The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-15
OHIO ALARMED.

Nineteenth Ohio district. 1t will be re
membered that this is Garteld's "old dis
trict' where, after the cor,uptions # his
congressional record were exposed, the
more respectable element Of the party in
the Western Reserve held boilers con-
vention and protested against the endorse
ment OF man whose record was so open to
censure. 1t was on the 18th day of Septem-
Der, 1876, that this convention was held to
repudiate false and corrupt representa-
tive. Among the resolutions adopted by
this assemblage of Republicans were the
following:
There is no man to-day officially con-
nected with the administration of our ma
,ional government against whom are justly
preferred more or graver charges Of corrup-
ton than are publicly made and also
abundantly sustained against j. A. Gar.
field"-
I'VE arraign and denounce Inn for his
corrupt connection with Credit Mobilier, for
his false denials before his constituents,
for his periured dentials thereof before a
committee of his peers in congress, for
fraud upon his constituents in circulating
among them pamphlet purporting to set
forth the findings of said committee, and
the evidence against him, when, in fact,
material portions thereof were omitted and
garbled."
Resolved, That we further arraign and
charge him with corrupt bribery in selling
his official influence as chairman Of the
committee on appropriations for $4,000 to
the De Golyer pavement ring to aid them
in securing contract from the board Of
Public Works of the district of Columbia;
selling his influence to the said ring in i'm
posing upon the people Of said district
pavement which is almost worthless at a
price three times its cost, as sworn to by
one of the contractors; selling his influence
to aid said ring in securing contract, to
procure which it corruptly spent $4,000
for "lnfluence;" selling his influence IN a
matter that involved no question OF law,
upon the shallow prcteXt that he was act
ing as lawyer; selling his influence IN a
manner so palpable and clear as to be so
found and declared by an impartial and
competent court upon an issue solemnly
tried.
These are serious charges, but they were
made by Republicans And they had the
effect to reduce Garfeld's majority in that
Republican congressional district from IA
900 down to about 1000. The same re-
solutions are having like effect against
Garfield throughout Ohio, as a presidential
candidate Hence is heard the voice of
alarm from Republicans in the shape OF an
address from the machine committees from
the Nineteenth district, for the purpose of
removing the impression that the resolu
tons of 1876 are making in the country.
The address, which is lengthy, does not DIS
prove the charges made against Garfield,
but simply puts its defense on the ground
that the proceedings Of the convention
| were not the action Of the Republi.
can party 1t is true that
they were not the charges Of the
regular machine convention, but every
member Of the convention which passed the
above resolutions, wasa Republican. Every
body understands that they were the honest
independent Republicans who would not
be controlled by machine with so corrupt
man as Garfield acting as the engineer.
1t was wholly unnecessary for the machin.
lists Of Mr. Garfelds district to issue long
address TO tell the country who the men
were composing the convention denouncing
Garfield. The country knows who they
were just as well as Garfelds henchmen.
The country knows they were Republicans
and the Republican committee that now
issues an address IN denfense Of the Repub-
lican candidate "to remove q false impress
sion,' had better stick to the text--explain
the charges made by Nineteenth District
Republicans in 1876.