Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — Garfield. [ARTICLE]

Garfield.

Stewart L. Woodford relates a .conversation with Garfield in the campaign of 1880, in which Mr. Garfield, who was riding with, him in a Pullman car, spoke rather dolefully of his future after he had finished his Presidential term, of which he was then reasonably certain. He said that there seemed to be no place in American life for an exPresident, that Grant seemed to be out of joint with all lines of activity, that Hayes seemed to have no future, and that he really did not know what an exErOsident could do with dignity. Mr, Woodford was not long in suggesting a second term, and Mr. Garfield, granting even that anticipation, went on with the gloomy picture that he was drawing. Flashing up, however, he said that he really should like to retire from the Presidency to become the head of some college to which he could devote the remainder of his life, strengthening the institution and influencing the young men that would gather about it. He had, he said, begun life as a teacher, aud he had neve* found any subsequent employment more delightful. New York Sun.