyond
hi. own impeached veracity to prove.
He premises his speeches by an aft Ct
ed fairness in stating the fact that teq
ordinary expenses of Territorial govern
ment would be provided for if the Ter
ritory had no Delegate in Congress,
and that the duty of the Delegate was
only to look after contingent interests
which might arise. That is true, and
almost the only true statement of fact
which he makes in any of his speeches.
He then goes on to show what he has
done in the way of obtaining extraor-
dinary appropriations. First of these
is for mail service. He shows mathe-
matically that this branch of public SER
vice has been increased during his term
of service, in and through this Terrific
ry, very largely, and this he claims as a
special achievement of his own. Does
not every intelligent man know that this
is an ordinary branch of the public ser
vice in which the Department employs
its own Agents This service has been
increased under the man .gement, and
in every instance on the special recon-
mendatlon of the Hon. J. B. Under
wood, the U. S. Postal Agent for this
district. There is no evidence, anywhere,
beyond his unsupported statement, that
he had anything to do with this increase.
If he had, why did he suffer, without
public protest, change in the mail ser
vice to Alaska, from Port Townsend.
the nearest port Of entry, to Portland,
m inland town in Oregon Surely. a
proper representation Of the facts to the
Department would have shown the alb
surdity and injustice of this change,
which imposed double pay for convey
ing the mails betweenPort Townsendand
Portland. His comparison Of the mail
service in Washington Territory with
its millions of foreign commerce, and
steamers rlying almost hourly between
commercialtowns -withthe same services
provided for the nomadic populations
of Montana and Wyoming, was vefy
shallow experiment upon popular ignor-
ance and credulity.
HIS next boast is that by having q
cousin Chairman of the Committee on
Public Lands, he procured an appro-
priatitn of $70,0 for surveying the
public lands in this Territory. This is
a sorry compliment to the Legislation
of Congress, ascribing to nepotism what
should be conceded to the public inter
ests. The public lands do not belong to
the people of the Territory. but to the
cderal,Government;sif the appropria-
ton was demanded by the public inter-
ests, it is no credit to the Delegate that
it is made; but is among those ordinary
appropriations which would be made
without the intervention of the Dele
gate, But if not this it was merely a
personal concession for the special in
terest of the Delegate, and to that end
it is VIGOROUSLY used providing fund
for the maintenance ofa newspaper and
to corrupt the voters in the interest
of Mr.. Gariielde and this is unques-
tionably the view taken by Mr.. .Garfelde
and his cousin, who helped him to this
appropriation.