The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-05
THE PRESS.
What the Great Newspapers of the
World Say.
A Splendid Unanimity of Sympathy.
Condoling With the Worlds Greatest
Republic.
NArroN,. cALAMrrY.
opiaIons of the Press at Home and
abroad.


Abroad.
New York, July 4.-The Tribune.
editorial says the assassination ol
President Garfield has naturally
shocked the national mind, and for d
time has overwhelmed the hearts OF the
entire people. He had called an able
and experienced cabinet to his aid, and
in four months time had gained the
confidence of the great mass of the
American people. This act was that
of crazy man. The country will un-
questionably, and without a dissenting
voice acquit those at political variance
with Gen. Garfield of any completely OF
knowledge of this atrocious deed; at
the same time it will be remembered
that this crazy demon was IN that mem
tai condition to be Influenced ny cur
rent events of the day, ana tne Iact
that the faction in New lork was
striving TO defeat the administration,
was lust such an event as would sug-
pest to the mind of this man, seeking
notoriety, that the removal of the
president would terminate the contest,
unite the party, and perhaps win for
himself the gratitude of the victors.
While no sane man will admit the sus-
picion that this assassination had any
connection with the New York case,
still, on the theory that the assassin
was deranged in mind. and taking his
own letters as indicating the direction
of his insanity, no one will question
that had factional controversy not oc-
cnrred, this murder would not have
suggested itself to Guitteau. This
thought will survive as q part of his
tory. If anything could add to the
universal grief of the people over the
assassination, it would be the pending
calamity Of three and half years of
government under Mr.. Arthur. The
country will learn Of his probable sue
cession to Office with a shudder of ap-
prehension.
London: The Standard says: Indig-
nation, sympathy, and emotions of
hope and fear are as strong and vivid
here as in America, and when news
was received that President Garfield
was getting better. the feeling of
thankfulness was hearty, universal and
sincere. Circumstances of the outrage
and the period of its occurrence, in
tensify the feeling of detestation and
adherence which the news would at
any time have excited. The hypothesis
OF lunacy may be dismissed. All the
evidence indicates that Guitteau knew
perfectly well what he was about, and
we doubt If his futile candidacy is
enough to explain the deed. If the
assassin was the agent of any political
conspiracy, there is little difficulty in
conjecturing what the objects of the
conspiracy are. With Garfield out of
the way, not much more perhaps, will
likely be heard of civil service reform,
or correction of the host Of official
abuses.
Memphis Aralancle The people
were slow to believe yesterday mornings
first reports of the presidents assassi-
nation. There could be no cause, was
first thought; man Of genial temper
with no personal enemies; was no
great cause lost In a sea of blood as in
the case of Lincoln where revenge was
the great motive; but the second
thought came swiftly after the first
and carried the sad conviction to the
minds of all at a comprehensive glance
at the political situation which re-
veals the fact that in no instance in the
history of this country, have there been
any great interests that could directly
profit by the death of the president.
Garfield's assassination, the twenty
years growth of corruption of the dom
inant party, which for years past, begin
ming at Chicago last June have been
the process of elimination, again comes
to the front, and regains control of the
government. All old thieving rings
will be again paramount and as many
new ones be organized as the ingenuity
of the rascals can suggest; there will be
nomore prosecution Of star route thieves
or any other public plhnderers; the
grave suspicion will always rest upon
the yet powerful disreputable element
of the republican party, that it had
something to do with this great crime.
New York Herald: There shouldbe
some slight consultation in thought
that no rational enemy was behind this
dreadful blow, for that venerable lady
who lately reflected that she was the
only presidents mother who ever lived
in the white house, for the dear wife to
whom SO chivalrous gentleman sent
bis loye as tender remembrance OF
the first moment of his recovery from
the CONSERVATION of the assault; fol
the Ave boys, full of proud regard that
sons must feel for such father there
cannot but be some satisfaction in
the thought that no man of the Ameri-
can people, possessed of his reason,
could feel toward son, husband and
father a murderous hate that could
strike out his life, and they may well
feel comforted and helped by the ma
tional sympathy, deep and tender,
which deserves the recovery Of theil
beloved one with an earnestness ani
ardor that can yield only to their own
1t is plain and clear enough to our owr
people that the tragedy has no politica
relations, and Is only the expression ol
an insane impulse of an individual
but abroad where they imagine us from
the late agitations to be in q fever O
revolution, and where they do no
know that the limit of party passion
never rises To this height, and the even
will be misunderstood and misrepre
sented, and commented upon, as one O,
the growing evils of our system.
Rome: The Liberto says the attemp
is barbarous and foolish, and vengeanc,
rendered more infamous in view of hi
noble character and perfect upright
ness. Other papers similarly concerned
Toronto: The Globe says tho presi
dents death would have far-reachini
potent results. Lincoln's work wa
done, but Garfield'a has just begun
The deed only proves the depth O
mans weakness and brutality. Th'
work will doubtless go on even il hi
dies, and the nation will fulfill its des
tiny.
New York: The Posts editoria
says: The exclamations which the as
sailant of President Garfield is reporte'
to have made Immediately after tn
deed, and which seemed TO indicate
political motive on his part, may wei