Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-15
His Southern POie 4 Ruinous to the
Interests o. the Blacks.
BLAINE APPE' 4Rs AS A MINING sHARk.
C0nkiing's fTetensiOns to immaculate
ness Dissipated.
SALE OF INFLUENCE TO CORPORA
TOMS.
Asrsscial Telegram to the Globe. ]

IN. the belief in several letters L have re-
, emily (written that President Arthur
was making great Roadway in his campaign
to be NEGLECTED president. Having recent
ly come from another part of the world,
heve not kept fully posted about American
affairs, and distinguished public man,
now one of our consuls abroad, gave me
an impression in Arthur's favor before
I left Europe, saying arthur will
be demonstrated, I believe, because
an these congressman are in
favor ofihim. He has let them all have
theI patronage of their districts. while
Hayes took it away from them" I asked
this gentleman if he thought the congress
men would be very efficient in sending del
egates to q national convention. eyes," he
replied. '.they constitute at present the
best organized force in our politics,or un
til public opinion is aroused more than it
is now. Arthur while collector of the port,
was very
POLITE TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS,
making appointments for them
from different point of the
rights of New York state, and he has per
haps more capacity to please members of
congress than any president we have ever
had" However superficial this may be, I
give it for what it is worth.
Blaine seems to have little relative
strength among the politicians compared
to Arthur" person remarked to me in
New York, and he is by no means an
enemy of Blaine. Blaine belongs to set
of mining traders, without
scruples, who have stuck a
great number of their friends with
mining stocks or with false representations
of great profits if they would permit the
use of their names. A large number of
member of congress, contractors and per-
sons in or near politi cs, took some of their
mining stocks, paying money for them.
and in nearly every case they lost Con-
sequeutly these people are
DOWN ON BLAINE,
if for no other reason than because he has
such over-shrewd friends. The same per-
son told me that Dorsey, of Arkansas,
had constructed delegation
for the last presidential convention
wheat he intended to throw for Mr.. Blaine
if the proper time came, and that Blaine
knew as much, and yet he had allowed his
friends to go cunning after Dorsey in his
extremity. My informant said that Mr..
Blaine subscribed about $1,000 to some of
Senator Dorsey's mining stocks, and had
then written to have the money returned
on the ground that he was poor man and
could not afford to loose, while at
the same time the mining companies
in which Mr.. Blaine was interested
were squeezing all of his friends who
would take hold, and the money Was never
refunded in any of these schemes, such as
the Little Pittsburg and Annie mines. A
suggestion has been made that Mr.. Blaine
is at the bottom of the opposition in the
southern states to
ExTERMINATE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
in favor of the so-called Independents of
the Malone stamp, generally more in
tolerant class of rebels in the war.
Whether this be true or not
most of the Republicans
that have seen regard Arthurs policy in
the southern states as unprincipelled and
sure to destroy the Republican party even
more than the carpet-baggers had de-
stroyed it, besides threatening the black
people with the complete degradation of
their status as citizens. Arthur is at this
moment supporting Chalmers, the candi-
date from the shoe-string district who was
turned out of congress by the Republican
party for stufing the ballot boxes
and robbing the blacks of
their rights. Chalmers quietly goes
home and announces himself as an indie
pendent candidate because certain of the
Democratic members of congress voted
against seating him. He declares that he
has been outraged as Democrat, and
therefore appeals to the blacks to vote for
him in his new character, and immediately
the administration orders its colored regis
ter OF the treasury, ex-senator Bruce, to
proclaim himself to the extent of support
ing Chalmers.
southern man of good standing, who
was IN the confederate army, and is now a
Democrat, said to me on this question to-
day: Il don't know how Arthur is regard
ed In the south, but he can not be a man
of much principle, according to our view
IN the south. The Republican party in the
south, is really powerful quantity to deal
with, as it has SO many votes, and in large
sections of the south, we only triumph
over it by cheating it. There is no use.''
said this gentleman, ''of my telling you
anything else. You know that we do
CHEAT THE NEGROES,
and it is true we do not consider that neg
roe' ought not to send our representativ es
to congress. Nevertheless we have to
violate the purity of our election system
in so many places to carry out this point,
that we are really sick of the performance
When we cheat the negroes and count
somebody out, we have taken all the spirit
out of the election. It is no longer a.
conflict as in former days, when the high
est class of men are employed, but it is a
little sneaking thimble-rigging game,
and on election night we do not
look for the results with the pleasure we
ought to. There are SO many white people