Scoville, resuming, alluded to Guiteau's career as a politician, and drow the con-ion that his intellect was deficient. This view aroused the prisoner at one and he began a series of interruptions, "g against Scoville's conclusions as When reference made to his running around from one committeoroom to another seeking to be employed as a campaign speaker, and his failure to obtain recognition, was mentioned, Guiteau shouted, angrily: 'It was not because have no ability, but I was not known. I had ideas, but' not reputation. They wanted big guns like General Grant and Senator Conkling—men who would draw and then he added,."'I presume I would draw now." (Laughter.)
Scoville continued upon the same line, and criticised Guiteaw's speech entitled "Garfield v. Hancock." He said it was a mere jumble of ideas, collected from the newspapers and from the speeches of others. No one but a crazy man would have imagined, as Guiteau did, that his speech possessed any merit,
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