The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-27

penetrated, there was no immediate
LANCER. l said to Br. HamiltonI
Then do you think the chances are|
against the President ?'
"Oh.n be replied, Il think very
much against him-very much in7
deed. / said to him, i am going To
see Gen. Arthur this morning I; may
tell him what you say@ lie said
10 me. Tell him exactly what | say3
and you may also tell Mr.. Blainel
but / do not desire tha, you give
my opinions to the public Gen
McCook and DR.. Baxter said they
thought it was my duty to tell Gen
Arthur the exact opinion of DR.
Hamilton. | soon went up toSena-
tor Jones' house, where Gen. Ar
thur was stopping, and ! told him
what DR.. Hamilton had said. He
was very much depressed, as Icould
well see when L first called, and he
YVES greatly shocked at what DIR.
Hamilton said. because ii was diff
ferent from the ideas he had receiv-
ed from the published bulletins and
public reports"
"Did you like his department
when you told him this ?"
Il aid very much. He talked like
a true man and gentleman that he
is. Great drops of PRECIPITATION
stood on his brow, and as he wiped
them off, he said, 'Lhis is dreadful.
He then said: Governor Jewell, the
presidency would not be very bad
thing if a man were nominated for
1T and elected to it, but to receive il
lin this manner, at the hands of an
assassin, is very different thing
And after moment or two he said:
If Garfield has got to die, God
knows that / would gladly exchange
places with him at this moment
believe he was sincere in his express
sions. and that no man in this coun-
try regretted the villainous act of
Guiteau more than did General Ar
thur. | believe he told me his real
opinion and convictions, and that
he will act up to the highest STAN
dard of patriotism, propriety and
honor | have not the slightest
doubt"
Has he the executive ability to
make first-class President ?"
"Oh yes, plenty of it. He has a
first-class training, was a good law
yer, was Governor Morgan's secreta
ry, and has filled every office with
uncommon satisfaction to the de
partments with which he has been
connected, both state and national. y
"You must have seen a good deal
of him last summer during thecam-
paign ?"
''Oh, yes, and a most indefatiga-
BILE chairman l found him to be.
We were both very busy men, | al
my headquarters and he at his. ]
rarely got an opportunity to have
much of a conference with him
until about midnight, and at mid
night, generally, l went over to the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, into his pri-
vate room, where we talked over
the affairs of the day. He seemed
to forget that he was himself on the
ticket, but he was making tre-
mendous struggle against heavy
odds to carry the State of New
York for the nominees of the Chica-
go Convention, regardless of who
they We're. / do not think he work
ed any harder for being himself on
the ticket than he would otherwise
have done. He never does things
halfway. Whatever is the subject
before him, he throws the whole
weight of his capacity and intellect
into it, and ] believe the party and
the country will have no cause to
regret that he was nominated at Chi
cago."
"By the way did you tell Secreta-
ry Blaine what DIR. Hamilton said?'
II did, and he was very much
startled by the report, and asked me
to see DIR. Hamilton again after the
midday examination of the Presi-
dent. This / did, and met DR.
Hamilton just before he left for New
York and told him / had seen Gen.
Arthur and Secretary Blaine, and
had reported what he had said, and
that Mr.. Blaine asked me to come
again and inquire if his second ex-
animation of the President had
caused him to modify his views
He said it had not-that he would
again say what he had said in the
morning-if the liver was penetrat-
led, in his opinion, the President
would die; if it was not he would
live month or two, when the drain
upon his system from the wound
and the abcesses which would nee.
essarily form might, and probably
would terminate his life; and he
further said that the symptoms OF
the twitching of the feet indicated
thatif he escaped the wounds in
the liver and the dangers from the
abcesses, he might be paralyzed in
the lower part of the body, but that
did not develop itself until he
undertook to stand upon his feet ?'
"Did you tell Gen. Arthur OF
this ?"
mo, / did not see him again that
day but l told Secretary Blaine
and Secretary Lincoln, who were
together in the White House, what
Dr. Hamilton had said that after
noon. / was myself very much
grieved and shocked at the decided
manner in which DR.. Hamilton had
expressed his views. Daring all this
dreadful sickness / have never been
able to divest myself of the impres-
sion it made upon me that the Pres
ident We had struggled so hard to
elect was not to be permitted to DEM
onstrate the brilliancy of his great
executive powers.
RECEPTION OF THE REMAINS AT THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON, September 21.-The
train bearing the tenantless body Of
James A. Garfield, late President vi
the United States. shortly after four
o'clock this afternoon moved SLOWLY
into the Baltimore and Potomac de.