Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-11
He is Industrious After a Fashion and
Doesn't Want q denomination.
A TRAP FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
What the Republicans Propose to Do
at the Present Session.
RIDERS TO APPROPRIATIONS.
Reports Of the Railroad Commissioner
and Commissioner of Pensions.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

is back, and makes the seat of government
at the Soldiers home, occupying there the
cottage in which Abraham Lincoln lived
during the summers of the war. Over the
long dirty road leading TO it he often used
10 walk unattended. Secretary Stanton at
last became sc alarmed at this that he di-
xected mounted orderly t 0 follow the
president, whether or not the latter con-
scented TO il.
asked a gentleman who occupies high
position n the government service and in
the respect OF the people what, in his opin-
ion, after summer of rest and extensive
travel,
THE POPULAR ESTIMATE
is of President Arthur. He said: "Gen.
Arthur, unfortunately for himself,
has secured the reputation among the peo-
pie of an ease and pleasure loving man.
The people hear and read of entertain
ments of great brilliancy which are pro-
jected, of the manners of society at the
White house, Of stud of horses, of four
in-hand, and Of French cooks. These are
not the kind of things the common people
like to hear about in the president. They
have not, in our generation, been accus-
toned to city man in that Office. The
men who have succeeded in getting there
have come from the peoples ranks. They
have been men whose clothes have
never fitted too we'll, and who
have spent more time behind the
plow than in the drawing room. The city
manners, if they had them, they took after
they had gained the presidency, or had left
it. They were men from the farm and
from the battle field. They did not pos
sess, and perhaps they scorned, many of
the arts and graces of society. They were
near the people in their thoughts. They
did lot wear kid gloves, and they had never
driven four-in-hand, except, perhaps, be-
fore a stage, reaping machine, or an
artillery wagon, but they could fell tree
and turn furrow. They were men of
Drawn and gristle. They did not turn tho
night into working day. They did not
choose their private chums from
among any of their ''two battle'' compan-
ions, if they had any. They were simply
plain, earnest men of the people, early at
their desks and early in their beds, accessi-
BILE, blunt, open hearsed. They would
have been taken in a crowd for leaders.
They would never have been mistaken for
fops. Now, 1 fear that Gen. Arthur is too
easy going. too fond of pleasure, too much
attracted by society. and that without the
fashions and customs of the polite world,
it would be to him as if ''renown and grace
are dead" 1t is for these reasons that I
believe that he is very much
FURTHER FROM THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE
than he would like to be. He has
pleasing ways, he tells the truth,
he has commanding presence; but his
name has not yet touched the cords of
human sympathy in the multitude of
American homes as Lincoln's did, as James
A. Garfield's did, to some extent, and, had
he lived, would have done much more. It
is possible for Gen. Arthur yet, perhaps,
to strike the key note of American SYM
pathy, but fear he will not do it.''
asked another man, an eastern Jour-
nalist. whose relations to the president
have been quite intimate, if he thought
that Gen. Arthur was planning to have his
name come before
TIE NEXT NATIONAL CONVENTION.
He said: He has never thought
OF 1t. He Goes not like the Office
He does not aspire to be president again.
The labor is distesteful to him. He is not
pleased to do so much desk work as the
office compels him to do, and he devotes
himself more assiduously to routipe labor
than the press has given him credit for do
ing. He rises late, but he retires late
Many of the hours of the night are given
up to personal inspection of the cases that
comes to him. He tries to clear his desk
each morning before he goes to bed, but
he often finds it an impossible task.
l asked
MEMBER WHO HAS BEEN DEFEATED
what was going to be done about it. He
said: II have a very definite programme
and I think it wise one. Everything
was wrong last year from the beginning
L will not mention any names. It is need
less. They have been engraved upon the
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people have rendered their verdict upon
them. We were badly stored. There
were too many men OF the front who are
in contempt of the people, and, whethe,
that contempt is justly placed or not, il
rests there, and is not to be removed. II
may be individual misfortune that it is
so, but the facts still remain.
propose these things:
FEST cut down the appropia.
items TO the lowest possible
limit consistent with proper maintenance
OF the government. The Democrats. wher
they come, will, of course, attem pt to play
their old rule of retrenchment. and, if We
do the'Proper thing now, they cannot cut
off dollar anywhere, or remove a man
without crippling the public service.
Second-We must remove all the bnr.
dens of internal revenue taxation that We
can, except the tax on whisky, and we must