The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-07-29
THE NATIONS CHOICE,
Our TOWnsman,
JAS. A. GARFIELD-1S8O.
and on the diverse,
JAS. A. GARFIELD,
OhiO's FavOrite Son.

OhiO's Favorite Son.
Going south from the depot, a
pleasant walk of about throe-quar-
ters of mile brought ms to the
Generals residence, situated near
the center of his farm Of about $50
acres, His home is unpretending,
but neat, and evidently built with a
view to comfort aud convenience.
Fronting south, It is well shaded,
and all its surroundings are sug-
gestive of a happy home.
His farm is evidently well man
aged and bears the marks of care
and tbriftiness. While we we're
talking with him one of his farm
hands came to him for orders, and
by invitation I accompanied him to
the barn, where he gave directions
for threshing wheat next day, and
instructions as to other matters
about thefarm demanding attention.
He is evidently practically familiar
with all the details of farm life.
The woOd-cuts of the General,
now so familiar to the average news
paper reader, do not fatter him, and
if I had depended on them as a
guide in recognizing him, I should
have had some difficulty in reeoncil-
ing the aforesaid Iikenesses with the
original.
Introducing myself by card to
the General, [ was most cordially
welcomed, and so entertaining and
sociable is he that in a quarter of an
hour we were conversing as if we
were acquaintanoes Of long standing.
There is nothing in his manner
Or conversation to impress one with
the conviction that he is talking with
a man who probably holds within his
grasp the Presidency of the United
States. It was my intention to OBJ
tain from the General an expressio n
on various political points, but he
informed me that he had decided
not to be interviewed" (in the com
mon aeeeptation of the term, more
particularly for thereasou that all ma
terial political points were fully con
sidered in his letter of acceptance.
So our conversation, of course,
took a general scope, and the ad-
vent OF. three more visitors at this
iuncture made our talk still more
general, although it was mainly of
a political nature. Two of the Wis
itors were quite recently from Con-
necticut, and in answer to the Gen
erals inquiries as to the political
there, they enthusiastically
assured him they thought it might
be safely taken from the list of
doubtful States and placed to the
credit of the Republicans, as the
campaign would be conducted with
great vigor. Governor Jewell, of
that State, Chairman of the Repub-
Iican Committee, visited the General
last Wednesday, and his views in re-
gard to the outlook in Connecticut !
are of similar tenor.
In answer to an inberrogatOry |
relative to the prospects in Indiana,
the General replied that his advices |
from that quarter were of a very
encouraging character, and the Re
pubicans were very sanguine of be-
ing able to "turn the tables" in No
vember and Place the State on re-
cord once again where it belongs
in the Republican pyramid.
From New York, also, the polite
al news is cheering, and the General
the belief that the Tam
many reconciliation" -notwithstand- /
ing the surface indications to the con
5rary, will not bring about the har-
mony among the New York DemOc-
racy that they hoped for, and the
are, and ought to be,
5orresPondingly encouraged. /
The bitter fight between the '.Re- /
and" Bourbon" wings Of the
Democracy in cold Virginia" being
casually referred to, the General re
marked that if this dissension con
tinued, and the breach widened, be