The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-02

nv which was dependent for its value
upon his vote 10 Congress; man who
at the same time stands branded by q
court of iustic with having corruptly pro-
cured contract In consideration OF a
large fee, the payment Of which was also
to depend on his vote in Congress.
Tn we have another unprecedented
siRh,: Mr.. Garfield and his associates in
these Jobs and bribes fly to defend them.
selves by attacking the memory of the
dead. l knew Cakes Ames intimately;
he sat in Congress from Northeast Bris.
tol. Massachusetts, where he was born
in 1904. While was clerk Of the House
of Representatives at Washington and
secretary of the Senate of the United
States, a more vigorous man never lived.
Too much credit cannot be given him
for the constitution of the Union Pacific
Railroad. Immense individual fortunes
have been made out of that great worG.
Immense benefits have followed to the
nation under the management of the ga.
gacious men who now have possession OF
its Union and Central branches, inClud-
the irrepressiole Jay Gould of New York,
and Leland Stanford and his associates,
of California.
But when members of the House and
the Senate became partners to this con.
tract, knowing the law, fully convinced
that their completely was against the law
and that the real statesmen of the past
would have rel scted the temptation with
scorn. Whatever may have been said Of
the courage with which 0Akes Ames
bought and bribed these men, there is
nothing in political records 30 base as
that they should wait for his death to
dshonor him. And now cones the blast.
ing fact that Mr.. Garfield, as regardless
he was when be took the money from
Oakes Ames and then denied it, attempts
in his biography to do what, regret to
say, my friend Schuyler Colfax has also
allowed himself to do, to lay the blame
upon the bold and sagacious mind that
engineered and pushed through the law
to build the road.
copy from the Boston Globe of last
week thisstartling proof of Gen. .Garheld's
new dishonor:
1T will be remembered that in the au.
Photographic defense which Gen. Gar.
field furnished his biographer, Colonel
Conwel, the Republican candidate in.
duged in very indignant expressions of
condemnation of the Credit Mobilier
ring styling its members frauds and
swindlers. 1t is now understood that
the surviving members of this ring, to.
gether with the friends and family of the
late Oakes Ames, have demanded that
General Garfield shall strike out all these
charges and that he has done so. The
intimation was quietly conveyed to the
Republican candidate that if he persisted
in the attempt to relieve himself by &C.
CusiDg 0akes Ames and the rest legal
proceedings would at once be instituted
and further revelations of his corruption
made. Garfield weakined at once, His
autobiographic defense will not contain
these charges as recently printed"
In this connection l print what a gen.
tleman says who was on hand in Wash.
ington when Garfield and his associates
were struck with the first intelligence
that they had been caught in taking
money for their votes in the House of
Representatives. Imagine for moment
Henry Clay or Daniel Webster or James
Buchanan figuring in such a scene.
They were 30 pale and pitiful and ab.
ject at this moment, that from my soul
com miserated their condition and none
showed such terrible remorse as James
A, Garfield. Little did | ever think
that when the Republican party allowed
General Grant to be hunted down by
his eEemies, after his tremendous sac.
rifCe Ifor them and the country, they
would place James A. Garfield before
the country as their candidate. Now
repeat to you that upon no one ques.
ton was be ever straightforward; on the
salary grab, on the tariff question and, as
you have since seen, in attempting to
show magnanimity to the South, he has
been on both Sides" n
| do not claim immaculate purity eth
er for members of Parliament or men,
bers of Congress. The world is full of
imperfeCtions. There is nothing more
difficult than FIR public man to pre-
serve his independence. 1 have been
long enough in Washington myself to
know the struggles of the impecunious
politician and the failures to follow his
best intentions. How frequent mans
resolution fades away in view of tempta-
tioll But The SaddeSt sight of all is TO see a
pretended statesman, proud of his rise from
Ob8curity proud of his self education, anxious
to advertise his lOUe of books, to AR his rheto.
ric, TO criticise Others, 10 draU the picture of
an impossible political arcadia or Eden and
10 look d0Vn upon men not so facile as him
self in the ability 10 coin phrases and sting
his adUersarie8 1Oith pois onou8 epithet8; but I
do protest against making such Joseph
Surface, such MaD WOrn, such a PeckSnif,
a candidate for President of the United
States.
The Republican party claims, and
rightly claims, to be the party of scholar.
ship, To that party are attached the
majority of the brightest clergy, prof9s.
sors, men of science, inventors and, be-
yond all, the modern reformers Of the
day. IIis to this class that | present the
spectacle of their own party placing upon
the Republican ticket two men, one self
condemned, the other condemned by
the President of the United States; one
confessing himself guilty of deeds which
have placed other men in the peniten.
tisry and have driven others from pub
lie stations and from the Senate of the
United States; and the other removed by
the chief magistrate upon definite
charges which still stand unanswered
and undenied. Gentlemen of the cultur.
ed classes, the party that has nominated
these men have placed you and yours on
the defensive from the beginning and
not only on the defensive but you are
called upon, first, to assail an inCompar.
able soldier simply because he remains
a Democrat and to follow up that assault
by assaulting other Republican journal
lists, like myse I, who do not defend Mr..
Garaeld against himself and who do
nothing more than was done seven years
ago by all the Republican joernalists and
leaders in the United States; and to &C.
Complish the election of such men, the
whole machinery of the Republican par