Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-15

Applause. Let me read you this oath
he took. take it from Mr.. Julien's
speech; 81, James A. Garfield,
do soiemnly swear that l will
lmpartlally examine and consider all
questions submitted to the Commission
OF which am a member, and a true
Judgment rendered thereon agreeable to
the constitution and the laws, so help
me God" Applause and laughter.
They say he Is a preacher. Laughter
don't pretend to anything but a wicked
~lawyer-thats all; but there is not
wealth enough in the State Of Indiana
to get me, in my place in the House or
in the Senate Of the United States, to
say: II you pass this law | hold that it
opens the door TO investigation, and We
can 90 down TO New Orleans and ascer-
tam how the vote was in fact, and then
alter | got upon the Commission to urn
around and say that tn. Returning
Board and its findings is conclusive
upon us, and We cannot Investigate at
all. would not do it for Il thousand
years OF tenure in the great office for
which he is candidate. Applause
WAS GARFIELD A True OR r%EkJURED
JUROR?
state to you that whatever the truth
might be about the DeGolyer pavement,
whether he did take q fee against the in
terest of the Government when he was
a representative receiving a salary;
whatever the facts might be about the
Credit Mobilier, whether it was a terri
BILE fraud or not, will not stop to speak
OF that until this greater question is set
tied. Whether as a representative OF
the people, ass juror sitting between
myself and Wheeler and Tilden and
Hayes, he was q true or a false man.
Applause. And il / have Il case in
your court and you are called upon
as a juror, and no questions are asked
YOU at all, and you have a bitter preju.
dice against me, andIthat there is no YER
diet at all except against me, would you
20 and take your seat? Would not it
come up to you? NV oath would not
allow me to do it, and | know that yours
would not. Yet Garfield, after he had
helped to make up the case down at
New Orleans, comes TO Washington, and
without protest or apology or excuse, he
takes his seat and he votes day after day
contrary TO what he said in the House
was the law. No, gentlemen, he will
never be President of the United
States. A voice-'No, Never!"l lie
is a man Of ability, and the
more ability such a man possesses
the worse 1t is for the office. ] don't
want him, because when | have a Pres.
ident in Washington, whatever his poi.
tiles may be, | want to feel that he is as
much my President as yours, and as
much yours as he is mine. and that as
President he is free from those preju-
dices and passions which pervert the
judgment and destroy opinion. Tap
plause.] Gentlemen, | have occupied
your attention longer tonight than |
expected to. ! will repeat that when |
took my breakfast this morning | had
no thought OF addressing you. 1t was
not n part OF the programme of the
business OF the day at all. When | saw
that the Journal said that If | did not
make this good | wa disgraced, and il |
did, then Garfield was disgraced-then,
gentlemen, as SOC as | saw that | long
ed to see you and speak to you with
more earnestness and feeling than ever
| longed to before. II | have failed in
any one of the questions presented by
the Journal | know it not. | have ap.
pealed to no witnesses except Garfield
himself. and by Garfield is Garfield this
night disgraced. Applause. You fair
minded Republicans, you gentlemen
that love your country better than you
do the Journal, better than you do Gar
field, better than you love combina-
tons OF party, | appeal to you,
now, by this test, publicly. | have
said that il the shorthand reporter is
not here for the Journal, | have a report
Of my speech tonight, and | will fur
nish it to the Journal and ask that it APP
pear. and il it does not appear to-mor-
row morning then it is admitted as
though it was written in the broadest
and brightest capitals, ave can't stand
upon the issues that We made ycster-
day morning Applause. II they
don't publish what | have SAID to you
tonight, not in any inner room, but in
this temple, then Won may know they
admit that Thomas A. Hendricks is not
~disgracad, but that James \. Garfield is
d%lsgraCed. Applause