Show GARFIELD IIo Sermonizes to the Ohio Electors Mentor 0 2Gen Garfield said to the Ohio electors today 1 am deeply tjrut lot to you fr thi call and these personal per-sonal and public congratulations if I wero to look upon tho late campaign and its results m ° rely in the light of a personal per-sonal struggle and personal succes it would probably be as gratifying as anything could be in the bi > tory of politics If my own conduct during the campaign has in any way bee i help and strength tour to-ur cus I am ilIad It is not always n eay thing to behave well It under tryit g circuimUnces my behavior aa candidate for the presidency hag met vour approval I am greatly g titled But the larger subject or your cungratu lati ms to the country on the triumph of the republican party opans to them too vast a Gold for me to enter upon now I venture however to mention a reflection which has occurred to me in ref rene to the elec tion of yesterday I supposed that no political vent ba happened in all the course of the content since early spring which caused so little excitment and inded > o little public observation as a presidential election wnich was ho d yes Urdayat midday The American people peo-ple paid but litlo attention to the details f the real presidential election and for very significant reasons altoongh you and IS all the members of the electoral colleges had absolute constitutional and technical I I right to vote for anybody you might r choose and though no written law directed di-rected or suggested your choice yet every American knew that the august sovereign IIf this republic the 9000000 voters early in November had pronounced the omnipotent fiat 1 choice and that sovereign sover-eign asuming as done that which ho ordered to be done enter tined no doubt that his will would ba implicitly obeyed by all colleges in all stntes That is tbo reason why people were to serenely quiet yesterday They had never yet fouid an American who had failed to keep his trust as presidential presiden-tial elector Fro n this fact I draw the lesson that when that omnipotent save reign the American people speufcs tome to-me man and orders him todo duty on hat man rests the mot solemn oblige Lions or duty except those tha the God If the universe might impose up n hm Yesterday through your votes and the votes of others In the various states of tho Union it Is probable the returns re-turns will show our great political soy roign has laid his commands upon me If be bus done SO lam as much bound by his will and bu great inspiration and purpose as I could be bound by any consideration sideration that thu earth can impose upon any human being In that presence therefore I stand and am awed by the rrmiestv and authority of such commands and iiims far as I can interpret tho best purposes of our augut sovereign shall seek to realize them You and I and those who have acted with us in tho yrars past believe our sovereign loves liberty and desires for all the inhabitants of the republic peace and prosperity under the sway of just and equal laws Gentlemen I thank rOil for this visit for the welcome for suggestions sugges-tions your presence and your words bring and for the hopo that you have expressed In the arduouj and great work before us may we maintain the standard nationality promote that wnich is good and worthy in this country coun-try and during the ming four years may we raise just as large a crop of peace prosperity justice liberty and culture a > It is possible for fQrtJDiu million pf people to raiul I |