The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01
Equal to the EmssSsnsynrEssslsIent Ar.

Equal TO the Emergency-Presiden Ar
thur Viewed as Taetician.
WASHINGTON, ID. C, November 30
The refusal of the President to make
certain removals from and make room
for other willing patriots with "sial-
wart" support, has set an army of office
seekers, and indeed the whole country,
to thinking again concerning the pur-
pose and policy of the President in the
| administration of the patronage of his
Office. The colleetOrship of internal
revenue in the district in Pennsylvania
in which Pittsburg is situated is an Of
fee in point. 1t is given out that Sena-
tor Cameron and Pittsburg delegation
waited on the President and asked for
the removal of Collector Davis and the
appointment of Mr.. Case in his stead,
and that the President declined to grant
| the request, This is regarded as sigGiti
cant because of the connection of
the name of Senator Cameron with the
request. 1t may safely be predicted that
large number of newspapers of the
halfbreed persuasion will presently be
saying agreeable things concerning Pres
| ident Arthur; that a large number of
men in Office will feel a sense of
temporary relief from anxiety
and that large number of
men out of office will remodel their
plans for getting in, in consequence of
the impression that will be conveyed by
this little circumstance, and by some re-
marks which the President is said 10
have made concerning his general pur-
pose as to removals. There will be
those who will mistakenly believe that
| there has been change of the Prcsi-
Dental heart, and that an unexpected
policy is to be or has been adopted by
President Arthur. This supposition is
erroneous.
The country does not yet seem to un-
derstand that President Arthur is one Of
the shrewdest politicians of his time.
| He is man of tact and of sagacity,
schooled in the great commercial and
political metropolis Of the country. He
| is withal Il man Of the world in bearing,
and will administer the Inequalities of
the executive mansion with "A grace and
propriety such as have not been known
in the White House for a quarter of
II century. IN short, he is worldly,
and calculating and farsighted. When
he entered upon the dulles and respon-
sibilitles of the Presidency. it was not
without an intelligent look into the fu-
ture and not without an intelligent
weighing of the prophecies of executive
conduct. When executive duties were
assumed under such solemn circum-
stances, President Arthur deliberately
and carefully marked out for himself
three distinctive lines of executive poll.
cy so far as that policy relates to the
distribution of patronage. To those,
with only occasional exceptions, the
| President has consistently adhered, and
will continue to adhere
| In the first place. President Arthur
determined to renew the appointments
of his immediate predecessor, President
Garfield. This was polite, and it must
not be forgotten that Arthur Is poll
tician. 1t was also respectful and con.
siderate of his predecessors memory
President Arthur took the nominations
OF the late President Garfield in body
and without question, and made them
his own. Though totally differing then
and now with the purposes and policies
of Garfield, Mr.. Arthur was not so
dull rs TO forget the decencies of his pO-
sitiOn as the successor of an assassinated
president. He learned all the wishes
of his predecessor touching appoint
ments which had been formally ex-
pressed, and made them his own. This
was a piece of sagacious Difference to the
personal and official desires of the muir
dered president.
In the second place President Arthur
determined to make no sweeping re-
movals from office on personal, political,
or other grounds, such as would invite
the indignation of the country. He did
not choose to appear as a factiOnal revo-
lutionist. have reason to believe that
the president declared his purpose to
be to make no removals till the assem-
bling of congress. If he had stuck TO this
purpose, it would have been eminent
ly creditable and in harmony with this
general feature of his administration.
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has a policy of his own. He has OBJ
served the prophecies with great consid-
Grafton as to the nomination made by
his predecessor, and he has refused to
make sweeping removals without
cause till the assembling of con
gress. The appointments to be made in
the future, however, will be his own ap-
pointments. They will be as Mr.. Ar
thurs appointments, and the appoint
ment of his personal and political
friends will only be made when they are
also his own. After congress gets TO
work President Arthur will make his
own agents, and he will select them
from among his own friends. Because
his methods are not those of the meat
axe, those of the cimeteT, it need not be
supposed that he is unable to decapi-
tate here and there. He will not be
guilty of political brutality, for he is a
politician, but he will accomplish his
purposes. As matter of fact, he is a
far stronger executive and administers
. tive man than Garfield was, and he will
be at least as faithful to his friends as
Garfield was TO his friends. Little RI.
mors touching certain officers need moi
disturb the public conviction that the
halEbreeds will be invited into the
street. There must be no mistake as iC
, the underlying and guiding purposes OF
the administration of President Arthur