Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-12-19
COUNTY "CzAR. .CAsM, !"
"THE GARFIELDs IN POLITICS.

III uHnT TIEIUO IN TVLIItOC,
the only original Garfield man, and
the Gazette will lead the procession.
When the elder Garfield was rum
ming for President about half tho
politicians in that neck OF the woods
claimed that they helped him drive
mules on the Ohio canal. Next year
they will get up on their hind legs
and bray that they were the mules
themselves, and the Gazette will be
"Thc laureate OF the long cared crow"
For, be it remembered that
several notable things are to be said
about James X. Garfield, to-wit:
First, that James A. Garfield was o
great man. Next, that he-James
r., being newly out Of Williams
college and Of course free-trader,
and hence so dear to the hearts of the
sheep-raisers OF Medina county, and
being also one of the the
salt-of-the-earth sort Of fellows, is
also the putative author and finisher
OF the so-called "Garfield law"
alias the corrupt practices act" but
which ought to be entitled an act for
the compulsory attendance of Ohio
ofiice-seekers at the school of por-
jury, and for the promotion of hy-
pocrisy. And finally, in advance of
Mark Hanna's Senatorial shambles
at Columbus,--lest some one should
try to seduce 30 incorruptible man,
he caused 1t to be made known that
If he thought the Senator would
wander In any crooked paths he
Garfield, would not follow him; and
then he turned up-after having
voted for Mark, as one of the COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
methods used to compass his elec
tion.
In this relation his well-known eff
forts to aid in turning on the light,
and in exposing and denouncing po-
litical crookedness, are matters of
history; they were such as became
the architect OF the corrupt prac-
tices" act. 1t is indeed true that he
uniformly sustained the witnesses In
refusing to answer questions; but
then he explains this, very lucidly,
In the minority report which he
filed, by saying that the refusal
was based "upon two grounds:
Either the lack Of Jurisdiction Of
this committee, or by reason of the
fact that they sustained confidential re-
lations to the PUBLIC, ,"-whatever this
ihst may mean,
Now, II all this, does not entitle a
man to a seat in Congress, even
though to get 1t. ahe has to Jostle a
man out Of his ,'customary second
term" what in the name of rhyme or
reason would? Even Phillips, before
next years convention, will fall on
the proper side of the fence and
cackle-''nothing."
The fact is "time is money" with
"the Garfelds, "asthe Gazette pro-
fanely calls them. The machine was
all fixed to have one of them break
into Congress last year-the appren-
ticeship of the Mark Hanna investi-
eating committee having fitted him
for the wider field, But the Phillips
accident prevented. And some thing
must be done for him before his
county Is thrown back into tn @
Nineteenth District, where he would
have to come in collision with Gen
Dick, or some one Of the swarms of
those who think the General has
picked them out for his successor.
The managers know well enough
that Medina county can be kicked
and cuifed about with perfect impun-
ity. The more the faithful are
trsmpcd on over there, the loude r
they shout for the old ticket and the
more abiectly thoy crawl in the dirt
prepared for thom to wallow in.
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