iarly known as the "Giddings District"; continuously re-elected from the same district by overwhelming majorities; selected in the winter of 1877 as a member of the Electoral Commission; since the elevation of Mr. Blaine to the Senate, the acknowledged leader of the Republican party in the House of Representatives; senator-elect from Ohio to succeed Senator Thurman in the Senate of the United States; himself a member of the Chicago Convention, there acting as chairman of the delegates from his own State, and of the Committee on Rules; selected to present to the Convention the name of Secretary Sherman as Ohio's first choice among all the candidates for nomination; commanding, by his self-possession and wise and admirable deportment, the confidence and respect of the Convention-such, in brief outline, is the record of the eminent citizen who stood before the American people as a candidate for the highest office in their gift.

HIS HABITS OF INDUSTRY.

Of his industry and studious habits a great deal might be said, but a single illustration will suffice. Once during the busiest part of a very busy session at Washington a friend found him in his library behind a big barricade of books. This was no unusual sight, but when the visitor glanced at the volumes he saw they were all different editions of Horace, or books relating to that poet. "I find I am overworked,

"Now, my

and need recreation," said the General. theory is that the best way to rest the mind is not to let it be idle, but to put it at something quite outside of the ordinary line of its employment. So I am resting by learning all the Congressional Library can show about Horace and the various editions and translations of his poems." He worked easily under high pressure, and had a power of physical endurance that could hardly be overtaxed.

HIS SCHOLARLY ATTAINMENTS.

"His power of logical analysis and classification was very great; of rhetorical exposition, hardly surpassed. He excelled in the patient accumulation of facts, and in striking generalizations. As a student, he loved to roam in every field of activity. He delighted in poetry and other works of the imagination; loved the abstruse things of philosophy; took keen interest in scientific research; gathered into his storehouse the facts of history and politics; and threw over it all the life and warmth of his own originality. His general culture was broad, deep and generous. He had the best instincts and habits of the student and the scholar. Probably no man in Congress during those seventeen years had a better knowledge of our scientists, our scholars and our men of literature. He was the friend of Henry, of Agassiz, and many other men of progress of our times. I quite agree with George Alfred Townsend in

saying that no man since John Quincy Adams has carried to the Presidential Chair so thorough a training, so wide an intellectual appreciation, or so rich a scholarship; and withal, he was an orator. He had not the massive grandeur of Webster, the brilliant declamation of Clay, or the fervid passion of Henry. But his speeches were strong in fact, ribbed with principle, lucid in argument, polished in diction, rich in illustration, and warm with the vital power of a noble heart.

HIS RELIGIOUS OPINIONS.

Mr. Garfield belonged to the sect commonly called Campbellites, after one of their original founders, but are more properly styled, "The Disciples of Christ." It is a body of Baptists that received a distinct ecclesiastical organization in 1827. They are orthodox in belief; on the subjects of the atonement, the resurrection and the future judgment, they hold the common faith of Evangelical Christians. They are estimated at about 500,000 in number, and are distinguished for their interest in education. They are particularly strong and influential in Ohio.

HIS APPEARANCE.

"He was tall, broad-shouldered, solidly built and stood six feet high. He had an unusually large head, light-brown hair, light-blue eyes, a prominent nose and full cheek. He dressed plainly, was fond of broadbrimmed slouch hats and stout boots, ate heartily, cared

nothing for luxurious living, was a great reader of good books on all subjects, was thoroughly temperate in all respects save in that of brain-work, and was devoted to his wife and children. Among men he was genial, approachable, companionable, and a remarkably entertaining talker. His mind was a vast storehouse of facts, reminiscences and anecdotes.

He was not what is called a practical politician. He knew little of the machinery of caucuses and conventions, or of the methods of conducting close campaigns. His constituents nine times nominated him without any effort on his part, and elected him by majorities ranging from 6,000 to 11,000. As a politician in the larger and better sense of shaping the policy of a great party, however, he had few equals. To no man is the Republican party more indebted for its successes in recent years than to James A. Garfield.

HE COMMANDED SUCCESS.

Mr. Garfield was a representative type of the American statesman. His ability, knowledge, mastery of questions, generosity of nature, devotion to the public good, and honesty of purpose did the work. He never had a political "machine." He never forgot the day of small things. He never made personal enemies. It is difficult to see how a political triumph could be more complete or more gratifying than his election to the U. S. Senate in 1880 to the seat subsequently va

cated by Allen G. Thurman, March 4th, 1881. He received the unanimous vote of the Republican caucus, an honor never given to any other party in the State of Ohio. No bargains, no "slate," no grocery at Columbus. He did not even go to the Capital City. Such things are inspiring to those who think politics in a bad way. He was a man of positive convictions, freely expressed. He uttered many noble words, but none nobler than those spoken in the Ohio Senate Chamber just after his election:

"During the twenty years that I have been in public (almost eighteen of it in the Congress of the United States) I have tried to do one thing. Whether I was mistaken or otherwise, it has been the plan of my life to follow my convictions, at whatever personal cost to myself. I have represented for many years a district in Congress, whose approbation I greatly desired, but, though it may seem perhaps a little egotistical to say it, I yet desired still more the approbation of one person, and his name was Garfield. He is the only man that I am compelled to sleep with, and eat with, and live with, and die with; and, if I could not have his approbation, I should have bad companionship."

A MAN OF THE PEOPLE.

No degree of success ever changed the inan. Always the same-simple in character and modest in manner, thongh with the consciousness of strength which comes