Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — READ ! READ ! ! [ARTICLE]

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Barfield’s Credit Molli tier Record. Republican Newspapers on the Republican Candidate’s Cor- * ’ 7 ruptions. [From Garfield’s sworn testimony before the Po’and Committee, Jan. 14, 1873.] I never owned, received, or agreed to receive any stock of the Credit Mobilier or of the Union Pacific railroad, nor any dividends or profits arising from either of them. [From Judge Poland’s Report, Feb. 18,1873 —Gar field’s testimony perjured ], The facts in regard to Garfield, as found by the committee, are that he agreed with Mr. Ames to take ten shares of Credit Mobilier stock, but did not pay for the same. Mr. Ames received tho 80 per cent, dividend in bonds and sold them for 97 per cent., and also received the 60 per cent, cash dividend, which, together with the price of stock and interest, left a balance of $329. This sum was paid over to Mr. Garfield by a check on the Sergeant-at-Arms, and Mr. Garfield then understood this sum was the balance of dividends after paying for the stock.

HOW THEY VIEWED IX THEN. All Guilty—Differing' Only in Degree— Criticisms of the Leading Pliiladclplain Journals on Credit Mobilier in 1873. [From the PaSfic Ledger (Ind.), Feb. 20, 1873.] If Oakes Ames is guilty of bribing or otherwise his fellow-members (and the shows that he is), then some of them must have been bribed or corrupted. There is not One of them who made a public denial of his-Alleged connection with the “ Credit Mobilier ” who did not falsify the real facts by pre- > validation <sroy%nppressi’rig essential truth, or by false ‘ suggestion, or by direct falsehood — pirttved to be falsehood by the record evidenc'd. ■,* % * If these rfiepibcrs did not feel that CredifcMobilicr fninsactions were dishonomjto wby did they resort to prevarication and coHtaU.lmeni in their first denials ? THEIH MEAN, TBICKY, FALSE DENIALS. [From the Public Lodger (Ind.), Feb. 28, 1873.] *. * * * * Th'n came their mean, tricky, falkodenials, shifts, evasions and fast-following explanations of their explanations, every cliango -in which showed more and more their own sense of their own culpability. There never was an instance in which men holding a public trust were more thoroughly, covered with proof of malfeasance in office. Thie guilty knowledge of all these men was as visible as the plunder of the Government moneys was stupendous. And Congress punishes all this by passing its partial resolutions of censure, letting the guilty go free upon the false pretense of having no jurisdiction. This is so transparent a sham that it will command the belief of •no one possessing the commonest intelligence. NOT ONE FIT TO SIT AS A LAW-MAKER. [From tho Evening Te'egrapU (Rep.), Feb. 18. 1873.] *- * * * * There is‘not one man whom the testimony of Oakes Ames has connected with the Credit Mobilier who is fit to sit in the seat of the law-maker. .If Oakes Ames was the bribe-giver, they Hi tint have been the bribetakers. THE DELIBERATE AND WILLFUL LYING. [From the Evening Telegraph (Rep.), Feb. 26, 1873.] * * * The bribetaker is< as guilty as the bribegiver, and Mr. Ames decidedly objects to being made a scapegoat for the sins of other people. For him to work corruption with his Credit Mobilier stock there must have been corrupt material for him to work with, and, admitting that the accused parties, from tho Vice President down, were ignorant of Ames’motives in the first place, what can be said of the deliberate and,willful lying they have indulged in from the thnie an exposure of this infamous business was-first hiut«t through the whole progress pf tjbe investigation up to the present moment?-, ilk • ■■■StiS&VbftHHSit'- '■>. OAKES AMES' BRIBE-TAKEBS AND LIARS. [From the Evening Telegraph (Hep.), Feb. 27, 1873.] * * * * Andrew Johnson, whatever might have been saufrof his sins of commission or omission,angel of light fn comparison with Oakes Amos and his sneaking crew of bribe-takers and liars, from the Vice President down tp the member from Ohio who .spits his venom at-tbe press because the press has done its duty in exposing a gigantic wrong. DESTROYED ’SOME OF THE PEOPLE’S IDOLS. [From the Press (Rep.), Feb. 19, 1873.] * * * Its revelations shocked the moral sense of men of all. parties, and destroyed some of the people's idols. IDLE TO ATTEMPT AN IMPOSSIBLE VINDICATION. [Editorial Letter in Press (Rep.), Feb. 19, 1873.] * * * Their denial at the beginning has placed them and all those who desired to rescue them in the most embarrassing position, for that proved that they were ashamed of the transaction. And when the fact appeared that the accused had taken the stocks with a full knowledge of the exaggerated dividends, and when this fact was clinched and riveted by unfortunate contradictions before the committee, it was idle to attempt an impossible vindication. * * *

