Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-05-11
TANGLED AGAIN.

TANGLED AGAIN
President Garfield is credited by the
millions with being fortunate man.
We don't see it in that light He is
drawing a salary of $4,000 per an
mum out OF the United States Treasury,
and we suspect from recent events
that his head does not rest any easier
on his pillow than did that Of the Gar
Of Russia. More: history, ornamented
by the Congressional Record and reports
from that one, Oakes Ames, and an
other De Golyer, fooled the aforesaid
frequently while he was q member OF
Congress. The President ls also cred
tied literally for being IA Christian
Statesman" but in our Judgment he
ignores all that and is drifting on the
breakers as rccklessly as a steamboat
without a rudder.
We suspect that the poor man has
fallen into the hands of the same class
of men that were found by traveller
on the public road leading from Jeru.
salem to Jericho, something over eigh-
teen hundred years ago. [Scc Luke
Y, chapter, 3O-37.] Garfeld's Chinese
letter was bad enough, but his cash
corruption letter is still worse. The
editor of the Philadelphia Times elabo-
rates on the subject in this way;
The Star route thieves are determin.
cd to make President Garfield share
their disgrace or compel halt in the
investigation. 1t is now alleged that
when the campaign looked unpromis.
ing and money had to be raised by
tens of thousands to debauch Indiana,
the Star route gang refused to contrib
ute unless specially invited to do so by
General Garfield, and that he did in.
vite them to do so by the following
letter:
MENTOR, Ohio, August 20, 1880.
Ny DEAR HuBBEL;
Yours Of the 18th instant received and contents
noted. Please say to Brady hope ho will give
us all the assistance possible. | think he can
help ehectually. Please tell me how the depart
ments generally are doing. As ever, yours,
j. A. GARFIELD.
To Hon. ia. HuBBELL, Washington, D. Q.
The first impression made by the
foregoing letter, coming as it does from
discovered and seriously threatened
band Of Star route plunderers, is that
II isan imitation of the Morey forgery;
but President Garfield has admitted
the genuineness Of the document, and
its meaning must be interpreted by
the peculiar circumstances under which
It was written. The impression sought
to be made by those who have given
II publicity is that it was practically o
compact between the Star route thieves
and Garfield, guaranteeing them pro
lection and the gift OF continuance in
case of hls election, and there is some
degree of plausibility in the assump.
ton; but it must be remembered that
the letter was written in the gloomiest
period of the Garfield cause, and when
the Dorseys and others who had tho
management of his campaign, demand.
cd hundreds and thousands of dollars
as necessary to save the election.
Garfield was panicstricken and de.
moralized all of his fine theories of
an elevated civil service, given in party
speeches and magazine essays, had
vanished, and he thought only of the
supreme necessity of carrying Indiana
in October. He, therefore, wrote a
foolish letter to Hubbell one that is
eminently discreditable to Presiden.
tial candidate, but it was up TO the
regulation standard of the politics of
the day, and embodied the same politi.
cal morality that Mr.. John Welsh and
Mr.. William b. Scott publicly present.
ed to their respective parties in their
appeals for money TO promote party
interests.
The publication OF this letter will
fail in its chief purpose TO implicate
President Garfield in the Star route
frauds Of which Brady and Dorsey are
the central figures; but il will do
much good in directing public opinion
to the necessity Of selecting both Pres.
dental candidates and campaign lead.
ers hereafter, who will have some
higher conception Of political contests
than TO reduce them to a question of
extortion from dependent oflice.holders
and plundering contractors and the
systematic pollution of the ballot. Gar.
field was in the Rome that the Repub.
lican leaders had built and he simply
did as Rome demanded, He wrote
a panic-stricken, discreditablc letter,
but the fact that he happened to write
1t to one of the many public thieves
which ever infest protracted party
power, will not be accepted as evidence
that he bargained with thieves to 90.
cure his election.