Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-08-16
THE NORTHWEST
The Right Kind of a President.

Let US see what kind of President
it takes to satisfy the republicans, ac-
oording to the returns to the Chicago
NctDs:
Republicans, because OF Dorsey, have
become virtuous about the use of money
to carry Indiana. Arthur is the man
who boasted that it was carried by
<'soap. Has the way in whicn he
came to the Presidency condoned the
way be was elected Vice. President?
Republican papers charged, and it was
never contradlcted, that Arthur's first
veto, that of the bill to protect steer,
age passengers, was induced by visit
from Conkllng the attorney Of the
British steamship companies Repub-
lican papers charged, and it stands un-
contradicted, that James as he was
on the point OF retiring, feathered his
nest by increasing the mail carrying
compensation Of the Vanderbilt roads
5000, 900 year; that the compensa-
tion being by weight, to be- ascertained
at periods, James shifted for a special
weighing time ordered by him, large
amount of carrying from the Pennsyl-
wanna Central, to make this increase of
pay.
1t has been charged that he then
played the same game by shifting an
extra amount for the weighing time to
the Pennsylvania Central, for which
Wayne Mac Veagh was attorney, and
that these two reformers worked to-
gether in this.
James went from the department to
the place of president Of u new bank,
started by Vanderbilt, at large sal
ary, as we'll might be, when the al.
legged fraudulent increase of Wander
bilt's receipts from the government in
q single year would furnish the CAPT
tai of the new bank. II. f. t
These things have been freely
charged by republicans as having been
done just before Arthur came in, at
such a time and in such a manner that
GARFIELD could not be responsible for
them. This brought the responsibility
mpon Arthur's administration, yet he
has never moved in the matter. Lat
terly the Chicago Inter Ocean has ven
tured to RENAL < that it ought to be In
quired into. - s.E@%
The republican charge was that Ar
thur put out the supporters Of Garfield
in New York, and in every instance
put stalwarts IN their places, and into
all Offices as fast as the terms expired
contrary to the viii of the majority Of
theXrepublicaus. This is republican
affliction, to which democrats are in.
different. .~.,m.,a yMt,rA,
Republican charges, Of, corruption
and-jobbery IN, the navy contributed
greatly to the defeat. Of. that party in
1882. Republicans say it still goes
on, both in the building of wor thless
ships at enormous cost, and in giving
John Roach his full swing as Robesor
did. 70 tgg
Republican papers have charged
thatthe extravagautly paid counsel Of
the government compromised with the
great star route jobs, and that they
only prosecuted the lesser ones fol
personal revenge. These compr omises
are still hanging, y. 3a.,.
Inforeign policy the Arthur admin.
istration has ,bsen singularly imbecile
according to repub blican statements.
Heconeurred with Secretary Blain (
invitation to all the American powers
to hold congress at Washington tc
confer onstheir common interests, and
thenVbacked out ofitin a waythat hu
inflated the nation before those
states
Heeoncurred with Secretary Blaine
in sending to Chill a statement of the
views of this government on her terms
with Peru, and then backed out of II
by telegraph in such way as to gel
thescontempt of both Peru and Chill
and to notify the latter that the Uni
ted States would have no voice, nc
matter what she did to Peru.
His secretary of state notified thu
British Government that the United
States asserted the sole right to pro
tectany canal on the American 18th
mus, and that they would abrogatt
the treaty Of joint guaranty of neu-
trality. Since that time, which wa
soon after Frelinghuysen came in
nothing has been heard of that larg'
pretension. t% -~
By Arthurs foreign policy the UNI
ted States have been reduced to an alb
solute nonentity in all the Soutl
American states, disclaiming any righ
or interest in the policies Of the con
tinent, while British, French, Germa,
and Spanish diplomatic agents ar
busy in extending their political ant
commercial relations into all th
American states, all of them backe,
by the moral influence of nava
power.
The same imbeclle foreign polio,
has abregated all public infuenc
in tho a affo;re ~ Nfoy;oo