The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-14
FoRNENsT GARFIELD.
Independent Republican Convention
of the 10th District.
A Pitchfork Arrangement Of Gar
field.
General Easement Nominated for
Congress-

to the return of James A. Garfield 10
Congress met in Convention at Warren,
September 9TH, and organized by elect
ing DR.. c. W. Ensign, of Lake county,
for Chairman, and l., d, Brown, Of Port
age, and George E. Paine, of Lake, Sec
retaries.
On motion, N. Tuttle and ]. Burrows,
of Lake; B. F. Perry, of Ashtabula; H.
D. Brown, of Portage, and G. G. Gary, OF
Lake, were chosen Committee on Res
olutions; and II. II, Hine, William b..
Hulett, and r. NJ. Murray, were appoint
ed Committee on Conference on nom
nation Of candidate for Representa-
tive.
The Committee on Resolutions report
ed the following, which were unana-
mously adopted:
Whenever, in country like ours, gov
erned by the people through great pollti-
cal parties, q body Of its citizens attach
ed to a political party feel constrained
from any cause to enter their protest
against the action of such party, and
take separate action in the selection of a
candidate for an important office, justice
to themselves and a proper regard for
tie opinion of their fellow citizens re-
uuire them to stale distinctly and clearly
the cause and purpose of such action
Therefore, be it by this Independent
convention Cf the Republicans of the
Nineteenth Congressional District Of
Ohio,
lst. Re8olued, That dishonesty, fraud
and corruption have become 80 common,
notorious and obvious in the administra-
ton of our national Government as to
be not only humilating and disgraceful
in the estimation Of every honest and
intelligent citizen, but to imperil the
prosperity Of the people, if not the sta
bility of the Government itself
I'd. Re8olued, That this deplorable
condition of the administration of our ma
tional Government is largely due to the
election to office, and continuance there
in, of corrupt, dishonest and yenal men.
Sd. Re diced, That it is useless and
hypocritical for any political party to
declare for reform in its platforms, pa
pers and public addresses while it insists
on returning to high official place and
power men who have been notorously
connected with the very schemes of
fraud which render reform necessary
and urgent that to send those to enact
reform who themselves need reforming
to make them honest, is worse than set
ting the blind to lead the blind.
Alb. Resolved, That there is no man
to day officially connected with the ad-
ministratiOn Of our national Government
against whom are preferred more and
graver charges of corruption than are
publicly made and abundantly sustained
against James A. Garfield, the present
Representative of this Congressional
District, and the nominee of the Repub-
lican Convention for reelection.
9TH. Resolved, That since he first en-
tered Congress to this day there is scarce
ly an instance in which rings and mo-
nopolies have been arrayed against the
interests of the people, that he has been
found active in speech or vote upon the
side Of the latter, but in almost every
case he has been the ready champion of
the rings and monOpolies.
9th. Resolved, That we especially
charge him with venality and cowardice
in permitting Benjamin f. Butler to at
tach to the appropriation bill of 1873 that
ever-to- aforementioned intamy, the sala-
ry steal and in speaking and voting for
that measure on its final passage And
charge him with corrupt disregard of the
clearly expressed demand of his Constit-
uents that he should vote for its repeal,
and with evading said demand by voting
for the Hutchinson amendment.
7th. ReSoLUed, That we further arraign
and denounce him for his corrupt con-
nection with the Credit Mobilier for his
false denials thereof before his constit-
uents, for his perjured denial before
committee of his peers in Congress, for
fraud upon his constituents in circulating
among them a pamphlet purporting to
set forth the finding of said committee
and the evidence against him, when, in
fact, material portions thereof were omit
ted and garbled.
Sth. Resolved, That We further arraign
and charge him with corrupt bribery in
selling his official influence as chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations for
$1,000 tc the DeGolyer pavement ring
to aid them in securing a contract from
the Board of Public Works of the Dis
triCt of Columbia; selling his influence
to aid said ring in imposing upon the
people of said District pavement which
is almost worthless at price three times
its cost, as sworn to by one of the con-
tractors selling his influence to aid said
ring in procuring contract, to procure
which it corruptly paid $4,000 " for in
tiuence;" selling his influence in mat
ter that involved no question of law,
upon the shallow pretext that he was
acting as lawyer; selling his influence
in a manner so palpable and clear as to
be so found and declared by an impartial
and competent court upon an issue SOL
emnly tried.
9th. RESOLVED, That we arraign him for
the fraudulent manner in which he at
tempts in his speech delivered at War
ren, on the 18Th day Of September, 1874,
to shield himself from just censure in
receiving the before named $1,000, by
falsely representing in said speech, that
the Congress of the United States were
not responsible for the acts of said board,
nor the United States liable for the debts
eated thereby, when in truth and in
fact, as he then well knew, the said
Board of Public Works and the officers
of said District were but the agents ana
instruments of Congress, and the United
States was responsible for the indebted
ness by them created.
10th. ReSolved, That we arraign him
for derelction from duty as a member Of
Congress in failing to bring to light and
expose the corruption and abuse in the
sale of post-traderships, for which the
late Secretary Belknap was attempted to
be impeached, when the same was
broul hit to his knowledge by General
Hazen, in 1872, aud can only account fol
it upon the supposition that bis man
hood was debauched by the corruption
funds, then by him just received, ard il
his own purse.
11th ReOlped. That the law. known