Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-06

are known, made their Climb at the Whit
house, and they would come back to thei
homes and in their own self glorificatio
S relate how much better the presiden
was than that miserable Hayes, or tn
overvaunted Garfield, because he was no
a friend of his old friend
d and told them that he wanted no
body to feel unhappy in his society. The.
say, ''you have no idea of what a politi
clan he is. naturally. When we come It.
think of it, boys, he must be a create
politician than any who went before him
You see, he has lived here in New Yorl
a where politics is big trade. He is no
like Hayes or Grant or Lincoln, from some
little town off on the prairies. He is go
ing to take hold now. from what
i, understand, and just shake ~ these
critics and enemies of his. Yes, he is the
best president that ever sat there. hard: y
excepting Gen. Washington
Now,the man who talks in this way never
saw any other president than Ar
thur-perhaps, second rate banker down
town, who had been little while before
that selling gimp and buttons in the job
bling trade. Or he may be some spent ard
driving lawyer who once knew the presi-
dent in a ward political association, and
highly gratifed to find that the president
does not snub him when he goes to the
White o 1se,he points out at once his 4 /:
itude and his conceit by assuring every
body in New York that Arthur never
had his equal in the White
house and that old Gen. Washington him
self will have to take back seat. Conse-
quently Arthur began to hear discussions
of his own greatness from New York. 1t
began to be assumed in those newspapers
which never feel the public pulse, but lay
their ears close to club or hotel key hole,
that the president was mighty man, a
person opposed to hypocrisy, meaning a
man that has some habits and some fear
OF being mistaken in high Office. The
little scamps who made living by selling
nominations to parvenus to go to congress,
or who create men for the New York leg
islature, on the principle that they are to
steal from everybody who has bust
ness there and divide with their
creator, felt that the Lord had come in his
splendor when they heard all this news
about Chester A. Arthur and were, perhaps,
received themselves for a little chat of
half an hour in the White no use. where no
previous president would have allowed
them to bring their feet any more than
they could have brought their shoes into
some synagogue or mosque.
There was complete misunderstanding
between the president and those who per-
sonally visited him, and all the rest of so.
ciety. Throughout the country the dying
dew on Garfeld's brow, the pain and agony
with which he parted from his
family and bright prospects,
the despicable nature OF the
tramp who killed him, were making those
long, deep thoughts which are the life of
American fresides, and here the president
the woman who dropped in of an evening
to see him, and the general riff-raf who
constitute our politics were saying: 1.-THE
country is just delighted with Arthur. At
last we have gentleman in the White
house. He looks splendid. Re is splen-
did.
The president finally made his celebrated
trip down the White house steps to show
how much greater a man he was than
everybody before him. He was somewhat
like the cabin passenger who undertook
to steer the steamboat. He had no
sooner got his palms on the wheel than it
flew out of his hands, the boat put her nose
towards the bank, and the consequence
seemed to be frightful to everybody on
board
gentleman remarked to me yesterday
that Arthur, showing them how to do it
politics, was somewhat like Edwin Forrest,
the actor, who, being once at Cape May,
put on bathing suit and started into the
surf, which was pretty high that day. He
had advanced but a few steps when he felt
the strong spray in his face, and with his
hand upon his nose looked ashore, backing
into the ocean. A parasite CT Forrest came
along and said: "Mr. Forrest, you are not
going to turn your back on the ocean, are
you?"
"No." replied Forrest, who was a child
! Of borrowed rhetoric that be always be-
| lieyed he wrote himself. Il never turn
my back on friend or foe; why should on
the ocean," So he came rapidly to the
front again, stepped out in the manner Of
the gladiator, for the surf, and just at that
moment big wave struck him in the
| abdomen, turned him over three tiraes,
stood him on his head and filed his belly
full Of salt water. He was heard 10 say to
the man who dressed him, ''Mr. Curdle.
| where is that bath house? 90
and the great tragedian hid him
self within it. The result of
| the election, both in TACT and on the
presidents feelings, ought to teach him
that the real life of the United States he
has never yet entered, that the public
| opinion, which is without confidence in our
official class, comes from pure sources, and
from reservoirs as universal as the sea and
the clouds. Notwithstanding the imperial
premiums among politicians to use the
great patronage of this government like
the money of a lottery ticket or the swag
taken in highway robbery. Yet it is clear
that the government will not be run much
longer on this plan, and Gen. Arthur,
| If he remains silent on the