The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-17

to contribute to my defense 1 have no
right nor wish TO ask my lawyers
TO WORK FOR NOTHING.
There are hundreds of persons who
are and will be benefited financially by
the new administration. They are all
indebted to me for their positions from
the president down. l confidently ap-
peal to them and the pub
lie at large 10 send me money for my de-
Tense. Money can be sent quietly by eX-
press, Withholding the name If you wish,
To George Scoville, Washin gton, ID. g.
II will be sacredly used for my defense.
Certain politicians seem perfectly will
ling to fatten at the public crib, on
my inspiration, but they pre-
tend to be Mortified out of their
senses by the late presidents death.
and want nothing to do with me-. They
say am dastardly assassin. The word
assassin CRATES on my mind, and yet
some people delight in using it. Why
am l an assassin any more than the man
who shot another during the war? In
my case the doctors killed the late Presi-
dent and not me, so that there is not
even a chance for suicide in this case.
The President was simply
SHOT AND WOUNDED
by an insane man. The man was in
sane to law, because it was Gods act
and not his. There is not the first ele-
ment of murder in this case Two ele-
ments must exist.
Tristan actual homicide.
Second-Malice.
There is no homicide in this case and
therefore no malice, in law. Admitting
that the President died from the shot,
which | deny, as a matter of fact, cir
,ska oh ss,nr
liquidate the presumption OF malice
either in law or in fact. / am patriot.
To-day | suffer bonds az pat-io..
Washington was patriot. Grant was
a patriot. I,suffer in bonds as a patriot
because ! had inspiration and nerve To
unite the great political party TO the end
that the nation might be saved an
other war. l say that the bitterness
in the Republican party last spring was
deepening hour by hour, and that with
in two or three years. or less, the nation
would have been in civil war. In the
presence of death all hearts were hushed.
Contention ceased for weeks. The heart
and brain of the nation ccntered on the
sick man at the white house. At last
he went the way of all flesh The nation
was house of mourning. Let newspa-
pers change from Guiteau, the assassin,
To Guiteau, the patriot. i appeal TO the
Republican party, and especially the
stalwarts, of whom l am proud to be
one, tor justice Iappeal to the Presi-
dent for justice. / am the man that
made him President Without my in
inspiration he was political cipher
| was constantly with him in New York
last fall, and he and the rest of our men
knew it was all we could do TO elect our
ticket. He will give the nation the
finest administration ever had. / appeal
TO the district attorney and his learned
associates for justice, beg they go slow (;
that they do no injustice to the Deity
whose servant / was when l sought TO
remove the late President
jim and Mac-HOw Chandler Failed In
| Confirmation.
WASHINGTON, Nov. ia dispatch
/ from this city 10 the New York Sun
says: There is a curious complica-
tiOn," said well-infor,ned ex-pOlitician,
"about the MacVeagh- Blaine imbroglio
in the cabinet, commencing with the ap-
pointment of w. +. Chandler as Solicit
tor General. That thing. as you may
not know, was arranged between Gar
field and Blaine even before MacVeagh
was selected for the cabinet. The OBJ
| ject was to have Chandler where he
could look after the Grant and COnkling
people and chcckmate any scheme they
might have. IL was not precisely what
Chandler wished, but he consented.
MacVeagh first heard of Chambers ap-
pointment on his arrival ut Washington
one morning from Philadelphia, and his
spirit rose to the highest pitch. Driving
directly TO the White House, he demand
ed of Garfield what il meant. No man
was ever in more belIgercnt frame Of
mind than MacVeagh was then. Gar
field was not prepared for such All ex-
hibition, and was not successful in his
attempt to mOllify the attorney general,
who, unwashed, and with satchel in
hand, was the most earnest individual
the president had seen. He did not
stop to mince things, and, telling Gar
field what he thought would become of
his administration with such goings on
informed the president he could have
his resignation then and there; but he
would make things hot which ever way
he decided.
"Old boy said Garfield, let rs sit
down and talk about it, This you
know was Garfield's way. Probably
there are hundreds of persons who feel a
pride in having been familiarly slapped
on the the shoulder and called my old
boy by Garfield. 1t generally went
great way, but not with MacVeagh. He
was in no such humor. Evincing a
disrespect for that sort of thing, he ask
ed Garfield what he was going TO do
about il, as lie was ready to take the re-
turn train If that was his will.
1T snled in an understanding that
Mac Veagh should stay and fight Chand-
Ter. If he could prevent his conflrma-
ton 1t would be all right, Garfield agree
ing that nothing should be done 10 put
Chandler through. The fight should be
between MacVcagh and Chandler.
''After Garfield explained that this
course was the alternative for withdraw
ing Chandeliers name outright, which
would have made things disagreeable.
As MacVeagh rclishesa fight, especially
If ii be, or seems to be with the prcsi-
dent OF the United States, the secretary
of state, or some other high parsonage,
he was satisfied. Everybody knows how
il came out. Chandler was beaten by
one votc-DOn Cameron's; a wheel
within a wheel, not necessary tn explain
now.
Precisely how much Garfield cared
for Chandler is not known. Blaine's
conduct was inexplicable. When Chand-
Ter accepted the sOlicitO.ship he was as
sured he need not trouble himself about
his confirmation, that would be taken
care Of. But Garfield contracted with
MaeVeagh to keep hands of. and Blaine
never IlIJeG ung6r sOg 4ClIan0lDr whose
confirmation might at any moment
have been secured had Blaine chosen to
say the word. ! am NOS good authority
as To ChandIer's feelings now; but some
of his New England friends are not en-
tilusiastic for Blaine. In fact. the seed
for great deal of hard feeling was
sowD, and il Is said TO have spronted
and to promise vigorous growth.
'tAs quaFrels are said frequently to
make fast friendships, so it became with
Garfield and MacVeagh. Il was not
long after this that the attorney general
began TO crowd the secretary OF state
hard at the White House. As between
Garfield and MacVeagh. > the latter was
by far the stronger viiled and dominated
the president. Between Garfield and |
Blaine the feeling was at times such as |
bodies disruption, although on the sur |
face there was not much evidence Of It. |
MacVeagh increasingly played the Iago |
"a part for which he Possesses physical |
and mental quaIiflcations-and with |
much promise Of success till the trag-
edy OF July 2.''
The Brunswick -CarIingford Collision.
DETROIT, Nov. 14-Capt. Chamber
lain. OF the sunken steamer Brunswick, /
has arrived in this city end gives the
following account Of the collision be-
tween his vessel and the schooner Car
!ingford, off Port Colborn, Saturday. Z
eff Buffalo at 10 O'Clock Friday night,
with cargo Of hard coal, bound 70. Du-
nth, It was showing and little thick
when we left, but at IL O'Clock at night
here WAS quite clear wind, about east