Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-07
Public Opinions.
Bismarck OAK Tribune.

III dobtoblbbtiOIl VI Il It5ltltIlb Var
field is the legitimate result of the
campaign made against the presi-
dency by the element of the repub-
lican party which believed the gov
eminent ought to be administered in
the interest of the party bosses rather
than in the interest of the people. 1t
is the work of the spirit that plunged
the country into rebellion, murdered
Lincoln, and plunged the country into
all sorts of excuses under Grants adj
mi%nistration. 1t inaugurated a war
fare on Hayes, conspired to defeat
Blaine and Sherman, and suggested
the compromise which nominated
Garfield and Arthur. 1t is whispered
aboutthe halls and corridors Of Albany
that Garfield will die and then Arthur
will be president, and now makes the
prophecy good by numbering him.
Not hat the murder is the result of a
conspiracy, but when men in high po-
sition give their passions loose rein
some lunatic is apt to get into his
crazed brain the dea that through
murder he can do the cause he es-
pouses service. This assassin boldly
claimed that he was a Conkling man,
and killed Garfield in order to make
| Arthur president. But the bullet
that killed Garfield killed bossism in
American politics, or else its effects
will be so far reaching rs to destroy
the republic.
81. Paul Pioneer. Press.
The half crazy miscreant who COM
mitted this deed of horror, struck to
kill, and rejoices at his Internal
triumph. He proclaims himself a
stalwart of the stalwarts; a Conkling
man; and boasts that he murdered the
president as a political necessity, to
make Arthur president and reunite
the republican party. Doubtless he
is crazy. The fact is duly certified
| by his antecedents. But not the
most consummate craft could have
planned a political assassination so
OPPORTUNITY for the purpose of the
stalwart chiefs who are benefited by
it. The blow was struck in
the nick of time to save them
from utter overthrow. A single life
lay between them and fhe full posses
sion of that power and patronage
which they coveted as the chiefest Of
earthly goods, and for which they had
struggled with the fierce desperation
of hungry wolves; and that life has
been snuffed out by murder. The
only contingency among all the COM
plications of politics which could re-
store to their itching palms the sover-
eighty wrested from them by the peo-
pie, the seemingly impossible, has
happened. No zane man will attrib-
ute to the leaders of the party OPP
posed to the administration any COM
plicity, direct or indirect, in this deed
of blood. Even the bitterest
would repe! with loathing the
approach of such q suspicion.
Yet forever in the popular mind will
the block shadow of this crime steal
silently behind the party of Mr.. Conk-
ling and its leaders. If the gloomy
plant of death struck deep its roots
and drew its sustenance from the soil
of insanity, yet it was the unlimited
bitterness of partisan antagonism
which sowed the fatal seed. 1t will
serve, perhaps, to measure more &C.
curately the venemous and unscrupn-
lous hate of those whom the presi-
dent has thwarted, to see its power to
blast, when no longer held In
check by a mind and will capa-
BILE of perceiving the hideousness
of the crime and it's non-adaption to
the ends desired. The thieves whom
the president has pushed to the wall,
and the politicians who, elevated upon
the reeking hands of others, hold up
their own to cry, "Behold, how
%clean," these are the men whose ha-
tired would follow the president to the
grave. Such thoughts, such beliefs,
such feelings as theirs, impelling a
mind whose delicate machinery is
Jared, drove it headlong to the work
of hell.
Kansas City Mail.
Our usually sober-minded contem-
porary, the Journal, raked up and in
Produced into its editorial columns as
ga fact worthy of comment" an old
dispatch of April 10th, stating that
the president had received a threat
ening letter from a socialist named
Kutz, who lives in Chicago, the same
city Guiteau halls from. This prompt
effort to connect the socialists with the
crime, is the most utterly improbable
and most lonesome suggestion we have
yet heard.
Gen. Grant, the leading stalwart,
seizes upon the idea with amusing
eagerness, and is quoted in Sunday
mornings dispatches as saying: "If
this is the -outgrowth of Nihilism IN
our country, l am in favor of crushing
it out Immediately by the prompt
assassins and their followers"
We are sorrow to see these scnsi-
tive stalwarts SO eager to hold the
socialists and the nihilists responsible
for the assassination of Garfield. We
no more charge Guiteau's crime upon
the stalwarts than upon the Young
Mems Christian association. But It
must be confessed that his connections,
so far as traced, have been alto
gether with the Y. M. G. A., with
Moody and Sankey's revivals, and
with the stalwarts, but not at all
with the socialists or with the nihil-
lists. A part of the res gestae of the
assassination, was Guiteau's own de-
~claration: II am a stalwart. / did
it, and Arthur is president now" If
the stalwarts do not want to be &C
cused, they should not be so hasty in
accusing other parties or factions with
whom Guiteau had no connection and
has expressed no sympathy.
Chicago Tribune:
Do what he may, justly or un-
justly, Mr.. Conkling will never escape