The daily Cairo bulletin., 1880-06-27
Is GARFIELD A STRONG MANI

iue independent Republicans OF Mr..
Garfeld's own district have given him a
character that will be taken as pretty &C.
curate by the country at large, for who
should know him better than his own
neighbors! The following resolutions were
passed by them on September 1876, and
present the most precise and vigorous rea-
sons why Garfield should never be elected
president:
Resolved, There is no other man today
officially connected with the administra-
ton OF the national government against
whom are justly preferred more and graver
charges OF corruption than are publicly
made and abunndantly sustained against
James A. Garfield, the present representative
OF this congressional district, and the nomi-
nee OF the Republican convention for re-elec-
ton.
Resolved. That since he first entered con
gress to this day there is scarcely an in.
stance in which rings and monopolies have
been arrayed against the interest of the
people, that he has been found active in
speech or vote upon the side of the latter,
but in almost every instance he has been
the ready champion of the rings and mo-
nopolies
Resolved, That We especially charge him
with venality and cowardice in permitting
Benjamin +. Butler to attach to the appro.
priation bill of 1878 that ever to be re.
membered infamy the salary STEAL and In
speaking and voting for that measure upon
its final passage; and charge him with cor
rupt disregard OF the clearly expressed de.
mand OF his constituents that he should
vote for its repeal, and with evading such
demand by voting for the Hutchinson
amendment.
Resolved, That We further arraign and
denounce HIM for his corrupt connection
with the Credit Mobilier, for his periured
denial thereof before a committee of his
peers in congress, for fraud upon his con.
stituents in circulating among them
pamphlet purporting to set forth the find
ing of said committee and the evidence
against him, when in fact material portions
thereof were omitted and garbled.
Resolved, That we further arraign and
charge him with corrupt bribery in selling
his official influence as chairman of the
committee on appropriations for $4,000 to
the DeGolyer payment ring to aid them in
securing contract from the board of public
works of the District of Columbia; selling
his influence to aid said ring to impose
upon the people of SAID district pavement
which is almost worthless at price three
times its cost, as sworn to by one of the
contractors selling his influence to aid said
ring in procuring contract, to procure
which it corruptly paid $4,000 "for in
tluence;" selling his influence in a matter
that involved no question of law upon the
shallow preteyt that he was acting as a
lawyer; selling his influence in manner so
palpable and clear as to be SO found and
declared by an impartial and competent
court upon an issue soemnly tried.
Resolved, That We arraign him for gross
dereliction of duty as a member of con.
gress IN failing to light and expose the cor
ruptlon and abuse in the sale Of post trader.
ships, for which the late Secretary Belknap
was impeachcd, when the same was
brought to his knowledge by Gen. Hazen
in 1872 and can only account for 1t upon
the supposition that his manhood was de-
bauched by the corruption funds then by
him just received and In his own purse.
Resolved, That neither great ability and
expcrnce nor eloquent partisan discussion
OF the dead i,sues of the late war will ex.
cuse or Justify past dishonesty or corrup-
ton. or answer as a guarantee of purity
and integrity for the future.
Resolved, That, believing the statements
in the foregoing resolutions set forth, we
cannot. without stultiiying our manhood
and debaslng our self-respcct, support at
the polls the nominee of the Republican
of this district for reelection
nor can We, without surrendering our rights
As electors and citizens, sit silently by and
see man so unworthy again sent to repre-
sent us in the national Legislature. That,
strong in the conviction Of right, we call
upon the electors of the district, irrespec-
i've Of former or present party attachment,
Who desire honest government, to unite
With us in an earnest, faithful effort to de-
eat the reelection of General Garfield, and |
'lect in his stead an honest and reliable
nan.
There is nothing charged against Gar
ield in these resolutions that has not been
proven. If elected president, he would |
rive the country the most corrupt admins
ration 1t has ever had.
Garfield has never made a political race
'efore any people other than Of his old and
AIMED congressional district, better known