The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-11-05
After Garfield, Grant.

hought about the matter doubts that the
election of General Garfield, which seems 70
have been effected yesterday, is virtually the
of Gen. Grant. The whole course /
Of the campaign sufficiently proves this. The
i'3O6'' delegates to Chicago who duriHg three I
days voted for General Grant, and their con I
,tituPntS were disroSed for some time after f
the nomination to sulk in their tents, and to
leave the work Of clcctiBg Garfield to those /.
VINO had nominated him. They did not en-
ter into the canvass at all, EXCEPT IN perfect
lV perfunctoIT way, until General Garnelt
in absolute despair had visited New York,
and i'm some manner, of which the public
were of coarse uninfoimed, had made his
peace WITH the leaders Of the party what
the terms of his surrender We're, We repeat
the pubic does not know, and perhaps peV-
er will snOw, except through one OF those
disclosures which bring honest men to then
own after the parties have fallen out but it
takes the combined crcdulity and etfrontecy
Of an independent Republican to preteud
thas there is no evidence OF a bargain. ne
obseq ueous attitude which General Garfield
assumed in his letter of acceptance by 2s5ur-
ing the people that lie had no intention of re-
forming the unreiGTmed civil seCylce through
which alone il was possible to SecU, e hlS elec-
ton OuGht to have Sufticed, but did not sur
FIcc to bring the leaders OF the machine TO
his assistance We must wait until aiteI lile
4th of next March to see how H1uch more
explicit and much more degrading were yH.
terms actually eXacted OF him DE GOuk!IHC,
! logan and Cameron as the price @f their sup
port and the public exhibition 81 the true
Republican leader, General Grant, in the true
character of an auxiliary STUMP speaker
Unfortunately General Garfield s career
gives us, as it gave them, solid aSsur-
ance that he would revolt Al no stipula-
tiOnS which were necessary ba secure their
support. The so-callcd independent RcpubH-
cans he was sure of in any ease. Their pre-
tense of hailing the breakup OF the dead
lock at Chicago by his nomination as tri-
umph of pure politics showed not less clear
" than their acQuieScence in the nomination
OF General Arthur that they could be INSULT
ed with impunity. Their eager attempts to
construct detenScS Of his behavior IN MS re-
lations with Oakes Ames and with De Co.
yer which should exhibit hjn in some other
character than that fastened upon him by
the Republicans in 1873, Of a pcrJurer IN the
one case and of a bTibe t9keT in the other,
were in mark ed contrast te the comparative
deCency of the mole ''Stalvzart' newspapers
which reluctantly came around TO the sup
port Of General Garfield The New oTk
Times the organ of the Grant StaiwdTtS, y
has been eminent among Republican jour
nails for its refusal to pretend for one moment
that the candidate whom iJ supported is ht
person to be President OF Ine United States,
and has abstaincd, with resolution which
does It credit and ought to commend it to the
honest members OF its 0vE party, from in
sulting their intelligence and violating its
own self-reSpect The New \ ork Tribune,
on the other hand, which posed before the
G
Grant, las devoted itself during the canvass
+ of 1880 to swallowing what itself describes
as the mud which it -tslUng' in 1913 at
J the successful candidate at Chicago
The honest words which were spoken and
written by meE of all parties in 1913 never
/ theess remain, and remain true 1t must be
I Il bitter thought to-day to haRdTedS of thou
sands Of men who yesterday voted that they
would "let well enough alone, - and that
. they would not run the risk Of checking tie
2 n were
compelled in order to carry Sheir intentions
into effect, to put tainted man, person
convicted, by his own allies, OF perjury and
OF the taking OF brides. into the chair of
E Washington But the very qualities and
/ acts of General Garfield which HiakesO many
hundreds OF thousands OF meH ashamed to-
day that they voted for him, assured the
s.machinists'' Of the Republican party of his
pliability 20 their uses. They do not mean
to be taken IN again as they were taken in
by Hayes, and the personal character Of
Garfield, as wei as his declaration in his let
ter Of acceptance that he would do nothing
to break the force OF the machine ~ makes
it certain that they viii not be taken in
. again. They probably anticipate that Car
field will endeavOT to secure his own rc-clcc-
tion, whatever pledges he may have made to
the contrary. But they RELY, and we haye
no doubt with Justice, on the anxiety which
Garfield has always shown ''tn stand well
with the Lord and well with the devil TO
capture the refOTmers and to capture the
machine, 10 MAKE nun NeSEItIbie ana
. OuIOuS before his term closes. inES calCu.
late that his personal qualities viii leave him
without 4 following long before the end OF
his term, and render him incapable Of nuli-
flying secretly the bargain, whatever its terms
NAV be. which they are well aware that BE
viii not have the courage to break openly
and this will leave the course virtually open,
with skilfHl political organizer a. Vice
President, ana with a political organization
Of increased viCOT and Of an Increased trna.
of NM
I formal reelection OF Grant and the foTma
I revival OF GraHtiSm in lHS4--with all that this
implies.
Ii would be idle TO deny that they will
gain allies in the mean while from among
the men who yesterday voted for Hancock
and whose faith in the capacity Of the Amer
lean people for self-COvC9UmeUt must have
been seriously weakened by the election oi
Garfield. II Is in one SenSra matter for con
graduation, and in another for coincidence,
that the Presidency Of Garfield, unlike the
Presidency of Hayes, has been secured not
by the frauds Of politicians so muca as n
the folly OF voters. At any tate it's certain
, lhat the cause OF Capitalization, Of ''StrOng
government" and, let rs plainly say Of i'm
periallsm, has been more signaIy fuTthereC
by the election OF Garfield than by any Other
event in our history. Happily, the cOutin
ued control of the House OF Representative,
is assured 10y the election Of Yesterday to the
enemies OF Capitalization. Let the members
Of the House Of Representatives devote
themselves hcncefOrth to showing that the
material interests not less than the political
freedom Of the people Of this country are
bOuud up with the fortunes OF the Demo
cratiC-COnServatiye party. Let them matur,
and press such measures of revenue reform
/ Of administrative reform and Of cIyil-servicl
reform as Will commend themselves to tn,
enlightened judgment of the country and pu
upon the Executive lieutenant Of Grant tn,
responsibility of defeating these reforms. -
Thus only can they minimize the public dan
ger and partly pallate the public disgrace o
the election Of James 4. Garfield to be Pres
ident Of the United States.-N. y. World, Sd