National Republican., 1882-01-21
PRESIDENT ARTHUR
And the Disiurbers I'm the Republican
Party, Who Are wct Known.


Party, Who Are Well Known.
It is very generally admitted that President Ar
thur is improving his opportunity and doing all
that can be done to perform to the advantage of
his country, no less than his party the arduous
duty which has been imposed upon him. Now, IL
is time for the Republican party to consider what
It will do with the opportunity which Is simulta-
peously offered for it's improvement win II close
up It's ranks behind this administration, give to
President Arthur its cordial cooperation, second
his efforts for party harmony, and thus prepare
situation for 1884 OH which IL can appeal to the
people for a renewal of their confidence with a
strong probability of succcssY This so obviously
wise course that the very instinct Of sef-pTeser
walton would seem TO guarantee its adoption. New
ertheless
IT Is IDLE TO CONCEAL
the fact that there exist beneath the surface Of the
present political calm some disturbing elements,
which, unless firmly repressed and stained out by
the loyal mass of Republican sentiment whenever
and wherever they seek TO exert their disoTganiz-
ing influence, mny prove highly potential for mis-
chief The whole aim aud tendency Of President
Arthurs course is to unity and strengthen the
party by increasing the respect Of the country at
large for It's capacity as an honest, safe, and eth-
Client administrator of It's Government. Is the Re.
publican party sufficiently master of itself and Of
its malconent elements 70 suppress every personal
ambition and every factional enterprise that seeks
to stand In the way Of this equally prudent and
patriotic programme. It's scarcely necessary here
to call names Or
DESIGNATE THE DIsTURBERs
10 whom we refer. They have been pretty thor
oughly unmasked within the past few months.
They have been masquerading for round twelve
months the best representatives, of the best Re-
pnhlicSnism the devoted friends OF Garfield
died; the enemies of "bossism," and the evnngels
Of more exalted order of political methods and.
finally, as the high priests of reioim within the
party, who were to purge the public service in all
It's branchesfrom the taint of dishonesty and cor
ruption. To-day the country knows the inside
history OF
THIS GRAND cABAL.
enough of 1t at oil events to understand its real
motives and character. IL knows now exactly
how, and in what sense Garfield was made mar
tyr long before Guiteau fired his fatal shot /,
sees clearly that the rack which his adminisra-
ton was stretched, and on which, from the very
day Of his Inauguration. its Joints were being mer
cilessly torn apart was devised by the very men
who posed As his special friends that the ropes
and pnlleys were adjusted by them and the wheel
the presiding inquisitor. Shrieking daily in his
paper that there must be no more "bossism," Mr.
Reid was at the same time
HEcToRISG THE PRESIDENT
with all the assurance of the most arrogant type
Boss" Declaring editorially that the spos sys-
tenn must go down, and that there must be ne
dictation TO the President on the question of pa.
trOnage, this journalistic shete was, at the sam,
time, cracking the whip of his authority over thS
head OF the Chief Executive with all tho insoenc,
telling him he must stand firm, that the crisis o
his administration was reached; that this mar
must be collector, and that 1--WE must have The
surveyorship too" Now, then, we have, undel
President Arthur, entered upon
A NEW DIsPEEsATIoN.
There Is no longer any Senator to be made wal
upon; no political mortgage upon the appoint.
ments in any State, great or small, TO be dis
charged; no journalistic jumping jack 10 shou
for purity the housetops, and bully for collect
orships and suryeyorshps by secret dispatches; NJ
| sccond-rate lawyer, with n cheap reputation TO
santhood, TO sit upon Il pedestal and shout "etoI
thief" while the thieves, IL there are any, are al
getting away through the loophOles ofindictments
That fail to indict, and intormatlons that do no
inform. All that is part OF putresccnt past that
| an unsavory smell in the nostrils of all homes
| men. The future is of far brighter promise. Tn,
| Republican party can move forward under Presi
dent Arthur If II chooses and make, in the mex
| three years, record on which 1t may go TO tn,
| jury Of the people in 1884 with
| NO DOUBT As TO THE VERDICT
But If Il is to do this the macontents the plotters
| and the mock-reformers must be cowcd by th,
better sentiment of the party into that silence that
| If they had any sense of shame, theywOuld per
| ceive TO be their appropriate refuge. The mel
| who assassnnted the last administration months
| before its lamented head was murdered must no
attempt 10 steal the martyrs crown and set up II
business the natural heirs OF the illustrous maj
| of whose brief executive career they are nov
written down. beyond all question and for all time
as the marplots Gariield's grave is sacred TO tn
| whole people The New York Tribune Ind thos
who gave Il its "dvine inspirations will nevo
be permitted 10 fence II of for the private ant
behOoi OF an exposed and Dafled iactlon,-BOStOi
| TfdpekleT, JdlluuTD 10, lSS2.