Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-17
ture has intended she should be.
Onward is the watchward

j Journal in an editorial OF 'breaK-
ers Ahead" says so many compll'
mentary and truthful things about
President Garfield that we give the
editorial entire:
The notion that Mr.. Garfield (for
now that the general has reached the
highest place in the State, let us give
him his civil title) comes into the
Presidency-to use the hackneyed,
newspaper expression-''under ia
vorable auspices" is-to use another
hackneyed, newspaper expression
ga surface indication. Nothing IN
this world is so illusory as prosperi-
ty. It has its responsibilities, its
dangers, its cares. He who enjoys
it is never safe; and his insecurity IS
proportloned to it's measure. Mr..
Garfeld's measure is full to over
flowing A little year ago he was a
struggling member of the lower
house of Congress. A leader. I'M
doubtedly; but no mans future
hardly any mans POSITIONS assur~
ed in that gladiatorial arena, where
the greatest sometimes go down
with the humblest. To-day he is
the head of the nation; no longer
poor man; no longer dependent
upon the popular caprice; no longer
one against many. Yet are there
lions waiting and ready to spring
across his path.
The personal history of Mr.. Gar
field is very simple, transparent and
short. He came into the world an
humble farmers boy. He has risen
to be the President of The United
States. He had the teaching, and
he has carried with him through life
the traditions Of E. clear and
homely class from whose midst he
sprung to be honest in money
dealings above all things, and, being
so, to let the rest take care of itself.
To this primitive rule of life, which
has acted with him as a principal,
Mr.. Garfield added great intellect
and a good heart, and it has been
hard lines between the two keeping
him out of those troubles which be
long to and beset the man, who,
wary neither of sharpers nor details,
thinks largely and feels warmly
But the union of the brain and the
heart, in any just proportion, is
usually triumphant. AS fast as Mr.
Garfeld's affections got him into
tight places, his intellect got him out
of them-nor ever at the expense
of his manhood OR his honor.
Yet has he not passed to the
Presidency at an age so young
that the mother who bore him in a
cottage shares his glory in the White
House without his wounds and
scars; such wounds and scars as
would have made little impression
upon q less sensitive nature. The
, world will never know how-not in
the last campaign, but seven or eight
years ago-he WINGED under that
execrable 1929" business. Those
who know the facts scorn the sug-
gestion of dishonesty, and those
who, during the heat Of the last can
> vass, reviled us because we put our
E foot upon it, may yet become the
partisans of the man whose integ-
rity they were willing to sacrifice to
little cheap political capital. But,
if the truth were known, it is to be
doubted whether all his recent ex-
periences are full compensation for
the distress of mind which fate in
an i'll humor inflicted upon him.
"God knew where the weak spot was
And smote him there"
Which is but another way of saying
that everything in this life has to be
paid for, and that Mr.. Garfield has
not reached the top of the ladder
without cost.
It is common in romance to leave
; the hero when he has reached GER
tain success in love or war. The
Earl of Beaconsfeld quits Endymion
Immediately after he has made him
prince minister. To man, however
of Mr.. Garfeld's peculiar intellec ual
structure, the real battle of life-on
which his heart is set-has just be-
gun. To achieve a useful admins
3 tration of the general government
and to be Endorsed in re- election
by vote of the people, are objects
worthy of any mans ambition, ano
g Mr.. Garfield is wise in setting them
s directly before him, of attempting
no concealment about them, and Of
playing for them openly and boldly
, instead of intriguing, as his
? predecessors have done; for no man
has ever entered the White House
who has not from the beginning o.
. his first term intrigued for second
= There is no law in this country
4 against the desire of reelection
The people like square dealing; the,
are not displeased with the gauntlet
: thrown down by the new President
and there is pretty general feeling
that, if he realizes his purpose anc
their own ideal in the Admins
tration, he will not be disappointed
@ in their continued support.
q Herein comes the danger, interna
q and external, to which the new Presi
dent is exposed. Underneath tn
r material prosperity of our time lie