The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-29
PopULAR OPINION IN REGARD
To THE NEW PRESIDENT.

IGcA4Cnt ALlA0A F0AOoC = 49,
prudent, conservative, patriotic course,
and will have the cordial support of the
country.
The New York Post says: president
Arthur receives from all parts of The
country assurances of goodwill and Of
sincere wishes for his success. These
assurances come from men Of all political
parties and shades of opinion, who es-
TEEN the welfare of the county high
er consideration than the fortunes or
fate OF any man. and We have no doubt
they are sincerely meant. Every good
citizen shares the feeling which inspires
them. and will be heartily glad TO find
in President ATthur's administration
much to approve and support, and little
to condemn and oppose"
Hon. A. Bell, acting secretary of the
Interior department, upon being inter
viewed ON the subject said: "Vice
President Arthur will assume the duties
of president undeF an excitement such
as no president before has been called
upon to act. He will be equal 20 the
occasion. He has the elements OF char
acter to make.a firm. just and capable
chief executive. l don't believe his
policy will differ from that followed by
President Garfield. believe his treat
ment of the south will be based on an
accepted and almost universal sentiment
Of broad, national, conservative policy
eminently fair and just. believe that
those who have in the least moderated
the man will be the first 10 accord him
the credit which am sure they will in
time find him deserving. The success
sioa has been expected so long that do
not think it will produce any shock in
financial direction or disturb the pros
perity of the country"
The Chicago Tunes, in column ed
itorial on the subject, says: Chester A.
Arthur is President. The sovereign au-
thority of the nation has been vested in
power which death wrested from the
hand Of James A. Garfield. No man
has ever succeeded TO the presidency
under circumstances so dellcately pOis-
ed on the brink OF apparent Difficult
ties and dangers. Whesher for good
reasons or for bad, the country has not
bestowed upon Mr. Arthur its undeserved
confidence. The circumstances connect
ed with his official relation to the admin
istratiOn in Mr.. Hayes presidency. pecu-
liarities of his party relations in New
York, limitations of his political record
and reputation as local partiZan, the
manner of his nomination al Chicago,
and after the election, his posture as an
adversary of the President in the New
York senatorial contest. have all,
unfortunately, combined TO cause the
bulk of the people to hesitate in the
award of their confidence, and TO regard
him with critical and somewhat severe
ly critical reserve. Though the feeling,
which had become one of positive un-
friendliness at the date of the assassina-
ton, has been much modified by Mr.
Arthur's delicate reserve and every way
praiseworthy conduct of himself during
the long period of bIr. Garfield's illness,
it is impossible to ignore the evidence
that with the robe Ofpresidential author
ity which has fallen upon him, did not
pass the universal public sympathy and
confidence which his predecessor pos
sessed in sneh wonderful fnlIness- It
would be unwIse not to recognize the
fact that the heart of the American peO-
Pile, which was given Garfield with a
spirit of spUntaniety hardly ever exam
pied has not been given to his successor.
He has entered the presidency
with this great obstacle in the public
feeling to overcome. He has before him
the extremely delicate and difficult task
of gaining the full measure of public
confidence which is absolutely essential
to make his reign a successful one.
Every thoughtful citizen perceives how
dangerous are the pitfalls he must avoid
how easily false step would precipitate
his presidency upon the rocks which
ruined with singularly and persistent
uniformity, the reign of every predeces-
sor who entered the presidency through
the door of accident. This persistent
fact in our history is another producing
cause of a reserval of public confidence.
In relation TO President Arthur another
obstacle of great difficulty is in his way.
The country has not had a satisfactory
experience of presidents by accident.
Tyler, Fillmore and johnson each sue
ceeded only in involving himself and
the party whose executive he acct
dentally became, in political ruin"
Leavenworth Times: "Pr ssident Ar
thurs sound judgment and great dis
erection will be his chief aids in the
present sad emergency. He recognizes
the Onerous duties which have fallen TO
him, and only accepts them because he
has sworn to do so. No man in the
country could be more unwilling to &C
cept the highest office in the land, and
no more feTyently wished for the re-
covery az President Garfield than
he He has shown by every action
and every word that he is a sincere and
earnest patriot, and the country now
knows that il can trust him implicitly.
In this hour of national sorrow Presi-
dent Arthur looks to the people to aid
him in bearing the heavy burden, and
this the people will do This is a COM
mon sorrow, and therefore 1t Is the duty
Of every citizen, in this hour Of sadness,
to do what he can to Tighten the burdens
of the head of the republic who, reluc-
family, yet in obedience to a sense of
duty, has Just assumed the vast RESPONSE
biliiy of his high Office.
Kansas City Times: president Ar
thur has much 10 contend with in wear
ing his new houors, but there is no reas-
on why his burdens should be increased
by opposition in his own party. So far
as we of the Democratic opposition are
concerned, we are really to hold up his
hands in all legitimate measures his adj
ministration may advise or inau gurase
We have nothing to predict against him,
and his own salvation or condemnation
is left to his own hands TO work out
with the assistance or opposition of his
own party" t& ~
Chicago News: The only embarrass-
ments that beset Arthur on entering in
TO Office is that rising from the synpa-
thy universally felt for the adminisira-
ton ofhis predecessor on grounds which
have completely superseded the consid-
Grafton of those by which administra-
tiors must usually stand or fall. That
the changes of policy by the incoming
administration will be decided and i'm
portant IN their bearings on the New
York factions can not be doubted.
President Arthur's administration will
be considerably less stormy, brighter