The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09

when office seek erS become mad, Just
as socialists and nihilists do, when
the madness of one drives them to
the same outrage against civilization
as the madness of the other. it is net
dennis all in the same way.
A New Orleans evening paper says:
"The mysterious attempt to asSaSSi- |
nate the President has given rise to |
a thousand speculations as to the
prompting cause. Though there may
be no good reasons therefore, the
public mind seems instinctively to
connect it in some manner with the
Conkling trouble.
The New Orleans Times says: SIN
asmuch as the general feeling through
out the country towards President
Garfield has been more kindly than
has been known for many years past,
the motive for the attempted assassi-
nation is peculiarly mysterious.
The New Orleans PicogaSne says:
1.-THE attempted assassination of
President Garfield is likely to make
very deep impression upon public
sentiment throughout the United
States. The peculiar political situa-
ton opens the way Tor rumors and
conjectures, and will raise among the
masses suspicious of extensive plots
and deep-laid schemes.
The Louisville Courier Journal
says 1.-THE author of this dire crime
seems to be the merest vagabond,
yet he claims to be a stalwart and
what is there in the character of the
men in whose name and interest the
deed was done, and whose desperate
| fortunes it saves from destruction, to
rescue them from suspicion which
would, by a change in that authors
nativity firmly attach itself to the
most innocent people? Mrs. Surratt
was hanged on less circumstantial
evidence than occurs to the mind as
to Roscoe Conkling and Chester A t.
! Arthur.
Richmond IVA. State: "Whatever
Guiteau's condition or character, his
monstrous crime is rightly received
by the people of the United States.
If he be lunatic. he must simply be
confined, and that we hope and be-
lieve is the solution of the whole
matter. If he be an agent of men
or of ladies lnoking to violence as a
means to any object, we. the people,
will find whom he represents, and
will punish not only him, but also
them.
The Atlanta Constitution says
"We hazard nothing in saying that
if the prudent, safe and honest
Wheeler were still Vice President,
the country would not to-day view
with such sorrow the death of the
President. 1t would deplore the
crime and the shock to our inStitu-
tions, but it would not stand aghast
at the changes involved"
Hartford Times: "Are we in con-
dition similar to that of Russia,
where the assassin'S pistol and dead
ly grenade threaten the head eXecu-
tive ?"
Hartford EUening Post: "If this
poor. weak fellow has been about
Washington, nursing his grief from
day to day, he must have habitually
read the daily diatribes of the social
ed Washington organ of the Conk-
ling faction and the star-route gang"
Hartford COwdnt "Guiteau calls
himself 'Stalwart, '-whatever that
may be-but it is lie to give him
only political significance which he
never possessed"
Boston Journal: SIT seems so IL
! credible that career like his could
be cut short by such weapons as are
directed against kings and despOts in
Europe that the first reports of the
awful tragedy found few to accept
! them"
Boston Herald ASSASSINATION has
no place in our political system, II
ever iustifiable in land of free speech
and universal suffrage"
Portland Me- Advertiser: "Ihe
spoils system is direct y Responsible
! for the infamous outrage"
st. Paul Mimi Pioneer Press:
"Doubtless Guit4au is crazy but not
the most consummate craft could
have planned political assassination
so OPPORTUNITY for the purposes OF
the stalwart chiefs who are benefited
by it,"
Chicago Inter- Ocean "Should
President Garfield die the people
will turn in their sorrow and wrath
to crush out all the un-American
mushroom sophIstry that makes as
sassinatlon possible"
Albany Argus: SIN the abhorrance
of assassination in the purpose never
to let it be naturalized here as a
means to vacate offices, or to wreak
the revenges of displaced men in re-
spect for the rights and persons of our
rulers in the resolve that murder
shall be made as Improbable as it is
infamous in adherence to the law,
and to the officials chosen by the law,
we are all Democrats and we are all
Republicans"
Montgomery (Ala.) advertiser !:
'.The news was the saddest sound
that has fallen on the hearts of the
oppressed millions of other lands,
who would fain believe the American
republic the best and safest asylum
on EARTH"