, 1882-04-01
mad Mourners.

The R-puhlican politicians aud editors
Who are hanging their fortunes on the
memory Of Garfield are not presenting
spectacle engaging TO the work. They
are mourners but they are crying for
spoils rather than grisving for the dead
President They are ambitious for party
perQuisites: ard whenever an sdherent of
the psesea, Administration is appointed
to pace of consequence they attuns
themselves to hypncriticsl iamentatioR.
They riciously charge the assassination
Of the Presiden, oa the mea who dad the
most to place him in the Executive Man
sioi., and cultivate, ~ the extent Of their
ability. the proposition that this country
Is IN state Of p"'iUeal division and an
archy, whi,h heads d,ryc' 70 political nur-
der.
They are not ouly the ,iis,nrhers os the
peace and deoency Of Their party. but they
are the buzzards and vultures Of our
whole political system They advertise
their personal iistreess and their hypcc-
risy at the same time.
They are, generally, the men who
abused and belittlei Garfield before he
reached the Presidency. They are the
men who magniiei his shortcomings and
deprecated his good parts; who sneered
at him as an idealist and not man of
positive character /; who openly charged
him with beng a bribe-taker and public
corruptionist +; who declared, before ne
was nominated for President and who,
being in the Republican party. did more
to break him down than the whole Demo-
cratic organization.
They are the men who, unable 20 effect
his defeat, cringed before Garfield after
his nomination, and Inundated them
selves for official favor.
They are the time-servers OF the period.
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public questions and the double dealers
toward nearly all Of the most prominent
politicians and statesmen Of their party.
They are allied with the men who heap
ed the meanest abuse on Blaine in 1876,
but wLo are now stretching forth their
treacherous hands IN an offer to sustain
him.
They are the men who threw every OBJ
struction they could control in the way of
Hayes prior to and during the Republi-
can Convention of 1876, who bowed OBJ
sequicusly before him in the hour Of his
triumph, and who heartlessly turned
against him when he exhibited deterni-
nation to carry out policy which was not
IN accord with their arrogance and greed.
They endorsed the Letter of acceptance
written by Eaye-, because they hoped
he was no; sIncerr, and when he honest
ly undertook To carry out the principles
he announced at the opening Of the cam
paign they used al the means at their
command to embarrass him, and to re-
new and perpetuate the acrimonies which
had been violent ever since the war.
They are the men who cursed Grant
and Conkling, and then embraced them
as the saviors of the Republican party in
1880.
They are the men who denounced Ar
thur as the mere instrument Of "Conk-
lingism" and small manipulation of New
York politics, but who jirged and ambled
before him when he entered upon the
Presidency and then renewed their as
saults when they found he would prefer
his long and steadfast friends to his old
and bitter enemies.
They are the ''soured" citizens who are
now spreading their wounds open to the
public who are endeavOring 10 erect over
the grave # Garfield monument made
Of their own grievances and hypocrlsles;
who are denouncing as conspirators and
murderers men better fitted than they to
revere the memory Of the great-b.ained,
loving and lovable man whose mortal re-
mains rest in Lakeview Cemetery
The people are not blind but they are
pinched persons who cannot see that they
are lashing themselves in their selfish
fury.