Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-27
WORTHY LEADERS OF GREAT
PARTY,

Among the resolutions adopted by the
Missouri Republican convention on the 18th
isst. was the following:
Second-Recognizing in James A. Garfield,
our candidate for President and Chester A.
Arthur, our candidate for Vice-President, q
leadership worthy of the great party of free
dom and equal rights, the Republicans of
Missouri are again united in . determined eff
fort to redeem the State from the injury and
disgrace of Democratic control and malad.
ministration.
II Messrs. Garfield and Arthur are salts
factory to the Republicans, the Democrats,
perhaps, have no right to complain, yet one
cannot help inquiring as to the qualities that
render them SO ps ,uliarly fitted for the lead
ership Of "the party Of great moral ideas"
1t has heretofore been the impression among
the people in general that distinguished
ability, purity of conduct in both private
and public life, and experience in public
affairs. were among the requisites, but that
impression seems to have been dispslled of
late, at least az far as the Republican party
is concerned.
The records of either of the Republican
candidates will bear veiS close inspection.
Mr.. Garfield has /; On lorg in public life,
and probably has sufficient experience to
qualify him for almost any position. He
enlist I'D in the army es colonel of an Ohio
regiment. He had the honor of following
the trail of the adiposs Humphrey Marshall
through Kentucky, but did not get near
enough to his force for an exchange of shots.
He then went on the staff of Gen. Rose
GRAMS, where he Celyed few months, re-
signing before the war he d fairly smmenc-d
to az cept nomination for Congress. He
has been member of that body ever since.
He was conspicuous n the Gre dit Mobilier
investigation, and was provsi t. have &C.
| cepted from Cakes Ames four thoueand dol
Lana in stick of the company and 1929 in
dividends, which he afterwards profe5sed to
regard as loan. He was severely denounc-
ed for his dishonesty, however, by a com
mittee composed of his personal and parti-
San friends.
Subsequent to this transaction M. Gar
| field was proved to have accepted q
| bribc of five thousand dollars for
| his vote as chairman of the COMMITTEES
on appropriations in favor Of Certain style
of pavement. He again resorted to subtsr-
fuge to escape condemnation, claiming that
the money was fee in payment for brief
he bad written in favor of the pavement,
but investigation faile to disc over the brief,
and he himself could not swear to having
submitted it.
Mr.. Garfield is the man who attempted
to dismiss Gen. Hancock from the army for
no other reason than that he was Demo crat.
He succeeded in defeating the bill placing
Gen. Shields, the hero of thres warJ, on the
retired list In connection with the elect oral
commission he was guilty of duplicity and
the grossest partisanship, and is as much re-
sponsible as any other man for the perpetra-
ton Of the great fraud which gave MI.
Hayes his seat in the exc ,utive chair. This
10 MIR. Garfield briefly pictured.
Mr.. Arthur's claim to public confidence
rests principally upon the fact that he was
once collector of the port of New York,
from which position he was removed by Mr..
Hayes because he had Esen guilty of showing
illegal favors to certain importers, and be-
cause he had made his Office an asylum for
political refugees, thus greatly impairing the
efficiency of the service.
The Republicans of Missouri and the rest
of the union are not hard to satisfy, if two
men such as these are worthy of the leader
ship Of their party. The Democrats do not
envy the records they have made. They
could not we'll have been worse, and SO the
people will declare in November next when
they come to express their verdict.