West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-11-13

spite snybody besides themselves.
they are greatly mistaken. 1t 10
them, not us. that are disgracsd.
Their cheeks, not ours. that must
tiDge with shame at the mention OF
1929 their candidate. not ours, t hat
has been convicted by a committee
OF his own friends of having received
329 dollars as bride, and then de-
liberately peijured himself to get
out OF it. 1t was their candidate.
not ours. who was exposed by his
own partisan papers. from Maine to
California, as disgrsced bride ia
ker aud psIjurer-hesr what they
said.
From the Unanimous Report of utc Po-
land Cbmnutee. composed Of Lake u, Po>
land (Repuottcdn), ". r. Bank, (Rep,ibh.
CAM. q. W. McOrea,y (RepuLiican), W.
K. St6tdek( Democracy, and W. If. Mer1Ick
(Democrao, Of Congress, in 1873, paoe7.
THE facts in regard TO Mr.. Gar
field. as found by the COMMITTEES are
identical with the case OF Mr.. Kel-
ley to the point Of reception OF the
check for 1929. He agreed with Mr.
Amss to take ten shares OF Credit
Mobilisr stock but did Tot pay for
the. same. Mr.. Ames recei, ed the
so per cent. dividend in bonds, and
sold them for 81 per cent, and also
received the 60 per cent. cash divi-
dsnd. which together paid the price
OF the stock and interest, and left a
balance OF $500. This sum was
paid over to Mr.. Garfield by q check
on tie Serpeant at arms, and Mr..
Garfield then understood this sum
was the balacce OF dividends after
paying for the stock
From tie Ne,o York Times, FEB. 10, 1873.
"We do not agree with the com
mittee in it's lsnient assn ption that
such knowledge was not possessed
by the congressman who purchased
the stock. 1t they did not know it's
character they must have been curl
ously deaf and blind as to what was
going on about them. OF the mem
bers thus referred to Messrs. Kelley
and Garfield present most distress
ing figures. Their Participation in
the Credit Mobilier affair is eompli-
Gated by the most unfortunate con-
PREDICTION Of testimony" ,.....
From the New York Tribune. FEB. 10, 1873.
James A. Garfield, of Ohio, had
ten shares; never paid dollar; re-
ceivsd 1929, whi9h. after the inves-
tigation began, he was anxious to
have considsrsd as lone from Mr..
Cakes Ames to himself.
well. the wicked ness Of all Of it
is that these men betrayed the trust
OF the people, deceived their coneti-
tusnts, and by their evasicns and
ia schools confessed the transaction
to be disgracsful."
Nor does it help the matter that
his friends or any body else have
condonsd his knavery, even to the
extent of slecting him President OF
the greatest Republic on .earth--but
it does show how the senses and
moral impulses Of this great people
have been benumbed. 1t shows, as
we have often had occasion to say,
thot We are very fast drifting in
wrong direction. Neither the Repub.
lican party, nor Mr.. Gslf need
be at any particular trouble to re-
member or to have the people re-
msmbsr the very significant figures
Of 1929" They will live without
any special attempt to perpetuate
them, much longer than Mr.. Gar
field, and much longer than the Re
publican party. The campaign is
now over, and we should not have
referred to this, but for the little
circumstance named above. But
while upon the subject, we want
to ask our readers, Republicans and
Democrats, who it was who propos-
ed the investigation which resulted
In the conviction Of Garfield A
Democrat No. 1t was no ether
than James G. Blaine, Of Maine.
Who convicted him and report ed
that conviction to q Republican
Congress A committee composed
OF three Republicans and two Dem
oerats, and the report was concur
red 10 by all, and signed by all.
What newspapers published his dis
grace all over the cauntry2 Such
powerful Republican papers as the
New York Times, Tribune, and 9TH
Ns.
Yet while all this q true and un.
denied, they accused us Of Singing
mud at their Mentor chief. We are
content 70 rect under that charge.
and farther to knowrthst this same
man, whom they have first convicted
snd then voted for, is q trus type,
and 6t representative Of the party
Of Bsbcocks, Belknsp's, Robsson's
&C., & Give Us more paint gentle
men, We can stand it If you can, We