--Never mind Congress. The American people will do it in November by putting him where George Washington was, so that the whole world may take a good, long look at him. It's impossible to knock the modesty out of him, so we'll take it with him, and put it "_where it will do the most good_." Of course, Garfield felt just like Andy Johnson in this matter? --Quite so. How did he show it? --By bringing a bill into Congress to _dismiss_ General Hancock from the army for insisting on all the rights of citizens _in time of peace_. Good heavens! --Yes, good heavens! I should say so. That wasn't the worst part of it. He wanted the bill voted on the _next_ day. And the act provided that it should _take effect as soon as it was passed_. So that, if General Hancock had nothing outside his pay, this soldier (?) who ran away from the field to go "jobbing" in Congress, would the _next day_ have made a beggar of the man who really saved the Union! Do you think good, honest Republican voters (I don't mean the "machine" men), know or remember anything about it? --We live so fast that I expect many of them have let it drop out of their minds. _But now's the time for them to remember it._ Has General Hancock shown how he can deal with trying difficulties since the war? --I should rather think so. Do you remember when they had the terrible riots in Pennsylvania, and so much property was destroyed and so many lives lost in and about Pittsburgh? Well, the very men who to-day are talking up Garfield and running down Hancock, were shaking in their shoes; Schurz, _whom Hancock caught trying to make himself invisible at Gettysburg_, among them. It was a regular Quakers' meeting. Finding they could make no head against it, and that the thing was spreading and getting to look like a revolution, what did they do? Why, they sent for the man whom Garfield wanted to beggar and disgrace, and besought him to take the thing in hand and restore order. They gave him full power. And how did he act? --Like a brave soldier, a true citizen and a real gentleman. While protecting the property of capitalists he was kind and forbearing to the working classes who believed they had a grievance. What was the result? --That dreadful affair was brought to a close by him without the shedding of one single drop of blood. Before he took command many had lost their lives. He put down the riot so firmly but so patiently that every one admired and praised him. Do you think the people of Pennsylvania forget this great service? --I wouldn't accuse them of being so ungrateful. I suppose Garfield brought in another bill to dismiss him from the army for not proclaiming martial law, doing the drum-head trial business, and having a little human-target excursion every day? --Come, come! Haven't you had enough of Garfield? Let me ask you one more question. Which of the two do you think is going to be the next President? I know which of the two _ought_ to be. Transcriber's Note