Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — A Democratic Defense of Garfield. [ARTICLE]

A Democratic Defense of Garfield.

The Sunday Capital, the leading Democratic paper published at Washington, and edited by Donn Piatt, who has little love for the Republican party, has the following, which is respectfully referred to the wind and mud flinging machines which are making a desperate effort to besmirch the fair name of Gtnernl Garfield: “General Garfield, personally considered, is singularly pure and upright. He is one of the few men in public life who onn look his beauti* fnl little wife and lovely children in the face without shame. We say this advisedly, for we have known General Garfield intimately all his public life, and we ean advise the mud machine, called partisan papers, that attempts at blackmailing Garfield's character will bo signal failures, and will be met by protests from such eminent Democrats as the Hon. Jeremiah Black, Alleu G. Thurman and Justice Field, who have already put themselves to record in his behalf. Garfield’s purity is so thorough that it gives him a perilous confidence in men, and has gotten him into trouble, precisely as a confiding boy gets into scrapes. In that Credit Mobiler affair, for example, we know and have so testified, that at the very time it was claimed ho was scheming to enrioh himself, through Ames’ rascality, he was “shinning” abont Wnshington striving to borrow S3OO to pay house rent, and so ignorant

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