New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
VARIOUS OPINIONS EXPRESSED.

WHAT A. :. HEWITT sNs-EN-sEcEErABY ruOMp-
son GREATLY snOChED-JOmN L. sNlYIM's AND
OTHERS COMMENTS.
Abram ;. Hewitt was found at his Office in Bur
lin--slip. :" was greatly shocked at the news"
said he, "as any must be. could not credit the
report and Thought it Il canarl.'
After inquring what the latest dispatch was and
learning that Che assassin was believed to be insane
Mi Hewitt sAid
"Of course he must be insane. No mn in his
right mind would tempt such a decl 1t would
be absurd to give the crime any political import
ancc. All that can be said OF the sad affair is tn t
1t is thing that may happen to any one. The same
fate may be hanging over M for all that | know.
Some one may fancy ne has a grievance AGAINST me,
may brood over it until it becomes a mania with
hun, and then do as this man has done The matter
shows that under any and every form of Govern
mcut human lite is NOT safe.
'Ihis il not the first instance of its kind Aside
from ihc assassination OF President Lincoln you
remember Andrew Jackson was shot at but he was
not hit Every ones sympathy must 60 ont toward
President Garfield He is man OF most mild and
attractive manners, genial and magnetic His
greatest failing, in fact was his almost feminine
nature i'll matters of the fccng' My personal
relations with him were very agreeable and pleasant
until the unfortunate affair Of the Morcy letter,
when an attempt was made TO place me in false
lght-not by THE TRIBUNE however,"
Doing asked WHAT ne Thought Wee PRESIDENT
Arthul's course would be in the Presidents
wound proved mortal, he said:
That is purely matter of speculation. General
Arthur has got to be tried in such n relation SO
far wherever he has had opportunity, he has shown
himself fine administrator. He would probably
fill the position acceptably, although that is rs
said, purely speculative The country will be safe
AT least. Other Nice-lrcsidcntS have succeeded to
the Presidency, anl no permanent harm has resulted,
rs III the cases of Tyler Fillmore and JohlsonD
COMMENTS or TIE EX-sECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
| am so shocked that do not know what opinion
to express, said cXSecretary Thompson, of Indiana
" 1t is terrible. Coming just AT this time, when the
parties have been shaken TO their very foundations
the calamity viii be fH reaching In fact il is hard
to say how far It's effects will extend | have an
idea, possibly it may be more OF IA hope that the
President ) strong constitution will enable him TO
pail through. | do not know the nature of his
wounds, bnt know that he has never been a dissi.
pated man, and has always been healthy and strong
1t is awful 10 think about"
49, DO YOU think that the assassination has any po-
Htical 81 significance Y
AT the first Thought it might seem so but do
not dare to think that it will be charged to any.
party. hlle the recent struggles have been more
or less bitter still they have been OF local nature
The asSlSsln must have been some insane person or
one hav ng an cX lremcly nervous disposition which
was worked mp TO state of frenzy, possibly by some
supposed wrong. 1t is almost impossible TO be eyc
mat such thing could occur IN Il free country. 1t
about attended and unarmcd; bat what are We
coming tot am going to Washington on the very
hrSt tram"
GENERAL FAULkNER'S CALM COMMENTS
Lester b. Faulkner, chairman of the Democratic
State Committee, was inclined to believe tho crime
was not national calamity. s. II the President
should die" he said, see immediate danger to