Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25
POLITICAL PARAHRAPRs.

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Ray- It is a good nomination. -Sena-
tor Haniin.
Ray- 1 am well pleased; an excellent
nomination.-Fresident Hayes
Ray~ It is a capital selection; Garfield
is strong man.-Sccrctary Schurs
B6y~ The " brainiest" man that could
be chosen. General Francis 4. Walker.
B6y~ think the nomination of GEN
eral Garfield is very fortunate. -Benja-
min n. BriStoW.
Bay~ On the whole, the strongest NOM
nation that could have been made
President Seeiye.
RaThe anti-third-term committee at
! st. Louis informs General Garfield that
the duty assigned il disappeared with
his nomination, which it heartily in
| dOrses.
Bd~We pause in the midst of the ex-
element to remark that the reduction
of Sl5,OO0,OO0 in the public debt in a
| single month does not look as if the
Republican party had forfeited the con-
tidence Of the country. st. Louis Globe
| Democrat.
| VIZ III ANbllblu Is u btlA-llldNlt
man in the highest and best sense of
the term. He is the architect of his
own fortunes, having acquired an edu-
cation under great difficulties, by his
| unaided eXertions, and made his start
in life without any of the adventitious
aids of social influence. -ErchGBge.
BsS~ The Republicans have not nomi-
mated a satisfactory candidate for the
Democrats. Either Grant or Blaine
would have been much stronger before
the people, the Democratic papers con-
tend. 1t is too bad that the Democrats
could not select the Presidential nomi-
nees for both parties. Tran
script.
Bay- There are no boilers, scratchers
or Independents who bear the Republ-
can name, who cannot earnestly work
and honestly vote for General Garfield,
and there is no thorough-gOing Repub-
| lican who will not accept him rs a fit
representative of party principles-a
faithful depositary Of the party trust
~ Y Times.
B6~The Republican party has closed
up its ranks has chosen its leader with
more real, hearty, confident unity than
at any previous election, and will re-
sumo the aggressive against the party
which has devoted all its energies to the
purpose of sapping and mining the Con-
stitutional powers of that National Gov
ernment which it failed to destroy by
reasonable war. No man could be
named who has a stronger popularity
with the Ohio Republicans, and this
popularity has been of rational and firm
! growth. - Cincinnati Gdzette
BaS~ Both Garfield and Arthur were
outspoken anti-slavery Wings before
the Republican party was organized.
| General Arthur was a delegate in the
| first Republican State Convention that
was ever held in New York-was, in
fact, one of the original founders of the
party. General Garfield was a young
but ardent admirer of Joshua r. Gid
dings, the great anti-slavery champion
of Ohio, both before and after the or
ganization of the Republican party.
Garfield has represented Giddings' old
district in Congress ever since the lat
ter's death. .-EIchdnge.
Bl5- " Charges are now in order.
Since George Washington there never
has been a candidate for the Presidency
who has not been assailed in the most
malignant manner. Thomas Jefferson
was called a Red Republican and an
atheist, Madison a coward, Monroe a
milksop, John Quincy Adams a bar
| gamer and corruptionist, Jackson an
adulterer, Van Buren, a libertine, and
so on. Lincoln was stigmatized in
terms too indecent even to repeat; and
there never has been or will be a candi-
date who must not run amuck against
all the savages of the other side. Gar
field rs rs well fitted as any man in the
Republican party to undergo this
ordeal. He is a man of the people,
and the people know that, though he
has been in public life for twenty years,
he is still poor. He lives in the plain
est way, in one of the most unpreten-
tious houses in Washington, and de-
pends upon his salary for his livelihood.
If he had been on terms with the lobby
he would not now be poor. 1t is pre-
cisely because he has held aloof from
even the suspicion of evil that he has
made himself so clear in his high office.
The Democracy can find in him only a
shining mark for the shafts of their
malice and envy Chicago Tribune.