The daily gazette., 1883-04-16
ARTHUR AND TIE srALwARTs.
Running Away to Escape from Everybody
Judge Gresham

Running Away to Escape from Everybody
Judge Gresham.
The Philadelphia Times Washington cor
respondent says
There may be errors about some OF the
particulars, but reports of how Arthur's
friends have given him up because they
have felt themselves driven away, frozen
out, If not insulted and betrayed, are In a
general sense strictly accurate. The leading
Stslwarts who once were everything to
Arthur and to whom he was bound by the
strongest bonds known among men, have,
one by one, fallen of, and they have ceased
to speak of him only as one speaks of
another who has disappointed him more
deeply than words can describe. 1t is a sad
tale of ingratitude they have to relate
among themselves. 1t was the freeing OF
mind, not in the ten minutes at first ac-
corded to distinguished Stalwart, speak
ing for the whole tribe, but in the whole
two hours into which the minutes grew,
that heightened the peculiar state of things
from which the tenant of the White House
was trying to escape.
About the last official act of consequence
of General Arthur before he left was the
appointment of Judge Gresham. Having
done 1t he had no interest In the matter after
that When the new Postmaster General
reached the Capital the President was In the
neighborhood of the Everglades, inhaling
malaria, fighting mosquitoes and suffering
under the broiling sun, osensibly recruiting
his health.
1t is the new Cabinet official who occupies
attention for the moment. Indianians with
whom Gresham has always been at enmity
were asthonished at the appointment
Gresham must have been equally astonished
when he discovered that they were all ap.
plauding it, 1t was John W. Foster, late
Minister to Mexico and Russia, who sent
the first telegram to Gresham asking if he
would accept Howe's vacant seat and re-
ceived for an answer that Mr.. Gresham would
neither seek nor decline the Office. In fact,
Gresham was about to retire from the bench
and join Mcdonald in The law. Foster and
Gresham have never had a feeling In common
Like Dudley and all the other Indiana Re
publican leaders, Foster always regarded
Gresham an impracticable, too good for
common people and a too crooked a stick to
lie still. Now Foster, Dudley, New and the
rest of them are striving for front positions
in the line to pay homage to Judge Gresham.
He is already started on the Presidential
track and all Indiana is ringing with praises
to the coming man, who but lately had not
honor in his own State
Persons who can recollect as far back as
when Bristow wont into Grants Cabinet as
Secretary of the Treasury will recall how
like the present were the praises sung to
him, how surely the country was to have
the greatest Secretary since Hamilton, and
how in the new Secretary the Republican
party was furnished with Presidential can
didate ready made. Where is Bristow
now? Who recollects much else than that
he resigned from the Cabinet, was candi-
date in the convention when the fraudulent
Hayes was nominated, and after that went
into obscurity and was speedily forgotten
While Greshsm's case is not precisely like
Bristow's 1t is near enough like 1t to
be an interesting topic for reflection to
the new Postmaster General. That gentle
man is now surrounded by a multitude of
apparently devoted friends. He ought to
know better than anyone whether they are
or not. He should have an opinion whether
John G. New, Colonel Dudley, John w.
Foster and the Republican leaders of Indi-
ana, who now crowd around him, are to be
trusted in good weather and foul as friends.
The weather at present is good; but there
will come time when it will be foul. Judge
Gresham has a standing for a man of brains
and wakefulness of intellect. 1t is scarcely
possible for him to forget that the Indiana
officials and leaders who are now so osten-
tatious in the proffers of their friendship
would not at any time for years past have
hesiUated to consign him to eternal political
perdition. He will give the lie to all his life
if he permits them to dominate him, which
is the aim of all their present professions
and doings