The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-09-15
GARFIELDS ACCUSERS ARE NOT
DEMOCRATS. Is.


c.. FQgney. so long as he kept
close within the party lines, was al
ways a welcome counsellor 10 the
Repuhlcan ranks. and was ALWAYS
sure Of An audience when he had
anything 70 suggest. Now it is diff.
ferent with them. 1t is just as Col
onel Fornev says: "If desire 10
give reasons for my preference for
Winfield S. Hancock. l have only TO
turn TO the columns Of the Republi-
can papers of America in 1868; if
1 desire 10 prove dts;rust of James
A. Garfield / have only TO turn to
the Republican journal of February,
1873" But these are the columns
which the same Republican journals
take good care not TO quote, nor al
low their readers to see in 1880, not
If they can help it. that is. II a
Democratic journal copies what they
said about Garfield in 1878, the y
call it Throwing mud" dealing in
flth," etc., etc. IF it be "mud" and
"flth, we can only remind them
that it is the washing of their own
cutters, in which they once rolled
their present favorite. In a late
number of Col. Forney's paper,
Progress, he says:
Having decided TO support Hancock
for President of the United States. how
ever, find there is another audience
not quite as anxious 10 hear what have
to say: that one decides against me in
advance The parties to this proceed
ing are gentlemen who think that it is
an offepse for an independent Republic
can TO have any voice in public affairs
that is not set to the chorus of the Re
publican ring. As long as you sing in
their choir, and echo their sentiments,
and obey their covenants, you are
saint; but if you utter discordant note
you are a traitor. / am traitor now
because / do not swing the censor 20
General Garfield. l am inconsistent be-
cause l spoke well OF Garfield after the
nomination for President am glad
did. His nomination was relief from
the men who assasinated Grant at Chica-
go. Garfield was better than the office
holding and off1ce-hunting politicians
who, after hunting down the lion, OK
pected to drink his bloed, to feed upon
his fame and rally the party he had saw
ed twice from ruin 10 their support,
Garfield was better than the hypocrites
who, bowling civil service and holding
up third term, as they said, sought the
Presidency only for themselves. after
having been longer in Office than four
times the length of one term But /
did not know General Garfield's record;
had never examined it. was not my
business to keep a list of his Jobs.
have not been five times in Washington
in ten wears, and do not know what
the new leaders of the Republican party
have dOne-certainly rot their secret
work o help themselves Till his nom
inatiOn for President the country was
almost as ignorant as myself. What it
is ali men know now; and if | revOlted
from it, it was because | found it differ
ent from what | honestly believed it to
be. General Garfield's accusers were
not Democrats. He was brought to the
bar by his own party, by the Republic
can press and the Republicans of his
own county, by the Republican commit
tees of his own Congressional District,
by the Republican Congress of which
he was member, and by Republican
court of Justice. Had this record been
known at Chicago, General Garfield
could not have been nominated Full
information enables me to speak By
the book when assert that there was
not a Republican leader Of INV mite
equally those on the ground to slay
and those who came to save Grant,
that did not admit, on reflection, that
Gaifeld's selection was a blunder, and
that the blunder was worse than
crime