Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-07-13
The Lesson of the Assassination.

The Lesson of the Assassination.
If the murderous assault upon Presi-
dent Garfield fails to impress the minds
Of the people of the Republic with the
lesson that it naturally teaches, then
indeed has the President been Victim
and a martyr without good result.
The assassin, of course, did not de-
sire to teach through his murde.ous
assault that the grade of Office seekers,
of which be is to q certain degree q
representative man, must be changed
or raised if the Republic is to live.
The shooting of the President has
opened the eyes of all the people SO
that they see the quality of men that
are in office, and are being pressed for
official appointment. The lowest grade
of men are being appointed to office.
Men that have been elected to Con-
gress, and other Offices upon little other
qualification than animal cunning, have
allowed themselves to be pressed by
the most vicious classes of politicians,
and under the impulses of a fellow
feeling, or under the belief that the
vicious men can help them in political
trickery and deviltry, have filled up the
list of their appointments from the bad
class of men. In that way the public
service Of the country has become filed
with Vicious people, that levy black
mail, aud rua the list of despicable
things 10 such degree that it is scarce
ly safe to oppose their demands. So
much have they been encouraged, and
so many are in places of appointment,
that when their demands are not agreed
I'd, they plot for revenge in the most
yillainOus manner.
During campaign times candidates
for elective Office make promises, di-
rectly or indirectly, to the vicious ele
meut of society. Promises should
never be made to such people, for when
tLey are not fulfilled, or cannot De full
filled, such people become revepgeful,
snd crafty the impulses of depravity.
II reports be correct, Guiteau, the
the assassin of President Garfield, has
been living Oh promises ever since the
election last November. Who the peo-
pie are that promised him office, time
will reveal
Certainly, to the victorious party st
the polls belongs the distribution of the
offices that the election consers. Such
has always been the case, and so 1T will
continue to be to the end of government,
in church, in state, in business, in every
department of life where Office or de-
grees are elected or conferred.
In free elective form of govern
ment it is particularly so that the VIC
torious candidate will give the Offices
of appointment to his party friends, but
there is no obligation whatever, to
give the appointments to the vicious
and bad nen of the party or society /;
and yet such has been the case too
often-so often, indeed, that tie vicious
men are the majority power in the Off
ces now held. 1t is the placing In
Office of such men that has brought a
great deal of disrepute upon the Re
publican party, aud continuation of
such appointments will cause 1t to be
voted out of power 1t is the bestowal
of Office upon the bad men of the party
that encourages such people as Guiteau
to come to the front insoleDtly and de-
mand Office. They have no influence
at home where they are known, but
their inpudence, audacity and depraT
ity leads them to make any and all
kinds of representation, and without
proper inquiry as to their standing and
representations they are appointed or
promised appointment to cfice.
Almost every county in this Com
monwealtb, and almost every county
of other States in the nation. have men
in Office that are a disgrace to the pri-
vate and public interests of the Repub-
lilo. They represent nothing but trick
cry, fraud, deceit and lies that is their
whole power, and when they receive
appointment they are being paid fol-
work in trickery, fraud, deception, and
lies, or they have tricked, defrauded
deceived, or lied to the men that Sc
cured them appointment.
There are thousands OF men now II
office BY appointment that should ot
removed. They represent not single
thing in society, or politics, but tina
which is foul and Objectionable TO the
forces that keep up free church anC
state. In the respective conmunitie,
in which they reside their conduct i.
pernicious, their language is foul, and
their manner is offensive. Guiteau wa
representative of that class. He wa
q trickster, a man that made false rep
reservations. He lived by false repre-
sentation he was a fraud, a grea
stickleT for the fulfillmeut of proDis,
made to him, but one that cared moth
ing for his own promises or ObIigstioni
whenever conferred. The assassination
of Presiden. Garfield brings all thes,
facts out clearly before the country
The people are shocked, but not dis
mayed. Their verdict is that trick
cry, fraud, murder, and assassina
tion have no rights that the people o
the Republic, acting in their integrity
have a right to respect. Such is tn
Lesson of the Assassination.
IT is quite an important matter 10
people that claim to be able to gov