The daily gazette., 1880-06-17
Great Guns Against Garfield.

LICAN CANDIDATE FOR CON0REss-
A DOCUMENT COMING From THE RE-
PUBLIoANs OF HIS OWN DISTRICT.
WASHINGTON, June 16.-The follow
ing are some OF the resolutions adopted
by the republicans OF MIR. Gsrfield's dis
trict In Ohio, al the last election and
which are now being sent to all paris Of
the country for campaign purposes:
4lh. Resolved, That there is no man
to-day officially connected with the ad-
ministration Of our National Govern
ment against whom are justly preferred
more and graver charges Of corruption
than are publicly made and abundsntiy
sustained against James A. Garfield, the
present Representative of this Congress
ional District, and the nominee of the
Republican Convention for reelection.
5th. Resolved, That since he first en-
tered Congress to this day there is scarce
ly an instance in which rings aud mon
opolies have been arrayed against the in
terests of the people, than he has been
found active in speech or vote upon the
side OF tie latter. but almost in every
case he has been the ready champion in
the rings and monopolies.
charge him with venality, and COVER
dice in permitting Benjamin r. Butler
TO attach 10 the Appropriation bill of
1875 that ever -to-be-remembered infamy,
the Salary Steal; and in speaking and
voting for that measure upon its final
passage. And charge him with corrupt
disregard Of he clearly expressed de-
mand OF his constituents that he should
vote for its repeal, and with evading said
demand by voting for the Hutchinson
| Amendment.
7th. Resolved. That we further ar
raign and denounce him for has corrupt
connection with the Credit Mobilier, for
his false denials thereof b fore Com
mittee of his peers In Congress. for fraud
upon his constituents in circulating
among them Q pamphlet purporting to
set forth the finding of said Committee
and the evidence against him, when In
fact, material portions thereof were
omitted and garbled.
9th. Resolved, That we further ar
raign and charge him with corrupt
bribery in selling his official influence
as Chairman of the Committee on Ap-
preparations for 5000 to the DcGol-
yer Pavement Ring to aid them in &C.
curing contract from the Board of
Public Works Of the District of Colum-
bia selling his influence to aid said
Ring in imposing upon the people Of
said District pavement which is al
most worthless at price three times
cost, as sworn to by one of the con-
tractors selling his influence to aid
said Ring in procuring a contract to
procure which it corruplly paid $97,-
600 'for influence !" selling his ihtlu-
ence i'll matter that involved no Ques-
tion of law, upon the shallow pretext
tn At he was acting as lawyer sell
ing his influence in q manner SO pal
paDle and clear as to be 30 found and
declared by an impartial and compe
1 tent court upon an issue solemn,
= tried.
9th. Resolved, That we arraigl
him for the fraudulent manner il
which he attempted in his speech de
lvered at Warren, ON the 18th day oi
, September, 1874, to shield himself
from just censure in receiving the be-
fore named 5000, by falsely repre-.
senting, i'll SAID speech, that The Con.
gress OF the United Sta es were not re-
5 sponsible for the acts of said Board,
nor the United States liable for the
debts Grated thereby, when in tru
and in fact, as he then well knew, the
said Board Of Public Works and the
officers of SAID District were but the
agents and instruments of Congress,
and the United States was responsible
for the Indebtedness of them created,
10Th. Resolved, That we arraign
him for gross dereliction of duty as a
member OF Congress in failing to
bring to light and expose the corrup-
tion and abuse in the sale of post
traderships, for which the late Secre-
tary Belknap was impeached, when
the same was brought 20 his knowledge
by Gen. Hazen in 1879, and can only
account for 1t upon tho supposition
that his manhood was debauched by
the corruption funds, then by him just
received, and his own purse.
lltb. That James A Garfield, during
the last session Of Congress was the
conspicuous leader in the demouetiZ A.
tion of the silver dollar, q crafty at
tempt TO sacrifice he interest of the peo-
pie to bondholders and foreign capital
Isis. That when 1t was proposed TO re-
store the old silver dollar to the place il
had held durin ny our history a. a nation
a. legal lender for all debts, public and
private, he denounced the attempt ns
a "swlndle on 50 grand a scale Is "a
make the achievement illustrious," and
as ''seheme OF vast rascAlity and col
loesal swindlIng."
THE CREDIT MoBILIRR swINDLE.