The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-05

How curious ....a ~. y..sl.-, oftentime.
ore tho sudden turns and vicidtuties Of life
But little over year ago Choster A. Ar.
thur shrank from taking the nomination
for the apparently unimportant Office OF
wee president, and to-day because he at last
yielded his own Wishes he is president Of
the United states.
Tho story OF General Arthur's nomination
and Of his own feelings about Il Is one Of
singular interest. After that tumultuous
and thrilling scene when the Chicago con-
vention surged away from both Grant and
Blaine and named Gen. Garfield as its
Standard bearer, II adjourned till evening
TO consider the question OF vico-president.
All sides agreed that the candi-
date must come from New York, and that,
as the vice president represented that anti.
Grant division, the vice presidsnt must
be chosen from the Grant element
Three conspicuous names were canvased-
Levi y. Morton, our minister to France,
Steward l.. Woodford and Gen. Chester A .
Arthur. When the Now York delegation met
TO pass upon the subject, Mr.. Norton and
General Woodford withdrew, and General
Arthur was selected as its choice by q very
decided vote. But just then those who
were In the inner circle discovered that
serious obstacle had been encountered, and
that was the very earnest and emphatic OBJ
J ection Of the candidate himself
General Arthur was not free from honor
able ambition but there was special and
potent reason why he did not want the nom.
ination for yico-president. He was then cr-
pecting different and more desirable pub.
the legislature OF New York was to
elect him United States senator
as the successor Of Francis Herman
and 1t had already been agreed that Gen.
Arthur should be advanced 10 that place.
All the representative leaders OF the
controlling force in tho party--Sena.
tor Conkling, Governor Cornell Mr..
Platt, Mr.. Crowley--had fully con.
CURED in his selection II was
reasonably certain that however the
presidential election might result, thu re-
publicans would carry the legislature of
Now York. General Ar,hur's election AZ
senator was thus as morally suro ~ any
event in the future could be, and that this
was the position OF all others that he ds.
sirod. On tho other hand, the issue Of the
presidential election Was doubtful, aud
even II successful the yico-prosident would
hayo only the prospect Of digninod
retirement for period OF four years.
General Arthur WIS thus asked 20 surren-
der certain election 10 place which ho
priced above VII others for u dubious con.
test for an Office which he didn't want at
all
Under such circumstances Il is no, sur.
prising that lac shrank from tho proposed
nomination, and for nearly two hours he
resisted the appeals which were made to
him. hut there MAS u very earnest
desire on the part Of the friends Of
General Arthur, rather than his
own, that ho should 20 upon the ticket.
They felt tho vital importance Of carrying
New York, and realized tha, no man could
contribute 80 much TO that result wv Gen.
Arihnr, with his thorough knowledge OF
the orfunigzation. Governor Dcnnieon, OF
Ohio, among Others, WAS very earnest Ia
his pleas. The duty Of acoeption was but 20
Gen. Arthur a matter Of patriotic obliga.
tion and finally, against tho protc,, of Sen.
ntor Conkling 10 the last. he reluctantly
yielded his owh wishes and allowed the
completion Of the ticket of cafn. Id aud
Arthur. The country knows how carmcstly,
after accepting the trust, he thgtN himHlf
into the canvas. and how much i.4 "A TO
carry. not only New York, but o,lur .i,.lt.
ful States. And now, hy o iars .sAge,iy
which 40 vIy vVi.ssvs .io.4 GN...y .....
himself, though he lost the Senalorrhip he
becomes Observation-Disclosures Press.