Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20

means to be contributed by their member
ship throughout the country. But let
them take warning from the costly, debt.
laden discouraged metropolitan" NJ. E.
Church, where President Grant attended,
and I" 90 slow" The little brown box
where they now worship is dozen times
more picturesque than more imposing
one wouldlbe, and the local church represents
but limited capital Its attendance num-
beers three or four feminine worshipers to
one masculine, and the number is not
large even then. 1t Is good working
church and has established mission on
Capital Hill. General Garfield is not a
man to whom any church seems necessary
for his development. He is micTocosm
in himself In temperament he is strik-
ingly like Henry Ward Beecher-eloquent,
ardent, impulslve, sometimes erratic
capable of profound repentance for a
wrong. This last trait is the key to much
that is not wholly understood in his up
ward career. Ohio knows that
HER kohl MOOR
Is not fiawless, but Koh-i-noor he is not
withstanding. If charged with giving
defect he will Indignantly deny it, but he
will 90 straight to work and make his
denial true for the future. This heXibihty
makes infinite growth possible. He Is
broadly and grandly intellectual, splendid
theorist how practical he is in executive
action remains to be seen. He might not
have framed and carried out resumption
policy like that we now have, but few men
on the planet could. 1t takes grand
fixedness to one idea to accomplish such
a scheme, and the General keeps too many
irons IN the fire for That.
The incoming administration will have
a great deal of what the theater people
call "stage business" 1t will be brainy
administration and an interesting field for
an observant correspondent. General Gar
field himself is an interesting study.
There is
NO PARALLEL
To the elimination of his career in
our national history. A member of
the House of Representatives, Sem
ator.e elect and President-elec all at once,
and he not 40 till the 10Th of this month.
Yet there are men before the public to-
day whom I conscientiously consider
greater than he men who had more truly
earned the golden apple which willy Charley
Foster at Chicago shook down into this
mans lap; but none, perhaps, who could
have so solidified the party, or whose cam
didacy would, on the whole, have been as
suspicious
1t is matter of profound congratulation
that the House of Representatives, will
again have Republican majority, but we
shall miss such men as Chittenden of
Brooklyn and Davis of San Francisco.
Mr.. Davis has done strong work here. He
is fair minded man, of high standard and
steadily increasing influence. You have
seldom so good member from the Pacific
coast. California has disappointed her
friends in the narrow margin she has given
upon the Republican side. We did not
expect her wide-awake people to take
stock in that silly Morey letter.
Tomorrow three Government transports
convey the Secretary of the Navy and his
invited guests to the naval review at
Hampton Roads. The President goes
down with the Secretary, and goodly
force of dignitaries, among whom your
correspondent, who is an invited guest,
also will figure as fly on the elephants
ear EMMA JAMES.