Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-07-23

| Republican Opinion of Garfield.
BY H,s Own Party is He Condemned.
In 1S7l lanes A. Garfield wa
again nominate.' in his district (Nine
teenth Ob;o). 1''e Poland repqo4r o.
had come out tho yer before. ~
had the machinery Of h.'s party y
help him in a district which 'ocse 2cs'
two to one for the Republicans. ~
Poland report, covering Garfield,
completely in the Credit Mobiliei
rascality, and his treachery in the
Sundry civil bill, for which Kel-
Icy so bitterly denounced him,
wrought great indignation among bis
constituents, and, although he re-
ceived the nomination, his vote was
1882 behind that of the Republican
Secretary OF State. Again in 1867
he received the nomination. Hayes
being resident of Ohio brought out
a stronger adherance to the general
ticket, and yet Garfield fell short by
1,748. Not even the party lash of a
Presidential canvass could make the
indignant Republicans of his own
district yield him a support. Not
only did they oppose him at tho polls
but they met in convention in the
attempt to overthrow him as can
didate. Their determination and the
estimation of Mr.. Garfield by the
Republicans of his own district may
be comprehended from the following
record of the proceedings of that
convention of Republican voters in
the Nineteenth Ohio Congressional
district:
On the 7th day Of September,
1876, the Republicans Of the Nine
teenth Congressional district of Ohio
opposed to the return of James A.
Garfield to Congress, met in conven-
ton at Warren, Ohio, and organized
by electing DR.. c. w. Ensign, Of
Lake, for chairman, and L. D.
Brown, OF Portage, and George E.
Paine, OF Lake, Secretaries.
On motion of G. N. Tuttle and J.
B. Barrows. of Lake, B. Perry, OF
Ashtabula, L. d. Brown, of Portage,
and c. D. Crary, of Lake, were
chosen a committee on resolutions,
and II. II. Hine, VIM. E. Hulstt,
P. Boshworth, J. s. Carement, B. F.
Perry and r. M. Murray, were ap-
pointed a committee of conference
for representatives.
This committee on resolutions,
after a long whereas. said:
Therefore, Be it by this indepen-
dent convention of the Republicans
of the Nineteenth Congressional dis
trict of Ohio.
Resolved, That dishonesty, fraud
and corruption have become so COM
mon. notorious and obvious in the
administration of our National Gov
ernment as to be not only humiliat-
ing and disgraceful in the estimation
of every honest and intelligent citizen
but to imperil the prosperity of the
people if not the stability Of the Gov
ernment itself.
Resolred, That this deplorable
condition of the administrator of
our National Government is largely
due to the election to Office and con-
tinuance therein of dishonest and
venal men.
Resolved, That it is useless and
hypocritical for any political party
to declare for reform in its plat.
forms, papers and public addresses
while it insists on returning to high
official place and power men who
have been notoriously connected
with the very schemes OF fraud which
render reform necessary and urgent;
that to send those to enact reform
who themselves need reforming to
make them honest, is worse than set
ting the blind to lead the blind.
Resolved, That there is no man
to-day officially connected with the
administration of our National Gov
ernment against whom are justly
preferred more or graver charges OF
corruption than are publicly made
and abundantly sustained against
James A. Garfield, the present Rep
resentative OF this Congressional Dis
trict and tho nominee of the Repub-
lican Convention for re election.
Resolved, That since he first en-.
tered Congress to this day there is
scarcely an instance in which rings
and monopolies have been arrayed
against the interests of the people,
that he has been found active in
speech or vote upon the side of the
latter; but in almost every case he
has been the ready champion of the
rings and monopolies.
Resolved, That we arraign and
denounce him for his corrupt con.
nection with Credit Mobilier, for his
false denials thereof before his con-
stituents, for perjured denial thereof
before a committee of his peers in
Congress, for fraud upon his con-
stituents in circulating among them