The daily gazette., 1880-10-25

1t has been shown from Garield's
votes and the letter. that he refused to
deny over his signature whoa the N. z,
! Herald autographed him for an anwer.
That paper on Saturday said it had
waited since "wednesday for reply and
N bad rsceived none. A sort Of denial
had been fixed up BY Mr.. Jewell. Blu,
this did not satisfy the Herald. His let
Ger sus,ains the Burlingame treaty with
China which Garfield and the Radical
party favor. That paper publishes Ga.-
hsld's letter, and says.
TeThe letter says: I'VE have treaty
with the Chinese government which
shouid be reliaiously kept until the pro-
visions are abrosated by the action OF
the general government and this is not
merely harmless but indubitably right.
The next clause Of the sentence, how
ever, contains what We have called an
atrocious sentiment. 1t is in these
words: tAnd am not prepared to say
that 1t should be abrogated until our
great manufacturing interests are con-
served In the matter Of labor
That IL simply defence Of the Coolie
system, or Of . new slave system. The
great manufacturing interests are, ac-
cording to this statement, to have the
special privileges Of conserving them
selves by importing Chinese, aud to in
troduce here new form of servile labor,
under the guise Of immigration. We
repeat that General Garfield, accused by
such men % Mr.. A. 8. Hewitt, and later
Speaker Randall, Of having written this,
wrongs himself IL he does not basten
70 deny the charge in the most positive
and explicit manner and over his own
name. He has delayed too long already.
The Republican organs are evidently
dlsmayed At his silence.
Unfortunately for their candidate,
this is IN his case not conclu sive, for
he has been in sereral other cases so
gldringly guilty Of The uiee Of ftergiUcrsa-
ton that what he made public after he
was nominated has no necessary rela-
tion TO his real thoughts and beliefs.
Before he was nominated, he denounc-
ed in Congress those who sought TO
keep alive sectional and anti Southern
agitation but after he was nominated
he turned about and unblushingly
hoisted the "blOody shirt" Before he
was nominated he asserted positively
and circumstantially that reform of the
civil service was an urgent necessity,
and that to effect it all in difference of
members Of Congress in the appoint
ments must absolutely cease but in
nis letter Of acceptance, to the amaze
ment of the public, he turned squarely
about and declared that the Executive
must seek the advice and recommenda-
tion of congressman.
These and other instances 80 familiar
to the public and his own supporters
that We need not cite them, make any
perfunctory or second hand denials in
his case of no force il is useless for
his organs to tell us what he said after
he was nominated. What the public
has right TO know is whether he ever
wrote such letter as that of which he
is accused, and on that it needs his
personal assurance. II he did write |
such letter he is not fit to be Presi- |
dent he ought to resign from the SEN
ate, his support by any party would |
rightly be fatal to it. The American
people do not want man in the Presi-
dency who has even in private letter
new form of fservile la
bor.
How could any Delawareans believe
Garfield if he did deny writing this
etter with his $329 Credit Mobilier
denial, and his De Golyer bribe of
-, 600 before them, in which he is
hown to have taken a false oath2 They
'ould not now believe him, no matter
What he says, knowing as they do that
le favored the Burlingame policy.