Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-07-02
HAYES AND GARFIELD.

Inc crimes winch were COmmltted ana
utilized to place Hayes in office, for execra-
BILE infamy, have and forever will defy ex-
aggeration. A deeper and darker plot was
never more successfully accomplished and
put into execution during the terrible scenes
of the French revolution
The crimes which were perpetrated in
South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, over
threw constitutions, abrogated law, defied
the will of the people, silenced truth and
exalted perjury Falsehood and forgery and
fraud were adroitly manipulated by Repub-
lican leaders, and when truth and justice,
honor and right were crushed beneath the
weight of perfidy, perjury was brought to
bear upon the scheme and its lifting power
placed Hayes, the embodiment of Republi-
can baseness, in the Presidential chair, and
from the day of his Inauguration the Presi-
Dental Mansion has been a whited sepul-
chre wherein lived a Chief Executive, dead
to all sense of honor and who has made it
the receptacle of all manner of Republican
uncleanliness.
The leaders Of the Republican party hay
ing achieved such triumph of fraud at
once went to work TO reward those who had
been chiefly instrumental in its accomplish
ment, and for four years they have been
looking forward to the campaign of 1880
in the hope Of maintaining their hold upon
the Presidential office
The records of the Chicago convention
illustrate fully the characters of the mana
gers of the Republican party, corrupt venal
prehgatc and factionized, they remained in
session long enough to impress the public
mind with sense of the detestable charac-
ter of their ambition, and when weary of
their examinations and denominations, riot
ing and tumult, named James A. Garfield
as their candidate for President. The ac-
ton was without reflection, but it was in all
regards worthy of the convention and vii
lians it represented. Garfield, the Republi.
can nominee, is a perjured bribe-taker. Such
is the record made by Republican commit.
tee. Schuyler Collax, caught in the same
infamous transaction, has sunk to soundlesS
depths of infamy, and has been exiled from
all public trusts. But it is not only the
report of the Poland Committee that has
passed sentence upon Garfield, and shown
him to be perjurer and bribe-taker, bui
he has been judically shown TO be bride.
taker in another case-that Of DeGolyer and
Mcclellan
Whether Garfield and the Republican
press ignore this matter is their own bust
ness. The citizens who have the choosing
of the next President of the United States
will not ignore it. They are matters of re-
cord and cannot be denied, and it is not al
all likely that a man so condemned will be
selected by the people as their chief Execu-
tive. His splendid abilities and his genial
qualities and his early struggles will be Of
no value in determining the quality of his
character
| Hayes and Garfield, search the world over
and two men more essentially infamous can
not be found. One in Office by virtue o.
crimes which grow in colossal iniamy the
more they are contemplated, and the Other
a periured bribe-taker, urged forward for the
office of President by the men who, by Gle
waiting Hayes, dsgraced the American name