The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-04-15
Guiteau, an Offshoot Of Republicanism.

sorbing interest.-Chicago Times (Ind).
Guiteau, an Offshoot Of Republicanism.
Guiteau, the moral monster, while he
lives is source of ceaseless annoyance
to the Republican party. Guiteau is
Republican production. He was edu-
Gated in Republican schools of political
thought, theory and practice. He hates
the Democratic party with an intensity
as blind and bigoted as characterized
Blaine, Dorsey, Belknap, Robson,
Conkling, Arthur, John Sherman, Hayes
or any other Republican who has won
notoriety by stealing money from the
Treasury, violating the Constitution,
utilizing perjury, rewarding thieves, de-
bauching courts or fighting for spoils.
Guiteau murdered Garfield, and evil
IDENTITY ought to be hung. The courts have
pronounced him sane. The declaration is
made by high authority that the assassin
knewwhat he was about, and the monster
reiterates the statement that he was the
agent of Deity, and that his mission was
to kill the President that harmony
might come to the Republican party.
Thus it is seen that the crime of assassi-
nation is interviewer with Republican,
ism. 1t is well known, indeed it is a
part and animportant part of the history
of the Republican party, that it split into
factions over the question of spoils.
These factions nursed their hate until
they glowed and burned like lava
tides. Such exhibitions of venality and
depravity never before disgraced Chris
tendon. The fight proceeded, and de-
moralization increased. The Senate of
the United States. that once august
body, the boast and pride of the cOun-
try-was degraded to the level of
bucket-shop exchange, where the agents
of the Republican party unblushingly
appeared and bargained for such a po-
litical Pest House patient as Malone.
As the fight proceeded Conkling's back
rounded up until at last. unable longer
to stand the policy of Blaine and Gar
field, he walked out of the Senate and
referred his case to the Legislature of
New York. To that body the fight was
transferred. and the scenes that were
enacted defy exaggeration. For time
all the worst passions of Republican
spoils hunters were in the ascendency,
and bribery and perjury triumphe1.
This done, Guiteau appears. A Repub-
lican student in College where every
professor was an advocate of fraud,
bribery and perjury as forces and fac
tors to achieve success whether in a
fractional fight among themselves or in
the broader field of battle, when con-
tending against the Democratic party,
it is not surprising that he conceived the
idea that murder was the only remedy
for Republican infamies. and, since the
Republican party had always claimed to
be the ''God and morality party" it is
not surprising that Guiteau should mag
inc that Deity had inspired him to COM
NIT murder as the remedy for the less
fragrant crimes of his party. 1t is a
fact that crime leads to
crime in the career of parties as we'll
as in the course of individual life. For
many years the Republican party had
utilized crime as a means of obtaining
andmaintainIng power. 1t had assassin
ated Constitutions, debauched Courts,
trampled upon laws, murdered Legisla-
lures, Endorsed thieves. and had finally,
by offering Federal offices as reward
for perjury, reversed the will of the
American people and placed fraud in
the high Office of President. All this
was Guiteauism in its first stages, in
modified form-crimes against law and
liberty that in the very nature of things
must inevitably lead to the commission
of other crimes more horrible in their
nature-and the crime came at last,
fearful retribution, an awful climax, an
overshadowing horror. Garfield, the
President, fell bleeding and dying by an
assassin's bullet, and for time all
hearts beat like muf11ed drums in
the presence of the Republican ca
tastrophe. People said: "This will
hush factionaf wranglings; these
spoils fighters will be
shamed into silence and deep humilia-
ton" But such was not the result.
Arthur, who drew the capital prize in
the lottery of assassination, mounted
into power; and while symbols of mourn
ing were everywhere displayed-while
a sense of humiliation and degradation
bowed the people in the dust-while
bells were tolling-while Guiteau was
saying that Deity :" inspired" him to
murder Garfield to harmonic the Re-
publican party, the indianapolis Journal.
a Stalwart organ, sent forth the shout
that Arthur was President "by the act
of God" and from that day to this the
old factional fight has been going for
ward. Blaine has been kicked out of
Office. Grant moves upon Arthur's
works when it is desirable to dispose Of
a Half-breed. 'Conkling is more poten-
tial than when he was in the Senate,
Guiteau bowls, Blaine barks, and Re-
publicanism, covered all over with a
record that grows in blackness the more
it is analysed, comes to the front and
asks the American people to indorse its
record and whitewash its infamies. We
shall see.--Indidna State Sentinel
Miss Minnie Fish, school-teacher
in the town of Serbia, near Oswego, N.
Y, was accidentally hit by SNOWFALL
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