Daily globe., 1883-08-01
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The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
says:
| There are several ways of paying tribute to a
dead man. The usual way is to give prominence
to his virtues and say little of his faults.
Once in while man dies whose name stands
for so much that still lives that his enemies
think it essential to their own welfare to pursue
him into his grave.
President Garfield had a remarkable assort-
ment of such enemies, and the bitterness and
pertinacity with which he is assailed is a tribute
to the strength of the man which became repre-
| sentative of forces that exist.
There is neither force nor truth in that
statement, but it is a very natural refuge
for insincerity and cowardice. President
Garfield is not being pursued by any as
sortment of enemies, remarkable or other
wise. The hand that wrote those sentences
for the Commercial Gazette wrote and
printed the meanest criticisms
and the most of them that were
ever inflicted by journalist upon any
public man in this country, There was no
moral or political delinquency that the
editor did not charge upon the subject of
his pursuit. From the very beginning of
Gartield's congressional life up to his nomi-
nation for President, he was pursued from
this quarter with the most relentless and
remarkable assortment of abuse that man
may devise. He was never shown
any consideration or quarter,
but was mercilessly followed With all the
ingenuity of a vicious, unfair mind, and
the truth is the editor of the G. G. pos
sesses some ability in that direction.
While the Chicago convention was in pro-
gress and up to few moments before the
nomination transpired this now melo-
dramatic writer was making free use of
the telegraph to denounce Garfield and to
warn the convention at Chicago not to noun
mate him-making, or endeavoring to me 1I1e
line of often repeated charges r1hich
for ingenuity and surcIoarpe of
malice probably were never before show
cred upon promineerlu man by member
OF MS own party. If it were possible to
utI-sriy destroy a man by the chosen
methods of mendacions opposition Gar
field would have gone down under the
raking, CALLING fire of this most remark
able enemy.
Immediately after nomination at Chi
csgo, while the ink was still
fresh upon the pen that had
written a fiery and imperious tele-
gram demanding and commanding
that Garfield be blotted from the public
sight, the editor calmly and premedi-
tatedly penned letter to the successful
nominee, e,pledging in the strongest manner
the most vigorous support. The next step
was to follow Garfield to the celebrated
Fifth Avenue conference at New York, and
from that point forward no man ever
needed more to cry out to be saved from
his friends than did the candidate to
escape the damaging association of this
champion, who had zeal, but of the sort
that leads to destruction. The new con-
vert did not a little to bring on
and promote the rupture between
the President elect and the stalwart fac
tion of his partJ, and to bring on the state
of feeling that ended so disastrously to the
Executive.
Now there comes from the same source
the weak and untruthful charge that the
late President is assailed by enemies. Such
suggestion is ridiculous and notably un.
truthful. The dead President is not un
kindly spoken of, and it is hyperbole tc
assert that the public life and acts of 6
| man may not be spoken of with fairness
and with truth. The demand now made
upon that public is to shut their eyes anG
ears to all truth-indeed it is learned from
this quarter that it is ''infamous" to tel
> the truth-it is bitterness" and assault
and 'enmity'' that is invading the grave
This view of the matter cannot proceed
, from an honest habit of mind, and it i:
fortunate that the great mass of mankind
cannot be forced to pay false honors tc
mislead the present or future generations
The honest mind nothing extenuates, OF
ought sets down in malice.
|, Under the statutes of the state of Mime
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