The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-06-26
Gar-fiescss Record.
A SHORT SUMMARY or HIS Do1HGs WHILE
I'm CONGRESS.
[st. Lonis Post.Democrat.l

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Garfield's character is as dubious a
his talents are unquestionable.
i His hands are stained and unclear
not by mere rumor, but BY the eyidepc
] and testimony of prominent reput
licans, by the official record of congress
He took twenty shares of credit mo
, bilieF stock, that is twice as much a
most of the other senators and repre-
sentatives- land retained every PENN
of the enormous cash dividends, though
!. he had never paid one penny for tht
stocR-neyer paid for It except in votes
4 He was a member OF the Boss Shep
| herd district of Columbia ring. In ont
case he could not deny having received
$4,000 for putting through, as chair
man of the committee ON appropria
tions, an enormous appropriation 'fol
the swindling De Goiyer pavement
Compelled to admit the receipt of the
money, he tried to exeuse himself by
the assertion, under oath, that the
money was fee received az an attorney
This led to the proof that he never ut
tered one word or wrote one syllable,
or did single thing in the matter e1-
cept to put through the appropriation;
that ne never had a case, never received
a fee, never acted as an attorney in his
life while at Washington. Precisely
as in the case of Colfax, the attempted
explanation made the thing a Thousand
times worse. 1t added to the proof of
bribery that of perjury.
He was a leader in the salary-grab,
and again, unlike many other members,
never returned the $4,000, the taking of
which was SO unanimously condemned
by the people that the very next con-
gress repealed the law by an almost
unanimous vote.
He voted for every one of the many |
jobs, land grabs, subsidies to railroads,
ETC., that were granted since 1852.
He and Sherman and Stanley Mat
thews were the three Ohio friends of
Mr.. Hayes who went down to Louisi-
ana and managed the returning board.
The electoral vote of that state was, in
reality, not stolen by the returning
board, but by Garfield and Sherman,
who furnished them with the inspira-
ion, the courage and the temptation
% commit the crime. The returning
board rascals were only tools in the
lands of Garfield and Sherman, who
poke, promised and acted as the per-
onal and immediate agents of r. B.
1ayes. !,
Garfield made speech of great power
gainst the electoral commission bill, |
pon-the sole ground that it compelled ,
n investigation of the returning-board I
rands, compelled to go behind the re- {
urns. But, the bill passed, Garfield 1
ecame member of the commission. 8
lie took the oath: 81, James A. Gar {
ED, do solemnly swear that I will i'm t
artially examine and consider all CUES
IONS submitted to the commission of
hitch | am a member, and true judg-
rent give thereon, agreeably to the
institution and laws, so help me God" I,
his oath Mr.. Garfield also signed. :,
ct he voted at least a hundred times I
18th the otherseyen republicans against :,
he very and the only thing the COM =
lission was created to do--to texan :.
Re and consider" the questions of 7
'aud--voted that the commission had :
be deaf, blind and dumb, could not :,
behind the returns and, in fact, /
'nld examine nothing, consider moth !,
g, except to count in Hayes. 7
Garfield, thoughformerly protesting J
be a revenue reformer, turned out
be a servile tool of the eastern pro-
'ctionists. This present congress failed
reduce some Of the most unjust and
oppressive duties, largely through the =
forts of Garfield, who, as member 7
the committee on ways and means, 2
rejected the interests of the eastern q
anufactnrers. Is
Garfield's vote on the electoral com y
ission counted in Hayes, after his a
'ice and hand had managed the re- = =
rning board steal in Louisiana. His =
ection would mean not only the com Y
etc popular Endorsement Of the theft =
the presidency, but practically the !,
'ntinnation Of it in the same political 4
mily. p
Garfield is a regular machine politi- a
an. He has had no other income
an that received from Office. He has
AIDE his living out of politics for
'enty years. He needs Office for d i
ing, and is, according to republican y
ldence and the evidence contained II
the congressional record, not above q
mptation. in
cxico MOI 10 he AnvaSied by B