Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-05
THE ARTHURIAN AGE,

The Kind of n President We Have-How
He Ming es in the Cesspool of New York
FoIitics-The Associate of Tweed and
Murphy Gangs OF Public PIunderers-
His Completely in the Fraudulent Natur-
alixatiOn of Votes.
New YORK, Nov. S.-The principal item
of news here is the last desperate hope
and attempt of President Arthur's imme-
diate successor and principal appointee to
the chairmanshipsof the Republican city
committee to count in Folger and himself.
The disclosures are not sensational, but cir
cumstancial and the Republicans generally
believe them. The moment it was ascer-
tanned that the registration in this city
amounted to 10000 voters, or nearly as
many as when Hancock and Carried meas
ured strength, the people began to ask what
it meant There was some feeling that
foul play was intended. The next thing
Johnny O'Brien, Mr.. Arthur's personal sue
cessor, insisted on defeating the citizens,
ticket headed by Allen Campbell, by run
ming as the regular Republican candidate
for county clerk. To some people the one
fact answered the other--that the registra-
ton was so large because Mr.. O'Brien had
resolved to be a candidate, because he had
fixed up the registration in advance:
Yet this suspicion was not proof. An
uneasy feeling ran over the town, and the
Republicans hoped that the defeat of their
party would not be attended with the dis
grace of its character. The district attor-
ney, however, John Mexican, an aged and
alwayslan honorable man, had fathomed
the schemes Of the conspirators, and I'M
able to track up such mater himself he
employed Pinkerton's agency to look into
it. They traced
FALSE REGISTRATION
amounting apparently to 10000 votes to
those districts in which the Del &c mochina
were the young Republican bosses of this
town. In one district, Vancotts S. in another,
O'Brie ~, n the thir5. Cregan's and Biglin's.
All these names belong to intimate per-
sonal associates. Vancott having a Dutch
name has not been as much noted as
OBrien, Cregan and Biglin, bat insiders
regard him as not one bit better. The ex-
posure may have some effect to prevent
the frauds, but if there there should be a
considerable diminishing of Cleveland 8
majority in this city public opinion will
| attribute it to this rascality. Ex Mayor
| Cooper, the son of Peter Cooper, was
talking to friend Of mine several days
before these disclosures which Mr.. Cooper
anticipated. The Office of county clerk is
worth $4,000 year,and in the hands of a
man already desperate, it might be made
worth 100000 year. was talking but
recently with Republican machine man.
ager who opposed Mr.. Butler, the citizens
candidate, and he sa1d
| THAT Office is worth a vast fortune to a
man of nerve. The juries are drawn by
The county clerk, through persons he APP
points. There are frequently cases here
involving S1.000,OOO. Mr.. John O'Brien
1 have described to you before. Taken
out of the Irish ranks to do the work Of
the Republican party here, through Arthurs
power he has the place of
CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF ELECTIONS.
This pays him honestly q good large sal
airy, more thar. q member of congress, and
about equal to that of Judge of the su
preme court. Only the day before these
disclosures he applied to what is called the
bureau of estimates and revision over the
public expenditures, and they ordered him
100000 to pay his inspectors, ETC., on
election day. Yet this man appointed to
watch the elections on behalf of the pub
lie had the stolid hardihood to be candi-
date for the most important Office in the
city. He had appointed his own bureau
to watch his own election.
| In Tweed'e time a person known %
Hank Smith, a rich man and great local
authority, got at tho head of the Republic
can city organization and no finally dealt
with Tweed, making only such nominations
as would suit Tweed. This scandal long
existed, and finally Gen. Arthur succeeded
Hank Smith and organized The Republican
forces by bringing out young Irishmen.
When Arthur left to become precedent it
became necessary to fill his place. There
was disposition to give it into some law.
yer's hands. but Arthur left Washington
and came on to New York and ordered tho
machine TO elect O'Brien. This is the man
who is now directly charged with having
concocted these large registry frauds only
q few months after Arthur had put him in
| charge of the whole Republican machinery
of New York city politics.
THE RESPONSIBILITY BELONGS TO ARTHUR.
His secretary of the treasury is to be
| the chief beneficiary of these frauds.
OBrien naturally takes one-half of the
benefit of any scheme to himself and gives
one-half to his old chum, the president
President Arthur is put in most emba~
RAISING position, and the country stands
harrasssed by greater disgrace
through its president than ever in its
previous history. Every step of this devil
| GUS progress has been Arthur's own. The
president has had his eyes on the state of
New York, which he found necessary to his
denomination, and he began the work of
| changing the state committee, undermin-
ing Cornelfs supporters, promising, buy
ing, threatening, until he had almost beat