Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-07-29
Our Candidates

From the Boston UOmm0ner
There are now three candidates in the
field claiming the suffrages of the Amer
lean people. 1t behoOves every voter to
know the platform on which each one
stands and act accordingly. 1t is now
conceded that old issues are thoroughly
inferred The Republicans have no fur.
ther use for the bloody shirt.
|. Their candidate, Rev. Mr.. Garfield,
was in the war only few weeks and was
not first class soldier; the most of the
time that he pretended to be a soldier he
was home on sick furlough making
speeches to get himself elected to congress
2. General Hancock, the Democratic
nominee, was in the war from first to last
and was a good and active soldier.
3. General Weaver, the Greenba9k
nomin, for the office OF president was in
the war, filed every position to which he
was called with honor, and brought the
original bloody shirt from the battle field,
and was the first person to wave it before
an audience; this he did, not in fgura,
tive sense, but actually held the en-
sauguined garment before an audience.
This was done at time, too, when there
was necessity to arouse the patriotism OF
the North. That necessity.is happily in
the past, so
Fold up the little shirtie
That Blaine used to wave;
He will need it on earth never,
He's in his little grave.
The issue must now turn upon the
candidates and the platforms. The plat.
forms cannot in this brief article be dis.
cussed. Suffice it TO say, the Republican
platform is bad string Of platitudes, and
a bad man stands upon it. The Demo
cratic platform is intensely hard money
q bad platform and man Of his word
pledges to carry it out.
The Greenback platform contains in its
very first plank all the issles of the day,
and one of the best men in the world
stands upon it, pledged, if elected, to see
its substance carried out in the admins
tration OF the general government. The
very first sentence the makers Of the Ma
tional Greenback Labor Platform was:
Civil government should guarantee
the divine right of every .laborer to the
results of his toll"
For the working man this sentence of
our preamble above is enough. He needs
no more platform; on this he can make
the entire issue.
Let us consider the men. Who is Elder
Garfield? He was minister OF the order
known in the West as Disciples, generally
nicknamed as Campbellites, from their
adherence TO the doctrines of Alexander
Campbell. On the breaking out of the
rebellion he went to war, but was elected
to congress, where he has been ever since.
During his congressional career there has
not been fraud in that body but that he
has been in.
He was one of the chief sinners in the
Credit Mobilier fraud, and then swore
falsely and tried to induce others to do the
same concerning it. Here is his testimony
given Jan. II, 1878:
"Mr. Ames never gave nor offered tc
give me any valuable stock as gift.
once asked and obtained from him. ant
afterward repaid to him, loan Of $500;
that amount is the only valuable thing
ever received from or delivered to him.
never owned, received or agreed to receiv,
any stock Of the Credit Mobilier Or of tn,
Union Pacific railroad, nor any dividends
or profits arising from either Of them"
Judge Poland, of Vermont, Republica,
m ,mber of congress and chairman of tn,
Poland committee, and au intensely par
tisan Republican, made report on tn
case, in which he used the following Ian
guage:
"He (Garfeld) agreed with Mr., Ame
TO take ten shares oi Credit Mobilier stock
but did not pay for the same. Mr.. Anne