The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-16
IT IS GARFIELD.

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council at Chicago. The Convention has
been, in many regards, the most notableever
held in the country. On one side the coun-
try beheid nearly one-half of the delegates
defsntly arrayed in favor of an Empire
against the Republic, self govern
traditions which men of all parties,
since the days OF Washington, have held as
law, more binding than statutes. General
Grant, by q combination Of circumstances,
became the embodiment OF the monstrous
Republican idea. He had been in Office and
had displayed the essential requirements for
carrying into effect the great crime against
the liberties Of the people, and the integrity
of the Republic. Silent, stolid, I'M
scrupulous and tenacious, such
men as Conkling, Cameron and
Logan, were confident that with Grant in
Office the pillars of the Republic could be
carried away and the hopes of the people
wrecked by comp d'etat, which they could
aid in establishing. The press of the coun-
try pointed out the danger; but still these
Republican enemies of the Republic main
tanned their ground and fought for their
reasonable schemes. They started out with
504 votes for treason, and gained steadily I'M
til they recorded 313 votes for the Empire
and against the Republic. 1t was open,
bold, defiant treason, before which the coun-
try stood appalled,. 1t was Republican
treason, and included in its embrace almost
majority Of all the delegates of the
Republican party in National Convention
assembled. The opposition to this infamous
scheme was by men who, as Conkling well
said, were opposed to q third term, because
they wanted first-term. They cared moth
ing for principle; nothing for the traditions
of the Republic. They we're simply spoil
seekers, mercensry men, as ready as Grant
and his managers to engage in any strata
gems, no matter what the consequences
might be, provided they could secure the
swug For eight days these men confronted
each other. and hurled into each others
teeth charges involving crimes which defy
exaggeration. Such spectacle, so humii-
ating and so degrading was never before
presented for the contemplation OF the
American people. Out of this seething
mass of corruption James A. Garfield,
has been named as the Republican candidate
for President. Garfield is a man of more
han average abilities. He stands as th
equal OF the most dangerous man in the Re-
publican party. He has been long time in
Congress, and was recently elected by the
Ohio Legislature to a seat in the United
States Senate. He is the successor of Joshua
R. Giddings in the House of Representatives,
and notwithstanding the most damn
ing proofs of his venality and
jobbery in legislation, his constituents have
chung to him and pushed him forward.
Garfield is known to be one of the most cor
rupt men in Congress. His record lie satu-
rated with legislative iniquities, and from
the day that he entered public life he has
been the alder and abettor of the most pro
nounced rascalities that were ever engi
neered through Congress. The construction
of the Union Pacific Railroad furnished
Garfield with an opportunity, as Ii did Col
fax and other leading Republican rascsls, to
make money, and they awaited themselves of
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essary shelter for robbing the Government.
When Cakes Ames obtained control of the
machine, be found Garfield ready to engage
in the swindle, and the rascal at once be-
came a party to the astounding iniquity.
The first disclosures of the great swindle.
were made by the New York Sun in 1872,
which says:
A Presidential election was then pending,
and they all vehemently denied any connec-
ton with the fraud. Garfields statement was
more explicit and holder than that of any of
his confederates in the crime. An inyestiga-
ton was ordered by the House soon after the
meeting OF Congress; the examination Of wit
nesses began on December IL, 1872. At first
Cakes Ames was disinclined to make any ex-
posture; but when the incriminated members
combined to swear him down and to free hem
selves by rank perjury, his blood warmed
quickly, and he determined to let the truth be
known, though in the end there was much
concealed.
Garfield submitted to the Committee pre-
pared statement on January IA, 1873:
"I never owned, received or agreed to re-
ceive any stock of the Credit Mobilier, or of
the Union Pacific Railroad, nor any dividend
or profits arising from either OF them"
Ames was recalled January %, 1872, and tes-
titled to the stock he had issued to Garfield
the dividends allowed him, and the balance of
money paid into his hands, which Garfield
pretended was sloan" He submitted a
memorandum of the account in detail. 1t
came to the knowledge of the Committee that
Garfield had visited Ames with the object of
inducing him to retract modify his testi-
mony, and he was re-examined on the 18th of
January, as follows:
Question-You may state whether, In con-
versation with you, Mr.. Garfield claims, as he
claimed before as, that the only transaction
between you was borrowing $500? Answer
No, sir; he did not claim that with me.
Estate all you know in reference to 1t,
Al told him he knew very well that that
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