Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-16

Pens q Startling i etter to Garfield 0
Has Passed Into the Keeping OF Enc
mics to Play the Part Of Chief Execu-
uvs-How Garfield Tracked the Thieves
ofthe National Treasury to tho Thresh-
old of the Executive Mansion.
WAsHISGroN, November l5.-Donp
Piatt in yesterdays Capital, published
an open letter addressed to the Hon.
James A. Garfield, which, owing to the
friendly relations known to exist be-
tween these two gentlemen, has pro
duced decided sensation, and has been
the theme Of conversation in the hotel
lobbies to-day. The letter is quite
lengthy. The following are brief ex-
tracts therefrom:
MY DEAR GENERAL-Now that this
senseless political row is over. an! you
are the President-elcct, | venture, be-
fore you are buried in that mansion,
through the thick wall and plate glass Of
which no word OF truth ever reaches
the incumbent, 10 write YOU a lew
words in the same intimate and friendly
spirit that marked our intercourse
when both occupied a cheap boarding
house, when | carried my fortune on
the slender nib OF my pen as newspa-
per correspondent, aud YOU sought to
support Yourself and family on the mea-
gre psy oi Congressman go back to
the time when you gladly accepted my
aid and sympathy in your troubles, and
my heartfelt congratulations in your tri-
umphs, and yours. | feel more anx
iety about you, my friend, now that You
are fortunate, than in the darkest hour
Of your life when life itself seemed SO
horrible that an escape from il was a
temptation. You have passed from the
hands of friends to the keeping OF cne-
mics, to play the part Of Chief Executive
for four years"
He tells General Garfield that he is
not only no politician, but is hated by
the politicians, AMI that history never
has and prob IDLY never will put on
record such an infamy as thlt upon
which he was elected. I'VE have non,
us certain persons who are bent ON
changing the form OF our present Gov
ernment They seek to make the Presi-
dency lie tenure, and under the name
of stronger government escap, the re.
turn of power to the people. You
know the man who is to serve their pur-
pose in the treasnnttlo scheme. They
bank upon his military record and sup
posed popularity"
Mr.. F,alt warns Mr.. Garfield against
the politicians, who are determined, as
he has indicated, TO change the form of
the Government, and hopes that he will
have nothing to do with them, excep:
l)oking u breaking their power. He
uses the following language, which has
attracted more attention than any Other
part OF the letter:
at was your committee that investi
gated that National shame called Black
FRIDAY wherein Fisk, Gould and Grant
sought through use OF the National
Treasury to enrich themselves at the
expense of thousands OF honest mea. IL
is not INV purpose 10 recall the details
OF that iniamy. The chief crimlna, was
tracked to the threshold OF the Tx.
ecutive Mansion, aud your con-
mittee passed resolution cIl'-
,uy upnn the Presi MT Il appear
bef ne The committee and defend HIM
sell from the danning proof tina; made
him the chief conSpiratOr. The nlgnt ot
the day that the resolution WAS passed
you called with i; up,n the President
il was alter midnight before yov left the
White House, amaz ii and sick AZ heart
and at your suggestion that very day the
res s)lut on was revoked. / need not
saw ths, you and know why that reso-
luton was so suddenly abandoned. The
fact that under the circumstances it was
revoked, tells the whole story. The
very Democrats Of the committee shrank
fro n the threatened exposure.
The letter closes as follows:
Bat you are not a great man. lou
read in your brary OF heroic achieve
ments. Your soul swells over the poetic
expressions. You are iuli o; thought
and impulse, and all ends in support
Of men you despise and party YOU
have nothing in common"