New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-27
doRY A. sTORRs TO SPEAK AT CHICAGO.


need in the columns OF THE TmB-
services in honor OF the memory Of
t. la!ncntcd Garfield will be he'd in this city to-
Il .ow night at Central Music Hall. A morn
il paper announces the programme as
1 VS.: l. Organ voluntary, "Marchc Fun bre
et hant," Professor Louis Falk; 2. Garlields
fa itc hymn, "Ho, ,Rca3ers of Lifc's Harvest" ST.
c, ia Quartettc; 3. Prayer by tue Rev. DR.. Arthur
LIt e; i. Solo, Il kaow that ny Rodccmer
Livsth7 Miss Jennie Dutpn; fifth, original poem
by eugene J. Halls sixth Their sun shall no
more go down." st. Cecilia QGar;ctt; seventh,
eul, gy by Emory A. Storrs.
@ casual examination this programme would
SOC a a most lifting one for the occasion, and indeed
the first six numbers of the evening services could
sea cely he improved upon. The committee of ar
rangements whoever NAV constitute lt-thcre
having been no public announcement of its compo
sition--has exhibited excellent judgment. The
opening numbers breathe the spirit OF Garfield; but
when the eyes of the many thousand readers
in tins city and throughout Illinois fell upon the
seventh and chef number Of this pro-
grammc food of indignation Overcame
them at the thought of a cominittcc consisting Of
men who have seen fit not TO make themselves
known, inviting man to euloglzo the memory aud
services Of that great Garfield, who to Garfield and
TO the principles Garfield sustained was no better
than traitor Irresstibly comes the thought to
the unnnmbered host of Garield's supporters in
life, lovers and defenders of his memory in death
What povery of there must be in the great
39S53 4~@elrst1 Srona 1hs ~osan,sry ,sanas
couutrcmcu taat crowamg lquicl wccath Of his lite
if the Committee of Arrangements in i,s
task of love could find orator better qualified for
a>aD 0032a0 0ssD5s3> 1SD SDO7J h>a025oy >5oo S010
pion OF political prnciples abhorred by Garfield who
a; the recent Lincoln Club banquet in Eew-York
City insuited The memory OF Tip mMIypd Gar
hcld.
But the great audicnc uat viii surely assemble
to do honor to the memory Of the lllusriOus dead
will feel that the committee has compensated in
a degree by its appropriate opening numbers and
by the selection OF General Joseph B. Leake.
United States Dstrict-Attornoy, appointed by
President Hayes, and a warm personal friend of
President Garfield to preside during the exercises.
They will listen with patience, perhaps with in
tcrcst, TO the oratOrical mockery Of Emory
A. Storrs as in The fulsome language OF insincerty
and hypocrisy he relates the success achieved, the
heights climbed by hlm, whom the orator OF the
evening did what was within his small circuH-
scTiDed power to defeat and retard. The com
mtt-e had the bad taste % invite the widow of
the dead President 70 attend hear this speech by
Mr.. Storrs invited her Immediately after the title
hampton OF the Stalwarts' has been bestowed by
his fellow rjoiccrs upon Mr. St0rrs invited her AZ
the very moment when the enemies OF her husband
are trumpiuug and loudly rcyclling the fruits
Of his IabOrs and of his victory " such
time The bcrtavcd widow Sscd 10 come and hear
weIl-soundlpg words oI hypocrisy. To this invita-
tiOn she u sad 10 have replied ab follows: Pray
receive mY thanks for the Kindness OF your invl-
tau9n. although nv great he. rtbreakng sorrow
fOrbIds !ts acceptance"