Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-07-01

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respondent has asked US to say something
charges against General Garfield. With which
the opposition press has been comforting it.
self We have not been in haste to enter
upon an unnecessary defensive campaign,
to which our enemies 20 eagerly invite US,
and We still see no occasion for it. The
common law justly secures every man against
being tried for his life twice for the same
offence. Common sense on our part, com
mon justice to the accused, should equally
secure him against being twice tried for
what is dearer than life-his personal honor.
The charges, which the surprising excel
lence OF the Chicago nomination forced Dem
ocrsts TO fall back upon as their only weap-
on. are seven-years-old charges. General
Garfield has been tried upon them, deliber-
ately and exhaustively tried when the
witnesses we're all alive, when the whole
American people we're aroused and attentive
to every minute detail. when the facts were
all before them A. in the glare OF calcium
light tried after, not before an election.
when even partisans became critical and aus
picious, and every influence tended to the
sevcrest Judgment. He vas tried before the
most conscientious and the most exacting
jury in the United States. the serious, God
fearing voters Of the old Joshua r. Gid
dings Congressional District in Ohio. They
sc, Giddings aaide on . suspicion. They
demanded Garfeld's own resignation on the
first report that by . single vote ou, Of
long series he had given incidental aid to
the Salary Grab. They tolerate no moral
flaws in their Representative. The case was
first heard fully under oath in Washington.
Then their Representative WAS brought face
TO face with them. They heard him through.
They heard all his opponents could say
heard it with infinitely more precision than
is possible now. after the lapse of time. the
death Of witnesses. the loss Of color and de-
dali. Then they sat upon the case. The
result was a verdict of adauittal. They sent
their Representative back to Congress By an
overwhelming majority they have kept him
their majority for him every time they have
had chance TO vote for him. To-day he
represents the Giddings Distric, in Congress
by one Of the largests malorities that any
Congressman in the United States can boast
Of,
More even than that His NOS, conspic-
uous opponent in Ohio vas the Hon. Allen
G. Thurman. then and now United States
Senator from the State, then and nov one
Of the foremost Democratic leaders, and
Presidential candidate. Alter General Gar
field had been heard, Senator Thurman went
out Of his way, in partisan speech on the
stump in the campaign, to declare that the
evidence showed no wrong doing ON Gar
aeld's part. Still more. There - - no bit
,srer Democratic newspaper in the United
States than the only morning paper Of tha,
~, fhar, nnhi,sbal IN fbt. ctf TN N<.r
York World Tha; journal quoted Senator
Thurman's manly reference to Garfield, ap-
proved the sentiment and appiauded the
utterancs. Still more The most conspic-
uous Democrat in private life then or now
residing a, the Capital, as well as one Of the
bitterest partisans in the country, vas Judge
Jeremiah S. Black. OF his own motion,
without any solicitation or any reason save
his own manly sense OF justice and fair play,
Judge Black wrote letter for publication,
declaring Garfield absolutely blameless.
And finally, after the matter had been
discussed in every conceivable phase. Gen
eral Garfield went before the people Of Ohio
distinctly as a candidate for United States
Senator. He was the leader in the canvass,
and he faced the voters in every district.
When the Legislature thus chosen vas as
sembled. the Republican caucus, listening to
the name OF no other candidate nominated
him BY acclamation. and he Was commits
stoned to the Senate, the unanimous choice
Of his party-a compliment no Republican
Senator from Ohio ever before received.
That case seemed to be closed We are
in no haste TO reopen IT, merel y TO oblige the
party OF Jefferson Davis, VIM. ". Tweed
and Samuel ]. Tilden. By no futile mud
throwing at n candidate like Garfield shall
they be permitted to divert public attention
from their own position and record-from
the unnnmbered woes that befel the Nation
under their rule, or from the dangers tha,
threaten il. through An evil fate. they should
ever attain rule again. But whenever We
can see tha, the honest, fair minded people
Of the country are really dissatisfied with
the hearing the case has had and want to
try it over again, we promise that there will
be no shrinking from the ordeal, no evasion
of the facts, and no doubt about the verdict.
-Ner York Tribune.