National Republican., 1882-12-15
The President and some Newspapers.

Says the Boston Heraid independently:
lie takes occasion to show stntistically that ho
has been grossly belied and miscpresentcdb by those
who have held his administration up before the
country as exceptionally offensive for It's removals
If officials from Office. The figures in this case
do not lie. It's Tho newspapers that have lied.
Well said. The President has given the
record. and it has put to shame his traducers.
1t is the trade of some creatures to fight for
the kitchcu ohal of the party in power. The
vlest of this sort so ovordid the business be-
fore ARTHUR was President that they could
not mustcrcournge enough to transfer their al
cgancc with the suddennoss they deemed nee
cs5ary. They have accordingly barlocd at him
from a distance. The oilcc-seekers were not
alone in this. Newsnapcrs there were whose
conductors believed that they were the power
behind the throne in preceding years. They
may have rockoncd without their host, but
they certainly exercised acts of ownership
over the government. Under the present
executive they have had no hope of usurping
his power and the consequence is they have
been very malicious. 1t is unnecessary to
specify the coarse and reckless journals which
have during the past summer and fall
teemed with falsehoods as to his acts
and purposes. We have read of the in
reference Of the administration with
political action in New York. The public has
been told that in order to control the repub-
lican nomination for governor in that state
the federal patronage was freely used and that
men in Office were controlled by the appoint
ing power. The newspapers that meant to be
fair have taken up the statements of those that
cannot help being foul, supposng them to
he true, and have derecatcd the mis-
conduct of tho President in this regard
The pulpit has echoed the cry, and devout
and sincere christian ministers, as well as
clerical backguards and apostates, have
mourned over the degcneracy of the times in
which such awful things could be. Counting
house and club-room, workshop, and field
have all rcsounded with the honest indigna-
ton of worthy citizcns shocked with the
doings Of which they supposed the President
had been guilty, as alleged in the lying news
papers to which the Boston Herald refers.
The people have been crammed with misin-
formation. If the half had been true
which they have read day after day in ccr-
tain pretentious papers, the government
would be no longer worth preserving. They
have been assured in every key of voice. and
with every addition of ohiurgation, that their
offices were being hawked about by the Presi-
dents authority in exchange for votes in con-
vention to defeat their will or to encompass
his own. And what is the truth? Why, that
from the adjournment of the congress until
the night of election, there was not a re-
moval by the President in the state of New
York, except i'll a single instance, and that
was for alleged misconduct, and upon the
report of special agent. The people were
further told that the men already in federal
Office We're compelled to bend every energy to
carry into effect the presidential will, and
nominate friend of the President for the gov
ernorship of New York. And what is the
truth there? Why, that the officers who from
time immemorial have been understood as re.
aecting the will of the existing administra
ton were openly unfriendly to the ad
ministration or neutral in the nom
mating contest. Secretary FoLGER wa:
said to be the candidate of the administration
He was opposed by each of the then United
States attorneys, and certainly by one of the
marshals. If Collector ROBERTSON was fOl
him nobody has as yet discovered it. To al
reasonable Appearances he was against him
The postmaster of New York city, if the pa
pers were to be believed, was, engaged chiefly
during the campaign in violent efforts to repe
the advances of wicked politicians o
the republican persuasion, who sough
to inveigle him and his subordinate
into partisan activity, and it is hardly to b.
| supposed that he had been an administration
worker" at the convention. And so the ac
count might so on, and at every step it woult
| be found that the anti-administration news
paper bosses had monopoly of the busincs
of controlling the action of the federal official
of New York. A dozen senators have publicly
stated that the same condition prevailed il
| their states. Nowhere is there any evidence
of any attempt by the administration to con
troll the action of the party. The Herald il
right in saying that " it is the newspapers tina
have lied" The stream of calumny has ruI
out. Now let us hope for season of trutl
and fair play
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The BHggRgc-WngOn In War.
If things go on awhile rs they have beer
going the people of this country will inall.