The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-07-08
REV. DR.. FELTON,.

made a speech in the court house,
last Tuesday, to large crowd, in
which he spoke in the highest eulo
CYSTIC terms of Hancock and pre-
dicted his election, and was roundly
appIauded. He then alluded to
Gen. Garfield, the Radical candidate
for President, and gave a gratultous
testimonial of bis good character.
He said;
IL know Gen. Garfield personally,
have been on the same committee
with him, and he is gentleman OF
good morals, social, clever, and has
a grand intellect intellectually he
has no superior in the House. He
is a good man, has mind of mex
haustible resources, and have not a
word to say to detract from his in
tegrity"
How DR.. FELTON, could say Gar
field is a man of "good morals" and
procIaiin that be chad not word
to say to detract from his integrity
is a question that would have puz
zled us if he had concluded his
speech at this point; but he contln
ued and praised "my record" and
announced himself an independent
candidate for re election, then it was
we knew that it was not ignorance
that made him say that he had not
a word to say to detract from Gar
fields integrity, but that it was bid
for the votes of Garfeld's support
ers. He praised Hancock to secure
Democratic votes, and praised Gar
field to secure Republican votes.-
This certainly was an adroit ma
newer to court favor with the vot-
ers of both parties, ind showed his
agility 10 riding two horses at once.
Does any one suppose that if Garfield
with his rotten record of corruption,
perjury and bribery, was candid
ate in opposition to DR.. FELTON, 10
this Congressional district, that DR..
FELTON, would have thus praised him
and said that che had not a word to
say to detract from his integrity 7"
Does any one suppose that FELTON,
would have shut his eyes and closed
his lips against exposing 10 witherN
ing abuse the DeGOlyer pavement
contract, when it is proven that Gar
field received bribe of five thou
sand dollars as Chairman of the Ap
Driation committee, and in conse'
ouence thereof this DeGolyer paw
ing ring fiIched $ll 100000 from
the public treasury If Garfield
was a candidate for Congress in THU
9Th district, does any one believe
that DR.. FELTON, would have refused
to tell the people whom he addressed
that Garfield had sworn that he hac
never received cent from the Cred
it MobiIier swindle, when it was
proven that he had not onl y received
dividends on the stock, but tina
while the investigation was going OF
Garfield had tried to induce Hon
Cakes Ames to swear falsely and SAY
the money was loan and would hi
not also have told his hearers that {
Republican investigating committee
} with Judge Poland, q republican
as Chairman, had signed a repoT
concluHvely fastening guilt upor
Garfield in this Infamous transaction
and would he not have denounced
Garfield as a perjurer and a suborn
er of perjury and would he not have
shown how the back ~salary grail
was almost defeated, when Garfield
as Chairman of the Appropriation
Committee, airoitly engineered the
bill through when hardly a quo
rum WAS present, and thus rob
bed the treasury of thousands of dol
lars and do you not think tina
his supreme hatred of fraud woulC
have prompted him to have men
toned that Gar field was one of the
s to 7 that formed the Infamous
Electoral Commission that fraudu
lently counted Hayes in, and cheat,
ed the people out Of their rightfully
elected President !
And yet in the face of this damn
ing record of facts against Garfield,
of which DR.. FELTON, knows all about
be stands before Cobb county au-
dience aud sIobbers praise all over
Garfield, and says "he has not a
word to say to detract from bis
integrity" Not a syllable of con-
demnation for such corruption in the
Presidential candidate OF the Repub
Iican party! And why! Simply