Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-18
GATH.
Kaleidoscope Views of the President
Darkiy Colored Through the
0rbs Of a Disappointed
Oitice-Seeker.

New York, April 8-Today [ met
returned otfice~seeker from Wash
ington, who entertained me two
months ago with an account of the
superior majesty of Arthur's style in
the White House, aud whom he pre-
dicted would be the most popular
and glorious President this State
ever had-at the worst, only a little
short of Washington. l transferred
to your columns the sketch as it came
from his lips. Meeting. him today I
said:
"Well, how is our youthful Chief?
Is he still going to furnish meat for
one of Parson Weems' biographies?
Does he cut it with little Ratchet
still 2
A peculiar smile passed over the
gentleman's face, and he said; II
don't know what to make of this
President.
Gracious heavensl' said I, ''has
he failed to consider your eligibility
for the Office you had your mind on +?
THE trouble about Arthur is"
said the man, with subdued, almost
mournful expression, ''that he doesn't
consider anything. Nobody can tell
what is the matter with him. He
makes few appointments out of the
old list of Stalwarts, and let's all the
rest go.
What is the condition of Wash
ington society on the political side?'
[ asked.
why. its the most stupid town
that [ have ever seen. 1t doesn't
| look like itself at al. Everybody is
blue on account of the President at
tending to nobodys wants. You go
from hotel to hotel, and there the
| boys are sitting down and abusing
Arthur and the different heads of de-
partments for their procrastination
and want Of purpose. The politicians
in and out OF Congress are well nigh
Disguised; that is about the whole
Of 1T
Said l "My friend, perhaps the
Presidents modesty arises from some
Consciousness that the Office is little
too big for HIM, and he does not
p ay the political game on such
broad platform with ease and assur-
ance. lie may live under the shad-
ow Of the great calamity which made
him President"
"Well, I'll be id if I know what
the matter is, said the office-seeker.
Il only know that you can get nothr
ing done at Washington. Grant has
had several things done by Arthur.
Nobody else can get anything done
Did you notice any want of force
in Congress and the Senator
"Yes, everybody notices that. The
Senate has got to be "a body of old
women, and the House is without
leadership. A little, timorous attempt
at money grabbing is about all that
you see. In short, the class to which
L belong, the political class, has about
lost faith IN Arthur as man of
ability"
L asked the same gentleman If he
head anything about Folger being
run for Governor of New York against
Cornell.
Not much. Washington is in a
state Of stupefaction, and | don t
wonder that Folger wants to get out
of it into some live atmosphere. The
Administration is so crimped and
insipid that a man had better run
for Governor of New York than sit
around the White House doing moth
ing.
While we are talking Roscoe Conk
ling passed by US, looking as if be
had u hollow place in his stomach.
and he was bent forward like a jack
knife half opened My distinguished
friend measured him up. sad: 81
that is happy man L do not know
the signs. He looks to me like 6
dried-up specimen brought out OF al
anatomical case To think that be
spent his entire public life making
two puppets like Arthur and Cornell
who are apparently gong to be tn,
7 new Blaine and Conkhng, and de-
your each other
,. ''Now," said [, that is smart. Sa,
2, something in the same vein again"
;. "Weu, said my friend, twill tel
! you a story illustrative of how thes
,cidenlal fellows like Arthur bea
all the designing, logical fellows lik
Conkling and Blaine. You see Conk
a, ling there, out of Office, laid on tn
,,ee shelf, looking like dried specimen
e as I have said. Well, he had PAL
ID of tools in this State-Arthur an
Cornell. He would have been gla,
Of the nomination to either of til
offices they they now fill. 1t woul
.. have delighted his heart to have m
:: for Governor of New York if b
"a thought he could ever have bee
ali elected. He ran Cornell, and Coz
ID nell was elected. He declined I'll
/" Chief1Justiceship and lots of bi
places with the hope of being run f(
an President. He could not make
Id and his tool, Arthur, Just walked ini
that Office without taking off b
slippers, He reminds me of a stol
mad about the man with the tee totaI
,an Have you heard that story?'
iOi l said l was sure I had never heal
any story about tee totum
l. Now call OUT he said, IF W
1d- remember it as go along. The
&C. was town where there were sever
good doctors, and along came qua
with the tee totum cure. 1t consis
ike ed of sort frame or pasteboard CT
In III -; oro,,pJ - on ybi
lny~ Gle, Will d iIih oioAA1N ~, oH
were written large number OF rem
dies and when man came up WI
a al ! a certain disease this man spun t
ca tee-totum, and wherever it fell
the rim of that board he gave