GUITEAU—ISM.
A correspondent of a New Zealand paper writing from San Francisco says that ninetenths of the pothouse politicians and the lowest classes of America to-day regard Guiteau as the smsrtcst man in Court, and, in short, as managing the trial his own way. Admiration for will very soon pass into sympathy with him, and this feeling insensibly rises from one social grade to the other, until the national mind becomes debauched. Already eighty odd “ cranks’, have been sent to madhouses in connection with this affair. The latest was one Shively who went to Washington by Divine command to testify that God had not inspired Guiteau to kill Garfield, and was incontinently committed to an insane asylum as a reward for this revelation. Judge Cox is constantly receiving threats, and an organisation has been formed to hang the judge, jury, and prisoner, should Guiteau be sent to a lunatic asylum. I should not wonder if it be done. This country is so full of “ cranks” that one need not be surprised at anything which happens. “A mad world my masters !’’
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Patea Mail, 9 February 1882, Page 3
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180GUITEAU—ISM. Patea Mail, 9 February 1882, Page 3
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