The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-22
A FAITHFUL PORTRAIT.
Sketch Of the PersOnale and Character or the
Republican Candidate, by Q Compe'
tent Artist,

Republican Candidate, BY Q COmpe'
tent Artist.
Washington Letter to Boston Post
A large faced man with Teutonic fea-
lures, heavy under lip, full beard; with
a dome. shaped head, rather scantily fur
nished with hair, a sleepy eye, large,
loosely .jointed body, heavy in his mo-
tions, and with general expressiveness
about him that denotes the weakness of
his Characteristic is the Republican
candidate for the Presidency. do not
want to paint Mr.. Garfield with an I'M
friendly pen; it will be the duty of Dem
ocratic journalists to speak of him with
harshness many times before the cam
paign shall be over, and there is no occa-
sion for Fastening to the canvass, the
character which cannot fail to make it
an unpleasant one. For this. however,
the Republicans are responsible. II they
did not desire the personal character of
the candidates involved, they should not
have selected Mr.. Garfield. His record
is too bad for the Presidency. Mr.. Gar.
field is a scholar. Against adverse cir.
Cumstances he made a fight for edu a.
ton and position. He has been coura
geous in this respect. He worked his
way through college, and he has battled
successfully with fortune ever since. He
has won something by intellectual
strength, more by pliancy and a certain
yielding to party demands, whenever he
has expressed an ASPIRATION after some
thing better than his party wanted. The
courage with which he gained his first
advance in the world as a graduate of
Williams College, was the last exhibition
of that quality. Since then he has been
the coward of politics. AS the Washing
ton Post expresses it, he has the " voice
of a lion and heart of a sheep" Mr..
Garfield while in Washington resides in
a large two-story brick house on the cor
ner Of 18th and 1 streets. He bought
the house a few years ago and has added
to it since. His home life is very simple,
the only difference between it and those
who live around him in the quiet neigh
horhood consists in the society Of bright
men and women, largely from the world
of letters, who gravitate to him as they
do to all of the very few public men
here who are scholarly. Otherwise his
life is that of a well to do village farm.
er's family. The house is furnished very
plainly and without much taste. Very
few pictures are on the walls, and those
few not good. Mr.. Garfield talks about
art, but, as is true of him in other rela.
tions, he expresses more than he feels.
In the second story of the L of the house
Mr.. Garfield has his excellent library,
and there he is at his best. He knows
books and talks we'll about them.
A P%RETENDER AND DIssEMBLEP.
In character Mr.. Garfield is a preten.
der. He makes pretensions to an order
ly life, modelled on TIE plan of New En-
gland Puritanism. He knows all the
time that he is hypocritical. He is not a
bad man and he is not a very good man,
What he does would not injure him as
the world goes, but he thinks it would,
and Conceals it. He would have the
world look upon him as one whose life
is pure from the little vices that mark
other men. l imagine that he smokes a
cigar with the feeling that he sacrifices
votes by his devotion to this habit. He
would not have his Western Reserve
constituency know that he had ever
tasted whiRkey, and yet he has seen a
deal of it. He loves the pleasures of the
table, good eating and drinking, as do
most men of healthy bodies and minds,
but he hides his healthy appetites from
the world as he would hide excuses.
His appetites and desires are coarse.
What he is can be read in his heavy,
sensuous face; but worse than his natu-
raj tendencies is his deCeptiveness. Dur.
ing the flibustering against the force
bill, when Randall, aided by Blaine, was
leading the minority, and Butler the ma.
iority, Garfield, Foster, Frye, and others
whom l do not recall, were in the Speak
er's room down stairs playing poker.
During their absence (they were voting
with the Democrats) they were regularly
voted by the tally clerk. Finally Butler
discovered the trick and protested that
the four had not been present during
the roll call, although their names were
recorded as voting Blaine rushed down
stairs 10 inform the poker players of
Buffers discovery. One by one they
entered the chamber through different
doors and appealed to the record as an
answer to Butler. 1t was a little thing,
but Garfield says, and tries to say that
in all that side of his life that is turned
to the public gaze that he knows 40 po'
ker nor any other game at cards; that
betting is abhorrent to him, and that he
is an enemy to cheating and immorali-
ty of every sort, He wants the world to
believe that he is a clean.minded man;
that his thoughts are elevated and his
language pure. In this, too, he plays the
hypocrite. He has a strong mind OF
coarse fiber. 1t is vigorous, but it lacks
refinement. When he unbends he loves
common and gross things. His wit is
very coarse, and the stories no will tell
in the company of gentlemen at q dinner
table are some of them revolving in their
vulgarity. AS a distinguished Senator
said of him yesterday: HE paints his
iniquitieq on a Sunday School banner"
A %PRETRNDER IN PoLITICs.
Mr.. Garfield is a pretender in politics
also. He is not what he says he is, nor
is he what he has succeeded in making
some people believe him to be; while he
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