Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-20
WARNED AGAINST GRANT.
Denn PiGtt Urges Garfield to Break the
Poscer of the "Impertalfsts."

Denn Piatt Urges Garfield to Break the
P0aper of the "Inapertalists."
Dom Piatt, in the Washington Capital,
publishes an open letter addressed to Hon.
James A. Garfield, which, owing to the
friendly relations known to exist between
these two gentlemen, has produced decided
sensation, and has been the theme of con-
versation in the hotel lobbies to-day. The
letter is quite lengthy. The following are
brief extracts therefrom:
"My Dear General: Now that this sense
less political row is over and you are the
President elect, venture, before you are
buried in that mansion, through the thick
walls and plate glass of which no word of
truth ever reaches the incumbent, to write
you few words in the same intimate ard
friendly spirit that marked our intercourse
when we both occupied cheap boarding
house, when I carried my fortunes on the
slender rib of a pen, as newspaper correspon-
dent, and you sought gto support your
self and family on the meager pay
of q Congressman. 60 back to
the time when you gladly accepted nay aid
and sympathy in your troubles and my heart
felt congratulations in your triumphs, and
yours. feel more anxiety about you, my
friend, now that you are fortunate, than in
the darkest hour of your life, when life itself
seemed so horrible that an escape from it
was temptation. You have passed from
| the hands of friends to the keeping of enc
mics, to play the part of chief executive for
| four years."
He tells Gen. Garfield that he is not only
no politician, but is hated by the politicians,
and that history never has and probably
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| that upon which he was elected. We have
among Us certain persons who are
bent on changing the form of ou,
self government. They seek to make the
| Presidency life tenure, and under the name
of stronger government escape the return
OF the power to the people. "You know the
man who is to serve their purpose in the
REASONABLE scheme. They bank upon bis
military record and supposed popularity"
Mr.. Piatt warns MIR. Garfield against the
politicians, who are determined, as he has
| indicated, to change the form of govern
ment, and hopes that he will have nothing
to do with them except looking to breaking
their power. He uses the fol.
lowing language, which has attracted
more attention than any other part of the
letter:
"It was your committee that investigated
that national shame called BLACK Friday,
wherein Fisk, Gould and Grant sought
through use of the national treasury to en-
rich themselves at the expense of thousand!
of honest men. 1t is not my purpose to re-
Cal the details of that infamy.
''The chief criminal was tracked to the
threshold of the Executive Mansion, ant
your committee passed q resolution calling
| upon the President to appear before the com
mittee and defend himself from the damnins
! proof that made him the chief conspirator
The night of the day that the resolution
was passed you called with it upor
the President. It was after midnight
before you left the White House
amazed and sick at heart, land, at your sug-
gestien, that very day the resolution was re-
voked. I need not say that you and ? know
why that resolution was 80 suddenly aban
doned. The fact that under the circumstances
it was revoked tells the whole story. The very
Democrats of the committee shrunk from
the threatened exposure"
The letter closed as follows:
"But you are not great man. You read
in your library of heroic achievements; youl
soul swells over the poetic expression; yoI
are full Of thought and impulse, and all endl
in support of men you despise and part,
| with which you have nothing in common