Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1880 — GARFIELD AND THE IRISH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GARFIELD AND THE IRISH.

Some Intereaitinff Heading for lri<«h> American Voter**. Gen. .M. It. M. Wallace, of Chicago, recently delivered a utirring campaign speech to the Democrats of Indianapolis. He gave his n aMitiK a Union soldier for preferring Hancock to Garfield, and made many telling points. But the fi-atun <4 his «qw<ecb wa« iiw ih-tiuis iatwwi <4 Gar<* l«I'» h- wtihty t» Iri«U *M|«rat(**os for Hw*t<r. *4 IterfteM *> bteotry Umanl the L'ttto teste<4 the INmt. ami «4 tu» tugganily opposdtun t>» }>te*'ing the tote G*-il Stm his on the pension list. The following is the portion of Gen. Wallace’s speech relating to Gen. Gar-

my duty to be a soldier then. But, American and I’rotestant-as I am, I should be an ingrate did not I bear testimony to the services of Catholic sisters in the hospital, on the march, and on the held of battle during those terrible years. They nursed the sick. They bathed the feverish. They fed the famishing. They held the saving, cooling draught to the lips of the scotched and thirsty. They soothed the dying, and stole his cruel terrors from death. Heaven only can reward their labors commensurately ; and the tongue must have more than human inspiration which can acknowledge their sacrifices. It remained for the man who fled from the battlefield, where they remained, to demand what creed they professed who never asked the soldier his creed before they ministered to him! It remained for the bigot in politics to vote public money to a charitai le organization representing his creed, and to refuse it to these nurses of his country’s soldiers because their ereed is not his ! It remained for that runaway from tiie battlefields, and that ungrateful bigot in politics, to ask the suffrages of the Irish-Ameri-can voters to make him President. ■ In the Forty-fifth Congress, a few months before the death of brave old James Shields—jurist, statesman and soldier—a man whose long years of fidelity to his adopted country, and of bravery in hi r defense, should have I made all men forget where he was l orn, and remember only the country and cause for which he fought—a bill was introduced in the House authorizing the President to appoint the I hoary and intrepid veteran a Ihigadier General : in the United States army, on the ret’red list. with rank and paj from and after the i :- age of the act. It was then known that that hero of three’wars the exeSuprenie Court Jiii*'c oi , Illinois, the otfly mau who had i ver t. pi. ent < three States in the United State- S< n n un i fast approaching his eu I. The Uun L inds ol tin 1 grim specter wi re strctchim* forth to el»4< th< v dor.>e* train* tl h«i m •■* ,1 >. . i t amt dtmiestn* traitor ; imwv »lii«g rwMtai with twits and »■»»»■ d and <■ i.< .4 e Woiltwht, was u>< to hold tie r muw L hiogi r He had tsvii slri> l>«*n w>t h par-.* !>,»•. f * wounds and diwas added n *r».‘ i. «.■ fortune—poverty. Ou the i* n b«« a lud„ ,iu the camp and the tmi .li i

Mr. Tilden was elected in 1876. A false return was tire only resource against him. I do not ■ believe that Gen. Garfield, if left alone, j would commit an election fraud any moil' than he would steal a horse or a sheep: but when the managers of his party demanded his aid in a great swindle he could not refuse. Under that coercion he went down to Louisiana, and there found it absolutely certain that the Tilden electors had been "duly appointed ” at a legal apd full poll, so peacefully conducted that there tvas not even a squabble about it in the whole State, and the appointment so made was attested by and recorded upon the certificates and rhe oathsof election officers adverse to the appointees i» all their feelings and wishes. There was no earthly excuse for denying this. No contradiction of it could bo honest. To count the State for Hayes was a thing that could be done only by impudent and unmitigated fraud. For a time I hoped that Gen. Garfield’s share in that great crime had consisted in passive acquiescence ; and 1 am surprised by the proofs recently brought forward of his active assistance in its perpetration. His judgment as a member of the Electoral Commission was a thing to be expected, for he must long before that have convinced himself that a fraud was as good a way as any other of electing a President. In a political game ho did not think that anybody had moral sense enough to abstain from throwing a die which he himself had loaded to win the stake. The liability to lie rushed into evil courses by his party associates has brought upon him much odium which he does not deserve in the transactions of the Credit Mobilier. The stock distribute.l l.v Oakes Ames was intended to influence the legislation of Congress corruptly. He and the company who put it into his hands meint business, and that business was bribery. Undoubtedly those nn nil trs who took it, knowing the nature of the thing, wire great criminals, and wholly unworthy to retain their s*-nts ; tut G. n. ii.irt'nld. though he certainly »gm»l t<» t-k. the stock. a»l did iwtiulfv tali. dt«t*h od« u|»«l it. 1J.4 :n wq •<loM of its eonmcti ■ . with the I .mn I’a. th. • raid*«ad», <*r of tter eotiflul which its puas< might create between l»H print* HiUnwt* and feta public duty. li< was as guiltless as the I 'oid nnts*ru of any tIMuMMI tu* suing about Hie whole biia tHM. I Übeti fins, not tin relv *