The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-20
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tEs
now running over the paper say
of the dead President? The best that
can be Rr,t.en will De the simple
story of his life-the story OF an or
4 phsned boy, uneducated and permit
lees, left to battle with life, to be the
support and comfort OF n widowed
mother; Of ambition t. be good, hon.
! lest, faithful; OF strength of mind and
body to assist that ambition to sue
cess; of long years passed in physical
and meDtal toll in the struggle for
bread and knowledge; of brain devel-
opmeDt and intellectual groStb,
] #hicn carried him up step by step
from the humblest walk OF life to a
height politically, socially and morally
beyond which there is DO ascent; OF
1.-THE vel earned love and esteem OF
] his conn.ryman; of the Difference and
respect OF the world. The man who
shall write the biography OF James
A. Garfield without adjectives or
words of praise will contribute the
beat obituary of the great statesman.
So many times and so recently has
the dead Presidents life been pub
llshed that the reader is familiar with
/ il. The brief biographical facts as
recorded in the Congressional Dtrec-
tory are given below:
James A. Garfield, of Mentor, was
born in Orange, Cuyshoga County, Ohio,
November 18th, 1881; graduated at Will
liams College, Mass, in 1856; was pres
ident of literary Institution for several
years: studied AID practiced law; was
member of the state senate Of
I Ohio in 1890; entered the Union
Army in 1851 as colonel of the Forty
second Ohio volunteers, was promoted to
the rank of brigsdier-general January
10, 1862; was appointed chiet-of-staff OF
4 the army OF the Cumberland, and was
promoted to the rank of major-general
1September 20, 1868; was elected to the
SThirty-eighth, Tnirty-ninth, Fortieth,
Forty-frst, Forty-second, Forty-third,
Forty-fouTth, Forty-ffth and Forty
sixth Congresses.
Last year the legislature elected
him to the United States Senate, to|
succeed Judge Thurman, but before
the beginning of the term he had
been elected President, the duties of
whose Office he assumed last March.
If bis history before becoming Pres
idant is familiar, his career since isI
firmly fixed in the memories of all.
We cannot more appropriately close
these hastily written words than by !
republishing what the HERALD said
on the morning after the inaugurations
Of President Garfield last March:
THE NEW PRESIDENT.
For the frat time in twelve years, or
i;nce the close of thu term Of Andrew
Johnson, the United States has for its s
chief executive a statesman. President
Garfield is statesman in the broa lest &
sense. Commencing at the lowest rung &
Of the social and political ladder, he has
gone to the top. The ascent has been
By his own effort He has
grown beyond and above the plane
which destiny, early circumstances 3
and event seemed to have arranged
for him. His intellectual and socia 3
growth has not been due to any accident.
he chad it in him" to be-
cone great; that is to say he had the {
foundation upon which to build, and s
he ambition and industry necessary s
or completing the structure. Many of B
he nations prominent characters are
accidents" Circumstances created and q
brought them to the surface. Garfield &
yves his greatness to no circumstance, S
except the single one that he was born &
With brain capable Of improvement,
and early learned that success could only
be achieved by industrious effort. From s
he toe-path to the White House, the 8
course that he has Travelled is marked at
avery point by the evidences Of the toll Off
body and brain. It has been royal road,
only 10 the sense of democratic royalty
he royalty that makes the republic so
much loved By the people and so
mighty in the world. This mans life&
should be an example to the youth &
u the country as much as was
hat of Washington, and more than has
been the career Of any other man who
mss reached the presidential Office. Wei
think the country does and has right to &
expect much from President Garfeld's 4
and that it will not be y
He possesses "bushel of
brains" His views are broad and his
ideas liberal. There is nothing narrow
Or cramped about the man; bat he is I
generous-hearted, big and 5
manly in act and thought. He has come
from the Pc pie and is one of them in the
truest sense. He understands society, s
and is intimately acquainted with the
lives, the wants and the require
neots OF the masses. Perhaps no one
Of our prominent men has more
knowledge of the people, from &
the lowly to the lofty 10 the social scale, g
than he. And while he is familiar with 4
all classes of citizens, he az thoroughlyH