Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-26
Beecher on Garfield.


In the course Of his sermon in Plym-
outh Church on the 14th on the text
4" A good name is rather to be chosen
than great riches" Mr.. Beecher said;
We cannot afford to put, for four years, a
man in the Presidential chair who is not such
IA man as the Nation shall he proud of. By so
much as u good name is Il tower of strength to
man and tho glory Of the Nation over which
he presides, by Just so much s the iniquity Of
taking away mans good name unjust and
foul That there has been a most deliberate
conspiracy carried out In all Its parts, with
foresight, with mallgn and Infamous intent to
destroy the name OF General Garfield, have
no more doubt than l have that stand here,
or that the Devil goes TO and fro seeking
whom he may devour up and down among
men. j have watched the progress of II.
have seen the venOmOus thrlsts that have
boon made at him-a man believe ns pure as
any other man that walks the earth us CON
solous, as sensitive to everything that is pure
and vlrtuOus, a Christian man, a Christian
teacher, good father and husband and neigh
Dor, good man, whose whole long life has
been the earning of a reputation and n char
acter that should rank him among tho good
men Of the earth.
am not speaking Of the miserable soribblers
that have sought 20 blacken his name In the
transaction of money matters. There Is not n
man IN the whole state of Ohio dying to-day
that would not be proud to put his ostute into
the hands of James A. Garfield, to take care OF
those whom he loved. Tho trust is unbound
cd In him, yet they tried to make him mis-
erabo thief and liar, and to dlscrown him,
They seem 10 think that noble cltizon, stand
ing high In tho estimation Of the whole world,
Is lawful proy, and that they ARE to be credited
ness that know how TO dlsrobe him, and to
tarnish his glory, which is the glory OF the
Nation. But | speak of this last attcmpt, of
this deliberate Conooction OF low and ven
otnous lie, brought forth by forgery nnd eX-
pndltod by perjury, and that, too, by the min
lstrptiOn Of tho organized members of tho
great Democratic party. think, IN tho whole
history of political transactions there has
novor been anything whose intNmy was so
which history will set such u blazing seal, as
upon thut whole transaction.
'.. 1000 -r---s- u----H-as-~-.
B6y- The great Fraud Issue, deceased
at Cincinnati the gath of last June, the
day Hancock was nominated, and 9TH
erwise known as the late Samuel j. Til
den, being dead, yet speaketh.
Two years ago he declared the ooun-
try was entering period of great pros
pority, and tho party winning in 1880
would get all the credit and hold power
twenty years.
If very tricky and very treacherous,
the late " Reformer" was also very
| shrewd.
His prediction is worth attention.
Twenty years more for Republicans
Twenty more as glorious as the last.
JOY for the Republicl
The corpse Of the departed turns In
the grave at the result of the recent
election. and with fendish delight at
Hanoooks defeat and frantic rage at
John Kelly's escape, he groans:
Twenty years more Tor Republicans. "
N y Mail
Id5'The Democratic campaign has
been simply procession Of blunders.
They nominated a ilgurehead candidate
and neglected TO paddock his mouth.
They called for II change at the very
time the country dreaded q change
more than anything else. They con-
structed platform which thoy were
forced to kick over. They NEGLECTED to
present the country with anything like
a reason for putting them in power,
and devoted all their energies 10 mud
throwing, Tho result is defeat. The
party has had no brains TO draw upon
anywhere. The candidates spoke only
70 show their uniitness; their chairman
had no idea OF any political agencies
save lies and eorruptioni aud their par
" organs had not ability or inclination
10 do more than echo the chairman
blunders.-N Y. Tribune.
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