The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-07-10
THE STRONG MAN.

now fully entered, the Republicans are
day by day more impressed with the con-
viction that their candidate is a strong
man. 1t is not comparison with the
candidate of the Democrats, who, hon
ored as soldier, is absolutely without
any knowledge of or qualification for the
administration of affairs OF State, that
makes Gen. Garfield appear strong. He
is not one who must be placed by the
side of a dwarf to seem 4 giant, but he
has qualities which impress upon the
people the sense of his great strength.
1t is testimony of this strength that his
enemies are unable to bring against him
any accusation of unfitness for the great
office for which he has been nominated,
except that of scandal with which his
name was connected many years ago
But even here, the Republican candidate
is so strong a man that his adversaries
cannot stand before him. The Credit
Mobilier guns have used up all their am
munition, and the faith of sagacious men
of independent mind that Gen. Garfield
is untainted by corruption is SO stead
fast that Democrats are despairing of, if
not abandoning, the assault upon what
they had thought to be weak place.
When such able and independent jour-
nails as the New York Nation and the
Springfield Republican declare that the
evidence does not implicate the Republi-
can candidate in Credit Mobilier or any
other frauds, and when such distinguish
ed Democrats as Judge Black and Sena-
tor Thurman, men who have no intellec-
tual superiors i'll their party, express
| their personal confidence in his integrity,
the attempt to show that Gen. Garfield is
strong in the confidence of Ex-President
| Woolsey and other distinguished educa-
tors of the nation, and the earnest en-
dorsement of men of the highest charac-
| ter for intellectual ability and moral
" orth affirms that the Republicans have
chosen leader in whose unbending rec
! liptNaS thS pSoPiS NA"'S PSih w ies'eiA'
But Gen. Garfield is 4 giant i'll intel
lectual strength. In native ability, i'll
broad scholarship, i'll familiarity with the
great questions in debate among states
men, i'll experience of public life, in power
over men as leader, he has no superiors
among the public men of the day. Upon
the battle field and in the arena of states
men he has been tried and found strong.
His Judgment commands universal re-
spect, his opinion is everywhere received
with profound attention. 1t is often said
that principles are to be more than mon
in the campaign now before us, and it is
true that the peril of relinquishing the
government to a party having such u
black record as the Democrats is one of
the most important subjects to be kept
before the people. But it is impossible
to conceal the fact that the result is to
turn upon the question of the personal
strength of the men. Gen. Hancock, 4
brave subordinate commander and 4 gen
tleman, would never administer the
Office if elected President. His Secre-
tary of State, or some ring Of Congress
men, would 10 it for him. He has no
knowledge Of or fondness for business of
state But no one doubts that Gen. Gar
field, if elected, will really be the Presi-
dent. The lad who was able to push his
way from obscurity to fame is strong
enough to have and execute a policy of
his own, and he is eminently qualified to
meet the responsibilities and perform the
duties of the office of the nations Chief
Executive. The Republicans are fortu-
nate in having chosen for their leader a
strong man. and it will be chiefly the
irresistible conviction of his strength
that will win the victory Of next Novem-
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