Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-10-06

| 10 a tnlng you VIII always nnu IL II IL D
there, and we Democrats are going to
stick to this man until he is sorry that
he was ever nominated. He may TINS
derstand that there is now enclrclirg
him popular judgement and public
conscience that ls more terrible than
The fate that awaits the wicked. Here
Is what the Jou ri says; "If this can
oe snustan.lated, then Garfield world
be dis aced." How stands he now ?
Aow between you and me-.-between
OR Intelligence and your conscience
and II 'nds ? Aye, more than that;How
IS It between you and yourselves Is
he disg-aceds Unless NJ. Hendricks
can substantate the charge he is d'ss
Q aced. 1 have accepted the issue Will.
out fear, and l stand heie IN the pre-
sence Of my reishbors; luproarous ape
plausc which lasted seve al m'nutesl
thank God 9nd your intelligence, am
not dis2. az ID. M Hend cks offered
no ploof - The charges in The Marion
sreech, ard has noLe since he can not
.. oduce apv. The charge is unsupporl-
ID bv arv avLence worthy Of belief,'
aud the-evldeuce is Ga,ield h'msel'.
That Is harder on Ga'ield than frythlug
[ ever said.
GAeFsELD AND THE ELECTORAL COM
MISSION.
Now. gentlemen, this man, that thus
came and cauduc;ed himself at the city
o. New Orleans, and helped to prepare
the case, and helped to get false re'
,urn IRON false aad perIured Returning
Board and he came on bis way to the
North as far as Bellair, and was over
iakeu by the lightning informing him
and bis co-conspirators as he sat ~ The
nalace car, and The decision that they
had procurcdin tie CITY ofNew Orleans.
( know how a lawyer feels when his
case has been submitted. know the
anxiety which dives sleep and quiet
away when lie Or property may depend
unon the result made by the jury. But
surely never expressed myself in re-
raId to that anxiety, as Garfield did
when he said they left New Orleans,
very anYtous about She result. and when
The result came all anxiety disappeared.
Hi, VOL K was completed, aud an honest
retu, was defeated. He came on 10
Washington, and then what do you
think he did when there was bill pro-
posed in Congress-the bill that did t.
nalIy pass? To appoint Commission,
composed of five members Ofthe House
and five members Of the Senate and
five members OF the Supreme COURT to
hold conference upon this great issue'
When that bill was pending Garfield got
IN and said, no, it must not be and
here are the reasons that he gave. Let
me give you, in his own words, II can,
1 is very fine pint and difficult to read
: .,eaklng Of the bill then pending " "
Coocress he says this was on the 25th
| January, he got back to Washington by
| the % of December, aud the bill came
up Gor consideration in the House.
whether this commission should be ap.
pointed to pass upon the right OF the
p. esident and Wee. President, and Gar
feld opposing this bill uses this language:
It assumes the right Of Congress to go
down into the colleges and inquire into
all the acts aud facts connected with
their work. 1t assumes the right oI
Coug :ess 10 90 down into the States to
~ev'ew the act of every officer, to- open
every ballot box, and to examine every
ballot cast by 100000 Of Americans
That was GarHeld's objection TO the bill
that fit did pass and that these fifteen
men appointed under the law, 1t would
be their duty to go back ofall techplcal-
ties and returns, and TO pass upon the
real facts of the case TO 90 into the
ballot box and see how the votes were,
and 10 decide the case upon the real
ld.h. And after that when the bill
nassed, aud he became one Of the h.>
teen, he voted every time that they
should not open the door to investigate,
but that the Law closed the door, aud
said that Kellogg's certificate and the
certificate of tue Returning Board was
stronger than law and the Constitution
aud the judgment of Congress. And
bis vpte was the eight vote against sew
en- that decided that they should not go
behind the Returning Board. What
would you think of me as a lawyer
YOU would hear me express my opinion
upon a question Of law; | have no
doubt about it and address the honored
Court and say it was the law, well fixed
aud decided, and the next day l came
to be member Of the tribunal to pass
upon individual and public right accord
ing to law, and that next day l say
what said before is not law, and | de-
eide against you upon the statement OF
the law different from that l had made
the day before. As Mr.. Julian said,
when he stood IN the House it was
Garfield speaking, but when he was up
on the Commission II was the party de-
manding power, money and office
Let me read you this oath he took. l
take 1t from Mr.. Julian's speechi Il,
James A. Garfield, do solemnly swear
that 1 will impartlally examine and con-
s.der all questions submitted 10 the
Commission of which | am a member,
and true judgment rendered thereon
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