Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1880 — The Man With a Mortgage en Garfield’s Snl. [ARTICLE]

The Man With a Mortgage en Garfield’s Snl.

Cor.gross convenes next Monday. 'Putin the p«»t year fifty-eight r.n! Banks were organised. Tli.- vote Tor the Presidential , left')>>>,in Noble county resulted iu a tie. New York City las 25,000 more w. nun than men, and Boston, 2<>:< >• »>- The p< oph- of the United States in various ways art- taxed to suppoit the Federal Government to the amount of $494,578,241. ■-<•*•* The most prominent UuioD Soloie r houered at the North by an election to Congress was W. S. Rosecrana, who was chosen by the Democrats.

Rutherford retires rio,u office with the sweet consciousness that lie has rewarded the faithful rascals who helped him into office. — The New York Tribune wants Garfield to signaliee his udventiuto power by recommending to Congress the retirement of the $346,000,000 ofj legal tender currency. John Sherman finds it difficult to * circulate the standard silver dollar to tho amount or $40,000,000. while J France keeps in ciroulatlen 360,000, ; 000 five-franc pieces. The fact is he j don’t want to circulate them.

The Chicago Times calls the attention or “the political purists who are aghast at the Democratic manner or throwing cut votos in the shoestring District of Mississippi,” to the contempt.ble work done in Brusque Islo County, Michigan. We imagine the “Old Guard,” or the “306” who stuck out so resolutely at Chicago tor Grant und empire, will take a reef in their sails. The proposition of their organ, the New York Times, to raise a fund of $250,000 to pension tneir idol has ouly panned out SO,OOO. At the last election the Democratic party carried 10 States; the Republican party carried 19 States. Now York taken from the Republican list would have elected Hancock. As it was tue electoral majority in the 19 States curried by the Republicans, was with that party, while on the popular vote of the 19 States carried by the Democrats the" majoiity oyer the Republican party is upwards of 1-20,000.

It wub a trifle ineonsistant to see* the many Repunlican Journals who were six months ago demanding the admission of articles used in the manufacture of paper free of duty, taking issue with the Democracy in the question of tariff for revenue only. Many of them that recently stood up firmly for tho tariff as it is, are now beginning a fight on several features of that mass of injustice and oppression. In their wholesale indorsement of our present tariff, the Republican brethern have shouldered a load that they ban not carry.

Democratic Arkansas aad Tennessee, and now Virginia, rescued from the radical readjusting repudiators, are properly subjects of congratulation, for having repudiated repudiation pt the polls. Here are three of those so much derided Souther* Com monweallh3 setting an example for commendatloa everywhere. Stalwart republican Minnesota presents no such agreeable figure for contemplation. And yet republican Minnesota was one of the most awfully scared and anxious of the “Business” yawpers less than a month ago. Pork does boil that way. The sound of valiant promise, that wages would be increased and factories take on a new lease of enlarged prosperity if Garfield was elected has scarcely censed its vibrations, and yet we hear oi forces being reduced, and time cut down by the employers already. Prices have certainly ad vanced, but not wages. We shall be delighted to record an advance of the latter at any moment, and the performance of the promises made, for nothing rejoices us so greatly as the prosperity of the masses, the toilers of the land. We trust these early in dications are not ominous of disaster. They are at least not encouraging.

Very curious and varied are the opinions of the radical press and miscellaneous their forecasts of the pol ley of the coming Garfield administration. Each of the several divisions or factions, who are only a unit when they soent office and plunderpn the foreground, claim Garfield as their own, regardless of his unoertain quantity or quality. The anti-Grant faction have “authentic” information that there was no bargain and 8; le at Menter, when the stalwart chieftain* both the Camerons, Conkling and Logau made a pilgrimage in the crisis of the campaign to the aocident of Chicago, Before that the oampaiun was going to the “demnition bow-wows,” and those eminent stalwarts were echoing the Conkling slogan, “Garfield is hardly fit to play obambermaid in a livery stable.” After that, whether from newly discov •red beauties in the flgnre they went to see, or because, for a consideration, the patronage and policy of his administration was to be under thei r direction and control, it is well known that these gentlemen who had theretofore been sulking iu their tents, at once took command of and run the

campaign, displaced Jewell by Piatt, leaving tl e former only the nominal head of the campaign ooramittee, a figure-head. Clearly one wing or the other is to be cheated, but which one? If Gurfleld would only have the courage of his convictions, as they have frequently found utterance on the floor of lire House during his sixteen years service, b> th would be victims of misplaced confidence. It is too much to hope that one so faeilejas he has proven will ever be other than the prey of the politioal vultures who have triumphed, no matter how, over the friends of law, order and cons it rtional government. And yet hope has not entirely abandoned us. The temptations that have hitherto, dur ing a rising career, so easily over, come him he should now be able to I resist at the zenith of an aspiration he probably never dared to contem i plate. It will be well for himself aud very well for the country if any such i hope is realized.

Henry Clay Dean nas neen persuaded to state his opinion as to “how it all happened.” He thinks the “old managers” did not take hold with a relish, and that too much youth was put into the field, and adds: “I don’t think that the Mobillor matter hurt Garfield any, because the Republicans were all in it; the back pay salary grab didn’t because they had all taken it. The DeGolyer matter didn’t, for the party depends for ils support upon such frauds and corruption. What elected Garfield was the Jeombiuatirn of Beecher, who, for two decades, has poluted literature, aud who was caught in crime, with Conkling, who has been prancing for years with another man’s wife, aud Ingersoll, who read a writ of ejectment against Almigty God and u jail delivery to fleil—this it was that defeated us and elected Garfield.” Manifestly, Mr. Dean has been a close observer of the campaign and has critically studied Republicanism.

Georgia, which was the first of the Southern States to emancipate itself from the robbery of the carpet-bag rule, has made rapid advance iq its fiscal affairs and general economy is now amang the best governed of the States of the Union. It has a cash ballance in .its treasury. «Its bonds bear but four per cent, interest and were placed at par. Its rate of taxation is low. Its State insiitutious are flourishing. The number of in mates of the penitentiary has been growing less while growth of the public schools has been raoid. In 1871 the number of white pupils was 42.914. In 1878 it was 137,211, and the number of colored pupils has increased from 6,664 in 1871 to 209,872 in 1878. The total uumber of children of school age iu the State in 1878 was 432*444. The amount rais ed and expended for school purposes was $520,000. The altered situation of affairs in Georgia is significant aud gratifying.

Speaking to me yesterday about Gen. Garfield, one of his friends said: “The only thing in Garfield’s life that he realy regrets was taking the fee in the De Golyer pavement oase. Ihe Credit Mobilier tiansaction nevet rested on his conscience, as he relied on the good intentions of Oakes Ames to do him a benefit, and not an injury. But the De Golyer fee was not capable of that kind of defence. It was a large fee to take for a trifling service, whilo in the Credit Mobilier case the pitiful sum of money which went to his credit clearly showed that he meditated nothing rapacious; and,” continued ray informant, “I have observed that GarficJd has a sad and constrained appearance whenever Dick Parsons of Cleveland, approaches him. I was once talking with him when Parsons called Garfield off, and I saw by the light i in the depot a look in Garfield’s eye as he observed Parsons, at onoe a dramatic and profound, as it was in the presence of that person who had thrown a coil (pound him and got a mortgage on his charac er and soul.”—From the Cincinnati Enquirer.