New York Tribune

THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST GARFIELD'S MEMORY.

From The New York Evening Post.

The articles and letters assailing the character of the late President Garfield, which during the last two or three weeks have been published by different newspapers, have all the appearance of a concerted movement. Nobody will assert that Garfield was a perfect man. He had his share of human weaknesses and faults. But many of the things that are now alleged against him would undoubtedly appear in a very different light were he alive to show the other side of the story. For reasons of this kind it is considered a thing of very questionable propriety to attack a man's good name after his death under any circumstances. Nobody will do it unless he has some purpose to serve. In this instance it is significant that the papers which assail General Garfield's memory are the same which assailed him while he was alive. Their object evidently is, by crying down his name and by representing him as a worthless person, to rehabilitate and exalt those who were most conspicuous in their hostility to him before his assassination. We do not think this manoeuvre will be successful. The American people like fair play, and they will insist upon it especially in a case like this. Some of the more adroit attacks betray an animus the eager hostility of which is at once recognized, and others, as for instance the letter in yesterday's Washington Post, quoted by one of our morning contemporaries, are so gross in language and so outrageously unjust in sentiment as to disgust every decent man.