The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-14
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We can't afford to try any such expert
ments here. No matter how many safe
guards you place around President, ht
is always exposed TO the fanatical Gun
ming of revengcful and desperate men
For the matter of that, l guess it would
be just as well for the President to GO
down to the police court and pay So fol
the privilege of carrying a revolver
He may as well make up his mind tO
take the risk" In this connection, it is
recalled that General Garfield usually
went armed. He was in the habit oil
taking long walks alone, and never went
out on these tramps without a revolver
and explained it on the grounds that he
did not know what minute some fool
might feel like shooting and he wanted
an equal show for his life.
| CoNKI4ING AND MAC VEAGH.
| WASHINGTON, d. c., July THE fol
lowing correspondence has passed be,
tween ex-senator ConklIng and Attor,
ney-General MacVeagh:
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL,
NEW YORK, July 5, 1881.
My DEAR SIR: In adherence with
which all decent men alike shudder NJ
the attempt TO murder The President |
| have given thought TO the matter Ia
| which your attention may or may not
have turned. Our criminal code treats
premeditated hOInicidc in all cases alike,
irrespective of the victim. murder being
visited by the greatest penalty. Per,
| haps no distinction between one case
and another could be founded on the
public relations held by the person
slain, but in the case of an attempt to
murder, the broad distinction can be
! made between aSsailing the life of an
individual, and the attempt to take a life
of special valEe TO the whole nation.
The shocking occurrence of Friday, |
| think, demands definition, and the pun
| iShment OF assaults aimed ut a high eX-
ecutive officer, whether successful or not,
should be thoroughly rigorous. The man
who attempts the life of the President.
if morally responsible, commits an of
| fence which the Nation ought to guard
against and punish by the eXertiOn of
all the power that civilized nations can
employ. suggest this as deserving of
consideration. My profound sympathies
are with the President and all of you.
The conflicting reports keep hope and
fear striving with each other, with moth
| ing staple except the facts, and trust that
the worst is past. wish you would
express To the President my deepest
sympathy in this hour, which should
hush all discOrd and enlist all prayers
for his safe deliverance. Please also
| give TAI Mrs Garfield my most respectful
| coincidence. Trusting that all will be
well, cordially yours,
[Signed.I Roscoe CONKLING.
WASHINGTON, July Z.
| To Hon. Roscoe COakiiHg, Fifth 6cenue
Hotel, Nc,o York:
Thanks for your letter of the 9Th inst,
which has just reached me. Its sugges-
lions will be carefully considered, and
its kind messages of sympathy will be
| conveyed To the President and Mrs.
| Garfield ut the earliest opportunity.
ISigned.l WAYNE MACVEAGH.
CHICAGO, July S-Mention has fire.
quently been made that Guiteau married
Miss Annie Bum. Mrs. M. J. Bum,
mother of his wife, is and has been for
| some years an inmate of the old peoples
home in Chicago. To u reporter she
said yesterday her daughter first became
acquainted with him in 1870. although
al the time she knew him only as an &C.
centric young lawyer, with great aspi-
ratiOns but no income. He was devoted
| ly attached to her, and his relatives were
very DESTROYS he should marry, believing
it would have Il beneficial influence on
his wandering nature This was imme-
diately after his sojourn in the Oneida
community. He was married in Chica-
| go, and the result WAS very unhappy.
| GuItcau proved himself TO be of Il very
proud and jealous disposition, which
several times found vent in his beating
his wife. They had but one child,
which did not survive his domcS-
tic tyranny, and yet she would not have
divorced Lin had it not been for the in
terpOsition of her relatives in Philadel-
plIia. 1t was because of his outrageous
/ Of hat
because of his poverty, and although lie
never made any effort to support her,
but drifled aimlessly from city To city,
like wandering Jew, he knew she was
| a true wife. and grieved for her a year
| and a half like child after the divorce.
Guiteau never displayed any settled am
bition other than his wild passion for
declaiming on religious topics. The on
| ly time his mental alteration took VIC
lent form was when he assaulted his sis
ter, Mrs. ScOville, with an axe. That
was in Wisconsin. His father had a
brother who died in lunatic asylum in
1860, although the fact was generally
kept as secret as possible. Guitcau's
former wife has since married a young
man in Leadville, but previous TO this
second marriage, which has proved a
happy one, she taught school success
fully for several years in Boulder, Col
OralO.
| JEFF. DAVIS HEARD FROM.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 9.-The Cour-
Ter Journal prints the fOllOwing:
BEAUvOIR, UARRIsON Co, MISS, y
July 9th, 1881.
INr. Fiadley Collins:
| DEAR SIR: have received yours of
the 4th instant, and thank you for the
kind expressions it contained. The evil
influences TO which you refer as
causing the bitterness felt TO.
ward southern men, it may fully be
expected. will give way 10 the sober
sense of the people, if they shall, like
yourself, detect the snrdid motive
for which stimulants are ad
ministered. will not, like
the telegram you cite in regard &c
the attempted assassination of the Pres
ident, say 1 am thankful the assassin
was not southern man, but will say |
regret that he is an American
Crime. black enough in it
self, has deeper dye from the
mercenary motive which seems tc
have prompted it. | sincerity trust the
startling event Will arouse people to the
consideration of remedy for the de
mobilization, which wild hunt
after office is creating. With best
wishes for your welfare, am very
truly yours
| (Signed) JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Mr.. Conkling's View of the situation.
NEW YORK, July 6.-Ex-SenatOr Conk
ling, being asked his opinion of the
situation, and the way some newspaper.
are disposed tn treat it, said: "ThC
assault upon President Garfield is al
astounding assault upon the nation. Tit