Daily Republican., 1881-03-05

United States under very favorable aus
pices, and without creating jar or rip
pie upon the surface of a population Of
fifty millions of freemen. In no other
country could 3 change of rulers have
taken place without danger of plurg-
| ing the nation into revolution to be fol,
lowed possibly by civil war. The Mt.
most precautions would have had to be
made to meet the emergency, but here
10 the United States in this Republican
government Of the people, for the peo'
pie and By the people, the transition
of every four years is made peacably
and without fear OF revolution. The
con fusion, the noise, the excitement
and the connection stten ding the IN
augnration OF new ruler are only the
rejoiciugs of happy people made up
of al! shades of political opinion. In
the great procession which h'nored
President Garfield yesterday, were the
military OF the nation from the north,
the south, the east and the west pre-
senting arms to each other. Black ard
white, high and low, rich and poor, Re-
publican and Democrat, the blue and
and the gray, we're intent only on one
purpose, and that was the purpose Of
inaugurating the man that had been
elected President of the United States.
They met to do him honor not because
he had been elected by the Republican
party but because he was to be the
President of the whole people.
President Garfield has fair start
an suspicious comm sncement. He is
not crippled or hampered by a doubt
full election and the best men OF ell par
ties and all sections seem to be ANNA
ted with sincere desire to give him q
fair show and to support him In well
doing. With such start it will not
be difficult for the new President to
start his administration well ard main
tain for il good credit to the end OF
his term. Some friction may occur
through the disappointed ambition Of
those who would assume TO be his
trusted and confidential advisers, but
this cl sss will be confined to the disap-
pointed politicians and need not have
any sympsthies of consequence from
the mass of the American people, who
only want an eff oient and pure govern.
ment.
General Garfield comes to the Presi.
dCncy better equipped and qualified
than any man who has occupied the
Office since the present generation at
least came on the stage. He is a man Of
fne culture, of broad and liberal views,
and has broad and practical acqusint-
ance with national affairs. II he holds
the government under his own control
and carries out the metho Is he has SO
often expressed, he will make. first
class President.
If President Garfeld's a1ministra-
ton is what the public are led to ex-
pect of it, the good that il will do will
be incalculable. The outgoing admin
istration has safely tided the nation
over the transition period of the war
and the practical issues it produced, and
the opportunity offered for President
Garfield to make deep and indelible
mark on American history is the great.
est that has ever been offered. Presi-
deut Garfield has all the positive quail
ties necessary for the exigeucies Of the
situation, if he will but bear in mind
that 10 be President ia small matter
in comparison with making a record as
President that will adorn the pages OF
history. We believe he will do it.
The nation has confidence in him.
Hail the advent of President Garfield.