Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-26
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.


OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
A PEN PORTRAIT OF JAMES A. GAR
FIELD.
The strong and Weak Points in His
% ...tsE- Character.
From the Correspondence of the Republican j
WASHINGTON, June "a large
faced man, with Teutonic features,
heavy under lip, full brown beard,
with a deme-shaped head rather
scsntily furnished with hair, a sleepy
eye, large, loosely jointed body,
heavy in his motions, and with II
general inexpressiveness about him
this is the republican candidate Tor
the presidency.
/ do not want to paint Mr.. Gar
field with an u%nfrisndly pen; 1t will
be the duty of democratic Journalists
10 speak OF him with harshness many
times before the campaign shall be
over, and there is no occasion Tor
fastening to the canvass, the charac-
ter of which cannot fail to make it an
vupleassnt one. For this, however,
the republicans are responsible. Ii
they did not desire the personal char
scter of the candidates involved they
should not have selected Mr.. Gar
field. His record is too bau for the
presidency.
Mr.. GARFIELD Is A SCHOLAR.
Against adverse circumstances he
made fight for education and posi-
ton. He has been courageous III
this respect. He worked his way
through college, and has battled sue
cessfuny with fortune ever since. IL
has won something by intellectual
slrength, more by pliancy and a Gel
tsiu yielding to party demands when
ever he has expressed all aspiration
after something better than his party
wanted. The courage with which
he rsihed his first advance i'll the
1Sfld, as = graduate of WIlliams
college, was the last exhibition he
ever gave of that quality. Since thci
he has been the coward of politics
A. the Washington Post expresses IL
this morning, he has the voice OF
lion and the heart of o sheep" Mr.
. Garfield lives q while III Washington
in . large twe-story brick house OIL
the corner of Thirteenth and 1 streets
He bought the house q few years ag"
and has added to it since. His home
Life is very simple-the only differ
ence between it and that of those VINO
live around him i'll the quiet nelgh
borhood consists in the society o
bright meu aud women, largely IRON
the world of letters, who gravltat'
% him, as they do to all of tbs very
few public men who are scholarly
Otherwise the life is that Of a plata
well-to-do village or farmers family
The house is furnished very plainl!
and without much taste. Very few
pictures are OH the walls, anu thos'
few mot good. Mr.. Garfield talk
STOUT art, but, as is true of him II
Ather relations, be expresses NOR
than he feels. In the second ster.
Of the ell of the house Mr.. Garfield
has. his excellent library, and ther
he is at his best. He knows book
audstslks well about them.
IN CHARACTER
Mr.. Garfield is a pretender. He make
pretenslons to all orderly lite, moo
oIlsd in the pattern of New Englan'
-%puritanism. He knows all the tim
2 that he is hypocritical. He is not
bad man, and he is not a very goo
man. What he does would not lnlur
him as the world goes, but he think
it would, and he conceals it. ID
would have the world look upon hi;
as one whose life is pure from I'll
little vices that mark other men.
Imagine he smokes q cigar with III
feeling that he sacrifices votes h
hin devotion to this habit. He weui
+ net have his Western Reserve constl
i ueucy know that he had ever taste
Whiskey ; aud yet he has, and a De-
Of it. He loves the pleasures o I'll
table-good eating aud drinking
dc most men of healthy bodies all
: ninds ; but he hides his healthy al
pstites from tue world as he woul
hide excesses. His appetites and d
sires are coarse, but worse than this
his deceptiveness. During the hll6u
tsring against the force bill, when Raj
dali, aided by Blame, was leading t.
minority, aud Butler the majori'.
Garfield, Foster, Frye. n enc 9TH
whom l do not recall, were in II
Ospeaker's room, down stairs, playli
poker. During the absence ttht
were voting with the democrats) the
were regularly voted by the tai
clerk. Finally Butler discovered Il
trick and protested that the four hi
net been present during the roll.ca
although their names were record.
. voting. Blaine rushed down stat
to inform the poker-players of Blu
ler's discovery. One by II th'
entered the chamber through ditft
ent doors, aud appealed to the reco
q An answer to Butler. 1t was a |
Gle thing but Garfield will say, al
tries to say in all that side of his Ii
that 10 tarned to the public gaze, til
h0 knows not poker, nor II Oth
esms at cards, hat betting is abho
rent to him, aud that he is all enen
t. cheating and immortality of eve
sSrt, He wants the world to belle
that he 10 q clean-minded man !; tn
his thoughts are elevated and his la
Rusge pure. In this, too, he pla
the hypocrite. He has a strong mi
Of coarse fibre. 1t is vigorous, but
lacks refinement. When he unbends
loves common and gross things. L
wit 10 very coarse aud the stories
will toll in the company Of gentlem
at Q dinner-table are some Of them
voting in their %vulgarity. AS a d
tinguished senator said of him vest
day: "He paints his %iniquities OF
Sunday school banner"
IN POLITICS.
Mr.. Garfield is a pretender in pc
tics also. He is not what he says
il, nor is he what he has succeeded
making some people believe MIN
be. While he would appear stro
he is thoroughly weak, and wher,
he wsuld have the reputation of
independent statesman he Is i'll real
one Of the most subservient of pa
sans. He is a weak and not very ht
est politician. In the extra sessi
he said more than once i'll open 6
sion and in private conversation Il
he would vote tor the repeal of
laws forbidding the use Of troops
keep the peace at the polls. He
nounced it once too often, howev
fer when his party saw that the dc
ecrats were about to profit by
promise Couger aud some other 81
warts openly upbraided him OH
foer, and poor Garfield retrea
frem his manly position under co
Of . falsehood. Ten years ago
made strong speeches i'll favor of +
enue reform and warned the prot
tionists against standing in the "
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