The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-09-25

We shall religiously observe a.. s
publican request, made in perroS r.
through numerous organs Of -.
Garfield, not to make this 4 - :
campaign. We shall do this. No..
standing the fact that the peonjs g.
the journals who make these ~.
themselves do nothing else thar -,
to make this a personal c,,,-.:
against General Hancock. o.
Hancock can afford a persona -
paign; General Garfield cannot
such q canvass. We have trenf.i ia
eral Garfield in this campaign Is :
spectful manner. and shall couti.cs j.
to treat him. We have not 49,. |. .
upon him contemplate acts Of - II;
meanness not broad and Natiorsi r
their character. In this respec< Z.
have varied from the practice 81 :, !
of our Republican Contemporaries sS.S
have asked for q non-persounI 49,
paign. We have said nothing s2.i
General Garfield that is not knocS ~
be true, and is not ga part a Z =
history of the country IN tbin
spect, also, our methods differ -
those of some of our friends = y
deprecate q personal campaign.
But no part of the history q 4,
country is so prominent at this tin -
the theft of the current Presidencv. +,
this stupendous stealing Garfield ~,
a conspicuous and disgraceful ~
From his place in the House h p
nounced. under his oath as . msuar
of the Congress, certain features q -
Electoral Commission bill as unconS
tutional and vicious. He pleaded y,
the sanctity of precedents. He to,f Z
decided view as to the powers NM
the bill conferred upon that Conn.
sion. He maintained them by -.
ment in such a manner as to SHOW ~
they were not opinions hastily forn1
or which could be hastily and 4 -
same time conscientiously changed s
The bill became law, and G1r1elf
became amember of the Electoral Ca
mission. He was again acting NJ
high responsibility. Within ieW d.
his views as to the Constitution chan11<
His opinions concerning the DIT
which the bill imposed upon the c.
mission were suddenly altered. BE ~,
as q member of the Electoral Comnk
sion that the things he had said = {
member of the House few dsys -
fore were false. The charge We M
is that Garfield was not only prun
inent among the men who ~
the Presidency, but that he dr.
against himself as well Is g.
the Constitution and the laws. r. 1
the things he had just said he could1<
do. He solemnly and elsborately ~
that the Constitution meant one thtk
one day and almost the next day said ~
it meant something else, the moment h
found that his practical perjury ouul1
accomplish the theft Of the PresidsneE
the rape of American suffrage. He ~
carefully examined and debated -
bill that created the Electoral Counlr
sion and had explained its scope Il
authority. The instant he found ~
by saying he had lied he could aconn,
plish the most enormous outrage upo
the rights of suffrage which hrs ~
known in free governments. be solonn'
ly and deliberately declared that y
was lying few days before or M r
ing then. He was involved equaI
with any of the others in the huge ~
berry itself. He bears the additloo1
infamy of having contrsdicted md -
victed himself In so doing. With
his vote the steal could not have ~
accomplished, and he had Just mn
that he would not and could mot -
scientiously SO cast it.-C incinnae =
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