The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-05
THE FOHEIGN PRHSS

Unit In Expressions OF kynpRtby for
GaFnEId'H Family aud Country.
ST, PETERSBURG, July THE leading
Russian papers express COnslernatiOn at
the attempted killing. The Goos says II
believes the act was duO to personal ven.
geanCe, but should the fact ahOw that II
was political Tea7On 1t would again bring
into prominence the question OF adoption
oil measures against the attempts OF poiiti-
cal assassins. The NOlOe Hremyia SAYS that
tho President Is probably q victim Of ha
honest policy.
LONDON, July A.-All OF the London pa.
perB this morning published very voIumin.
Gus dispatches from America concerning
the condition OF the President. The state.
ment th6t the Daily NsWs appeared in
semi mourning yesterday is incorrect.
The Manchester Guardian dismitHes the
idea OF political conspiracy in the United
States, and says: american politicians
have not come 10 tho point OF empnyingas-
sassins. 1t seema quite sufficiently madh
out that G0lteAu was nothing moro nor less
than q disappointed Office seeker II
President Garfield dtes II will leave a gan
hard 10 tlll soon, ~ his career WAS known
In Europe. 1t was felt that the Chicago
Convention had made true and vice
choice. He was not one OF those Rordid
managing place hunters who are All opptO.
brium to American politics. He was the
right man 70 fight u battle wi.htheT,, Ii
is hardly likely that when the time comes
Tor another mammoth Republican
convention, 80 dOuhtiul soil will
throw up yet another man OF similar In.
tegrltY and Improved opacity, IL is
curious that this abuse, which above all
others needs reforming in AmsheA, should
be directly responsible for tho present
crime. By reforming this system Of pat.
Tonage Americans can beEt Ehow their
sorrow for the Presidents DEATH or their
thankfulness for his recovery. Ii Ia NOT 10
he supposed that q perfectly Baue man
would attempt buCh crime, hut the Pres.
ident's position in regard to patronage Ia
80 invidious that 1t Ia only wonderful that
such an attempt has never been made
before.
The Pail Mall GuuuS, Ia a leading ar.
Licl8 says: The indignation which In uni.
versal wherever sthe English tongue Ia
spoken, the esger interest and Bympsthy
are all intensified by the feeling that the
latest victim Of the assassin Ia separated
ny no vide gulf Of rank or caste from the
people over whom he ruled,
The writer blsmeB H. unmearureI in.
veCLives theiDeWspsp8Ts which, he saws.
acted on q dlsoTlpied Imagination, pos.
slbIy already Impressed BY the example OF
the recent asBOssinallOns. Apart from The
immediate bearings OF the at,empt on
American politics, the effect Of the crime
will not he altogether bad The AaBaseinstiUu
lh Pnn Uhnt1t thu VunklI l,,V I
has provoked, will to some extent
CountefaCt thu mischief CslpCd by the
sympathy expressed by some parties with
other asBaBsinS, and by the sympathy
It has excited will tend TO knit together
the composite population Of The United
States.
TORONTO, July The Gi0Ls In an alti.
Gle ON the shooting Of the pieeident says
that such deed cannot be Without far
reaching and most potent results. In one
sense 1t is ol infinitely greater consequence
than Was the murder Of LinCOlU, ior biB
lie work was virtually done; Garfield
was al the Threshold Of his work when
The mad man assaulted him. We're 1t not
lOr the TACT that Getteau WRR clearly ire.
BponsibIe for this act, lit we're pOssibleto 10
assign great political importance TO the
assassination, We should tTelnble iOF the
iutufe Of the Republic, but every.
body will be chilled With hor~
TOf At the senspless deed. Everybody will
soon recognizes that Garfield . death will
ptovsnOtblnR but the depth Oi man . weak.
neA and brutality, and Will hinder no
cause except to the extent that an army,
not In ~ any means o preCatlOns stu.
atiOD, Ia injured by thessndden Withdrawal
AL Nhaa nNtNH AT La hF.Ev