St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-07
Garfield's Betrayer at Garfeld's
Tomb
IN. Y. Herald, Goth. ]


The late President Garfeld's widow resides
in spacious dwelling upon prospect street,
one of the most beautiful avenues in the city
of Cleveland, Ohio. The ordinary route to
Lake View cemetery is past her house and
grounds. Fronting on one of the principal
carriageways in the cemetery, abouta quart
er of mile from the entrance, there is
tomb built of dark sandstone in imitation of
Grecian portico. The doorway is closed by
an iron grating, above which is carved the
name of a well-known Cleveland family, who
lend this place to shelter the remains of the
late President until the building of a mausO-
leum on higher land, for which popular con-
tributions are still solicited. Opposite there
is a guard house where squad of soldiers
of the regular army keep watch day and
night, and have done so for several years.
An irregular path has been trodden through
the grass along the front of the tolnb by SEN
tinels and the iucessant visitors. Through
the grating the coffin of President Garfield is
seen resting on bier, covered with dusty
pail strewn with withered wreathes.
According to programme of the cleo
pioneering tour which Mr.. Blaine has under
taken from this city this week with one of
the most corrupt gang of politicians in his
train that ever served for an escort, he is ex-
pected to reach Ohio in season to pass Sun
day in Cleveland and pervert that day in his
personal and partisan purposes by melodra-
matte visits to Mrs Garfield and to her late
husbands tomb.
If he does so either on Sunday or on any
other day it will be one of the most hypocri-
teal events in his ungodly career for though
the bullet that killed Garfield was sped from
Guiteau's pistol it was Blaine's ambitious
and reveDgeful intrigues, in the meshes of
which he had entangled Garfield, that had
crazed Guiteau's brains. But for Blaine
Mrs. Garfeld's husband in all human prob
ability would be living this day, joy to his
! family, and, we are confident, an honor to
his country; for it is scarcely conceivable
that he would not long ere this have detected
the vicious use that Blaine was making OF
him and freed himself from the malign in
fiuence.
1t is now nearly two weeks since we pub
! lished the evidence of Blaine's treacherous
selishness toward Garfield at the moment
which put the sincerity of his professed affec
ton TO conclusive test. The substance o.
this evidence is that while Garfield lay
wounded in the White House, Blaine TO
the miserable purpose of ingratiating him
self with Arthur, called at his own house 6
meeting of the Cabinet and proposed to hi
associates to dispose Garfield and summon
Arthur, to Washington to be installed a
President-well knowing that, as was de
clared by some of those who successfully re
sisted the proposition, the tidings of ever
the suggestion of it would be likely to be ia
tai to Garfield, then wavering between lif,
and death. On September Is we invoked
Blaine or any other member of the Garfield
| Cabinet to contradict this evidence if posi-
BILE, and one and all have remained silent
For Blaine to touch the hand of Mrs. Gar
field. after this, is prOfane; for him to delud
her with the deceit that he was her husbands
friend is base; and for him-Garfeld's be
trayer-to shed crocodile tears at Garfield
tomb will be hypocrisy unsurpassed in mod
ern chronicles. For its parallel one mus
search such pages as those of Dante.