The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
The New Administration.

For some days after President Gar
field was wounded, it is not too
much to say, that. next to the dis
tinguished sufferer himself and his
immediate family, the person of all
others in the United States who
stood most in need of sympathy was
the gentleman who. in the event of
the Presidents death. was his con-
stitutional successor. The country
was then in a distrustful and angry
mood. The bitter opposition which
President Garfield had encountered
at the very threshold of his admins.
tratien from a portion of his own
party, and the embarrassments and
obstacles which had been thrown in
the way of his exercise of the ap-
pointing power, were so fresh in pop
ular Recollection that, coupled with
the assassin's attempt to identify
himself with the ''stalwart'' wing of
the Republican party, they seemed
to the heated imagination of many
to supply the motive for an other.
wise motiveless and causless crime.
The Vice-President had not been in
sympathy with the administration.
In New York politics he had been
known as a supporter of Gen. Grant.
by whom he had been appointed TO
the important Office of collector of
New York. and as friend and ally
ofSenators Conkling and Platt, and
he came in, consequently, for a share
of the popular resentment and dis
trust. Happily that feeling has now
died entirely away, and itrests SOLE
ly with President Aithlr himself
whether it shall in any degree be re-
yived. The political relations of Col
lector Arthur and of Vice-President
Arthur are we'll understood, but it
does not follow that President Ar
thur will rise to no higher and broad
err plane. The subordinate has be-
come chief; the New York collector
has become the American President,
and it would seem impossible, giving
Gen. Arthur credit for the sagacity
and tact which he has heretofore dis
played, and which have contributed
so largely to his advancement, that
his views should not broaden as the
sphere of his usefulness and impOr-
lance has grown wider. Making the
utmost allowance for Gen. Arthur's
personal and political attachment to
Gen. Grant, he cannot but reflect,
nov that he himself is President,
that Gen. Grants aspirations for a
third term were deliberately rejected
by the great party to whose nomina-
ton he owes his present elevation.
So he cannot but reflect also that the
claims of his friend, Senator COnk-
ling, to a "vindication" and re-elec-
ton at the hands of the Republican
Legislature of New York were
equally disregarded, and that both
Grant and Conkling stand to-day a;
the representatives of minority in
their own party. 1t is scarcely to bt
supposed, therefore, that the new
President will embarrass his admin
istration by linking it to the fortunes
of a faction, and defeated faction
when he has the opportunity, and
when it is alike his duty and his in
terest, to become the President, moi
of a faction, but of the whole country
The one course would array against
him all the friends of the late admin
istration and hopelessly divide his
own party, without promising the
smallest encouragement or support
from the Democrats. The othel
course will enable him to unite apd
harmonic his own party while in
surfing his administration generou.
sympathy and fair and impartial
treatment from the Democrats
President Arthur has only to be con.
sentative, patriotic, national in his
policy. and the good wishes and kind.
ly feelings of his countrymen. with.
out distinction of party, will smooth
his path and Tighten the labors be.
fore him.-BdltO. Sun.