Show Garfield SALT LAKE CITY May 21 1881 Editors Herald It seems to me that President Garfields reign has not commenced very auspiciously In his augura tion he went out of his way to need lessly attack a small and remote community of people who mind heir own business and to attack them because of their religion as hough in this free republic it was acrime to be conscientious in religions relig-ions matters In that particular he began wrong making a mistake at the very beginning of his presidential presiden-tial career and with little excuse for he was not altogether a stranger to thepeople he so gratuitously wantonly attacked He had been a visitant among them and had enjoyed en-joyed opportunities of acquaintance with them so that he might have known their convictions and consequently conse-quently there was no justification for h min making the attack upon thatpeope Well as if providence was displeased dis-pleased with him things continued to go wrong he got the Senate into a deadlock weeks over his nominations nomin-ations r iie fell into an irreconcilable quarrel with one of his chief supporters sup-porters who has a large following though that following may diminish because its chief has not got the loaves and fishes In his hands this quarrel makes a split in the party and that is a serious matter politically politic-ally his nominee for the Supreme Court got through the Senate by the skin of his teeth then he had sore affliction in his family for his wife was brought down to the gates of death What further hard experience experi-ence is in the path of the Presiden is not for me to say but so far it has not been strewn with pure delights alone If he sleeps on a bed of roses there are some lacerating thorns amongst them which apparently he cannot avoid turn whither he wilL His chances for a renomination which he no doubt has had in his eye grow smaller by degrees and beautifully less and before the time for that he may have plenty ot cause to think that the seat of the man in the presidential chair is riot the easiest in the world OHO |