The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-04
ARTHUR'S INITIATES.
Who May Have n Good Deal to Do With
the New Administration.
New YORK Letter in the Boston Herald

New York Letter in the Boston Herald
George Bliss stands foremost in character
and ability among Arthur intimate friends
has all along been his COMPLIANT and adviser,
and it will not be surprising if he does
not 20 into the new cabinet. Bliss is a
stout man of medium hcighth, with
a full face, remarkably light complex
gray, was formerly so haxon that when
he was private secretary to Governor Nor
gan, he was popularity known rs Morgan :
tow-headed boy" He comes Of an old
Massachusetts family, Springfield being his
| birthplace, and is about fifty. He is u
Harvard graduate, and a lawyer of great
ability. His professional practice is largely
| in insurance cases, and he Is the attorney
| for several leading companies. He il said
TO be worth 100000, partly from in
heritance and partly by his own accumula-
ton through labor and lucky investment.
/ lie is n politician from love OF politics and
not for pecuniary gain. He is fearless and
aggressive. As a member Of the governor 5
| staff during the war, he had charge Of the
maintenance and transportation Of troops
! in this city, aud il was then that he formed
Il friendship with Arthur, who was quar-
/
| period are said to have been honest and
valuable. He has been an excellent United
States district attorney. lie is u charter
member of the union land league club and
/ Il ircquenter at il its house, where he is pop
/ ular and influential He is the author Of
/ bliss Annotated Code and Of several
works on insurance law. He has Travelled
extensively abroad and has some linguistic
requirements. He has been all organizer II
his party
Stephen b. French is Arthur's boon COM
panion lie used to be merchant at sag
Hsrbor, J.. l., and dabbled in politics there,
serving one term rs treasurer of his county.
! lie was not successful in business and in
1879 Arthur brought him here to make him
u police commissioner. He is something
over 80, has white hair and mOustaChe is
! stout, and below the average in height He
is not brilliant, mentally or morally, and Is
set down a. a politician for what he can make.
He is essentially a different man from Bliss,
and Elihu Root is quite as different from
either. Root is u young lawyer ofthorOugh
culture, striking ability and high ambition
He has for several years been practicing law
in partnership with Willard Bartlett, His
age is not more than thirty-iiye, if SO much,
and he is rather a handsome fellow, with
sufficient splf-cOniidcnCe TO enable him tO
employ his brain, on any occasion. He ran
for Judge of the court of common pleas last
year and was beaten. He did not
do much ina political way until lately, and
his intimacy with Arthur is not Of long
standing Socially his connections are pre-
tentiOus, and his friends regard him rs
bound to make his mark whenever he gets
the opportunity-saya as attorney-gcnoral.
Dane[G Rollins is our district attorney, by
appointment, to succeed the late Benjamin
X Phelps whose first assistant he was
for number Of years. Rollins is a
small. active man of thirty-tive, with q good
round head no airs and really remarkable
ability rs public prosecutor. Rollins is a
Yale graduate, thoroughly respectable IN
hi4 personal conduct and relations qu'''
popular among lawyers and an e
schemer in politics. His intimacy Wa.
Arthur arises from political association and
is based principally on mutual interest.
Rollins brains are Ota SuperlOrq quality and
he uses them rs Arthur directs receiving
political prctcrmcut in return. Enough
has already been written to show that
Arhurs companions are of varied sorts
and this is illustrated further by Thomas
Murphy and Pierre G. Van WycS, who ar,
alike only IN desire for office John l.
Iytlccker was Arthur's deputy in the Gus
tom house, and with him was turned out
He had long held appointiye Offices, but Ia!
not Jared well since, though now in th'
assembly. He is good-looking six-iooteI
Of ~ and most faithful henchman %
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