The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-04
GusH IN POLITICS.

f. go o. n IT
One Of the peculisri,ies Of the times 10 the
manner in which ZONE ofthe leading journals
OF the country, q the variety denominated
half breed, are laying down the conditions
for political and public prosperity, and are
outlining the road to success for the new ad-
ministration. 1t has been a very common
thing since the change Of administrations to
encounter the Statements that he "enters up
on his high trust under circumstance more
difficult and trying than ever before confront
ed u new PRESIDENT or ''graver responsible
ties never rested upon the s. oulders of any
President than those ssumed BY General
Arthur" or "no man in the whole political
history Of this country ever had such an OPP
portunity to endear himself to his country
men and to achieve the noblest political sue
cess as Is now presented 10 President Ar
ihu-"-or words to one # these effects. The
obvious intent and meaning of all this VERDI
age is for Intimidation, to give President Ar
thur to understand hat the government mast
be run on their little narrow gauge track, or
that there will be trouble. These effeminste
gushers, who arrogate to themselves by a
sort Of public advertisement that they com
pose the shelter elements" of their party,
would have It understood That their public
spirit and philAlltnrophy Is circumscribed by
the sole consideration of their being allowed
to retain the snug places into which they
have crept. II the members of the Cabinet,
to whom are entrusted the dispensing Of the
minor patronage of the government, are dis
placed, the "ditiicult and trying circum-
stances" limited o. will have overgaken tn.
"'
Commenting on this tendency in certain
quarters, the New York World, of the 22d,
makes the following sensible observations:-
'Now this way of talking is evidently the re-
suit Of an unrestAAined tendency to eush,
and it 10 as evidently mischievsus. 1t incnnes
people who do no, read it critically to believe
that there is some sort Of crisis coming in the
affairs Of this country; that the powers Of
good arc all srrayed OIL one side, the BALI
breed side, and the powers Of evil are all ar
rayed on the other, the stalwart side, and that
ny CuOOcI1S uCIW CCh sifSIl thC 1cSiuOhI II
the power to decide, "for veal or for woe," as
our gushing contemporaries would put 1t, the
destinies Of the country. Now all7 this is
mischievous, because in the first place it is all
untrue in point of fact, and the telling of un-
truths is All Objectionable practice, and in the
second place it tends to excite and unsettle
the minds Of whoever is weak-minded enough
or careless enough to permit himself to be in
fuenced by it. It is no. true that the country
10 passing through any crisis. 1t is prob BILE
that President Arthur might get himself into
very hot water if he were to set about getting
up a!'stalwart' government" But it is also
truel that the President, who is most of all in
terested and whose reputation for political
consistency is at stake, must evidently take
his position as a half-breed or stalwart; and
the p resumption from his antecedents is,
that he will not be a half-breed.
The past is the only guide by which we are
enabled to judge Of any man future course.
Men in puclic station cannot, any more than
common moltals, divest themselves Of their
attachments and dislikes. These essentially
human motives of action have operated or
kings, emperors and popular rulers, though
every form Of social organization, from the
earliest times to the present. Our respect
for President Arthur would not now be
raised If he were to ignore Conkling and
take into the most confidential advisory re-
relationsJohn Shermaa-the former Of whom
warmly defended him two yeas ago while
the latter was bitterly assailing him Is COL
lector Of New York, Human nature does
net expect that President Arthur is going to
enter upon any policy of sentimental folly or
ungrateful stupidity. A decorous respect for
the fitness OF things has prompted him to
bide his time. But no reasonable and intel
ligent being anywhere has any reasonto tx
pscs that the advisory officers OF the govern
ment will remain. All know and feel in
stinctivsly that the personnel of the admins
tration will change with the change o. Its
head, noswiths: anding the gush about ignor-
ing the past, or any insidious predictions Of
disaster for the future.
JURISDICTION OVER GUITEAU.