Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-10-15
ARTHUR's COMRADES.
Those VINO May Have something
10 do with tho New Ad. -
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From the Boston Herald.1
George Bliss stands foremost in char
acter and ability among Arthur's intl'
mate friends. has all along been his
confidant and adviser, and 1t WIFI oe
surprising indeed II he does not 60 INTO
the new cabinet. Bliss is stout man
of medium height, with q full face, re-
markably light complexion. and hair
which. though now tinged with gray.
was formerly SO faxen that. when he
was private secretary to Governor
Morgan, he was popularly known as
..Morgan's w-headed boy" He comes
OF an old Massachusetts, family. SPRING
field being his birthplace, and Is about
fifty, years OF age. He is Harvard
graduate, and q lawyer OF great aDiilty.
His professional practice is largely IN
insurance cases, and he is the attorney
for several leading companies. He 10
said to be worth 81, ,OOO, 900, partly from
Inheritance and partly BY his own accu-
mutation through labor and lucky IN
vestment. He is politician from love
of politics and not for pecuniary gam.
He is fearless and aggressive. As q
| member OF the governors stan during
! the war he had charge OF the malnten-
ance and transportation Of troops,h this
cily,, and It was then that he formed q
I friendship with Arthur, who was 9
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES His services at
| that period are said to have been honest
4 aud valuable. . He has been An excetlep,
United States district attorney. he IS q
i charter, member OF the Union League
Club. and a trequenter of its houses
where he is popular and influential dc
is the author OF IssBliss': Annotated
Code, -, and OF several works on insur
ance law. He has travelled extensively
| abroad. and has some linguistic acquire
ments. He has been an organizer IN ni
stephen B. French Is tArthnr's boo'
t compsnion. He used to be mercnan
b at Sag Harhor. L. L. and dabbled y
, politics there, serving one term .
. treasurer ot; his county. He was NO
, successful in business, and In 1879 AZ
Il thur brought him here to make aim
3 |policeR commissioner. He Is somethlni
f over fifty, has white hair and moustas9e
, is stout, and below the average helgh
He is not brilliant, mentally or moral
,, and Is set down as % politician tot Mhf
. he can make. He is essentially dine
emit man from Bliss, and Elihu Root 1
: quite as different from either. Root /
a Young lawyer of thorough cultu1.
!, striking ability ). and high ambition. u
. has for several years been practicip
law in partnership with Walter Bartlett
= His age is not more than thirty live,
!, SO much, and he is rather q handso1
= fellow, with sufficient self-confidencel
. enable him to employ all his brains
any occasion. He ran for judge OF q
court of common pleas last year, a
~ was beateu.r n He did not do much 10
a political way until lately, and his ln
70 macy with Arthur is not Of long stan
>. ing. Socially. his connections are pr
:. Etentious, and his friends regard him
bound to make his mark whenever he g
a. the opportunity-say as attorney-gens
n al. Daniel c. Rollins Is our district
II torney, by appointment, to succeed Y
v late BENJAMIN X. Phelps, whose fii
assistant he was tor q number OF yea!
a Rollins is small, active man of thlr!
at five, with good, round head, no arl
n and really remarkable ability - . pt
Il. lie prosecutor. Rollins is . Yale grad
M ate, thoroughly respectable in his p.
Dr sonal conduct and relations. quite poi
ia lar among lawyers, and an able sehem
to in politics. His intimacy with Arth
of arises from political assoclation and
t. based principally on mutual intersa
and he uses them as hrSuur urrvoss,' \
re celvlng political preierment in retul
*, Enough has already been written
show that Arthur's Companions are
oft varied sorts, and this. is illustra!
he further by Thomas Murphy and Pie
" G. Van Wyck, who are alike only II
he desire for Office. John r. Lydecker Y
of Arthur's deputy in the custom hou
nd and with him was turned out He
he long held appointive Offices, bat has
he Jared we'll since, though now in the
an sembly. He .s good looking six fo
d. er Of 56, and most faithful henehn
a. Of Conkllng. ba- - -.---I Q @.La.