Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-07-21
THE SHOOTING OF GARFIELD.
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/ Mr.. George William Curtis, when
asked "To what do YOU attribute the
attempt on the President lie re.
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think that it grows out OF party
spirit innamed to white heat. It is
not the work of any particular faction,
but it is the spirit of faction which
really loaded the pistol that was fired
at the President. That spirit Is pro.
NOTED by nothing SO much as what Is
called the "spoiIs system" Everybody
who takes part in the canvass feels
that he is entitled to an office and
that conviction will easily upset light.
headed and unprincipled men assas.
I sination Is the mutual consequence.
OUTCOME or ruE sysrEu.
The Syracuse Daily Courier, Dem,
July 1, SAYS:
This dastardly assault-which may
vet prove succcssiul--on the life of
the nations Chief Magistrate i, an
outcome of our wretched spoils ,ys.
TEN. Il Is time for the people Of these
United States to stop and consider
whether n system which mouopolizcs
three-iourth- OF the time Of our eXccu-
tive head and makes him q subject of
the concentrated wrath of those who
DO not succeed is not better abolished.
We shall be greatly surprised if Cult.
eau's mad attempt on President Gar
fields life shall not create a loud de-
mand for revision of our civil service.
INNOCENT nrT ANXIOUS TO REAr rHE FRUITS
The Ercning Post comments on the
situation at Albany as follows:
The Stalwarts are not prepared to
surrender in this way to the will OF
the majority of which they prated so
loudly when they were eager to hold
a caucus. They still stubbornly refuse
to yield to an overwhelming public
opinion, in their party as well rs out.
side of it. When six weeks ago they
found themselves in a minority they
resolved to obstruct proceedings and
to wait for something to turn up. The
thirty at Albany, banded together in
the same manner n the three hundred
and six Mt Chicago, looked to Blucher
OF night for relief-Blucher in the form
of some lucky event which might
break the Half.Breed forces. night in
the form of adjournment rs a last re-
sort. They are still waiting for some
thing to turn up. They are now
watching for the death of the Presi-
dent "a their sole remaining hope in
the desperate situation. With new
administration in power they believe
that it will not be necessary to ad.
journ, and they expect that the Halt.
Breed column will be shattered.
VICTIM oF THE srotIs SYSTEM.
The Buffalo Courier dem says:
Should the report that the assassin
who attempted to take Mr.. Gariield's
life is disappointed ofIice.seeker prove
true, the President would appear to
be the victim of that vile and infa.
nous spoils system which is the dis.
grace of the Government and deserves
the execration of the American peo.
pie. In a different sense the Presi-
dent-like many of his predecessors
had been n victim of that system be-
fore he had been struck by felon's
bullet. 1t had degraded the greatest
Office in the world it had made
grievous burden of the highest honor
that can be conferred by the suffrages
of free people. The blow which a
murderer's hand can infict upon the
Government is significant when com
pared with the injury wrought on our
national life by the constant opera
tions of the spoils system. The bull
lets which, a. there is at this writing
| reason TO hope, failed to destroy the
Presidents life ought to annihilate a
system which, since the abolition III
slavery, has become the greatest men.
ace to the preservation of free ,imstitu-