Arizona republican., 1901-11-10

and Arthur Guiteau came to Washing
 .Vn and commenced his campaign :or
 a consulship or ministership to Europe
 He devoted no attention to the preSi-
 dent. He devoted all his time to the
 state department. He was in the state
 offices every day for weeks. His appIi-
 cations were made for diplomatic posi-
 tions in France and England The
 clerks who first came in contact with
 him took him for a fool and laughed.
 Later. because he was so serious and so much in earnest, they began to
 trifle with him. He would come in and
 ask:
 I was to have the post at Paris;
 has Secretary Blaine acted upon it
 yet? am very anxious to get away
 " He has not acted today, Mir. Cult eau, but he may tomorrow. We have
 no doubt but that he will remember you. Good day. MT. Guiteau.'
 This sort of thing continued for
 weeks, with constant disappointment
 for the man, convincing him that de- spite his wonderful services Gas he be
 lieved) for the party, a conspiracy eS isted against him in the state depart
 ment to prevent his being rewarded. Appointment after appointment was
 made of men to offices which Guiteau imagined had been promised to him. He
 demanded explanations from the state
 department. The clerks laughed and answered:
 "'Oh, well. Mir Guiteau, there are other offices you can get. Have pa tience.'
 With such fl man patience ceases as soon as he iS Sinwardly convinced that no supposed promise made him is to be kept. Guiteau's patience ended weeks before he shot Garfield. I know now, and others know, too. that he hid by the iron railings on the approach to the state department, apparently waiting for q favorable opportunity to confront Mir. Blaine. He skulked there, conceal ing himself as much as possible, but by some strange chance MT. Blaine during this period never came out under cir ! cumstances which would permit Cult eau to confront him as he wished to. [ believe Guiteau was armed then and was contemplating the murder of the
 man who he believed had betrayed him. The morning of the assassination | Guiteau, who could easily know the | movements of the secretary of state,
 was at the Baltimore and Potomac sta
 tion awaiting his coming. When Blaine
 and Garfield entered the waiting room
 Blaine was nearest to Guiteau. Blaine
 was holding the presidents arm and
 his body concealed the presidents from | Guiteau's eyes the latter fired. l But here enters another uneXplain- l able happening. The hundredth part of second before Guiteau fired, Blaine
 and Garfield both having their faces ] turned from him, Blaine took half wheel step, carrying the president with
 him in the action. The result of this was to take Blaine in the twinkling of
 an eye out of the range of Guiteaus | niSfol and to briO.r Garfield in limo with | it. The president fell and Blaine was unharmed. It all happened so quickly | that on the flush of the first horror there appeared to be no question but l that Guiteau intended to kill Garfield. investigation does not bear that theory out in my judgment All of Guiteau's plans, in my opinion, up to | the moment Garfield fell. were to kill
 Blaine, the head of the state depart ment. and the responsible factor, as he l believed, for his failing to secure a single office of the many that he sought. Nothing saved Blaine but the miraculous half-wheel step.
 "Guiteau knew the error he made be- fore he reached his cell. He believed
 he had to justify himself. He was ia | miliar with the Conkling fight. and his political sympathies were with the New York crowd because it was in New York that he had been most consider ately treated during the campaign He instantly brought all his insane hatred into play against Garfield, and the world at large was convinced that a
 second president had been deliberately l assassinated.
 "I shall never think SO, doctor. Charles J. Guiteau intended to kill
 James G. Blaine and not James A. Gar field. He went to the railway sta tion with that purpose in his mind. The
 fates decreed it should be otherwise" H. I. Cleveland in Chicago Record Herald