Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-17
THE SITUATION-ITSD EM.4NL,S.

IL OH CA1XON-1XS OE.M -
1t is not little singular that every Vice
President who has succeeded to the Pres
idency by the death of the incumbant has
been without party, and, yet, each has
striven to build up a personal party for
the purpose of being elected, On his own
account, to the position assigned to him
only by the accident of death. Not one of
them has had the unselfsh patriotism, to
fall into line with the party to which he
owed his elevation; nor the good sense to
walk in the footsteps of his predecessor. in
sustaining the general measures of his
administration.
strange infatuation seems to have
seized upon each,and he has ignored the ex-
isting party.and attempted to build UP one
of his own from the ground, having in
view his accession to the presidency by
actual election. Each has met with most ig
nominious failure. The people in each
instance, have spewed them out of their
mouths, and 'whistled them down the wind -
with contemptuous scorn. The power and
patronage of government was not sufic-
lent to accomplish their purposes,the great
body of the people, by whatever name or
party known, have always proved them
selves to be absolutely incorruptible.
And, yet, none seem to learn wisdom
from the history and experience of those
who have gone before. Arthur is no ex-
ception to his vice presidential predecessors.
During the protracted illness of Garfield
his hypocritical tears, and whimperinp
signs of sympathy were thought, by many
to give assurance of man. But no soon
or had the grave closed over the martyred
president, than the constitutional locu0,
tenens turned his back upon the friends of
his predecessor, dispersed his cabinet, and
formed cabinet of his own, taken from the
faction of devilish hate whose malignant
prosecuting bitterness; had caused the
death of the president elected by the peo-
pie. The measures of the previous admin
istration were changed, the friends of Gar
field were ignored and his enemies an
pointed to Office. Thus deliberate af-
front was offered to the bulk of the Repub-
lican party, and the attempt was made, by
starting with a faction as nucleus. to
build up party that would ultimately car
ry Arthur into the Presidency.
How has this miserable abortion of an
executive already failed? He
has shown himself not only
not to be statesman in any sense of the
word, but only New York city slippery.
ward politician. He disgraced his posi-
ton as chief executive of the nation. bv
going to New York to superintend in per-
son the affairs of his faction, in the late
election. How have the people
visited with crushing contempt
and Indignation, his littleness, his mean.
ness? They have buried him and his fac
ton under majority such as was never
before known, majority, indeed. that
amounts to party revolution.
1t is instructive to contemplate, that the
honest people, alarmed at the profigacy
and corruption Of the faction which Ar
thur represents, have bestowed their con-
tidence upon party that had its origin in
the patriotic purity of love of country.
rather than in narrow devotion to mere
party and personal ends.
The people are reused and in earnest
Arthur is, to-day, without a party. He
is the mere figure head of a. miserable fac
ton which is without honor, without integ
rity, without patriotism, whose sole aim is
seif-aggrandisement, and whose capability
Is equal to any measure of corruption to
serve its purposes.
Inere is hope of the republic when we
see the people in their might turning with
alarmed patriotism and Indignant con-
domination from such gang of corrun.
tlonlsts' and looking to a party not un-