The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-08-05
Guiteau Halstead!

ueIo Is IL HAL HdIH6u y. IL. MdCh-
ley, of Jackson, o., who has gone
clean daft on the Payne business.
His insanity takes the form of a be-
lief that the Republican party can
only be perpetuated through the lu-
bricating effects of coal oil. 1t is a
sad case. ."-Commercial-Gaeett
You are as fully near the truth now
as you were when you declared that
Grant was drunken imbecile and an
ass, and Lincoln fool. We simply
expressed the belief that the Republi-
can party should not permit itself to
be carried away by a crazy howl by a
man who can see no motive save bar
gain and sale for any action, a man
who has regarded the great leaders of
the Republican party in the same
light in which the other Gulteau re-
garded Garfield, and who, during the
darkest days Of the war, when the
leaders Of the Nations armies were
laden with cares and sufferings, ex-
pressed sentiments concerning them
more treacherous, cowardly and brutal
than ever escaped from the lips of
Wirz, the fiend Of Andersonville.
We maintain that the Republican
party is greater than the one man
who has only remained within its
borders for the purpose of abusing
and threatening It's leaders. Halstead
affects to believe that every man,
everywhere, is bought. That gives a
fair idea of his estimate of political
honor, and Of how he would act in the
place occupied by a 7. S. Senator.
The only service he has given to the
Republican party has been from a
selfish motive, and he has used his
position as a pretended Republican to
stab those against whom he might
have a personal spite. But it is quite
evident that he would rejoice in the
division and defeat of the Republican
party. Take for instance the unfair
and disgraceful course of the Com
merciaI- Gazette in the Eighth Dis
trict By its own admissions Gen.
Keifer is the favorite candidate. Yet
the whole energy of the paper is
thrown into meddling in the affairs of
the District, attacking Keifer-a man
who was wounded on the e-feld, at
the time when Halstead was cursing
Grant and Lincoln-and one of the
grandest of Republicans, great deal
more respected in his own county
! than Halstead is in Hamilton county.
Why? Simply because Keifer, as
Speaker of the National House of
Representatives, dared to assert as
much authority in the House as Boyn-
ton, the correspondent of the Com
nsercial-G Gazette. Now correspond
ents are sent through the District,
paid to send reports intended to be
damaging to keifer's chanaas.
We are pleased to note that this
Payne matter-while it shows the
Republicans to be of one opinion as
to the methods by which Payne Sc
cured his seat in the Senate-has
also placed Halstead squarely before
the people Of the State in his true
light. His attempt to destroy the
Republican party will not perhaps be
as successful this time as it was in
Ohio in 1888. He seems to have lost
sight Of everything in politics save
what is implied by the term Doodle. -
No man, from a United States Sena-
tor te ward politician, can in his
estimation be influenced by anything
except bribery. Certainly man who
thus paints his own portrait cannot
afford to apply the term daft" to
men who are Republicans from prin-
ciple, and who have not used their
standing in the Republican party to
advocate the destruction of the great
leaders by the Guiteau method.