Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-04

from il, wrote him besceching him to atand
fast upon the defense he had made to me, but
the party would not let him take it. The ac-
cusatieu struck at the highest heads in the
House and the Senate. They had bu6 one
answer, and that was positive denial of the
fact that any stock had ever been taken by
them. Gen. Garfield, for the benefit of others,
united in making false defense. Their wit
ness failed them, and they were all convicted" /"
THAI is to say, Garfield, consulting Judge
Black as friend, told him that he had agreed
to take the stock and had taken dividends upon
II, and then, having done this in private, he
went publicly before the Poland committee on
January IA, 1878, and swore upon the Gospels:
II gever O,pned received, or agreed to Teceive Qnu
stock Of the Credit Nobilier, or of the Union Pa
cVlc railroad; nor any dividends.or profits oris-
ing from either Of them."
And this crime of perjury Garfield commit
ted, rs his friend and adviser holds, because
the Republican party required it of him. He
would not have perjured himself on his own
motion, bat be was ready to commit the crime
when ordered by Others. For his party"
says Judge Black, he is willing to doany wrong
which shall promote their interests, or play
any card, how false soever, which will win
them power. Ifedche'y TO his country is fidelity
10 his faction"
And now this man, whose own chosen friend
now once more comes forward TO certify that
he committed perjury before the Poland COM
mlttee, and is perfectly ready to perform the
blacker deed of betrayIng his country when
his party require it, is the candidate of that
party for President of the United States! Let
the country reject the traitor and the perjGrer,
as his weakness and his baseness deserve.
Now, fellow citizens, I ask you to contras.
this impeached candidate of the Republican
party with Gen. Hancock, the heroic, the
pure, the law respecting citizen and officer,
who leads the Democratic hosts in the pend
ing political contest. In the latter, there
can be found no departure from the strict
rule of right, in the whole of the long years
devoted to the service of bis country. When
vested with despotie power, after the sup
preston of the rebellion to which he had so
largely contributed, he declared his deter
mination TO subordinate the military to the
civil law, in order No. 40, and in his
celebrated letter to Gov. Pease,
which have covered him with imperishable
glory, and which will be quoted az patriotic
and eininently sound in doctrine, so long as
the republic exists. Let us do all in our power
for the election of the gallant Hancock to
the Presidency, and we shall share in the
triUmphs of tho result. That result will be
q strict enforcement of the law without fear
or favor, and, restoration Of harmony be-
tween the sections.
l have defined my position in my letter of
acceptance, upon all pending questions of
national and State policy, SO that it is TN
necessary to consume your time in the
repetition. 1 can only say, that if elected to
Congress, will devote myself with the same
zeal have heretofore manifested, TO ad-
vancing the interests of my entire constitu-
ency, and of the public generally.
ALBERT sCHEFFER.
At the conclusion of Gen. SibIey's re-
marks the band gave selection, at the end
of which President Durant, addressing the
meeting, said: ~ now have the pleasure of
to you Mr.. Albert Scheffer, now
of st. Paul, but q former citizen of our CITY,
and its true friend on all occasions. The
was received with uproar-
Gus applause, at the conclusion of which Mr..
Schetfer made one of his characteristic talks,
every sentence of which contained declare-
ton cf the reasons inducing him as buai-
ness man to support Hancock, English and
Sibley at the present time.
Mr. ScheHer commenced his remarks by
the statement that he laid no c!aims to being
an orator, but as citizen with business ill.,
terests at stake he would attempt to give in
q feW'Words his reasons fof supporting the
Of TIE Democratic party. The
party of the other part had and were en-
to create tbs impression that
the present prosperity of the country
would be endangered by Republican
defeat. The idea was preposterous, simply
bosh. Much had been said and written
about the fraud of the last Presidential
election. ALI men knew and nearly all were
now willing to acknowledge that s. j. Til
den was honestly elected President four
years ago. There was great excitement at
the time as we all know, but the party hay
ing more than 100000 majority of the popu-
lar vote, and as it then and still believes,
majority of the electoral college, was de-
frauded of its rights. There was no at
tempt to redress the wrong by revoluting
means, and the business interests of the
country were in no way interferred with
or jeopardiZed. The man not
elected, but dishonesty 50 declared, was seat
ed In the Presidential chair, where he still
remains by virtue of ths fraudulent decision
of the famous electoral commission of 5 TO
z. And this four years has been among the
most prosperous in the history of the coun-
try. On this point, and as illustrative of the
fallacy OF the cry of danger to the business
interests OF the country through the success
or failure of either of the great political par
ties, l invite your attention to the following
reference to that election, as viewed from q
Mexican standpoint, in which q
newspaper, hostile to Lerdo, recently elected
president of the republic, criticises the re-
public of the United States:
Quoting a statement of Lerdo's to the
effect that his party intended to introduce a
system based on the principles of the govern
ment of the United States of North Amer
lea, that paper proceeds to draw compar-
ison between the systems governing the two
as follows:
Two years ago, rs is usual every four wears,
the presidential election took place. Senior
1llden received majority of 250,000
votes. but the party in pos
session of the governmental powers, favored
the opposing candidate, threatened to use the
army in his behalf, and compromise was final
Iy agreed upon to the effect that fifteen Of the
most honorable men should decide the aues-
tion at issue. These fifteen honorable proved
their honesty and fairness by voting in the
high court exactly as they had voted at the
election. Thus highly honorable were these,
the fifteen most honorable men that could be
found in Sodomi
Ooh AuBAo-SaAou Irlenus, 30 proud OF their
self government, are at present engaged in ex-
amining into the iniquity, and are bringing to
the surface cess pool of fraud and corrup-
tion such has never disgraced the annals of the
lowest village of either North or South Amer
lea.
No, Senor Lerdo, if you wish to capture the
vote of free and enlightend Mexicans you must
needs point to a nobler example than that fur
nished by the corrupt, anarchicel, despotio
Republic of the North. We are not as vet so
debased as to be willing to exchange our 'bulI
hight for your fist prize fight our religious
freedom fer your Methodist State church nor
the heir loom Of a Bolivar either for an AusIri.
an scepter or for sham republic subseryient
to shoddy aristocracy.'
This is sharp criticism, drawn with a free
pen, but it serves to show The nature of the
wrong done the Democratic party, and
through it the American people, and most
effectually answers the charge that danger