The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-27

uov staiwarsism WIN Rule In the Councils
or the Nation Garfield Forgotten and HIS
special Friends In Political Dissrace-iiis
Policy I'm Contempt.


striking editorial correspondence from
Washington which appeared in yesterday s
Philadelphia Times:
The intelligent observer OF pohlical
events who visits Washington now neea
not draw upon his memory TO learn ,iia'
Garfield Is dead. Only few briei months
MOO the courtiers Of power shouted tneir
byzzas IN Garfield as the rising sun, ana all
Washington iosilcd itself TO pay him honi-
/ age.
The writer then graphically describes the
breach between Garfield and Conklng, ana
the staIwalt desperation at the nomination
Of Judge Robertson; the resignation oil
Conkling and Plat; Grants message from
Mexico encouraging them in their rebel
lion, and Arihur's fight for them in the Al
banv lobby. He then says:
In the midst Of the conflict the assassin
came upon the scene and the Nice-presi-
dent was greeted on his return from me
Albany lobby with the startling news that
a moor creature, unbalanced by the failure
of the spoils system, had sped the iatai Dui-
lief that was 10 make the tottering Stalwarts
tbc rulers OF the land 81 am Staiwart
and Arthur is now President" was the ap-
Railing exclamation Of the assassin as the
smoke was yet curling away from his pls-
toll and the murdered President had Just
fallen never TO rise again.
TIE sTALwART RETURN TO POWER.
The nation, and, indeed, the whole civil
lied world, hoped even against hopeior the
recovery OF the President, ana from every
land OF the stranger, and from every sec
tion and faith OF the republic, came the SOD
or sorrow tnged with the silver lining OF
hone. Even the sullcn Stalwart bowed be-
fore the agony of the nation and paid trl-
butte TO the fallen leader. But braVe a.
was the battle for life, it was unayall'
ing: and the winged lightning that
flashed the tidings of the nations be-
reayement was the summons to the stall
warts to accept the throne, and they stood
not on the order OF their coming. Grant,
the stranger at the White House when II
was the chamber OF death, was the hrst 10
greet Arthur a. he waded through the
country's woe TO Tie Chief Magistracy; ana
fhe proclamation OF the restoration was
made I'm wing Of The Capitol while the
dust OF Garfield was moiStened with the
tears of the people in its r0tunda. since
then there has been no uncertain SOUND
from the new President. There was Son,e
ill-conccaled atlcctatiOn about the Stall
walf departure; but it deceived none.
Grant was there; Conkling was there;
Jones was there: Cameron WAS there; Beale
was there; Logan was there; but the iol-
lowers Of Garfield were unbiddcn and I'M
welcome. The star-routc thieves felt the
sunshine that had penetrated Their gloomy
retirement. and they emerged from Their
bauntS IN defiant strength. The organs OF
the Stalwarts which live on Washington
plunder were so impatient OF their revenge
that thew coeld not wait for the funeral
train to frown their defamation upon the
memory OF Garfield. The Repudiator ana
Confederate prodieql came up from Nir-
einia, and the fattcd calf was brought be-
fore him. and the spoilSmen swarmed from
every part of the compass TO enjoy their
patrimony.
THE sTALwART REyEL IN wASlIlNGT0N.
There il now Stalwart revcl in Wash
ington. The men who lispcd the praises
of Garfield when he came into power. and
the men who spoke Of his suffering and
probable death with tremuous voice, are
not heard in the hotels, or the streets, in
the departments. His sun has set, and the
fitful wOrshipers of the Capitol who have
praise for every ruler and contempt for
every ruler of the past, now speak OF Ar
thur as the savior Of the party, the states
man of the age, the candidate OF 1854.
Blaine is about to retire to his
quiet home in the Pine-Tree state.
Window has gone, and is now his
own successor in the Senate. MacNeagh
has gone amidst the ieers OF the now
triumphant public plunderers he had the
courage to grapplc with while supported
by the President. James is limited to the
New Year, when he will give place to his
Stalwart successor. Hunt and kirkwood
will be unknown in and about the Admin
istration twenty days hence, and it is now
probable that even Lincoln will not survive
the general wreck of the policy upon which
Garfield laid the foundations OF his Adj
ministration. In the selection OF the sue
cesSors of the Garfield Cabinet no Garfield
man will apply. Democrats will be gene
rously considered by the new Administers
ton when necessary, but the Garfield Re
publican will ever he a stranger to'thc favor
of the Arthur reign.
CAN STALwARTIsM SUSTAIN ITSELF!
The elevation OF Arthur to the presi-
dency is strongly analogous TO the accession
OF Fillmore in 1850, after the death OF Tay-
lor. Like Arthur, Fillmore was at war
with the President and had party of his
own in New York. lie sought to make his
faction the party, as Arthur now seeks to
make Stalwaitism the Repubhcanism OF the
nation, and Fillmore failed disastrously-
his party carrying only four States at the next
presidential election. Then Fillmore re-
pented the conservative element OF
the party; now Arthur repents only
the Grant restoration and the reversed
supremacy OF The spoils system. | be-
lieve that his rule will be fcarfully disas-
trous TO RepublicaniSm, and possibly end
its triumphs in our history. With. the
independent elements of RepubliCanism
stoutly and boldly confronting the spois
system in city, State, and nation, and with
hostility to Grant and Grant methods in
tcnsifed by the betrayal of the Govern
ment from Garfield's reform policy to the
policy of the spolsmen, there can be little
TO inspire the better elements of Republic
cans to follow Arthur in his Inauguration
Of machine-power in every department Of
! the Government Democratic folly may
save the Arthur administration and the
/ party from utter destruction, but nothing
less can give the new rule any other des-
I tiny than hopeless disaster. A. X. NJ.
Letter from Major Daniel.
r.. r. (OOppr who is n pprSon9l friend of