Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-24

stays in the House eighteen years without
 even single delegate in district convention
 against him since his first nomination, is
 elected to the Senate by the unanimous choice
 of the Republicans, and his nomination to
 the presidency dissolves every squad of dis
 sent in the whole Republican party.
 And now Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart
 wake up. General Garfield was offered ten
 shares of stock in a corporation that was rep
 resented to be dealing in lands and houses 1 along the Pacific railroad. The offer was re-
 newed by MT. Ames A ring of not more
 than twenty men knew the secret plans of
 the Credit Mobilier then, and they only
 knew that the Pennsylvania corporation
 would ever have any direct interest in con- gressional legislation. General Garfield held l the matter under advisement. A year or | two afterward (see Judge Blacks letter. the character of the speculation was explained l and he told Ames he would not join in it.
 He never paid a dollar, never received
 certificate of stock, never had stock in 1 his name on the books of the company l and swears that he never received a divi-
 dend. Ames swears in half and half way
 that he paid him $329. Ames says there were
 several sums of that amount. He may have l given him the cash, he 't1nay" have given l him the check The cashier of the sergeant 1 at-arms swears he has 'tno dount'' he paid l the cash on that check to Ames himself The only other evidence to aid memory is found | Tn few memoranda by Ames, who used to 1 put figures on scraps and post them in a blind way in a pass-book. Garfield never | saw the eDtrias Oevar xxas told of them i'll
 Ames testified four years afterward that he had sold Garfield ten shares which had never | been transferred on the books, and that out l of the many fat dividends made thereon only
 a fraction of one had ever been paid to Gar | field! In every case but Garfeld's Ames produced 8 certificate of stock, or receipt, 1 or a check with name or initial on it. In l this case he produced no one of these classes of memoranda. In the meantime Ames was
 hard pressed by his associates in plunder to
 account for the stock placed in his hands, l and tried to do it by showing memoranda of l old sales to Congressmen that never knew | they owned it.
 1 The committee of investigation did find
 that General Garfield "agreed to purehase' the ten shares, and that he received S329 I
 but they also found that Mir. Ames never ex- plained to the members he dealt with the re- | lations between the Credit Mobilier and the Union Pacific, nor told them what dividends ! they could receive save that in some cases l he guaranteed ten per cent. The committee said it did not find that the members were ! aware of the object of Mir. Ames (to interest l them for the Union Pacifc) or that they had any other purpose than to make favorable investment or that they had been affected 1 thereby in their votes, or were aware that
 Mir. Ames had any, ''nor did either of them suppose he was guilty of any indeicacy in becoming 8 purchaser" The charge that stock was given in consideration of votes was wholly abandoned. But this is sufficient to indicate the value of the charges against Gen. eral Garfield.
 In the pamphlet review of the case he pub lished he closes:
 have shown that during the Presidential campaign did not deny having known any thing about the Credit Mobilier Company; that the statement published in the Cincin- natl Gazette, September 15, is substantially | in accord with my testimony before the com
 mittee; and finally, that during the progress of the investigation there was nothing in my conversation or correspondence with MT. Ames in any way inconsistent with the facts as given in my testimony. To sum it up in a word: Out of an unimportant business transaction, the loan Of trif1ing sum of money, as matter of personal accommoda- tion, and out of an offer never accepted, has arisen this enormous fabric of Accusation and suspicion.
 If there be citizen of the United States who is willing to believe that, for $329, I have bartered away my good name, and to falsehood have added perjury, these pages are not addressed to him. If there be one who thinks that any part of my public life has been gauged on so low level as these charges would place it, do not address him Il address those who are willing to believe that it is possible for man to serve the pub- lie without personal dishonor. I have en- deavored, in this review, to point out the means by which the managers of corpora tion, wearing the garb of honest industry, have robbed and defrauded a great national enterprise, and attempted, by cunning and deception, for selfish ends, to enlist in it's interest those who would have been the first to crush the attempt had their objects been known.
 If any of the scheming corporations or corrupt rings that have done so much to dis grace the country by their attempts to con- trol it's legislation have ever found in me a conscious supporter or ally in any dishonor- able scheme, they at fulli liberty to dis close it. In the discussion of the many grave and diffiult questions of public policy which have occupied the thoughts of the nation during the last twelve years I have borne some part and I confidently appeal to the public records for vindication of my con duct. JAMES A. GARFIELD.
 This is enough and more than the matter deserves
 imagine that know something of James A. Garfield from dozen years of acquaintance rI,, I7osI the House. I follow his Republican associates in saying that those who know him best do more than respect him-they love him. They had forgotten the Credit Mobilier wrangle and scandal until the guerillas of the coming battle raked it up. Their vehement answer is HE IS NOT THAT KIND OF MAN."
 Why, where he has been in the House he could have stolen himself rich, up to millions, but he is poor. In that thew Connecticut he in part represents, where in every town some citizens bear Connecticut names he has . district more Puritan than any now left in New England. You can throw a stone from one school house and church to the next It is district that has had but four represen- tatives in fifty eight years Elisha Whittlesey, of Connecticut, for sixteen years; Joshua R. NANehASS Ao1 1W0Aey years, oOHu huIcnlnS TOT four years, and James A. Garfield for eighteen years.
 When these scandals and the back-pay charges arose, he went home and faced all his people They believed him and stood by him. As said, for eight successive terms not even has one delegate appeared in conven- tion against him. The people have given him, according to the warmth of the fight, from {, 1000 to Il, 900 majority. At his last election they gave him over 10, 900. This petty prose- cution was submitted to as good jury as aay in the land, the verdict was given six years ago, and the case was forgotten.
 From childhood enriched by the prayers of mother worthy to bear such children, md whose trembling steps it is his happiness 70 attend, his soul.e has been full of desires o do something to make the world better Or his having lived. His mind is grand
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