Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-10
GARFIELD.
Reginning tie Campaign.
The Republican, Campaign Conn
miftee Laying Out Its work.
A List of Some OF the Documents
Preparing for CIrcuIation. 5
Especial to the Chicago Tribune

Especial to the Chicago Tribune. -
WAsHINGTON, d c., July 6.-The
republican committee are preparing to
meet the ISLANDERS rked up about Gen.
Garfield's alleged 0Dneciion with the
De Golyer pavement contract, the
credit mobilier affair, and the salary
grab'' squarely. This they will do by
the public alton broadcast of Gen. Gar
fields speech made in Warren, O., on
September 18th. 1874, in reply to at
tacks made upon his official record,
in which Gen. Garfield told his
constituents, face to face, the entire
history Of all those proceedings. The
committee calls attention to the fact
that this speech was made at a time
when the charges were fresh and pub
lie sentiment was in the highest de-
their details had been circulated in
great numbers in Gen. Garfield's dis
trict, but SO fully were they met that
he was reelected in that election and
the two following elections, and in
1880 was elected to the United States
Senate by the unanimous vote OF the
Republicans in the Ohio Legislature.
The letter of the Hon. jeremiah l..
Black, written on Feb. IS, 1878, fully
exOnerated Gen. Garfield as by Mr.
| Blacks personal knowledge from the
accusations in regard to the credit
mobilier affair,
IS ADDED, AS WE'LL AS
a quotation from a speech of Senator
! Thurman with an editorial endorse.
ment of the New York World, and
another quotation from speech of the
Hon. Milton Speer, a democratic con-
gresham from Philadelphia, delivered
at Hancock ratification meeting at
Pittsburg, all to the same effect. Fifty
thousand copies of this document,
which makes a pamphlet of seventeen
pages, are being printed for circulation.
The committee is also sending out the
following documents: A speech made
by Gen. Garfield in the house of rep
resentatives last March, entitled, "The
new nullif1cation''; speeches made on
the 10th of March by Congressman
Richardson and Crowley, of New
York, upon the subject OF "Contribu.
tions for political purposes; an ex-
tract from speech of the Hon. VIII
liam P. Frye, delivered on the Goth q
March, upon the funding bill, calling
attention to the marvellous financia
history Uf this country during the last
twenty years; a speech of Congress
man Dunnell, of Minnesots, upon DO
liticsl riders and the neglect of impor
tant public measures; and the las
exodus speech Of Senator Window
Besides these q supply Of the treasury
statements made in compliance with
senate resolution showing that the
EXPENSES GROWING OUT OF THE RE
BELLION
amounted to more than $4,000, 900 ,00C
has been procured for circulation. The
democrats are doing nothing in thit
line. The fact that all speeches made
by members of that party in Congress
during the last twenty years have beer
upon that side of each issue which is
now universally acknowledged to have
been the wrong as well as the unsuc-
cessful side, depriving them of any re-
sources in the way Of Congressiona
campaign literature. A prominen
member of the democratic committe,
said, in reply to question as to wha
they proposed to get out for campaign
literature, he : supposed the D,
} Golyer and Credit Mobilier investiga
tions would furnish the chief supply