The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-09-18
GAREIbLD'S CORRUPTION.

Peer Co0pe1SaeloD lof want o.
Integrity The Preeiden.
tai Candidate Declared
Dlshsnest, Fraudulent
anl Corrupt By Hb
Own Party.
In 1876 james A. Gar6eldl record haa
become 90 odious in bis own party that th
leading Republicans Of his own Congrea
sional district met and issued the follow
Ing:
An address 10 tie RepnbIcan Voters O
the Nineteensh( Ohio) Congressional Dis
tjcs.
FELLOW CITIZENS: We who address YOU
were appointed q committee for this pur
pose BY an independent convention Of Re
publicans, assembled for the purpose o
putting in nomination . suitable person a
candidate for Congress in opposition t
James A. Garfield.
The causes which impelled the calling o.
that convention and inspired its action az,
Get forth in the resolution BY it adopted
and printed herewith. To the indictment
contained in those resolutions, and the evi'
dence submitted in support thereof, We re
specially call your attention and ask youl
candid consideration.
We have no grievances. We neve,
sought favors at Nj. Gar6eld's hands, and
have no personal quarrel with him. On the
contrary We have been among his warmesl
political friends and supporters, and now
only attack his acts and conduct in public
life and the character be has thereby at.
tanned.
It IL fitting that q true men We should
seek the cause and remedy for this state Of
ruin, and We look not far nor long. Cor.
ruption in Office and want Of wisdom in lex.
islation loom up before Us. We review
with pride our party history and achieve.
ments, but We now zee fraud in high places
eating at it, vitals. Its revenue officers
ore found stealing and dividing with whis.
~ rings. Its secretaries sell post trader.
ships. Its Congressman raise their own
salaries and makes them retroactive; take
great fees for arguments on pavement jobs
before boards Of their own creation, and
pocket the dividends Of great frauds like
the Credit Mobilier. Corruption rides in
$1,000 landulets, purchased 1t government
expense, and Congressman build palaces At
the capital while the people toll and sweat
under their burdens-they forget that they
ere but the servants OF the nation and act
~ II they were its owners, seeking to wiring
from il the greatest possible number Of dol.
lars for their own purposes.
The Republican party has done much to
purity itself within itself. lts whisky ring
revenue officers are convicted and impris.
oned. Belknap is deposed and impeached,
and only escapes conviction BY 4 teehni.
eality. Its salary-stealing, Credit Mobilier,
pavement jobbing Congressman are mostly
retired. James A. Garfield remains Rich.
ard c. Parsons, his compeer as a grea.
patent pavement lawyer, nominated With.
out opposition in district Republican last
year BY 65O0 majority, was buried a the
polls BY Henry B. Payne, = Democrat, By
$500 majority. The oficeholders nomi.
mated him, but the brave, honest people u.
buked him.
james A. Garfield fell from 10,o35 ma.
jority in 1879 % 1926 in 1874. "Oh, what
. fall was there, my countEymenI" Re.
buked, shorn Of character for truth and in.
tegrity, oil that is noble in manhood, al.
most defeated, he stands sad and black.
ened monument Of avarice and greed.
BY the arts of the orator and dema.
gogue, Of which he is . consummate master.
be is striving and struggling and may post.
rone the dsy Of his final doom, but he
bears upon his front tho writing on the
wall: "Mene, meme, tekel, upharsin."
"Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad"
Forgetting his duty to his country and
in his haste to serve his bond.
holding masters. on the 18th Of July, 1875.
be committed himselft to the defense Of .hsi
great fraud upon the people, the demons.
tilation Of the silver dollar, and denounced
10 restoration a. 4 swindle on no VA
I scale a to make the achievement. illus.
Itiors."
That speech, 10 weak in III logic, and no
tanning in ito poli,ica; heresies, snd 20
to the high luetentions Of stalas.
manship Of it, author, "a suppre.ee,i ~ The
editors of h;s district. And
g only to b. found in the Congressional
Record. Holding poatofices and places al
III. --:-" -. 10 nv ~"'0 =" AsIss
II lie Renublic.n nsrtv vou,d nrv;v.
4 .,n.t .tr;ks from =. ,oiis ,hs ,... .J -"
name and select onlv hone .'' . v,
mi hrave n,en IA liil ;ts Mon nl.ces wv"
Flaming oratory upon lie horrors of An.
and ibbey, and the disordered
Of the South are poor eompen-
alton for want Of inteRrity. The fools who