Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-06
Especial Telegram to the Globe

Special Telegram to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-Among Presiden
Arthur's friends is Blanche Roosevelt. TIL
opera singer, who belongs to the Tucke
family, of Virginia, is very well connected
and has been for years the pet of dis
f1ngulshed intellectual and TITLED people il
Europe. She said to me sometime ago
president Arthur will not open hi
mouth even to correct an impression tina
does him harm and is entirely untrue"
The lady remarked that she thought tn,
president obtained his Office without polit
acal help. it being given him, in the frs
place, because he was necessary to cleo
Garfield. and when Garfield was killed thu
higher Office came to Mr.. Arthur. as i
were, by the will of heaven. I asked the
lady if Mr.. Arthur seemed troubled by re-
cent political events.
'He was very much cut up" she said Shy
the late election. 1t looked as if the people
had declared against him Overwhelmingly.
wen he had done his best to keep down
excitement and act outside of factions of
all kinds
The above was private conversation, but
1t seems to me that it conveys a good i'm
preston as to the presidents frame
mind. If ne recognizes, as he seems to
have done, some of the causes of his I'M
popularity in the imputation of indiffer-
ent and unequal company about him, he is.
perhaps, thinking whether it does not be-
come him to change it. The fact that he
has stated that there is some other French
more worthy of his table than the proxy
fellow, shows that he is not entirely salts
fed to be known as the bad French's
gossip. The shock the elections
were to him must also show that he begins
TO realize public opinion in society and
the government as the most decisive and
zormldab power, not often much con-
suited hitherto. The presidents decline
IN political consideration is, possibly,
proof that more ability is now required in
president than in former years, the cul-
ovation of the people having not only ad-
vanced, but attend its character.
The present state of society is a vehe-
ment protest against the political morals
of the Wings and Republicans who bor-
srowed all that was bad from the earlier
Republican party, and he imposed upon
the republic a set of men owing
less allegiance to public opinion than to
their convention and caucus organization.
In The midst of the war Mr.. Lincoln was
allowed to make removals to suit the
iparty's interest without much excitement.
AFTER the war johnson undertook to weaken
the radical element by patronage, and it
brought On the Impeachment trial, where
his victory led to certain non-respoa-
-sibility in Grant and future presidents,
get the attention OF the country had been
turned, above all other things, to the leila
tions of politicians to the moral society
around them, to the perfectly absolute con-
ditions under which the officeholders were
made in the name of a free republican
society; to the tyranny in the hands Of
the president and his bosses in the various
states, which was above all law or
interference from courts of justice,
pulpits or even the quadrennial revolutions
made by our elections. None of the
presidents of the United States following
Gen. Grant were much concerned about
the patronage. Hayes cared but little
about the offices, and when he made his
cabinet he estranged all the old bosses.
Garfield, above all other men living in his
day, wanted to put aside the patronage
element and live in the discussion of ques-
lions and the trying OIL of additions and
Improvements to the government such as
he had been thinking about in his library
Cor years. Suddenly an Office seeker killed
him, and the American people had their
attention instantly and violently brought
to the complete inferiority Of
their Official class to the aver
age of ordinary Northern society.
They found that the most important msu
IN our politics were about of the rank of
tavern keepers, horse racers and procarers.
'Guiteau himself was not SO exceptional
among this class that he did not get the
encouragement OF men of old official po-
.sitions like Senator Logan and his lawyer.
Reid, who had been the prosecuting attor-
ney of such city as Chicago. Mr.. Ar
thur came into the presidential Office when
horror was stamped on every countenance
and was already changing to universal in
dlgnatlon, and he seems to have appre-
hended that there was something porten-
tious in the air, and that he ought to be
quiet and so SLOW, and he tried TO do so for
little while. but the men raised by Conk-
ling to an Importance altogether beyond
their decency OR discretion formed q little
phalanx around the new president, direct
ed their degrading newspaper organs to
his sense OF partjsanship and ambition,
raised in him the confidence that he could
easily be renominated and elected, and
that he was the only popular man the
country had recognized in his office for
years, and they made show of having his
promise that presently he would take ven
geance on Mr.. Conklings enemies, and on
all people who dared to reflect on the char
actec Of the Official system. The presi-
lent should have been advised to have
done some one act that would
immediately show how the
death of Garfield and the rise of public in
dignation had also touched him profound
ly. But when he strove to pay off debts
he had already paid to men like Conkling
by nominating him for the supreme bench,
where he would have been retired from the