Show s MR GARLAND I Says the Alta California The San Francisco Pout attempts to draw a parallel between AttorneyGeneral Garland Gar-land and Lord Bacon to prejudice the formers case as a prospective candidate for the vacancy on the Supreme Bench Mr Garland had already indicated his desire not to be appointed to that Bench t for personal reasons which every gentleman it gentle-man appreciates so that the matter canS can-S be discussed without reference to its iJ bearing on the appointment of a Judge The attempted analogy is simply virulent viru-lent and malicious Its animus comes l from the Bell Telephone Company which availed itself of popular and even 4i scientific disbelief in the profit and I 4 utility of a new application of electricity w to get by questionable means control of I an invention which it has held and used c I in such a way as to incense the public against its methods 4i The Pan Electric Telephone Company offered an escape from its exactions by essaying to give the people the benefit of eI the laws of their country Mr Garland t 4 held some of its stock which ho acquired long before he went into the Cabinet and k held at a time when he was in no public position that could in any way affect the 4 1 prospective conflict between the two i companies When he became Attorney General the Bell people turned upon him assisted by a partisan press with all the malice of a weak case and unpopular cause They sought to hide themselves in the clamor against a public officer and I I shrewdly and successfully played for the support of the minority political part which made their fight its own M Garland throughout the ordeal has i I done just what an innocent and honor able man would do and is as stainless and incorrupt in intention and in action as the most scrupulous of his countrymen country-men could desire The attacks upon him have been peculiarly venomous and inconsistent when we consider that they come from the organs of a party whose leaders have joined in enterprises of private speculation which depended upon their covert official action as well as in i others where their participancy was as blameless as his Of this latter class or cases is the patent for a typesetting machine I ma-chine by using a molten matrixa I device which promises to revolutionize the whole printing trade by substituting the mechanical for the manual operation opera-tion The stock in this invention was I taken on the ground floor by members i of Mr Arthurs Cabinet by Republican I United States Senators whose names are now used in connection with the next Presidential candidacy and its value is directly dependent on its i adoption by the Government in i the public printing office provided it shall prove a practical machine Now if Mr Garland be a Lord Bacon the Republican Re-publican party will need more saltpetre to save its bacon than the country can supply But those who attack him know that there is no shadow of foundation for the attempted impeachment of his integrity integ-rity and they are merely provoking reprisals re-prisals which will make the method they have adopted the odium of our politics |