Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-08-25


held convention and took open groun,
against him We reproduce the record
ON the eth day of september 1876, the Re
publicans of the Nineteenth Congressiona
District of Ohio, opposed to the return o
james A. Garfield 20 Congress, met in con
yention 40 Warren, Ohio, and organized by
olectmg Dr. C. W. Ensign, OF Lake, fo
chairman and l.. ID. Brown, of Portage
and Geoeo L. Paine, of Lake, secretaries.
ON motion, &. y. futile and j. b. Bur
rows, OF Lake; Il. L. Perry, of Ashtabula
L. ID. Brown, of Portage; ana {. ID. Crazy
OF Lake, were chosen n committee on reso
buttons, and II. H. Hine, VIM. l.. Ilullett, Il
Bosworth, j. :. Easement, b. y. Perry ant
Il. NJ. hurry were appointed a committed
ON conference for representative.
The Committee on Resolutions. after d
long whereas said:
Therefore, be It by this independent con
vcntion OF Republicans of the Nineteenth
congressional district of Ohio resolved,
THAT dishonesty, fraud and corruption
have become SO common, notorious and oh
ViOus in the administration of our national
government as to be not only humiliatine
and disgracciul in the estimation of every
honest and intelligent citizen, but TO imperil
bility of the government Itself.
. 2--R.solrcd That this deplorable condi.
tiOn Of the administration OF our national
government is largely due To the election
To Office and continuance therein of cor
rupt, dishonest and Ncnal men.
S.-Rsso'rsd. That Il is useless and hypo.
critical for any political party TO declare
for reform IN its platforms, papers, and pub
lie addresses, while IL insists ON returning
to high official place and power men who
hu " A.
very schemes of fraud which render re-
form necessary and urgent; that to send
those TO enact reform who themselves need
reform 10 make them honest Is worse than
setting the blind 10 lead the blind.
4.-Rssoirta, That there is no man to-day
officially connected with the administra-
ton of our national government against
whom are preferred more and sraver
charges of corruption than publicly made
ana obungantly sustained against JAMES y.
GARFIELD. the present representative of
this congressional district, and the nominee
of the Republican convention for rc.clcc-
ton.
Ers1lrt3-That since he first entered
Congress 90 this day there Is scarcely an
instance In which rings ana monopoliCs
have been 0rraycd against the interests OF
the people, that he has been found active
i'm speech OF vote upon the side of the lat
ter, but in almost every case he has been
the ready champion of the rings and mon
opOlies.
G.-Resolrsd, That we especially charge
him with Ncnality and cowardice in per-
uniting Benjamin I. Butler TO attach to
the appropriation bill of 1873, that ever TO
be remembered intamy, the salary steal,
and in speaking and voting for that meas
IRE ON its final passage And charged him
with corrupt disregard of the clearly cN-
pressed demand of his constituents that he
should vote for its repeal and with evading
such demand by voting for the Hutchinson
amendment.
1.-Elsoired. That we further arraign and
ucnOuncG him for his corrupt connection
with.thc Credit Mobilier, for his false dc.
mails thereof before his constituents, for his
pcrjured denial thereof before a committee
of his peers in Congress, for fraud upon his
constituents in circulating among them "A
pamphlet purporting 10 set forth the finding
of said committee and the evidence against
him when in fact material portions thereof
Were omitted and garbled.
S.-Rssolrr3, That we fulher arraign and
charge him with corrupt bribery i'm selling
his official influence as Chairman of the
Committee ON appropriations for $4,000 to
the DcGOlyCr pavement ring 10 aid them in
securing g contract from the board of pub
lie works OF the District of Columbia, sell.
ing III. influence 10 aid said ring in impOs.
ing upon the people of said district pave.
mCnt which Is almost worthless at price
three times its cost, rs sworn 10 by one of
the contractors: selling his influence to aid
said ring in procuring a contract, 10 pro-
cure which IL cOrruptly paid $4,000 "for
influence selling his influence in mat.
ter that involved no question of law, upon
the shallow preteXt that he was acting rs
lawyer; selling his influence in n manner
50 palpable and clear as TO be so found and
declared by an impartial and competent
court upon an issue solcmnly tried.
g.-ReS0'rt8, That we arraign him for the
fraudulent manner in which he attempted
i'm his speech delivered at Warren, ON the
18th day OF september, 1874, 10 shield him.
self from just ccnsurc in receiving the be.
fore named - 600, by falsely representing in
said speech, that the Congress of the United
states was not responsible for the acts of
said board nor the United States liable for
the debts created thereby, when i'm truth
and in fact, rs he then knew, the said board
of public works ana officers of said district
We're but the agents and instruments of
Congress, and the United States was res
ponsiblc for the Indebtedness by them
created
ID. sYissd. That we arraign him for
gross dereliction OF duty rs a member of
Congress i'm falling 10 bring TO light and OK.
pose the corruption and abuse in the sale OF
post-traderships, for which the late Score.
tarv Bclknan was impeached when the
same was brought to his knowledge by Gen
IIazen I'm lS12, and can only account for il
upon the suppOsition that his manhood was
dCb0uChcd by the corruption funds then by
him just received and in his own purse.
u.-Re,oirsd. That the laws of 1873, known,
as the net dCmonctising silver was enact
cd I'm the interest of gold rings, bond hold.
crs and capitalists, and against taxpayers,
and without their advice or knowledge
and this act, by a single blow, has seriously
crippled our power 10 resume specie pay
mcnts or pay our national debt in coin
that no sufficient reason has yet been given
FOR this legislation, 80 dishonest and palpa.
bic in its discrimination in favor of tho
small credit class and capitalists, and
against the great debtor class and the in.
dustrial interests of the country; that
JAMES 4. GARFIELD, during the last session
. of Congress, was the conspicuous defender
of this crafty attempt to sacrifice the in
tcrcsts of the people to bondholders and
foreign capitalists: that when il is proposed
10 restore the old silver dollar TO the place
il had held during our history as n nation as
a legal tender for all debts public and pri
waite, he denounced the attempt "a swindlC
on so grand scale az to make the achieve
mcnt illustriousn and as n "Schemc 81
vast rascality and colossal swindling.r
i2.-R.solrsd That neither great ability
and experience, nor eloquent partisan dis
cussiOn Of the dead issues Of the late wal
will excuse or justify past dishonesty ant
corruption or answer as guaranty OF in
tegrity and purity forthc future.
Is -Rssolred. That. believing the state
ments in the foregoing resolutions set forth
we cannot, without stultifying our man
hood and dcbasing our self respect, sup
port nc the polls the nominee of the Rcpub
lican convention of this district for rc-clcc
ton, nor can we without surrcndering Ou
rights as electors and citizens, sit by ant
see man so unworthy again sent TO re
present MS in the national legislature: tina
strong I'm the conviction of right, we cal
upon the electors Of the district, irrespec
tive of former or present party attachment
who desire honest government, To unit
with rs In nm earnest and faithful effort 4,
defeat the election Of GIN. GARFIELD, an,
. elect i'm his stead an honest and reliable
man.