Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-30
BOSS ARTHUR.
The President Is Managing the Re-
publican Machine.
Evils Growing Out Of long-cOntinued Party
Supremaey-DOrsey Boss in Arkansas
Malone in Virginia-women's
Suffrage Association.
OTHER POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

WASHINGTON, September 29.-The Presi-
dent OF the United States is neither a great
nor eminently good man. His personal as
soeiates have often been men Of rathe< low
standing in the communities in which they
live. Before Mr.. Arthur becaRe President
he was a manager of the machine. To
manage the machine means to attend
personally to the manipulation of primaries
and csucuses; it means to know personally
the men who do the substratum work in
politics. and who make their living in that
way. Many Of these men would be pau
pers and ySgrants il they were not in what
Mr.. Arthur's friend, Barney" Biglin, calls
the
. 'Arenys OF Politics.
When Mr.. Arthur acefientiysucceeded to
the Presidency the country had the right
to expect that he would abandon some of
his discreditable friendships and all of his
political methods. IL is evident, however,
that Mr.. Arthur proposes to do neither.
He may have banished his friends from the
White House in order that he may main
tain appearances, bat he still trusts and
confdes in them, and they attend political
conventions in his name and bargain for
votes with what he regards as his patron
age, although the constitution and laws
look upon federal officers as the servants Of
the people. Mr.. Arthur has eyidentlys
Very Cheap and Unstatesman1ke
view Of politics. He will never apparently
have any other view. He naturally sought
the work Of manipulating primaries and
conventions, ana when he had determined
to take part in public affairs. OF course
he did this because such work was to his
taste. If he had had the taste or capacity
for political work of higher character he
would have undertaken it. Men who study
the science of government and thus become
really statesmen have no taste for the dirty
work of ward politics. They leave that to
people who become postmaSters, aldermen
and tide walters.
The President Running the Republican
Machine.
1t is one Of the evils that have come from
the continued supremacy of the Republi-
can party that the caucus workers take the
prizes the government has to give. And
now one of them has actually become Pres
ident. Last week he so far forgot the high
position which he fills that he managed
the State Convention in New York, and in
precisely the same way as he used to man.
age conventions when he was only the
head of the machine. He was unable to
pack the convention with friends of his
Own, DQL ne authorized MS IFlelu5 10
Buy Up Delegates
with patronage which he controls. His
friends at leastsay this, and if they do not
tell the truth the President ought, for his
own sake, to deny their statements. III the
President himself can afford to permit the
charge to go unanswered, the country can
not afford to let him remain silent Ii is
reported on excellent authority that we'll
known henchmen and followers of Mr.. Ar
thur stated that they had his authority to
bribe delegates and members of the State
Committee with Federal offices. The coun-
try wants 10 know if this is the truth. II
| il is the truth il wants to know il the
Republican Party Approve OF IL.
| Being a machine politician Mr.. Arthur
represents his party and not his country.
| Is the party willing to keep such man at
/ its head? The only apparent difference be-
| tween the evil days OF Grant time and the
| evil DAYS of Arthar's time is that Grant
| was able tO'command the services OF such
| q man as Mr.. Conkling in the management
| OF New York politics. Mr.. Arthur had the
| service of men who were just below him in
| rank before he became President, and when
| he was at liberty to congratulate Dorsey for
| buyiug an election in Indiana. They were
| very cheap. The history of the New York
| convention is full of instruction. 1t teaches
| the country that the Republican party has
| come entirely into the control OF the ma
| chine. and that even the most dignitied ma
| chine manager cannot be q worthy PreSl-
| dent.