Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-06

was sxcits III ent here and an immense crowd
surrounded the custom-house a, the
government headquarters. Garfield was
saving that the United States required no
man. that valuable as M. Lincoln's life
had been it was the republic we must look
to and put our shoulders to-" q We make
that motion to our hearts TO day, F" said Cen
eral Merritt, considerably affected. We
have our country to live for even to-day
Mr. Simon Stevens, said to be relative
of Thaddeus St vens was In the customs
house while the British consul called to ex-
press his sympathies He said, 1t was
only two weeks ago when l heard in Cars
fields presence, discussed the contingency
of Arthur becoming President Garfield
exhibited some disposition to have General
Arthur COL suited about certain of the ap>
pointmen saying, Tin q contingency no
vii! be my successor and 1t is to the inter
ests of my friends to have him well treated,
because he may have the executive power
over them one day."
A general feeling exists in New York
that the murder ofthe President has come
out of the abuses of the office grabbing
system. IF we do not stop it," said no.
table lawyer to me, - we shall go to anarchy.
That fellow who shot the President got
the idea into his head that because he sup
ported one wing Of the party, he was entl-
tied to an office ana he thought the Presi-
dent stood in the way of his rights. Prob>
ably because Senator Logan or somebody
had Endorsed his papers for a consulshlp
The interpr citation IF his writings is that
by killing the President, he would harmon
ize the party. and therefore the offices
would 20 as the spoils have gone hereto
fore.
As this assassin came from Logsn's city
and district, l may recall a conversation |
had with Garfield when he was on his first
Congressional ommittee. 1t WAS in 1868
Garfield always stood up for the regular
army, and on that committee Butler and
Logan were resolved to chastise the regular
army spir it, and promote the volunteers to
be feature of it in the regular service in
time of peace General Garfield said to
me. II think can get my bill reported.
but have two very brutal men to tight,
Butler and Logan" He spoke against 10
person. being very guarded in his eensure,
and he WAS never satirlcal. Ot Conklihg
he once said to me. alb ut twelve, years
was the head Of the Utica bar" thought
it was sstirical. but it was true that the bar
of Utica, for years We considered of the
very best in New York or the North 1t was
the best bar in the State Of New York for
fifty years.
There is universal sympathy with Mrs
Garfield, and sb olute appreciation OF Gar-
fields better qualities in the city to-day.
While he does not lie with the big halo
that Lincoln had around him. he passes
away with the verdict that he was d kind
hearted man, brave husband and father,
and one whom the country would know
bette to like. The dispatch sent to his wife
giving her his love. brought tears to the
eyes OF fully half the people. l stood be-
fore a bulletin on Park Row with tears in
my own eyes, and when l brushed them
away, wandering ifany body else could be
30 foolish, saw men around me with their
eyelashes dewy as they read the dispatch,
The Pres dent sends you his love-"
Several ofG4rfeld's friends fear that he
will leave little or nothing to his family.
His salary wou ID have amounted to enough
to make them independent at the close of
lis foor years. but it is believed that in the
first three months of his term be has spent
great deal of money to buy wardrobes,
is a general impre. sion that Mrs, Garfield
ought to be we'll taken care of by Congress.
The intensity of fsctionsl passion in the
Republican party receives a e neral re-
buse The three months of Garfeld's
administration have been attended with
more bitterness than the st three months of
Lincoln's in a time of civil war, and of the
SoucIdi UTehhluS up Vi pTppeTty aUl even
of family ties. Much of this is attributed
to Conkling's intense resentment and
passion for making personality out of
every difference
Business men are asking whether this
crime is to lose our confidence under the
Republican government. For the tetter
part of the day there was general break
in prices and signs of commercial distress,
but when the real nature of the murderer
came out-his low con ition, his miserable
egotism, and deadly sniff tng-tbe
public seemed to lonk up, reg riding
the mar as monstrosity not connected
with anything of in fuence in our country.
Than God" said many, "be is not
nihilist, for that W uld be dreadful to have
to be killed under the same motives rs the
Gar Of Russia
The feeling in New York, as / find by
minglinR with the crowd. is unquestinna
bly, growing more bitter toward Conkling
and irritable even toward Arthur 1t is
believed that if the rougher elements had
not gone out of the city to spend the
Fourth of July there would be Demon
STATIONS in front of their hotel The bulk
of the Republican party, and the Demo-
cratic party generally. is abusing the stall
warts ss the cause of Ga fields death. The
Chicago stalwart newspapers is said by
many to have wired the assassin's purpose
If Artnr puts Conkling into his abr ct, it
is said h. will be burnt in Eff GATH