The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-17
Press Opinions.

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Garfield can preach, pray, fight.
legislate or enforce law, just as the
needs of the country demand the ser.
vice.-[ Harrisburg Telegraph.
General Garfield will unite all the
factions Of his own party and draw to
him many of the conservative votes
from the Democratic party rOil City
Derrick.
The nominees are pure men,
around whom the entire party will
cheerfully rally and the platform is an
enunciation of the grandest principles.
[Johnstown Tribune.
Hereafter every nerve should be
strained, every eXertion made, to elect
James A, Garfield the next president.
Close up the ranks, and let the battle
cry be "Garfield and Victoryv'-Brad-
ford County, Reporter.
While General Garfield was
neither our first nor second choice,
we are free to say that no ADLER, better
or truer Republican could have been
selected as our standard-bearer than
James A. Garfield, of Ohio.-[Juniata
Herald.
General Garfield has awakened no
animosities in the party, and we con-
fidently hope he will poll the full vote.
We know he will be elected, for the
American people desire that this Gov
ernment shall be in safe hands-[Cam-
bria Republican.
AS Abraham Lincoln was man
OF the people, so General Garfield
Is man of the people. He is not Il
man Of mushroom growth. He has
not come up too rapidly. He is the
sort OF growth that has deep, far-reach-
ing roots.-[ Pittsburgh Chronicle.
If magnetism, honesty, eloquence,
an un3tained record, brilliant states
manship, devoted and unselfish patri-
otism, careful and cautious action are
necessary in president of the United
States and to success in u political
campaign, General Garfield possesses
them all.-[Pittsburgh Telegraph.
Garfield has not the splendid war
record of General Grant nor the en-
thusiastic personal following of Mr..
Blaine, but he is without the weakness
of either, and is in many respects one
of the strongest candidates ever nomi-
mated for the high Office of President
OF the United States.- Carlisle Her
aid.
The nomination of James \. Gar
field for presidential honors, while it
has surprised a great number, is re-
garded by ali factions as the best that
could possibly have been attained. In
Mr.. Garfield all factionul differences
will be sunk and the party will be able
to harmonic on every point.-[Titus-
vile Herald.
In the nomination of General
james A. Garfield, rs the standard
bearer of the Republican party for
president, II candidate is presented
who, while combining all the quail
ties of eminent ability and record of
craftsmanship uneXcelled by any,
sprang from the humber walks of life
and has been brought to The front by
the people.-Bradford County Repub-
lican.
General Garfield is the senator
elect from Ohio, is a statesman of rare
ability and has an invulnerabe record.
The announcement of nomination
was received with hearty good will all
over the country. Clinton Rapubli-
can.
The eselection Of General Garfield
as the Republican standurG-bgarer
is one eminently fit to be made, and
gives universal satisfaction to the
voters of the party, lie will unite all
the elements and rally to his active
support many who would have given
II passive support 10 either OF three
leading candidates. I Huntingdon
Globe.
Our ticket has been made, and il
is good ticket. Our platform has
been published, and it is good plat
form. But the men who work under
stand that the campaign Of 1880 is not
likely to be made in rose garden,
and that its duration will not be
marked by c!oudless skies and made
pleasant by winds of unvarying gen
tleness.-[North American.
The final act compensates, and
more than compensates, for all bIund-
ers, for all delay, for all the anxiety
the Republican party was made to
suffer during the past week. No Re
publican convention ever achieved
greater triumph than did that at Chi
cago yesterday in nominating for
president General James \. Garfield.
i Wilkes barre Record of the Times.
The nominee is not simply COM
promise candidate, he was the admired
choice of large number of delegates
in the convention, and his final Sc
lection strongly attested that the
hearty and spontaneous applause
which greeted him ev er time he APP
peared in the hall indicated the re-
gard entertained for lin by those who
knew him WE'LL GWilliamsDOrt Ga