The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-06-11
GARFIELD AND ARTWUR.

The Chicago convention completed
its labors Oh Tuesday by nominating on
the thirty-sixth ballot General James A.
Garfield of Ohio, for president, and on
the first ballot, Gen. Chester A. Ar
thur, Of New York, for vice president.
Gen. Garfield, at the head Of the
ticket, is admirable standard-bearer for
the party. A tried and true Rcpubli-
can, high-mindcd gentleman, refined
scholar, an able statesman, he is an
ideal candidate. He is a self made
man in the best sense of the term, and
tho honors which have crowded upon
him rapidly and unsought, show the
feeling he inspires emong those who
know him. AS the leader. of the minor
ity in the House of Representatives he
has shown great ability, and to him is
due in no small degree the defeat of
much unwise and partisan legislation
introduced by the majority.
Gen. Garfield lives at Mentor, Ohio,
and was born at Orange, in that state
in 1881, so that lie is forty-nine years
old. Hin graduated at Williams college
in 1856, taught school for some time,
then studied and practised law. His
teaching was at Hiram college at Port
age, Ohio, of whicn he was president,
and he occasionally officiated as at
Campbellite minister at the same time.
In 1859 he was a member of the Ohio
state senate. Upon the breaking out
of the war in 1861, he promptly entered
the Union army, going out as colonel
Of the Forty second Ohio regiment.
His service in the army was highly
creditable, and he came out with the
rank of major general. lie was first
elected to the thirty-eighth Congress
from the nineteenth (Ashtabula) dis
trict in Ohio, and he has been constantly
re elected since, making, with the ex-
piration of the present Congress on the
4th of March next, a continuous term
of eighteen years. service in the House
of Representatives, where he has long
been one of the leaders on the republi-
can side of the House. Last winter the
Ohio legislature elected Gen. Garfield
to the United States Senate in place of
Senator Thurman, and had he not been
called mp higher, he would have taken
his seat in that body on the 4th OF March
next.
Gen. Arthur ia n Vermonter by birth.
native of Fairfield, Franklin county.
He ia fifty years old. He graduated
at Union collge, and after year or two
spent in teaching he went to New
York city and became al stu
dent of law. lie bebame a successful
practitioner, and early distinguished
himself in fugitive slave case In which
he and VIM. NJ. Evarts were successful
In defending the cause OF the slave
Gen. Arthur was delegate to the Sarato-
ga convention at which was founded
the Republican party. He held posi-
tions on the staff of Governor Morgan
before the outbreak of tho war. and
soon after no received the post OF omar
termaster general. He distinguished
himself in this position Sy his strict
honesty and integrity. lie was moor
man when he took the place, but he
never would accept any OF tho MINER
GUS presents offered him, and though
he had the opportunity of making mil
lions unquestioned he retired from the |
place poorer than he entered 1t. After
the expiration OF Gov. Morgan's term
OF office Gen. Arthur returned to his
law practice with his partner, In which |
ne became very successful. Gen.
Grant nominated him to the collector. |
ship of the port of New York, and
renominated him four years later, An
unexampled honor In the history OIL
the port. lilo was removed by Presi- |
dent HAYES in July, 1878, because of !
his inbility to come up to the civil |
service reform ideas of the administra-
ton, but both President HAYES and
Secretary Sherman bore official witness
to his integrity and purity. He Is a
good man and true Republican, and
though his tilt with the administration
and his connection with Conkling NAV
diisplease political purists, he is a man
whom no one ought to hesitate to
support.