Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-20
Comments of the Press.
CHICAGO TIMES.


CHICAGO, Sept 19.-The Times has q col
sumn of editorial chiefly devoted to sketch of
the wonderful career OF the late President Gar
l field. Itsays: The most important incident
lof his five months administration, was that
Ito which he owes his death-the contest with
Mr.. Conkling. Throughout his career
she bore himself with frmness and
dignity which served to confirm the
public confidence and gave promise that in the
ldischarge of his high trust he would not fail
I to remember what was due to his own self
3respect and to the Office of chief magistrate. .
! In closing this brief review it is hardly worth
: while to recall the fierce assaults made from
3time to time on his character. No public man
lin this country escapes such attacks. In most
ceases it must unhappily be confessed they are
! well deserved. To say General Garfield erred
lat times is but to say he was human, but the
: proof that his errors were corrupt or criminal
twenty-five years of public service,
most of them years in which
1.-THE accumulation of wealth was easy, and the
Temptations for public men were constant,
zand that he was still poor man wheE chosen
] president, must be accepted by the candid
) mind as conclusive proof Of
]his integrity. He served his
acountry we'll and faithfully according. to the
flights of his conscience gave him, and will be
5held IN grateful remembrance for that service
land for the manifestation of a high purpose
(which he has not been spared to execute, to
4 rescue the executive Office from the degraded
spOsitiOn into which it had fallen in the hands
zof his predecessors.
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
NEW YORK. Sept. 2O.-The reaper of death
ILL.,
struggle which has kindled the admiration of
THE world for his heroic manhood President
5Garfield has gone to the still heights where
zcrime and pain come not. He looks down
: upon a mourning nation which he
5hoped to help by a wise discharge of
&duty Worthier men than Abraham Lincoln
and James A. Garfield this country has never
seen in high station, and each was taken early
fin the term of power and in the prime of man
] hood. Time and poverty, hard life and iron
fortune, had not put out the fire of their gen
erous natures. The deadly bullet of many bat
] but the shot of the assassin took
each from sorrowing nation. The presi-
dents death will cause less of shock, but
$far more sorrow than If he had been shot
: 5dead the 2nd of July. There was time to learn
4that the government cannot be shaken by the
zdeath of any man, however high, great or
good, but there has been time, too, to learn
! how great and good a man was Garfield
Elected to the presidency by the votes
! of the people last November the
) 3great nation holds him in its heart of hearts,
= and there he will live forever. He is president
! mo more. Only four months he held the
xhelm, but the work done in that short time
9 will bless the land for ages. No other admin
$istration has ever done more for the good of
Rthe country than this which had just begun
The cold and passionless verdict of history,
Though il may find fault, will place his name
! 4afar toward the highest in the list of human
rulers.
NEW YORK HERALD.
a NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-The Herald, In his death
the warm hopes and sympathizng aspirations of the
whole people all painfully disappointed and the
expectaon of his recovery, warmly cherished fol
3so long tme, adds now to the psngs of the
public regret. ALI Americanp oi
8whstever religious faith and whateve,
Hpolitics, Democrats WHO opposed, and Republicans
who reluctantly supported his election shocked alke
by the bloody deed which laid him low have watched
&during these tedious weeks around the bedside OF
the patient and accomplishing sufferer with cordia
&admration for his cheerful, manly endurance, and
with sincere prayers he might be restored to health
and his official duties Indeed the whole civilized world
has watched and prayed with them. But it was not
Ito be. The hand of the murderer was too deadly
zand at last his victim has perished and yet the long
Speriod of the presidents illness has not been lost
SThe people have learned precious lesson in these