The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-08-16
WASHINGTON LITTER.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D.. c.,
Ann IL 1881


day he was comforted by fifteen NOR
tai columns of commendatory notices
in the Chicago Netos responsive to
inquiries by that journal touching
the cce Of Arthurian admins
tration. From press and pulpit, and
politician and people, cane laudation
unmiXcd with either ''ifs," "buts,"
or ''howevers," the writers seeming
to vie with each other in the strength
of their expressions about the mart
vellous manner in which MIR. Arthur
has thus far steered the ship of state.
That truly good man, Deacon Rich
ard Smith, of the Cincinnati Com
meTcial Gazette, voluntarily tenders
his need of praise, seconded by the
not less truly good Murat Halstead;
while the great civil service reform
er, George William Curtis, and that
other reformer, Henri Watterson,
unite in their expressions of pro
found confidence, by saying that
they and the country ought to be
proud of the man who fills the Pres
idential chair so we'll. And thee
there was MI. What are-we-here-fo for
but the offices Flanagan, of Texas,
who thinks that victory will surely
crown the denomination of the man
who dispenses the fat offices, and
Charley Farwell. of Chicago, thinks
so too, DESPITE the fact that Charley
| sought to take ranl. as sort of fixing
of the half breeds O couple of years
ago. Senators, Representatives in
Congress, and some of them Presi-
Dental candidates, too, ex, office
holders, members of the literati, in
Guiding Charles Dudley Warner and
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark
Twain, oil have a good word both
for Mr.. Arthur and his statesman
like methods, and all find reasons for
believing that as no man could have
done better, the perfection of human
greatness as demonstrated by Mr..
Arthur should be perpetuated in the
administration of our national at
fairs.
OF course these people, who are
prominent in our politics and our
literature, have had ocular demon
stration of the wonderful things Mr..
Arthur has done since his advent
upon his executive duties, and if
called upon to account for the faith
that is in them concerning his Pres
identiol achievements, they cannot
but refer to his active participation
in the successful job that led to the
resignation of Messrs. Conkling and
Plat, and the continued success met
with by the Administration in get
ting them back into the Senate
They will also refer to the success
full issue of Mr.. Arthur's work of
handing Pennsylvania over to Don
Cameron, which led to the success
full laying out of the Republican par
ty in the keystone State. They can
not but refer to the successful issue
in favor of Ben Butler in Massachu
sets, caused directly by the gall of
bitterness in the Presidential ap-
pointments at the Boston custom
house. Nor can they fail to refer to
the successful disruption of the re-
publican party in New Hampshire,
which proceeded from the success
full blunder of putting Mr.. Chandler
in the cabinet when the Granite
State was overrunning with Infinite
ly better and more reputable materi.
al. They also will refer to the fact
that Connecticut turned her back
upon him and his administration the
moment that be laid his cunning
hand upon her politics, and Mr.. Ar
thur has never succeeded in being
successful enough to bring her back.
They will refer with infinite salts
faction to the work of Mr.. Arthur in
bringing New York around all right
last fall; to the successful ousting Of
Cornell and the still more successful
forcing of a member Of his cabinet
upon a republican convention by a
resort to forgery and bribery and
downright fraud, with the rebuke OF
two hundred thousand democratic
majority in favor of Mr.. Arthur
keeping his hands off. They will re-
fer to Mr.. Arthur's attempt to return
his favorite Congressman, Mr.. Robe
son, from New Jersey, and the suc-
c~essful laying out of that gentleman
by the democrats, and the capture
of the whole delegation from the re-
publicans as q reminder to MIR. Ar
thur that his duties are at Washing
ton and not in New Jersey politics.
They will also tell of Mr.. Arthur's
achievements in Ohio, which by
thirty thousand democratic majority
denounced the methods of the Ad-
ministration, and they will not for
get to mention the little matter of
republican Michigan clccting q dem
ocratic Governor, and q weaklirg at
that, to throw in the face of the AID
ministration the general disapproval
of ward management in government
affairs.
These must of necessity constitute
all that Mr.. Arthur's friends base
their opinion upon in the line Of a
successful administering of the gov.
erment. for these arc absolutely all
the public acts of a political chara
cter that Mr.. Arthur has performed.
In view Of these it would seem that
wha: constitutes success in q Presi.
Dental nominating convention 4
rather poor recommendation from
the last employer, whom he has
brought well nigh to ruin in all the
large republican states, and whose
life has been in constant menace
from the time that he assumed to
manage it accoding to the customs
of New York bummers. PHoNo.
If there are any Democrats in any
part of the State entertain the idea
that General Ward is not coming
promptly to the front in the cam.
paign, they are greatly mistaken.
He is loaded to the upper guards