The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-20
THE DEAD PRESIDENT.

morning OF the death OF president AS tht
woeful news was flashed along the wires, d
sob went up from every.hoarl in all orr landI
and.thero is sorrow and regret in all civilized
Europe as we'll Alsl we all know too we'll
tho lsmentable cause of his uniimely TAXI h
of. know too we'll how in the prime audi
yigor of his mental snd physical manhood
aud Just upon the threshold Of that oiiicia
career which look go bright and promising,
he was stricken low with the assAsein's bullet
Had he died of natural causes MS every
Christian prefers TO die, the country could
have borne his loss with less of sorrow
in more reasonable resignation, but the ring If
Gnitesu's pistol may have been the tocsin of
revolution, for of verify the assault he
made upon the president WAS All assault upon
every citizen of this free land, no longer o
FREQ land II It's officials can not in safety
mingle with the people and como and 20 rs
they will without body guards. or
without being hedged about With
any Of the parsphrenalia OF
dsspotic government. james A, Garfield
was born in CAyahoga county, Ohio, on
the 10Th day of November, 1881, and was
consequently, within q fow weeks of being
fifty years old. HH parents were poor, aud
his father dying whoc no WIS., but two years
old no had hard struggle through all his
boyhood and his youth, and could boast of
no educational advantages which no did
not by his own penoverlng exertions wriDgI
from an adverse fortune. When but q boy
he worked on the farm In the summerI
months and learned the carpenters hadel
at which no labored in the winter. Dis-I
csveriag that no could earn more by work
ing ~ u drivsr on the canal than no couldj
as plowboy, he obtained siIuaiiobE
there which he filled for some
time. Concluding that he would
like to 60 to school his motherOgavo him .
smAll:sum of money she had saved up for the
purpose, and he left for an academy someH
distance of where no cooked his own provi-
sions, worked at the carpenters trade In the
mornings Ind evenings and studied hard
during tho day. When vacation came he
taught school and worked at his
trade too, and by that means was
enabled 10 20 TO school another
year and thus no persevored, acquiring am
academic education by his own abors andS
saving up money too with which to pay hi,
way atcollege. So well had no progressed inI
his studies that he was enabled to enter the
Junior class at Williams College, where he&
graduated In 1856 with the first honor Of hisE
GLASS. Returning 10 his mothers home
In Ohio, was appointed to sheH
professorship of Latin and Greek in Hiram
college and the next year WAS made pres'-
dent Of tho college. While no was president
Of this college ho was married 10 Miss
Lucre,ia Rudolph, daughter OF farmerI.
living near by, and she survives him to-day,
having struggled with him in the povert,
Of their early married lifs, vas ever to him .,
good wife, holpmee! and companion
and with her in the great anguish OF her
heart on this direful day 600OO,o 600 Amori.
can hearts ,hrob aud bleed. In 1869 no was
sent TO the state senate, where, by his super
Tor ability and his great dignity and worth Off
character, he at once took leading andW
influential position. In 1861 no entered "
the union volunteer Army as colonel of
an Ohio regiment, and In 1862 no WAS made
brigadier general and shortly MterwsrdH
major general. In 1868 no was elected loIA
congress from Joshua Gidding' district
With bic career in congress the entire country
10 famililr. He speedily took position in ,heN
front ranks among the intellect in that bodyE
and Ia little time became ono of the moslN
prominent and trusted leaders of his party
Ho asnredprominently among the visiting
statesmen who went TO Louisiana to dooiorl
Mr.. Hayes chances for tho white house ati
tho time Mr.. Tilden was elected and no nlso
had no little to do and say in tho ELECTORAL
commission ulu,In 1880 when ihef
republican national convention met at Ohios-
90 there we're three leading and pronounced|
candidates, General Grant with his lhirdE
term aspiration, Mr.. Blaine, present secretary
OF state, and MIR John Sherman, of Ohio
General Garfield, delegate from Ohio, wen
10 that convention Ms tho friend of Mr.. Sher
man, and a. the leader OF his forces. Gen.
oral Gfsn,, with his ,hito hui drtd slslwars,
was tho choice over either ono Of his upls
rants, byt they had force and power enough
10 proven, his nomination and they succeeded
Ia doing 30 after long and vigorous sIrug-
Gle by concentrating on General Garfield for
whom enc lone patriot from pennsy ivsuis
had voted perslstenty from the taking Of
the frat bal ct to the nomination. Toe iai,>y
ure Of the s,slwsre to nominate Grant for .
third term filled them with rcgeS
Tho old whisky ring fellows
and the poculstcrs and joObcrs,
OF all kind. we're soclully put out aud wen,
10 their ,en,s TO ,ulk. Finally truce wssS
patched up and Grant and Conkling threw
themselves into the breach and thus, ,ogeth,r
with tho treachory ofJohn Kelley, lndanu
and Now York were saved 10 the republican,
party and 40 ienominious deiOM prevented.
The republican party being again successful \.