Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-11
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The 6arfleId Literature.

The Garfield Literature.
We do most earnestly hope that the
prayers which have gone up abundantly
for the presidents recovery will bear
speedy fruit, for we are getting very
weary of the Garfield literature and a
trifle disguised beside. We can't stand
many more doctors bulletins, with the
peculiarly uninteresting details therein
contained, and winding up with iteration
Of the names Of four men who may he
good doctors, but who also may bc great
fools. They seem to think themselves
physicians to crowned head, among a
people whose kings are considered so
sacred that it is of the deepest moment
to publish even the precise style of the
royal excavations. The chief of this
quartet of doctors it seems was named by
his parents, Doctor Willarl;'' SO that
he f;irly comes by his folly through in
hcritance. We wish tho president Il safe
tleliverance at his hands and we hope
against hOrc for Il cessation of the mi
mute White House reports which fall
down upon us from everybody around
the premises, and which are apparently
sent out under the impression that the
people are straining their ears to hear
every creak Of the presidents bed and
every sound from his body. There is no
such state of public expectancy. Every
body is interested in the president 3 con
dition and anxious to be advised of the
significant symptoms of his state but
very few are silly enough to lie dcsir-
GUS of having flood of wholly
insignificant information poured out
upon them ; and very many are rcstive
under it, as We are, holding it to he IN
imposition not only upon our good MI
ture, but upon our good sense TO suppose
that VIC want to bc covered with this
White House vomit Of trash. Maybe if
we had the really genuine reverence for
royalty which subject should nave we
would take this outpOuring with Il better
grace. And probably it is the regal
style of it that makes it esrec-
tally disgusting. Our nerves arc
being tried good deal in this
affair, by the vast amount Of what We
consider unadultcratesl nonsense and
bOsll that it has caused to freely flow ON
every side of us. The assassination was
SO shocking that for Il little while excit-
able people were cxcus.blc for talking
and writing about it like children; but
ten days is more than time enough TO
allow any body to learn to behave ration
ally.
AS oIr president, Mr.. Garfield is en-
titled to high consideration Us oar
president, hurt in our service without
fault Of his own, he receives our war,nest
sympathy and for the brave manner in
which he bears his suffcrings he earns
our admiration. But he is the same man
whose election TO the presidency we op-
posed because of what we believed to be
his unEtnesS and because of his bad
record as Il man of honor. lie has not
served long enough i'm the rresi-
,lcncy To show us that we failed to pro-
perly appreciate him and an :,s,;lssin's
bullet, though it may quiet criticism does
not Of itself Inspire virtue So we Oh
jcct TO having our silence concerning
Mr.. G:,rlicid's record and the warm
expression of our sympathy for his suf-
ferins and of condemnation FOR the
crime that caused it, construed into Il
confirmation of his Olfenscs and sub
Scriptiun I" his virtue. The political
friends of Mr.. Garfield, who are SO busy
turning on this national calamity as
water to revolve their party wheels, had
better I've 4 little more cautious in their
endeavors, for there is point beyond
which it is unsafe To tread on other peo-
pies toes, even at Il funeral. And il
they want u lirst-class fight over the
presidents sick bed they are going to
work in just the way to promote one
that will beat any performance of the
kind that ever distinguished IN Irish
wake.