The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-09-16
REPUBLICAN "MuDn


be kept prominently before the peo-
pie during the entire canvass, is the
fact that all the charges preferred
against Gen. Garfield are proved by
the records of Congress and by the
leading journals of his W party,
and that these opinions were express
ed when all the facts and evidence
against Garfield were new and fresh,
and the enormity of his offenses not
toned down by the lapse of years, or
when there was no special induce
ment to wrong him or ruin him with
villainous calumny. In 1873, out of
the "fullness of their own hearts,"
these anti-"Demo- Confederate" pa
pers spoke facts and truths of their
present candidate for President, and
Democratic editors have no need to
do anything but turn to the columns
of these anti Demo- Confederate"
journals to gather evidence sufficient
to convict him of bribery, perjury
and corruption, and if these editors
did not lie about him like a gang of
scoundrels, when there was not the
slightest temptation to utter IN
truths, every honest Republican
should turn away in disgust from
supporting him for the highest office
in the gift of the American people.
FOf course WI don't expect these
facts to move or sway political
knaves II old party barnacles, who
are ready at any moment to sell their
principles for the prospect of pay, or
the opportunity of thrusting their
unhallowed hands into the peoples
treasury. They are lost to all argu-
ment or honor; but we do hope that
they will touch the conscience of
every thinking and intelligent man
into whose hands they may fall, and
put him to rejecting as to whom he
shall give his suffrage as the ruler Of
our Nation--the individual with a
pure and unsullied record-the pa
triot and the statesman and
the soldier, WINFIELD S. HAN
: COCK, or the man whom by the testi-
mony Of his own party, is smirched
! and despatched all over with brib.
: cry and corruption-JAMEs A. GAR.
/! FIELD.
We now ask these honest Repub
licans to read the following from the
New York Independent, a religion:
journal of Republican faith. Herr
. is what it said, July S0th, 1874:
"The most sterling moral integrit.
should be required. Let electors lool
very sharply at charges which affec
the purity of their servants. An hon
i est man will not shrink from the thor
ough scrutiny of his official acts.
Let US take an example. The Nine
teenth Congressional District of Obi,
has been represented for twelve year
by James A. Garfield. He is one o
t the ablest and most promising mem
bers of Congress. Heis q man of IN
common culture, a graduate of al
Eastern college, was for some tim
e principal of an excellent school il
Ohio, and a preacher, we believe il
the denomination which supporte'
it, and afterward a lawyer. He ha
risen rapidly in Congress, until he oc
cupies the Craftsmanship of the com
mittee which is second in importance
\ in the House. His constituents hav,
e been very proud of him, and have ha'
), reason for their pride.
"But were we citizens of the Nine
teenth District Of Ohio we should see
of Mr.. Garfield very clear explana
tions of his conduct before c%onsentini
to vote for his reelection. We refe
only to facts in his lale career, whic
n we judge of simply from the uncon
e tradicted record.
Eve cannot forget that he wa
> more deeply involved in the Credi
b Mobilier difficulty than any othe
6 member of the House of Representa-
tives-excepting, of course, Ames an,
Brooks. After such an experience h
ought to have been extremely can
~ tious. But the testimony taken il
" the investigation of the District o
Columbia frauds shows that Mr.. Gar
# field received 5000 Tor his-aid in get
ting through a pavement contract &C
cepted by the District Government
A Mr.. Parsons, a notorious jobbel
q wade nv, orr,,paant fN. tho noyfp
company, and then got MI. CARTEL
to make a further argument and t.
use his personal influence in its favor
OF course, Mr.. Garfield's argumen
was successful. How could it b
otherwise? He was Chairman of tn
Committee on Appropriations. Eve
ry cent of money voted to the Dis
trict had to come through him. Shep
herd could not afford to refuse hin
anything he asked, and Mr.. CARTEL
knew it when he asked and received
for his services a fee which woul,
have been e~xtravagant but for hi
official position.
"That is, so far as the case is know
to the public, for $5,000he was willin
to sell to the Mcclellan contractor hi
- influence as a legislator. For $500
Il he was willing to use his position q
n guardian of the Treasury of the ma
ton to make the District Government
u award a profitable contract. So fl
II as most men car see, $1,000 was a
% extravagant price for any servic
which Mr.. Garfield could render tina
u did not depend OF his official position
and, if we can judge, the breakin
q away of the Williamsburg dam n
more clearly indicated the worthless
e ness of it's construction than does sue.
r an act as this, so far unexplained, tn
9 giving way of the moral foundation