The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-08-27

II Is craftsmanship" that the Re-
publican politicians are hankering
alter now The soldier business. n
they assert, Is played out. "The coun-
Try needs statesman. a Christian
statesman like Garfield" Such i the
plea they make for the election Of their
candidate for President. But when
they come tocxhibit their statesman"
they find that they have nothing 10
show the public but Congressman
whose special opportunities for studying
political economy aud the nature of
our Government were confined to his
service as a member and for several
years rs Chairman of the COMMITTEES
on Appropriations That committee,
as Is well understood, is the parent Of
all the swindling jobs By which the
Treasury is plundered from year to
year. That committee il school of
corruption, in which selfish and sordid
men become apt scholars. In that
school Garfield was trained. II
was there he acquired his Estates
manshipn As member Of that COM
mttee he received the cdit-Mobilier
stock from Cakes Ames and the
$1,000 fee from DE Golyer. Ii he has
had any other training in statesman
ship his public career does moi show il.
All we must not forget his action as a
visiting statesman and counselor to
the Louisiana Returning Board thieves
and his subsequent service as 4 sworn
Judge in the eight-to-seven electoral
Commission. His acceptance OF the
position Of Judge in the electoral dis
putc after he had volunteered as an at
t0rney IN the matter must be taken into
account when we sum up his achieve
mcnts as a statesman. So, then, it APP
pears that Garfield ) statecraft on which
his political supporters base his claims
TO the Presidential office consists in his
performances as a member Of the Com
mittee on Appropriations and as an
attorney for Hayes before the Louisi-
ana Returning Board and a Judge on
the Electoral Commission. General
Hancock, thank Heaven, has had no ex-
perience of this character and makes no
preJensions to that kind of statesman
ship TO which General Garhcld's public
career has been devoted. But General
Hancock has proved himself an able
~
fender Of the Constitution When the
destinies of the people of two
great States were placed in his
hands he refused to erect a mill
tary despotism. but simply pro-
ceeded to enforce the laws as he
found them. He took care that the
great fundamental principles Of republic
can government should not be violated
but preserved in his administration. In
order that the people of Louisiana and
Texas might be protected in their con-
stitutional rights he declared that the
habeas corpus. the right of free speech.
a free press. liberty Of conscience and
the natural rights Of persons must be
preserved. In other words he made toe
the servant Of the civil power.
as is the plain intcndment of our form
of Government. His administration in
those States was as free from violence
as it was clear from any sort of corrup-
ton. He was kind but firm. patient
but resolute, and while loyal to the
Federal authority he sought TO win back
the alienated population to their former
love Of the old flag by proving to them
that obedience to the Constitution and
laws was the only test of the right Of
While Hancock was en-
gagged in performing the highest acts
Df craftsmanship in his cndeavor to re-
habilitate the States Of Louisiana and
Texas in their suppressed statehood.
Garfield was employed in figuring out
for wooden pavements in
and other similar raids
On the Treasury. Harrisburg (Pd.)
Patriot.