Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-11-05
AFTER THE Ell ECTIoN.
The following from Harper's
Weekly contains some wholesome
truth handsomely expressed:

Weekly contains some wholesome
truth handsomely expressed: 4
simultaneously with the issue OF
this paper the result of the presiden-
tlai election will be known. The cam
paiRn has been intensely personals e.
necially against the republican candi-
date: and In tue OctOber republican,
successes there was .undount ediy .
large element of disgust and lndigna-
tion with the attempt 10 STAN inc
character of q mar who has impressed
me country as peculiarly uprig nts anio
and intelligent. Despite all the cali
umny shOWered upon him, there 10
probably no man, democrat or Tepuo-
iIean,a who would have hesitated 10
make General Garfield Q trustee OF
proper,y interests. But the exigencies
IF u polIt Cal canvass required tnem 10
declaIe that he was q DISHONEST man.
tht lmput Ation, whatever the result,
wlI csAs after election, and, Wnetner
as LresideDt or as senator, denersA
Garfield will continue 10 be among
the mot eminent and efficient OF
American statesmen.
The last week of u Presidential can
Vass is the most humiliating week ior
| the country of ali the four Year,.
| Look out for lies about this Time" 10
the inscription taAt 10 written all over
IL. The herald, in the midst OF that
| week, wished that 1t we've over, and
said, with reason, that after election
certain persons who, for party pur-
buses, had been rolling in the mirel
would doubtless take bath, put on
clean linen, and resume the feelings
L Of 4
shows the force of party fury more
plainly than the fact t1at honorab
men are swept away to the widest
words aud conduct. Mr.. w. ID. Bar
| mum, for instance, ls q senator OF tue
United States, aud the chairman u
thu national democratic committee
de id officially bound to be governed
ny the feeling of gel tieman, and q
{ allow none but honorable methods
!, But he was apparently msttered o.
all the bnmmers aud pOt.Wsilopers O
. mis- party, and resOrtlng t. the tactic
of gros-shop politics, he gave his sane
> ton to what proved to be an lnfamou
= forgery. It is no excuse to say tina
he might have thought 1t t. he tru'
G He was wholly unfit for his p Isltlo
J.. If he did not know that every sue
disclosure upon the eve OF election
: presumptiyely false, and tnat ss a
!. honorable man he could not adopt
until he had taken pains TO verify l
Il Happily grog-shop political methoo
always recoil, and the utterers OF ST.
lice In O canvass are surely made
h suffer. Mr.. Abram 8. Hewitt ale
. aliuding in o public speech to tt
9. Chinese letter attributed to Genel
a. al Garfield, said, III l though
ar slightest doubt of its authenticity,
- would not refer to it.n The truth
that it was, as General Garfield imm
le distely declared, "a base forgery
And he added, "1ts stupid and brut
III sentiments I never expressed nor Q
~ ter aimed. ........ Any one Who Ia famiil
with my handwriting will instant
% SEES that the letter is spurious
do not envy Mr.. Hewitt's posfto
Party success ia no doubt very desir
y BILE to partisan, but it may DE boug
.;c at much too high price. Wltho
- principles, witont policy. without
r. record which it coul1 bear to conte
"A plate, the democratic party concentl
ao ted, all It's streDgtn upon the effoit
at blacken the character OF the repuo
ri can candidate. Whatever the res
On of the election may be- thsteHdeaS
he al least has failed. Hatred and NAL
have searched him with candles, o
JIG the greater the light. the Purer
,ot I character it has disclosed.