Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-09
lanraster fntelligerlcer.
EVENING. JUNE 9, 1890
The Republican Candidates.

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The Republican Candidates.
After nearly a weeks contention the
Chicago convention has nominated
James A. Garfield as the Republican
candidate for president-truly a most
striking illustration of the mountain
laboring and bringing forth a ridiculous
mouse. For Mr.. Garfield is not the
manner of man whom the country
would have pride in as its presl-
ident not that he is not man of mark
ed ability, but because he has not the
moral greatness and strength of charac-
ter befitting the chief magistrate of this
great country. He is a weak man in
many respects although intellectually
brilliant. He is noted for lack of Stam
ina, for vacillation and inconsistency.
His record in Congress, where he has been
anchored since the war, will be freely
ventilated during the campaign,
and will show that he is not
the manner Of man to whom
the people will eagerly seek to deliver the
government. His nomination has fallen
fiat upon the country. 1t was received
in this city without Il sign of enthusiasm
and without even cheer from the
crowds about the bulletin boards. No
better indication than this of popular
feeling could be had. The Republicans
were doubtless disappointed that neither
of the two leading candidates was
chosen but if they had been given the
name of man they knew
and liked, though he was not
their candidate, they would have
accepted him with cheer. They had
no heart to cheer Garfeld-De Golyer
Garfeld-the man of evil repute who is
known all over the country to have taken
fee of five Thousand dollars to influence
an appropriation for patent pavement
in Washington, when he was chairman
of the committee of Congress through
whom it would have to come. Ever since
then he has been known by the name
of his client and his pavement; and DE
Golyer Garfield, with that one stone
about his neck, has sufficient weight
upon him to make his presl-
Dental case hopeless; but it is not the
only one.
Mr.. Garfield was nominated by the
friends of Mr.. Blaine as their second
choice. And who,were the men who sus-
tanned Mr.. Blaine ? He was put in nOmi-
nation by Joy, the railroad monopolist of
the Northwest, and had the support of
Gould and the Pacific railroad kings.
Garfield is we'll calculated to serve these
mems purposes, being quite as unscrupu-
lous as Blaine, and a weaker and cheaper
tool. He is hypocrite of the first
water. A proclivity for religious eNhor-
tati0n accompanies in him an itchin.
palm. lie borrOws the livery of heaven
to serve the devil i'm. He reveres the
truth so little that he will even swear to
a las he did in the notable Credit Mobi-
lier days when he SwOre before a COM
mittee of the House of Representatives.
that he "never owned, received. or
agreed to receive any stock of the Credit
road, nor any dividends or profits arising
from them But a few days afterward
Oakes AmeS showed the committee, by
evidence that was partly in Gartield's
handwriting, that he had held Credit
Mobilier stock and had received divi-
dends thereon. Ames further testified
that Garfield had sought to induce him
to swear that these dividends were paid to
him as a loan. Garfield escaped the eX-
pulsion that was visited by the House on
through the exertions of his friends and
the reluctance of the members to blast
his life in his youth; but could it then
have been credited that this rotten tim
Der was being preserved for Republican
presidential use ;?
What fatality led the convention to
nominate this man of fearful record when
it had a strong and unobjectionable
candidate like Washburne to nominate,
who can tell? The gods make mad
those whom they would destroy; this
alone can explain it. The oily and in
sinuating manner of Garfield in the con-
vention to which he wasa delegate gain
ed the favor of its members and nOmi-
mated him to his party's sure undoing.
The Chicago ticket is very appropri-
ately finished by the nomination of Ches-
ter o. Arthur for vice president. The
tail ought not to he stronger than the
head, and the difficult task of appropri-
ately tapering off the Garfield ticket has
been successfully accomplished. Mr..
Arthur is known us the pet of Mr.. Conk-
ling, by him placed in the seat of customs
in New York, and by Mr.. Sherman dis
placed after inquiry by congressional
committee into the management of the
custom house had furnished good reason
for the removal. Senator COnkling
sought to reverse the decision of the
treasury department in the Senate, but
he was unable to persuade majority of
his fellow senators that any wrong had
been done in ejecting Arthur, and his
successor was confirmed. Mr.. Conkling
has been more fortunate with the Repub-
lican convention, persuading it that Mr..
Arthur, if not fit for collector of GUS
toms in New York, is the man of all
men to make president of the United
States Senate and the second officer of tile