The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-03-17

the progress OF the Investigation the
fact of Mr.. Window having suppressed
damaging evidence against Mr. Sher-
man was developed. This development
that Mr.. Window bad suppressed GER
tain important portions of the statement
made by Mr.. o. /. Pitney. the custo-
dian of the contingent fund. caused the
committee to summon Mr.. Pitney before
IL as witness, whose statement respec-
ting the manner in which the ex-Secre-
tarys political headquarters inWashing-
ton for conducting his campaign for the
Presidential nomination at Chicago. is
such as will require a thicker coat of
whitewash than that recently so yigor-
ously applied by one of his retained Jour
nallst1c news purveyors to cleanse his
reputation. Mr.. Pitney's statement
leaves both eX-Seeretaries Sherman and
Window in a most unenviable light.
Pltney's statement exposes the meanest
and most contemplate system of petty
thieving from the public treasury that
can be conceived of. Sherman's thiev-
ing appears the more comtemptible and
plcayunish when it is we'll known that
he is millionaire, Mr.. Pitney's sworn
statement cannot be controveTted. It
IS a lengthy and comprehensive one,
and gives details of Sherman s petty pill
ferings from the contingent fund which
are very damaging to millionaire hold
ing the high position of Secretary of the
Treasury. The statement of Pitnev,
late custodian of the Treasury contin-
gent fund is a Imost fragrant expose of
the method employed to keep the two
aesthetical gentlemen who last held the
Treasury portfolio supplied with bo-
quets by buying them with the contin-
gent fund and charging them as ice.
where will such official thieves as
Sherman and Window die when they 90
to. These two economical finan-
clers, who have recently been at the
head of the Treasury and entered pub
lie life without bank account, now
count their gains by many millions.
THE DISTINCTION OF THE LETTER G.
Quiz" says No one has noticed
how much distinction has been accord
| ed of late to the letter G.. It seems to
go in couples. In England there is
Gladstone and Granville in France
there is Gambet5a and CHEVY, and in
America we nave Grant and Garfield
AS Grant faded from sight the letter g.
grew lurid on the literary horizon with
the terrible name of Guiteau. Quiz
thinks that the latter name will not be
forgotten.
POOR JIMMIE BLAINE.
II is sad that Jimmie in his-eulogy on
Garfield should take such un warrantable
liberties with ancient and modern his
tory. The soft cadences of his mellow
voice had scarcely died away in the fret
ted roof of the Capitol till he was sum.
moned to the bar of criticism in various
quarters. Before many of the men and
women of America had read with vary
ing emotions the carefully pruned para
graphs of his essay, the st. Louis DniIy
Post editor challenged his biblical lore
He says mo man who misquOteS
scripture as badly as Blaine did shall
have my vOte.'; Gen. Rosecrans sharply
cr:ticises him for charging that the dead
Garfield found the army of the Cumber-
land torn by dissensiOns and by his magic
touch brought harmony out of wrangling
and confusion. Public iconOclasts have
dashed and tumbled Jimmie's master
piece to earth, and, not satisfied ale
hacking off its rounded and polished or
naments. The editor of the Macon
Messenger says Mr. Blaine's attempt
to make Garfield heroic soldier bv rea-
son of his unimpOrtant collision with
Humphrey Marshall, exhibits want of
familiarity with facts, or a disregard of
them, which might have beer considered
ridiculous on any other OCCASION - 1t
says further ''There were perhaps no
two men in the United States less fitted
to make soldiers than Garfield and Mar
shall" AT the end of that skirmish
at long range, resulting in casualties
hardly exceeding twenty disabled on
both sides, Humphrey Marshall ran
seven miles one way and landed in the
Confederate Congress. and James A
Garfield ran fifteen miles the other vav.
and found rest and shelter in the United
States Congress" This is the truth of
history. If out of this military heroes
can be made, had we not best 90 back
and raise the statues of Napoleon and
Wellington an inch or two higher in the
temple of fame Neither Garfield nor
Marshall will live in history as great
warriors. Neither was the proper timber
out of which to make a great soldier. If
Gen. KoSecrans was taIdy in his military
operations, he was certainly very prompt
IN emphatically characteriZinp Mr.. Gar
held's letter as untrutkful. Gen. Rose
Grams resented Mr.. Blaine's assault with
a promptness singularly at variance with
his military sluggishness. Mr.. Blaine
has done more to discredit the memory
of his dead friend than to honor it.
When two such distinguished doctors
differ as granny Hoar and Fred. Grant.
who shall decide ? Hoar says Conkling
is unit to be judge, and Col. Grant saws
he IS eminenUly fitted for the position.
Conkllng's reason for declining the
gown is a good one. If by some consti-
tutlonal quibble Guiteau's case should
come before him, he could not in the
gown face the man that put the gown
upon him. The Stalwarts draw well in
the lottery of assassination - Conk-
ling gown, Grant a pension, Sergeant
a ministership, and Jack Logan's son. a
paymastership in the army.
The most solemn farce that has lately
been enacted at Washington was dozen
or so officers of various grades rugged
out in full uniform with swords. sashes.
epaulets, and all the paraphrenalia of
dress parade, to try Sergeant Mason for
shooting at Guiteau, Not one of them
probably could give a correct definition
of the crime with which the prisoner
was charged, or the weight of evidence
necessary for conviction but there they
sat, clearing the room now and then of
spectators for the purpose of consu!ta-
Ulon. There was no excuse for irving
Mason by a cOuTt-martial He was
guilty of only slight offense against
military law, but had committed grave
offense against the laws of the District
of Columbia, and on spot clearly within
the jurisdiction of its courts. 1893.
RATHER SUGGESTIVE.
John Sherman's former colleague, ex-
Senator Thurman, retires to private life
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