The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-03-16
The Chain Lengthens.

Il6 IMAM 4cuSbncASs
our "Chaip of Evidence" last week, imTe.led
a good Republican, who always marches Win
the party, to come and enter mild protest.
against onr wholesale charge upon the 'stai'
war; leaders, connected With the murder OF
Garfield While We do not believe that Cohk-
ling, or Grant. or Arthur, directly eonnrVed al
the murder Of Garfield, believe that their eH-
pTrssions and their acts brought it about; tha'
il was done by men who before snd since enjoyed
their favor; and that they were not sorry II was
done. Conkling and Grant had taken deadly
offence at Garfield, and Arthur hung to them,
and sympathized with them. Garfield only stood
in the way of their taking possession OF the Gov
srnrIeut, and those who cansed him tc be re-
moved, y knew that they would receive their re
ward, while tine actual murderer served as a
scspe-roat. They took immediate advantage OF
the Innrier, and have appropriated Its fruits to
the benefit Of themselves aud their faction when
two men are eontendlng for an estate, and the
one In possession is murdered il is not his irendS
who did it; il is the hangers-on of those VINO
know they will profit by the other side gaining
possession.
Il is favorite argument TO say that the Re-
publican party elected Arthur for the purpose OF
becoming President, if Garfield should die. They
did no such thing. They knew that If Garfield
sEould die, Arthur would, by the Constitution,
become President; but they had no thought Of
such contingency. Garfield was stout aud
rugged, and the country st peace, and il was
hardly considered possible that he would die.
Arthur was elected simply as presiding officer of
the Senate, and TO mollify the thrd-term element,
that had Just been humiliated by defeat. Had
that Convention had the remOtest misgiving that
Garfield wouId die during his term of Office. mnch
less be assassinated, Chester A. Arthur would no
more have been nominated for Vice-President
than Conkling could have been for President.
Having caused the murder of Garfield, they
are now trying to soften public opinion, and re-
concie il to their course by the foulest ISLANDERS
Of Garfield and his trusted friends. If they can
make Garfield out a sneak and traitor, and his
trusted friends rascals, it will, they think, have
q tendency reconcile the country to the murder,
and cause il TO look upon the present regime as
bene!actors of the party and the nation. To this
end, the conspiratOrs given free access TO the
records of the departments, to copy, mutlate, or
flch the records, at their will. Their first at
tempt was to crush Blaine; but charge after
charge faded away, the evidence was brought
to light. Their forlom hope was to connect HIN
with the speculations Of Shipherd, and they
charged that there correspondence in the
State Department between shiphcrd and Blaine,
on the Peruvian scheme. An investigation was
ordered and 10, il was discovered that the Ship
herd letters had been abstracted from the State
Department. Then il asserted that Blaine
had taken thcm to save himself from conviction.
INF IN fi,atr al hat
randum was kept of the contents of every letter
in the State Department, and reference TO the
memoranda of these Shipberi letters shows that
shpherd was urging upon Blaine the Peruvian
scheme, but could obtain no favor or encourage
msnt. So that Frelinghuysen has allowed the
records of the State Department TO be stolen, for
the purpose of running Garfeld's Secretary of
State, which has resulted in failure upon every
point.
Having found Blaine impregnable, and like
wise alive and terribly active, ready to meet ev-
cry accusation, and to take his own part, they
have now turned their guns upon the dead Gar
field, who cannot meet his accusers. The jackals
have dug up his corpse. and are digging their
fangs into it, with all the malice and venom they
possess. The ghouls are rummaging and despoil-
ing the War Department for this purpose. They
have got hold of private letter written by Gar
field to Secretary Chase, from the army, reflect
ing upon Gen. Rosecrans' management, and have
published it, in order to provoke n quarrel be-
tween Rosecrans and Garfelds friends. This
letter first appeared in the New York SRH. By
some, it is said that Dana found the letter in the
War Office, when he was Assistant Secretary;
by others, that Mrs Spragne found it among the
effects of her father, Judge Chase, and gave it TO
Conkling, to be used in the "greatest effort of
his lifs," in annihilating Garfield. But the pub
LEGATION of that letter, although revealing sneak
ing treachery, was not so damaging to Garfield,
for it contained only the truth, perhaps more
freely expressed in a confidential letter than il
would otherwise have been. Making that letter
a pretext, one of the "Stalwart" crowd, last Sat
urday morning, published in the Washington
Post a Democratic paper, a most fsul and abusive
attack upon Garfield, of which the following is
copy:
To the Editor Of the Post:
read with great interest the Garfield Chase let
ter in your paper to-day. l will take oath that il
is genuine for the original in Mr.. Chase's house
in 1867 when he resided ON the corner of Sixth and
streets. What became oft and how il turns up
now, don't know. To one who knew Garfield this
letter is no surprise He was a freacherous, n
ardly hypocritcal man, selfish in the extreme and
not caring what happened, so il did not happen to
hmsclf General Rosecrans and is worth 10
this country thousand Garfields. When the fight
ing that Garfield was craving for he took
good to keep out of danger. Ii is true. the
New York T'ibUn, published some time ago, that at
Chickamauga he was behind tree, but it is
true that white dove lit in the tree above him. for
THERE ARE WHITE DOVES
in that part of the world and have have heen
There are few domestic pigeons but they are not
in the habit of lighting in trees or coming near the
Toar nth L il he ake If
national common sense the truth of history and JUS
tice. alike the living and the dead that all this
sush Garfield should end. Millions of better
and greater men have lived and died The writer Of
this article was n delegate TO the Chicago eonyen-
tion, and at time voted for Garfield. within
few feet of him, and spoke TO him just after his
nomination. He was whimpering like a spanked
baby, and water in his eyes. He was nothing
hut professional office seeker and professional pol
itcian. failure preacher and lawyer. he
learned TO string words together q child does
beads, and that was his stock in trade. No one can
point TO an original thought he ever uttered He be-
trsyed John Sherman at Chicago as treaeherously
Brutus did Casar,
oRAs JUDAS DID CHRIST.
While making his speech. nominating Sherman. a
farce, clear voice from the gallery called out: Nom
innte Garfield have il upon the authority of one
who afterwards became a member of Jiarfields cabi-
net that the voice that of n hired claquer from
McNcar's theatre. stationed there for the purpose
TO carry out a scheme the Garfield ring had
ted long before the convention met. No wants
TO do injustice TO dead men. hut they arc worth
more than living ones, and living dead, the rcpu
tation Of n brave. patriotic and useful soldier like
General Rosecrans should not suffer in the eyes
thoughts of our people, by the words of such
as Garfield. who knew nothing of the science of war
and who such jack at all trades he knew lit
tie of anything one need covet
lSignedl JCsrICE.
WASHINGTON. March 10.
The leading Democratic papers of the country
denounce this article in the seyerest terms. The
editor of the Post, in publishing it, said that the
writer was prominent Republican, and dele
gate in the Chicago Convention, and that the
original copy was at the disposal of Garfeld's
friends, if they desired it. The writer was
Chauncey 1. Filley, of st. Louis, the man of gen.
eral dirty work for the "Stalwartsn He it was
who defrauded the Republicans of Missouri, and
sent thrd-term delegation to the Chicago Con-
vention. He it was who, after full consultation
with Grant and Conkling, superintended the
manufacture of the notorious "3O6" medals, to