Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
The Republican Longing for estates
manShip.'

| 1t is craftsmanship" that the Re-
publican politicians are laundering
after now. The ." soldier business"
| they assert, is played out. 1.-THE coun-
| try needs Statesman, Christian
statesman like Garfield" Such is the
plea they make for the election of their
candidate for President. But when
| they come to exhibit their statesman"
| they find that thew have nothing to
show the public but Congressman
| whose special opportunities for studying
political economy and the nature of
our Government were confined to his
service as a member and for several
years as Chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations. That committee,
as is well understood, is the parent of
all the swindling jobs by which the
Treasury is plundered from year to
year. That committee is a school .ef
corruption, in which selfish and Sotthhaait
school Garfield was trained. 1t
was there he acquired his estates
manship." AS member of that COM
mittee he received the Credit-Mobilier
stock from Cakes Ames and the
$1,000 fee from De Golyer. If he has
had any other training in statesman
ship his public career does not show it,
All! we must not forget his action as
twisting statesman and counselor to
the Louisiana Returning Board thieves
and his subsequent service as a sworn
Judge in the eight-to-seven electoral
Commission. His acceptance of the
position of Judge i'll the electoral dis
pute after he had volunteered as an at
torney in the matter must be taken into
account when we sum up his achieve
mentS as statesman. So, then, it APP
pears that Garfield S statecraft on which
his political supporters base his claims
to the Presidential office consists in his
performances as member of the Com
mittee on Appropriations and as an
attorney for Hayes before the Louisi-
ana Returning Board and Judge on
the Electoral Commission. General
Hancock, thank Heaven, has had no ex-
perience of this character and makes no
pretensions to that kind of statesman
ship to which General Gartield's public
career has been devoted. But General
Hancock has proved himself an able
expOunder as he was fearless de-
fender of the Constitution. When the
destinies of the people of two
great States were placed in his
hands he refused to erect mill
tary despotism. but simply pro-
ceeded to enforce the laws as he
found them. He took care that the
great fundamental principles of republic
can government should not be violated
but preserved in his administration. In
order that the people of Louisiana and
Texas might be protected in their con-
stitutional rights he declared that the
habeas corpus, the right of free speech.
a free press, liberty of conscience and
the natural rights of persons must be
preserved. In other words he made toe
military the servant of the civil power,
as is the plain intendment of our form
of Government. His administration in
those States was as free from violence
as it was clear from any sort of corrup-
ton. He was kind but firm. patient
but resolute, and while loyal to the |
Federal authority he sought to win back
the alienated population to their former I
love of the old flag by proving to them |
that obedience to the Constitution and |
laws was the only test of the right of |
While Hancock was en-
gagged in performing the highest acts
Of craftsmanship in his endeavor to re-
habilitate the States of Louisiana and
Texas in their suppressed statehood,
Garfield was employed in figuring out
for wooden pavements in
and other similar raids
on the Treasury. (Pd.) |
Patriot.
Garfield practically abandons the
contest. He says that .'New York set
Ties the caSe' There is no intelligent