The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
But the Condemnation of His
Old Party Associates
They DenOunce Him as the
Ready Champion of Rings
and MOnOpOlies !-zzsa.z
And Condemn His Vote for the
Salary Steal!
His Connection with the Credit
MObilier and DeGolyer
Pavement Swindles! sr.5
And His Efforts in Favor of
Demonstrating Silver. E5o

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On the 7th day of September, 1876,
the Republicans of the Nineteenth
Congressional District of Ohio, opposed
to the return of James A. Garfield to
Congress, met in convention at War
rem, Ohio, and organized by electing
DIR. G. w. Ensign, of Lake, for chair
man, and l.. ID. Brown, of Portage,
and Geo. f.. Paine, of Lake, secretaries.
On motion. G.. N. Tuttle and j. B.
Burrows, of Lake, b. f. Perry, of
and G. ID. Crary, of Lake, were chosen,
a committee Oh resolutions, and III. ii.
Hime, William +. Hulett. p. BoswOrth,
J. S. Easement, b. +. Perry and r. M.
Murray, We're appointed a committee
Oh conference for Representatives. as e
This committee on resolutions, after
a long whereas, said iaa aG! .lrsE 4
Therefore, be it by this independent
convention of the Republicans of the
nineteenth congressional district of
Ohio, Resolved, ..,5 ma. Z
First-That dishonesty, fraud and
corruption have become SO common,
notorious and obvious in the adminis-
tratiOn of our national government, as
to be not only humiliating and dis
graceful in the estimation of every
honest and intelligent citizen, but to
imperil the prosperity of the people,
if not the stability of the government
itself. s,f.a. ..l tar yrs7 sals sl3i1t g.
Second-Resolved, That this deplor-
able condition of the administration
of our national government is largely
due to the election to office and contin-
uance therein of corrupt, dishonest
and venal men. r., .sie .fi.. - ss,sss Il.
Third-Resolved, That it is useless
and hypocritieal for any political party
to declare for reform in its platforms,
papers and public addresses. while it
insists on returning to high official
place and power men who have been
notoriousiy connected with the very
schemes of fraud which render reform
necessary and urgent; that to send
those to enact reform who themselves
need reforming to make them honest,
is worse than setting the blind to lead
the blind. -
Fourth-Resolved, That there is no
man to-day officially connected with
the administration of our national gov
ernment against whom are justly pre-
ferred more and graver charges of cor
ruption than are publicly made and
abundantly sustained against James
A. Garfield, the present representative
of this congressional district and the
nominee of the Republican convention
for reelection. .-..-...- e
Fifth-ResoIved, That since he first
entered Congress to this day there is
scarcely an instance in which rings and
monopOlies have been arrayed against
the interests of the people, that he has
been found active in speech or vote up
on the side of the latter, but in almost
every case he has been the ready cham
piOn of the rings and monopolies. .
Sixth-Resolved, That we especially
charge him with venality and cowar-
dice in permitting Benjamin F. Butler
to attach to the appropriation bill OF
1873 that ever-tO-be-remembered infa-
my, the Salary Steal and in speaking
and voting for that measure on its final
passage. And charge him with corrupt
disregard of the clearly expressed de-
mand of his constituents that he should
vote for its repeal, and with evading
said demand by voting for the Hutch
insOn amendment, ....- ,,
Seventh-Resolyed, That we further
arraign and denOunce him fOr'his cor
rupt connection with the Credit Mo-
biiier, for his false denials thereof be-
fore his constituents, for his perjured
denials thereof before a committee Oi
his peers in Congress, for fraud upon
] his constituents in circulating among
them pamphlet pqrpOrting to set
forth the finding of said committee
and the evidence against him, when in
fact material portions thereof Were
omitted and garbled. 1-s u
Eighth-Resolved, That we further
arraign and charge him with corrupt
bribery, selling his official influence as
chairman of the committee on apprO-
priatiOns, for 5000 to the DeGolyer
pavement ring, to aid them i'm securing
n contract from the board of public
works of the District of Columbia
selling his influence to aid said ring in
imposing upon the people of said Dis
trict q pavement which is almost wOrtli-
less at q price three times its cost, as
sworn to hy one of the contractors !
selling his influences to aid said ring in
procuring Il CONTRACT to procure which
it cOrruptly paid $97 900 for influence;'
selling his influence in y matter that
involved no question Of law, uponthe
shallow preteXt that he was acting as
lawyer; selling his influence in a
manner so palpable and clear as to he
so found and declared by an impartial
and competent court upon an issue SOL
emnly tried. sll .5..lsi lyfs- 30 Fis. u
Einth-ResOlyed, That we arraign
him for the fraudulent manner in
which he attempted in his speech de-
livered at Warren, on the 10Th day of
September, 1874, to shield himself from
just censure in receiving the before
named $4,000, by falsely representing,
in said speech, that the Congress of the
United States were not responsible for
the acts of said board, nor the United
States liable for the debts created there
by, when in truth and in fact, as he
then well knew, the said board of pub
lie works and the officers of said Dis
trict were byt the agents and instru-
ments of Congress, and the United
States was responsible for the indebt-
edness by them created. .4.srr8 s
TeRth-Resolved, That we arraign
him for gross derelictiap Of duty as a
member of Congress, in failing to bring
to light and expose the corruption and
abuse In the sale of post traderships,
for which the late Secretary Belknap
was impeached, when the same was
brought to his knowledge by General
Hazen, in 1879, and can only account
for it upon the supposition that his
ruptiOn funds then by him just receiv-
ed and in his own purse. S.
Eleyent Resolved, That the law
of 1873 known as the act tdemonetixing-
silver, was enacted in the interest Of
gold rings, b0ndholders and capitalists,
and against the interest Of the tax pay
ers and without their advice or knowl-
edge. That this act, by a single blow,
has seriously crippled our power to re-
sume specie payments or pay our ma
tional debt in coin. That no sufficient
reason has yet been given for this Leg
islation, SO dishonest and palpable in
its discrimination in favor Of the small
creditor class and capitalists, and
against the debtor class and the indus
trial interests Of the country, That
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