The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-14
TELEGRAPHIC
GarieII,s Letter.

New York, l3.-TEe Tribune says of
Gartield's letter: james A. Garfield was
well chosen as the republican standard
bearer, and his voice is the voice of the
American people.
The Times says: Garfield evidently
appreciates the fact that it is in his dec
larations rather than IN the platform
OF the convention that the country will
seek the principles which he represents.
On the tariff, Garfeld's expressions are
generalities of no value in themselves,
but interpreted in the light of his recent
course in Congress giving little cau;e for
expecting any aid from him in these
national reforms which are imperatively
demanded by the interests of the coun-
try, and by none more than by the great
body of unprotected and overlaxed man
ufacturers, neither in substance nor
form, is this part of his letter worthy of
his position, or calculated to strengthen
bin where he most needs strength. On
the whole the letter of Garfield is very
uneven, and fails to place him in that
commanding position which he might
easily have assumed. 1t is. however, in
its most essential parts, fair statement
Of the principles of bis party, aud will
be so accepted.
The World says: Garfeld's letter will
thus be a decided disappointment to
the stalwarts, and it is doubtful
whether it will please the independent
voters any better. The Independent
voters are not as a whole, opposed to
Chinese immigration, which is the most
important topic OF the letter, after the
improvement of the Mississippi, and they
are interested in civil service reform,
which Garfeld's letter dismisses in
manner almost as perfIInctory and con-
temptuous as that in which it was treated
by the Chicago convention. Gsrfeld's
letter, Tor whatever purpose Il was
framed, will certainly not attract votes,
and if it expresses the convictions of its
author, its author must be very badly off
for convictions. Garfield does not ad-
vance a single reason Why anybody
should vote to elect him president of the
United States, nor Is any such reason
known to u outside of his letter.
The Herald says: Notwithstanding
that the architects of the Chicago pla--
form did not plan it to hold Garfield, and
that some of its resolutions are In direct
contradiction of honorable passages in
his congressional career, he does not
shrink from stepping squarely on it. 1t
need not astoni:h anybody that in his
discussion of the national finances he
uses phrases which imply tolerance Of the
perpetuity of "greenba as q permar-
ent part of the public currency, that in
his comments upon the subject Of revenue
legislation he surrenders his former con-
victions Internationally tn high "PIU-
tectivou kallaoics, that IN mentioning the
topic of internal Improvements he slgni-
fes to the south and west his esgerness to
assist in expanding untold millions out OF
the public treasury in developing the
Mississippi Valley, that be assents 10 the
prescription of the Chinese in language
adapted to propitiate the hoodlums of the
Pacific Coast, and that he advocates the
| reception by the executive of the assist
ance" of Congress IN making appoint.
ments to Office an essential feature of civil
service reform.