ALONE IN THE EXTENT OF ITS DEMORALIZATION. fFrom the Inquirer (Rep.), I'tb. 4, 1873.] So many prominent men whom the country delighted to honor have thereby been stripped bare of their good names and compelled to appear beforo the world covered with the shame of their crimes and misdemeanors. It is right that the hypocrites should be exposed. * * tb£ onus upon the country. [From the Inquirer (Rep.), Feb. 28, 1873.] • The responsibility of Congress is at an end in this business. It has been remanded to tlio country, and if again the convicted members are-returned to the places they have disgraced, the onus of it will bo upon the country. THE NOTORIOUS, DOWNRIGHT LYING. [From the North American (Rep.), Feb. 28, 1873.] * * * And it may be properly added in the same lines that much dissatisfaction exists in the community that all the arguments and debates in the case, have overlooked a point more unii’ersSltv Condemned than the crimes alleged and more susceptible of proof—the notorious, downright lying of some of the individuals inculpated. Comments of Buffalo Republican Newspapers. [From the Buffalo Commercial, Feb. 21, 1873.] The prominent Congiessmen whose names were first used in connection with the Credit Mobilier were Blaine, Dawes, Kelley, Bingham, Schofield and Garfield; and, beside these, Vice President Colfax. * * * Mr. Blaine comes out of it without a stain upon his record. His colleagues certainly did hold the stock and lied about it. [From the Buffalo Commercial, Feb. 22, 1873.[ Influential Republican journals mention that every one of the Congressmen who dabbled with Credit Mobilier stock ought to be publicly censured. [From the Buffalo Commercial, Feb. 27,1873.] Should Congress decide to let the culprits escape they must all know by this time that they have been condemned at the bar of public opmion. [From the Buffalo Commercial, March 1, 1873.] Now the case has gone to tho peop’e. They > ill not split hairs in finding out whetheir they can open the public record erf a man who has certain pages that he would like to conceal from examination. The people will preside at the ballot-box as their tribunal. When those who have betrayed the confidence reposed in them come up for trial— if they ever dare to do they will be rejected as wricked and unprofitable public servants. This is the decree uttered by the; voioe erf the press to-day. It says to Gs-ch ope of those who are afraid to punish corart weighed in the balance and I IFfcnithfßaffalo Express, Feb. (SO, 1873.] URU who ever Mobilier stock, or to make every man responsible for the guilt of others. Our own opinion, based on such hasty consideration as we have been able to give tl}e fapts, is, that Dawes js ip-

nocent; that Scofield and Bingham have been guilty of an impropriety which should subject them to censure ; and that Kelley and Garfield have so misrepresented the facts, and endeavored to disguise the transaction as a loan that a more severe punishment would not be out of place. [From the Portland (Me.) Argus.] Every member of Congress who deliberately bandied Credit MoLilier stock is unworthy of future confidence. [From the Indianapolis Journal, Republican organ, Feb. 26, 1873.] Garfield not only handled the stock but lied about it. Is he not “ unworthy of future confidence?’’