Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-26
WASHINGTON.
The Exaggerated Story of the
Presidents Illness.
ARTHUR'S FRIENDS AND ENEMIES.
Sunset Cox Talks About Tariff-Prospects
That the Republican Party viii Fol-
low the Example of the
Old Whig Party.
Speeiol Dispatch TO the Register.

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WASHINGTON, April 25.-After the Texas
meteor the next story of the same ilk is
that OF the Presidents illness on the re-
turn trip from Florida. 1t was a genuine
mares nest, and has certainly been worked
for all that was in it. 1t is true, and the
President did not conceal the fact, that for
s few hours he suffered some pain and was
considerably broken up, but that is moth
ing more nor less that falls to the lot of
every man regardless of the station he oc-
cupies. 1t was, therefore, highly improper
for those who went with the President in
the capacity of newsgathers to magnify the
slight ailment of Mr.. Arthur into danger
Gus sickness after he had wholly recovered
fromi it The people have not lost sight of
the fact that an election to the highest
place in the Republic does not eliminate
the seeds Of mortality from the physical
man, and that his nerves should tire, his
eye grow dim, or pains dart through his
body at times is only to be expected, and
consequently such an announcement
ought not TO create alarm.
The Presidents Friends and Enemies.
In the Presidents absence conferences
aud conversations, more or less formal, Of
Republicans of every degree OF intimacy
with him, have taken place. The result is
that number OF false conceptions have
been cleared up, and even several down.
right falsehoods proven concerning Gen.
Arthur's feeling toward certain distin-
guished personaSes who have felt them
selves virtually dismissed from his conf
dence. Specially has it been shown that
the influence over the President aud power
in the Administration, claimed by persons
by whom Arthur's original friends have
felt they were supplanted, have never eX-
listed and do not exist.
In the light of recent explanations the
reported alienation of the President from
his old supporters, and the substitution
for them OF men like Chandler, is more in
appearance than in reality. The active,
willy Secretary has a skill for clothing
himself with an importance he does not
possess. The game of planting himself IN
the approaches to the President, with an
assumed right to be his warden, has been
extensively played, and with unquestioned
eXpertness. OF course. what he intended
soon followed: friends stayed away. Feel
ing that if the President, as Chandler made
il appear. had surrendered himself to him
old friends had nothing to do but to stand
| off and let him make the most OF it. The
! President, ignorant of the cause, naturally
| felt, in turn, that if old friends stood OFT II
was not for him TO go about searching FOL
! the reasons. So, by these old friend:
| things desired were considered denieC
without having ever been asked for. Cold
| ness, and almost i'll will, thus grew up un
| der a condition OF things to a very great
/ extent fictitious.
| Political Death.
\ wise and prudent Republican writer
! speaking of his party's subserviency to the
nonopoliSts, as illustrated in the tariff bill
SAYS he saw the Wing party die because e i
so allied itself to slavery and capital that
/ in popular estimation, it became the enemy
| of the poor. There are indications that TIN
! politicians who rule the CauCuSes and frame
| the policy Of the Republican party are ia
! tally bent on putting that organization II
the same position" The opinion thus for
| chilly expressed is making rapid headway
! There are hundreds of Republicans in thl
! city who do not hesitate to assert their con
| viCtion thst, i'm the campaign OF next year
| their party will meet the fate that befel
| tie Wings in 1859.