, 1872-10-10


CoMpARIsoSs ARE ODIoUs.-There S!
nothing in the present issues before the
country which gives any pertinency or
force to the issues which divided politi-
cad parties ten years ago when Seiacins
Garfelde was the Democratic candidate
for Congress, and failed in an election
because the friends of Gov. Stevens
would not trust him. But the Grant
party, under entirely different leaders,
and with scarcely sentiment III COM
mon with the party which then recosniz-
ed Mr. Lincoln as its head, bases its Ell
tire claim to public support upon tie =
sues and achievements Of the Union par
tv, of which Mr.. Garfeide Was never Il
recognized member. The Courier, the
special organ of Mr.. Gariielde, edited
by il uau who has acted on and off with
the Democratic party during that time,
makes the following comparison:
Thus, while Gartieie;e was in British
Columbia engaged in an honest avoca-
ton, earning his bread by the sweat of
his face, and never faiied to put III il
good word for the Union cause as we
shall prove by the files of tie Standard
i'll 1865, Judge NcFatlaen stitid at home
and within the e.circumscr,be9 sphere i'll
Which he moved, never falling to east
odium and ridicuie upon the patriotic
.fYf, ,,.4r ~ ha To In
the rebellion, aud never was known to
rejoice when the Union army was victo-
riouS.
The newspaper record is, tkat Judge
McFadden, then much past tie age for
military duty, took an active part IL the
first Union meeting held in Olympia af-
ter the war commenced; that Mr.. Gar
fielde, young and vigorous maE, op-
posed the Unian party from the openin;s,
to the close of the war, and having fail
ed i'll an election in opposition to the
Union party nominee, Fed so IA foreign
country to avoid the draft of 1862, where
he never failed, when the opportunity
presented, of expressing his sympathy
with which all citizens of the Territory
OF that day are familiar; at least no one
VIII deuy the fact that Mr.. iartieade was
never identified ia any manner with the
Union party, or ;he Republican party,
until after the close of the war, when he
returned to the Territory and offered his
services as stump speaker to the Repub-
iican party and received his pay for that
service i'll the appointment of Surveyor
General; and that while holding that
position he wrote letters and took other
active measures to organize q party i'll
support of President johnson, in o.
position to the regular Republican par
ty. 1t is also well known that the Stand
GrI, throughout til" war, was a recog-
nized organ of the Union party, and
that neither that paper, Marshall Blinn,
Judge Denny, Hon. 4. a. Denny, Judge
Hewat, $. ID. Howe, aid Others who
were trusted leaders of the Union party
during the war. now stigmaiized IS bolt
ers, have ever yet supported Mr.. Gar
fielde. except on single occasion, un
der party screws, and under protest;
while he owes his nominations as Be
puniicnn cun;lidate to the manlpulatIOlfS
of Conventions by Mike Drew, Samuel
Coulter, Cherokee Smith and others Of
that ill, who, like himself, never acted
with the Union party during the war.
These facts are not pertinent to the
present issue, and have only been elicit
ed by the attempt Of Mr.. Gartielde's
editor to misrepresent.