Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-30
aU1rEAU's SUCCESS.

1t may seem a strange thing to say, but
at is capable of demonstration, that Guiteau
has, from his own peculiar standpoint, been
blessed with rare degree of success in
life. That this is so, is largely due to the
mistaken policy of the Government in re-
gard to his treatment. It has allowed him
20 reap the full fruition of his detestable
crime. BE killed President Garfield be.
cause he hungered for notoriety, and he has
obtained his end. No one can read the
accounts of his present demeanor in Court
without being convinced that he is enjoying
himself most thoroughly. He looks upon
himself as the person of most consequence
IN the United States to-day. He revels in
the contemplation of his Importance. He
luxuriates in the reflection that five thou
sand newspapers are occupying their col
1mns with his personality. He delights in
the amazing license accorded him by the
dummy Judge that sits on the bench. He
rotrudes his egotism in the face of the
country with the raciest pleasure. Nothing
In all his life has given him 1.-THE of the
qualification he is deriving from his own
trial for murder. So conspicuous and
1nmistakable is this feeling in all he says
and does that we hazard nothing in ex-
pressing the belief that if he was hanged
tomorrow he would still have extracted
from his hideous crime as much real salts
faction as most good men enjoy as the
reward of blsmeless and beneicent lives.
And this is what the Government has man.
aged to do in trying to secure the punish.
Enent of Guitsau. It has given him all
und more than all he could have antici-
pated. It has lifted him to the highest
pinnacle Of self-conceit and self.absorption.
1t has enabled him to beslaver everything
and everybody with his loathsome insolence
and his SNUG impertinence. 1t has made
his trial one of the most disgraceful traves
ties the world has ever seen. The nations
tonored statesman. President lies in his
grave, already almost forgotten and this
Inurderous mountehank capers and chatters
before the country from day to day, ex
hibiting in every tone and gesture his
complete self.approval of what he has done,
and his contempt for all who do not occupy
his own level. After this experience nothing
can take from Guiteau the triumphant sense
of success which he shows continually. Such
man would commit murder every day for
such continued ovation. Thisis, without
hyperbole, the proudest moment of his
life, and no matter how the trial ends, he
viii have had out of it all that he could
have expected to enjoy of fiattering cele.
hrity. To have treated him intelligently,
he should have been cut off from all com.
naunica.ion with the world from the begin.
ring. He should have been allowed to ad.
lress the Court only through his counsel
md should have been instantly gagged oil
emoved if he undertook to break this rule
Every care should have been taken to keeI
fiom him any knowledge which could min,
isser to his vanity. And when he had
been convicted, his execution should have
been not only prompt but private. As il
Is, he will go to the scaffoli hugging him
self upon the success that has crowned hi:
efforts, and rejoicing over the Immortality
he thinks be has earned.