Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-23

ence of my acknowledgements applause.
which lasted several minutes IL hank cod
[Applause.1 ''Mr. Hendricks offered no proof
of the charges in the Marion speech, and has
none, since he can not produce any The
OF belief and the evidence is Garfield him
self IApplause.l This is harder on Garfield
it. give it to him. Tom n Now. gentlemen,
this man, that thus came and conducted him
self at the city of New Orleans, and helped to
prepare the case, and helped to get false re-
turn from a false and perjured Returning
Board-he came on his way North as far
as Bellairt and was overtaken by the light
ming informing him and his co-conspirators.
as he sat in the palace car, of the decision that
they had procured in the city of New Orleans.
l know how a lawyer feels when his case has
been submitted / know the anxiety which
drives sleep and quiet away when life or prop
erty may depend upon the result made by the
jury. But surely never expressed myself in
regard to that anxiety, as Garfield did when
he said they left New Orleans very anxious
about the result, and when the result came all
anxiety disappeared. His work COM
pleted, and an honest return was defeated.
He came on to Washington, and then what do
you think he did when there a bill pro-
posed in COngress-the bill that did finally
pasS-to appoint q commission composed of
I'VE members OF the House and five members
of the Senate and five members of the SUI
preme Court to hold conference upon this
great issue? When that bill was pending
GARFIELD GOT UP
reasons that he gave. Let me give you, in his
own words, if L can, it is in very fine print and
difficult to read. speaking of the bill then
pending in Congress, he says (th1s was on the
18th of january he got back to Washington
by the ID OF December, and the bill came up
for consideration in the House. Whether the
Commission should be appointed to pass
upon the right of President and Vice Presi-
dent, and Garfield opposing the bill uses this
language: " Ii assumes the right of Congress
to go down into the colleges and inquire into
ali the acts and facts connected with their
work. 1t assumes the right of Congress to go
down into the States to review the act OF ey-
cry officer, to open every ballot box, and to
examine every ballot cast by 600 600 of Amer
leans" That was Garhelds objection to the
bill-that if it did pass and these fifteen men
were appointed under the law, it would be
their duty to go back of all technicalities
real facts OF the case; to go into the
ballot box and see how the votes were, and to
decide the case upon the real truth. And at
ter that, when the bill passed and he became
one of the fifteen, he voted every time that
they should not open the door to investigate,
but that the law closed the door and said that
kellogg'S certificate and the certificate of the
Returning Board was stronger than law and
the Constitution and the Judgment of Con-
against seven that decided that they should
not go behind the Returning Board. lAp-
plause. What would you think of me as a
lawyer ii you would hear me express my
opinion upon Il question of law, / have no
doubt about it, and address the honored Court
and say it was the law well fixed and decided,
and the next day came to be Il member OF
the tribunal to pass upon individual and pub
lie right according to law, and that next day
1 say what said before is not the law, and
decide against you upon the statement of the
law different from that had made the day
before. As Mr.. Julian said, when he stood in
the House 1t was Garfield speaking, but when
he was put upon the Commission it was the
party
DEMANDING POWER, MONEY, AND OFFICE.
Applause. Let read you this oath he
took. L take it from Mr.. Julian's speech: al,
James \. Garfield, do !olemnly swear that |
will impartially examine and consider all
questions submitted to the Commission of
which am a member, and a true Judgment
render thereon agreeable to the Constitution
and the laws, so help me God" Applause
and laughter They say he is a preacher
Laughter. don't pretend to be any thing but
"A wicked Iawyer-that's all; but there is not
wealth enough in the State of Indiana to get
me, in my place in the House or in the Senate
OF the United states TO say: If You pass this
ton, and we can go down to New Orleans and
ascertain how the vote was in fact, and
nen ar5er go upon tine fne t6
Board and its findings Is conclusive upon
us, and we can not investigate at al. would
not do it for thousand years of tenure in
the great office for which he is q candidate.
[Applause.1 / state to you that whatever the
truth might be about the De Golyer pavement,
whether he did take fee against the interest
OF the Government when he was Represent
alive receiving salary, whatever the facts
it was a terrible fraud or not, will not stop
to speak of that until this great question is
settled: Whether as representative OF the
people, as a juror sitting between myself and
wheeler and Tilden and Hayes, he was n true
man or q false man. lApplause.l And If
have a case in your court and you are called
upon a Juror, and no questions are asked
you at ALL and you have q bitter prejudice
against me, and Il Judgment against me, and
that there is no verdict ut all except against
me, would you go and take your seat? Would
not it come up to you?
MY OATH WOULD NOT ALLOW ME
to do it, and know that yours would not. Yet
Garfield, after he had helped to make up the
case down in New Orleans, comes to Wash
ington and without protest or apology or
excuse, he takes his seat and he votes day af
ter day contrary to what he said in the House
was the law No, gentlemen, he will never be
President of the United States. \ voice.
mo, never,"] he is Il man of ability, and the
more ability such man possesses the worse
it is for the office. don't want him, because
when 1 have n President in Washington,
whatever his politics may be, 1 want to feel
that he is as much my President as yours, and
much yours as he is mine, and that as Pres
ident he is free from those prejudiceS and
passions which pervert the Judgment and de-
stroy opinion. [Applause.l Now, gentle
men, l have occupied your attention longer
to- night than L expected to. Now
will repeat that wien 1 took my breakfast
this morning had no thought of addressing
you. 1t was not part of the programme of
the business of the day at all. When saw
that the Journal said that if L did not make
this good was disgraced. and If did then
Garfield was disgraced then, gentlemen, as
soon as I saw that 1 longed to you and
speak to YOU with more earnestness and feel
ing than ever L longed 60 before. Ii nave
failed in any one of the questions presented
by the Journal know it not. Ihave appealed
to witnesses except Garfield himself and
by Gen. Garfield is Garfield this night dis
graced. Applause. You fair minded Re-
publicans, you gentlemen that love your
country better than you do the Journal, better
than you love Garfield, better than you
love combinations of party, appeal to
you, now, by this test Publicly have
said that if the short hand reporter is not
here for the Journal / have report of my
speech Tonight. and Will furnish it to the
Journal and ask that it appear, and if it does
not appear tomorrow morning then it Is adj
mitted as though it was written in the broad
est and highest capitals, 1--WE can't stand
upon the issues that we made yesterday
morning." [Applause.l If they don't pub
ish what have said to you o-night, not in
an inner room, but in this Temple, then you
may know that they admit that Thomas
\. Hendricks is not disgraced, but that james
a. Garfield . disgraced. [Applause.l