The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-15
GARFIELD.
Chairman.

TuE kind OF man Garfield is in one oil
the most marked phases OF his character
ia illustrated in the following extract from
his speech before the Ohio legislature up
on the occasion Of his election as United
States Senator:
have represented for many years dis.
trict in Congress whose appreciation
greatly desired; but though it may seem,
perhaps, little egotistical to say 1t, yet
desired still more the appreciation OF one
person, and his name was Garfield. lie Is
the only man that am compelled to sleep
with and eat with, and live with and die
with; and il could not have his approba.
ton / should have bad companionship.
TAG Cincinnati Commercial has been
very bitter in its criticisms OF General
Garfield, because he refused to put wood
pulp, which enters into the manufacture
Of paper, upon the free list Since his
nomination the Commercial declares:
Upon thorough investigation, We find
that we can get along for a. few weeks
without pulp on the free list. The way to
get the article is to take buckeye log,
grind it on a big stone and make your
own pulp. 'Rah for Garfield, pulp or
no pulp.
GARFiELD's PLATFORM.
speech 10 Congress. December 10, 1878.
az want to say another thing. So far as
4 have studied the current OF public
thought and political feeling in this coun'
try, no feeling has shown itself more
strongly than the tendency OF the public
mind In the past few months. The man
who attempts TO yet up political excite.
ment in this country on the old sectional
issues will find himself without party
and without support. The man who
wants TO serve his country must put him.
self in the line OF its leading thought, and
that is the restoration OF business, trade,
commerce, industry, sound political econ.
omy, and hard money, and honest pay
ment OF all obligations, and the man who
can add anything in the direction OF the
accomplishment OF any OF these purposes
is public beneiaCtor.
Pittlburgh Commercial
GARFIELD's very character is the proto.
type OF republicanism. His humble birth
and selt.made manhood. his magnificent
intellectual attainments, his large and i'm.
partial views OF public policy, his private
character, which partisan malice has new
er been able to smirch, and his unswerv.
ing and undoubted devotion TO those great
ideas for which. the Republican party ex-
lists, make him candidate in whose sup.
port all the Republicans OF the country
will come together with vigor and en-
thusasm, such as marked the campaigns
Of 1874 and 1868.
New York Times.
GAKFIELD's name at the head Of the
Presidential ticket will awaken no hope OF
q boom" in speculative shares; it will
be honorably neglected by the bulls and
and bears Of the street alike; 1t will kin.
die no anticipation OF subsidies for haz.
ardous steamship ventures, or grants to
railroads which private capital is afraid to
touch, or Gigantic" canals across imprac.
ticable routes. The business men OF the
country will see in 1t guaranty that
nothing will be done TO strain the credit
OF the Government for the sake oil build
ing up ventures which have no foundation
in the needs OF the country and nothing
to promise the honest capitalist.