Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-20
A Strange Chapter.

new tOAA SeA'
Cen. Gsrfield's experience - Q candi-
date must be almost as bewiidering -
his experience in the Credit Mooiler
matter, when, condemned by the com,
mittee and by the country, ne imP'oIeo
Speaker Blaine to save" him and the
res,D by reappoiuting them to the posts
thew had previously held in the House.
Garfield was extremely eager Tor the
Ch;csoo nomination. He knew very
veil that HAYES, Foster and Dennison
were planning the sacrifice OF sherman
in a certain contingency; and ne was
n,;,s Willing TO betray his friend ana
scceot the fruits OF the TRANSACTION.
Yet all accounts agree that ms exSite,
ment during the ballot which resulted
in his nomination was painful IN theex-
IRENE. His face was pallid, and he was
scarcely able 10 articulate. why TINS
Extraordinary and peculiar agitation!
He sxnressed but a part Of his when he
a,cl.imed: INV God! What Will
Sherman saw >" He was thinking oil
the Credit Mobilier, OF the De Golyer
br;bery, of the salary grab. and oil the
many other jobs in which he had oeen
engaged. This terrible record had not
been brought before the Convention pc
csnse he came there hiding himself De.
hind the candidacy OF a friend. But
Garfield himself remembered II only
too and well. He knew that each word
and line of il would be raised IN judy.
ment against him, and that in each wsrd
ami line there Law a just and fatal bar 10
his ambition. Iii defeated In conse-
onence of these accusations, upon which
various tribunals OF his own party no
would be the only candidate LOT the
Presidency ever rejected Tor pure per
sonal corruption and total moral uhnt-
mess for the office. His conduct snow
al that he in some appreciated the situ-
alton He would have spoken,
hnt the voice stuck in his
throat. He had eaten OF the insane
root and although approaching
his perilous situation and maniiestiy
Shrinking from the ordeal before MN,
ne Mas unable to say the WORD tnst
might have saved his party and him.
self :.
But General Garfeld's experience In
some other respects IL equally remarka-
bic. Only four years ago he was con
spicuously concerned in the perpetra-
lion of the Great Fraud, by which the
will Of the people was reversed ana =
candidate not elected was seated IN the
occidental chair. lie was visiting
s,a,e,mau; he was one OF the infamous
e;ybt OF the Electoral Commission; he
MAS the personal representatives. fiayes
in the negotiation with certain southern
Representatives wherein II was agreed
ON the one side that the fraudulent count
should be completed, and on the other
that Chamberlain and Packard ana tne
Republican party South shouio oe
abandoned TO their fate. Yet the very
men who were most forward in the busi,
ness Of the Fraud are the least forward
in the campaign for Garfield. They re-
yar1 him. HAYES, and the whole OhiC
40, A. but little better than traitors
| They abhor the treason to their south
/ arn coadiutors, to which Garfield prt
yately pledged Hayes, and which Hayes
/ faithfully executed.
] Bnt il the stalwarts who were no.
d thieves are cold, the stalwarts who were
are exceedingly warm. III honest he
nnblicans fall away IRON the Credit Mo
biIier standard in the hands OF this typ
cal Christian statesman. the convict
and iobbers, whose names and offences
/ are a killing reproa2h 20 any party whici
toIerstes them, crowd into their places
Williams, Robson and Belsnap are thu
front. Patterson is on the stump: Col
lax is the com panion OF the candidate II
The Oil line OF business at Chautauqus
"a he was before the Poland committee
Poyce makes the songs OF thecampalgn
xIils notorious robbers and carpet-bag
gers, indeed all manner OF rogues' GROVE
their most important conferences.