The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-07

He will bring into the Senate
ability which is much needed there,
and will keep up the high rank which
has been established by the Republican
Senators of Ohio.-A Mormon agent from
Salt Lake is reported to be in Mexico nego-
tiating for permission to establish Nor
mon colony in that country, under a guar
antee of religious liberty. The Mexicans
are not over-sensitive as to the number or
character of a mans wives and the mission
is expected to succeed. All citizens of the
United States will certainly wish it the
most abundant success
1.-THE Enquirer says: General Garfield has
scarcely reached the age when the intel
lectual power is, on the average, mature.
He was forty-eight years of age on the 10th
OF November. Though still comparatively
young, be has been member of Congress
eight consecutive terms, and the present
Congress is the ninth in which be has sat
as member. He will have been eighteen
years in the public service in one end of
the Capitol when he moves over to the
other. Garfield is Ohio born. Twenty
three years ago he graduated at Williams
College The few years he lived and
studied at Williamstown, gentle village
OF quiet beauty, just over the edge of
Massachusetts,, did not alter the rural
habits, or change. save in the direction of
learning, the simple life which was
begun in Orange Ohio. Young Gar
field was twenty-five when he
graduated, late beginning most
boys would say. He worked his
way through college as he has worked his
way through life, and that process is
necessarily somewhat slow. Three years
after leaving college Garfield was men,
ber OF the Ohio Senate. He plunged at
once into politics. The years about 1855
were full of politics, and he caught the
step of the Western Reserve. Something
of school-teacher, something of a preach
er, something ofa soldier, something of a
lawyer, General Garfield has, nevertheless,
devoted practically his entire life to poll
tics. He will move from the House to the
Senate without lapse. He will
60 to the more stately branch
of the Congress thoroughly trained and
equipped by long years of experience in
public life which have been studiously em-
ployed. We predict that Garfeld's Sena-
Some men suffer by going from the House
to the Senate. He has much of the Sena-
torial manner and of the Senatorial tenn
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thoughtful, with delightful prejudice in
favor of scholarly things. He is sometimes
partisan to the last degree and his parti-
sanship has driven him into inconsistent
cies; but he will creditably represent his
party in Ohio in the Senate of the United
States.
Tho German Papers
The Volksfreund saws: General Garfield.
as was expected, won the victory in the
battle for successor of Thurman in the Sem
ate. Thurman's time expires March 4, 1881.
Since it is nearly certainty that Grant
will be nominated for the third time q
weighty responsibility rests with the DEM
ocracy.
The Volksblatt saws: 1t is gratifying
that the war for the Senatorship was ended
ont hindrance proceed with other business.
General Garfield is self-made man in the
| true sense of the word. Through his &C.
tivity, endurance and energy, he worked
himself up from canal boat laborer to q
United States Senator.
The Freie Presse says: Mayor Jacob
hit the nail on the head in vetoing the Or
dinance by which our city was for another
year to be lighted only partially during
the night.-The pardon boom in
Columbus goes OH uninterrupted
Governor Bishop is pardoning that
it is pleasure. 1t is lucky that
his term expires next Monday, otherwise
he might pardon every inmate in the Peni-
| tentiary.
Yesterdays Abend Post says: Senator
Fleischman has fitted up number of ele-
tgant rooms in the Neil House at his own
expense and appointed the colored Repre-
sentative, Williams, as his private Secre-
tary at salary of $50 per month. He
also directs his extensive business here
from Columbus, mostly by telegraph, and
still will show himself to be one of the
most active and efficient representatives in
the Legislature from Hamilton County.
The man is power who seeks his equal.
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