The daily gazette., 1880-07-01
llIRD EDITION
Withdrawing GarfieId.

WASHINGTON, June 29.-Noted
Republicans at Washington, whose
nsmes would excite surprise if given
to the public advocate the policy of
withdrawing Garfield; and of substi-
tuting another candidate, whose rec
ord is not tainted with venality and
dishonor. They thind the party is
not strong enough to carry such a
load, and that defeat stares them in
the face if it be not relieved. This
idea is by no means confined to
small circle, but has extended to inn
portant influences, and finds favor
among the friends of more than one
of the aspirants who were defeated
at Chicago.
The suggestion is impracticable,
because even ifs new name could
be put up without once more assem-
bling the National Convention, that
step would be regarded as complete
surrender of thePresidential contest.
But that such proposition should
be entertained in any form, or be-
come a topic OF discussion, is evil
dence of the decentralization caused
by Garield's candidacy, and of a
want of confidence in his personal in
egrity.
The Republicans at the capital
who are familiar with the daily walk
and life of Garfield, know full well
that the Credit Mobilier corruption
and the De Golyer bribe are mere
incidents in career notorious for
jobbery and for hypocrisy. dis votes
and the influence of his position in
the House of Representatives have
been huckstered about Washington
for years in almost every scheme of
spoliation before Congress. The
parties who bought him and who
sold him, of course, have an interest
in concealing their criminal compli-
city, and Investigation has barely
scraped the surface of his habitual
traffic as a legislator.
Considering his talents and his
opportunities, Garfield las generally got
less money for his support Of jobs in
Congress than almost any of the corrup pit
crew who have made merchandise of
the positions on committees or their votes
on the floor. He has usually been in the
made him pay dearly for preserving
vsnal secrets. Thus, Dick Parsons ol
Cleveland, who was hired by the agent
of DsGolyer and Mcclellan to buy Gar
fields influence as Chairman of the
Appropriation Committee, pocketed ten
thousand dollars for that service while
he only gave Garfield five thousand
although, as he swore, he had agreed
with him to "share the fee."
AS business corruptIonist Garfield is
not q success, though he has cOntrIved
TO make himself easy in circumstances,
aud might have been much richer than
he is, if The faculty of exacion had been
added TO his easy virtue in taking bribes.
Morally rotten, and defiant OF opinion,
he has constantly required ready money,
and he usually accepted whatever sum
was offered without stopping to consider
whether 1t was an equivalent or not for
the service rendered.
For these and Tor other reasons which
may be made known hereafter, the
nomination of Garfield fell fiat at the
capital, not so much from dlsappoint,
ment ON the part of the Grant, Blaine,
or Sherman men, as from "a knowledge
OF his character and the conviction that
1t could and would be assailed success
fully as wholly unworthy of the place to
which he aspires. Thus far his oppon-
ents have practised the utmost forbear-
ance in referring Only to those points
which Investigations by Congress have
made clear.
Whenever the time comes to consider
MIR. GarieId in his capacity as a Chris
tlan statesman,aUd TO strip off the mantle
OF hypocrisy which has covered foul
Interior, the country will see an object
to be loathed. 1t is the dread of this
exposure, superadded to what is already
known, that induces Republicans OF
established repute to urge so desperate a
resource as the withdrawal OF Garfield $
name from the ticket as the only means
of saving the parry from defeat.