Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-28
Is 44rtI.ur Liable to Impeachment:
Special Telegram to the Globe.

Aoii 'siii' LIZ Is expected IN UhIS City to
take charge OF Folger's campaign, to raise
money III large sums, to spend it in getting
votes to trade with opposite bonds Of mer-
cenary politicians, and it occurred to NE
that the president did not know that he
was an impeachabie quantity. If you will
take up the articles under which President
Johnson was impeached, you will find they
are very thin compared to the sort of work
Mr.. Arthur proposes to do. johnson was
lmpeached by congress under eleven
articles, the first specifying that
he had removed Stanton,
the second that he appointed Thomas
od i'atereaa secretary of war when there
was no vacancy; the third repeats the
second article; the fourth is about the
same thing; the fifth accuses him of violat-
ing a special law of congress; the sixth is
the fifth over again, and the seventh is
about the same thing; the eigth does not
differ from the rest, and the ninth accuses
him of appointing military officer named
T.. Morey to render a law of congress null;
the tenth and eleventh articles accuse the
president of Indecent behavior, and the
following language is to be found in them:
THAT the president was unmindful
OF the high duties of his Office,
and of the dignity and propriety thereof;
that he made Incorporate and inhamma-
tory and scandalous harangues, and that
he encroached on congress, and tried to
make it the creature of his executive will
and ambition"
All the men who voted to impeach
thought that irregular, ungentlemanly be-
havior on the part of the president de-
served the severest punishment the consti-
tuition permits upon president. Suppose
Andrew johnson had come into the state of
New York to raise S3,OOO,OOO, which I am
told is President Arthurs figure, for the
porpose of buying up the vote of the
state, with the end to make one of his cab
met ministers governor, so that he (the
president) could have a tool at Albany.
to dispose of the patronage of the state,
and designing to use it to accomplish his
own reelection to the presidency? Would
not the vote have been greater than 80 to
10? President Arthur has less moral back
ing than any president the United States
ever had. He does not hear the voice of
truth, surrounded by his parasites; but 1
can tell him from a considerable inter
course with people i'll all directions, that
he is regarded as the first president whom
nobody thought of in connection with his
high Office, and he has increased uncon-
sciously the dignity of that Office
by his unworthiness to fill it,
and coming to it in the
way he did. If he had become great and
faithful president it might have been
thought that the Office was not above the
capacity of almost anybody; but it is now
clear that it is entirely above his capacity
and comprehension.
I met DR.. Carey on the street yesterday,
friend of the Vanderbilt family
the same man who suggested the
bank and safe deposit company,
of which the late postmaster
general, James, is the head. Carey was
once an actor and then clergyman, and
he was great friend of President Arthurs
father, who was fellow Baptist clergyman
with him, with rather voluptuous nature.
DIR. Carey is a kind man with respect for
right and principle. He asked me how
Arthur stood, and there was anxiety on his
brow. I told him that unless money and
artiice prevailed, Secretary Folger would
be beaten for governor of New York by
from 10000 to $4,000 votes. The doctor
did not reply. He asked me after some
further talk why Cleveland was going to
run so much stronger than Folger, and
command so many Republican votes. Said
1: doctor, Cleveland in small office has
behaved like president, and Arthur in
big Office has behaved as if he had small
one"
tleman, and he left me with a heavier bow
than before.
Meeting ex-senator Strahan yester lay,
he said, "There is beng an awful amount
of quiet work done for the Republican
ticket in this state. I do not predict the
election of Folger, much as I desire it, but
the work is being done as hard as if he
were going to be elected. What you say is
true, that some hundreds of names have
been printed in Buffalo of Republicans
whoswill vote for Cleveland, but you must
remember that Cleveland's censorship in
the Democratic party has made him many
enemies, who are going to vote against
him, and my information is that the Dem
ocrats who are fighting him fully equal
the Republicans who are for him. I'm
questionably there is large discomfort in
the Republican party, but every effort will
be made to placate it before
election day. As far as B. Platt Carpen-
ter is concerned, our candidate for ieuten-
ant governor, nothing can save him. Fol-
ger may pull through"
While we were talking bet was made
at the table between two Folger men of the
ring stripe of $50 to $25 that Cleveland
would be elected
few minutes before this met Ed Har
ris, of Buffalo, n. Y, the we'll known clerk
at Wizards, Washington, who has leased
a large new hotel in Buffalo, and he said:
Il saw bet made by very substantial
citizen that Cleveland would be elected by
$4,000 majority, and another gentleman
tried to get a bet of $4,000 to $4,000 that