Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-06-26

pared to prove against. General Garfield
'he following charges: He is opposed to
the immigration Of Chinese;
le was interested in the De Goyler
pavement swindle; he was a shack sal
ary grabber," and accepted stock in the
Credit Mobiler scheme, and then per-
Iured hi ielf concerning it.
The Congressional Record shows that
Garfield is hostile to any change in the
treaty with China by <his
vote to kill the bill to restrict Chinese
immigration, and by his ballot afterward
to sustain Hayes veto Of the bill, passed
by Democratic Congress. Upon this
point we challenge contradiction, as we
do, in fact, respecting all the following
charges. That he was interested in the
Goyler pavement swindle, a short history
of the scheme, taken from an exchange
will amply show:
In the spring Of 1872, Boss Shepherd,
Grants chief manager of the District of
Columbia colossal jobbery, with millions
in it, awarded to De Goyler and Nc
Clellan, of Chicago, the contract of put
ting down, in Washington City, 200, 900
yards of wood pavement, at the enor-
nous price of s. so per yard. Good,
honest and responsible contractors offer
ed to do the work for 81 so per yard,
and the superintendent of the contract
ors himself su> -equently stated under
oath that 81 so was a good pri :e.
Hence there was clear profit or steal Of
81 per yard for every yard in the 200,-
000-or the total sum of 100000. To
get the iniquitous job through Congress
for the appropriation of it had to be
made, money had to be used. Garfield
was chairman on the committee on ap-
preparations. July II, 1872, as it was
afterward proven before an investigat-
ing committee, James A. Garfield took
$4,000 as his share of the corruption
fund to favorably report the appropria-
tion. 1t was a bribe, nothing better,
and no amount Of partisan whitewash
can hide this damning fact.
Respecting the charge that he was a
"back salary grabber," We will condense
few facts that may easily be found in
full in the records Of the House for 1873.
In February of that year, Ben Butler
introduced n bill to double the Presi-
dents salary, and increase the pay of the
Vice President, Cabinet officers, Justices
of the Supreme Court, Senators and
Representatives It met with disfavor,
but on the last day of the session, when
everything was pell nell and in chaos,
James A. Garfield reported the bill back
to the House with the Presidents salary
raised from $4,000 to $4,000 a year,
and the Senators and Representatives
pay increased from So, 900 to 81, 500, to
be reckoned two years back. This was
the shack salary grab bill'' as it was
then stigmatized, and showed wereir
Bold Ben was even out Butlered by ths
member from Ohio.
r The Credit Mobilier swindle, which
has made the administration of General
Grant so nauseus to the country, is one
other of the disgraceful schemes in which
we find the Republican candidate for the
Presidency figuring prominently.
"On the l4th day of January, 1873,
says the San Francisco Examiner, "Jas
A. Garfield, Republican member o.
Congress from the Ashtabula District
Ohio, and now Republican candidate fo,
President of the United States, made .
statement to Congressional committee
in regard to the Credit Mobilier expos
ure, to this effect: I never owned, re
ceived. or agreed to receive any stock o
the Credit Mobilier, or of the Union Pa
ci6c Railroad, nor any dividend or prof
its arising from either of them
Oakes Ames was ut that time a mem
Der of Congress from Massachusetts,
Republican, of course. He was ma,
of reputed great wealth, a large owne
Of Credit Mobilier and Union Pacifi
Railroad shares, and heavy operate
in schemes of the kind. He knew tn
use and power Of corruption fund t
move Legislation in Republican Con
gress, and he was largely engaged in tn
appliance of such fund in that body
To quote his well-remembered phrases
he knew just where to put Credit Mo
bilier and Union Pacific shares, whic
were then yielding enormous profit unde
favorable legislation at the hands of Coz
gress, "where it would do the moi
good" On the 23d of January, min
days after Garfield had made his stat
ment, quoted above, to the committe