Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-14
The Presidents Pr. caY P,lifIcs.

The Presidents PradIca Psliacs.
The President of the United States
hR gone to New York for the purpose
ofic4n &Mg aei1ffhePe lHfoaare ofhis
Paf8 81 Hea a he aFproaehiHg dee
tons. Such is the news telegraphed
from Washington. The time was when
we had Presidents whose conception of
the dignity OF the first Office of the Re-
public was oGsa lofty q enracter that
they could ~, 4nd itscopsistent with
their sworn ohfcia1 duty TO kming1e in
party politics or to regard themselves
AZ - 6PE Xhieftsils q "a faction
Ihf FF helhse ersp&es entafys
ofthsN4Adzpeoble, h6nhs chosen 10
eftice through the instrumentality of
party organization. If some of them
were governed in the exercise of the
appointing power by the doctrine that
10 the Nict0ts belong the spoils, z they
still disseminated in favor of the public
intefesC BY selecting men ofschalacter
and fitness and declined to place the
patronage of the Government at the
command of clique of ambitious poll
ticianss to be distributed for personal
enfis5or to be mads a. corrupt bond of
cobeldh between discorSiantk eleuents
OF their party. But they existed before
the days of Grantism and the Stalwarts.
The use of the power of the Federal
Government to perpetuate aspeliticai or
personal dy nasty ID as unrepab !icsn and
antaSonistic to the spirit of free institu-
tensasto establish a hereditary mon
archg~ The diderenceis only nominal
HPresident Arthur Should. re-elect him
self by using his official power TO that
end and at the termination of his Sec
end term dictate his own Successor by
the same means, the distinction between
our form of Government and that of a
hereditary monarchy would consist only
an the manner by which the TRANSMITS
sion of the Executive power tom the
incumbent to his successorwould be &C
complished. The fact that we have be-
come accustomed to the interference of
the Federal Government in State cleo
tons does not lessen but rather aggra-
Yates the perilof republican Institutions.
The puerile terror of State Rights and
the mawkish sentiment in favor of Fed
eral intermeddling in State elections.
which SO largely control the party in
power. were the inspirat lion of Grant in
Ills ottCiuPI W 4Ok HitHSCff,
political power of his Administration,
into a third term of the Presidency.
Arthufwas 4 disciple at the feet Of that
ambitious Gamaliel and is ready to 90
farther even than his preceptor to estab-
flish dynasty of his own. He is a 'sprac-
teal politician and in his lexicon prac-
teal politics is defined tosmean. first,
power for Chester A. Arthur. secondly.
power for Chester A. Arthur,,s special
friends He has chosen few practical
poiticianst to share his power and to as.
sist him in transmitting it to a success
or TO be selected by himself and these
sharers of his political fortunes. His
principal oopartners are j. sDonald
Camerons Of Pennsy lvania, Aand John.
A. Logan, of Illinois. These two have
recently given control of the
greater part Of the patronage lately and
ut present at his disposal. he is to as
sist them in controlling the politics of
their respective States by all the power
OF his.AdIninistration, and they in turn
are. 10 bring. him delegations for renom--
mat ;on in 1884,. His own State of New
x ork he will look after in person. Thus
"a second, term for Arthur becomes an
issue in 1.-THE approaching elections.
Nay, not merely second term for
Arthur, but the establishment of the
.Stalwart dynasty first projected by
Grant. revived by the pistol shot of
Gditeau, and to be- perpetuated by the
practical politics which regards no
honorable precedent. respects no con-.
stitutional restriction. and aims only at
the qualification of the personal ambi-
tons of those who adopt it as profess
sion. Patriot.