Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
How Onice-H Holders Feel Over the Ollie Eiec
tion-The Presidents Human Nature
Present OF New Fishing Rod
From Kentucky Friends
Swindling Pension a

From Kentucky Friends
Swindiing Pension ~
Agents.
Special Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, lSS3.-Ohis
is still rife in the minds and mouths O
the politicians at the Capital. Tht
wonder as to the real causes for defea
has not abated among the Republican,
here. Positive assurances were hat
from Governor Foster, s.Sir William
the RAM (the Hon. William Lawrence
First Comptroller of the Treasury
and other party leaders that matter,
were sailing beautifully at the Buckeye
and that the majority would be fully
10000. After these sanguine assur
ances, one is met at every political cor
ner with such questions as: ..How
could Foster have made such a mis-
takep" 'sWhat was the real cause fol
defeatp' But there has been deartl
of answers. A prominent Republican
who has recently held an important
Federal Office in Ohio, said to me thu
other day in answer to the above ques
ton; "rll tell you what did it. Thre.
weeks before the election the State
would have gone Republican, had .
vote been taken then. just at thai
time, however, a story was put into
circulation to the effect that if Ohio
went Republican this year Governor
Foster was to go on the Presidential
ticket with Mr.. Arthur in 1884; thai
this arrangement had boen made at the
White House during Fosters last visit
there. When the story became vel
circulated continued the Ohio man,
"Garfield's friends became more than
indignant. They swore no such trade
should be carried out with their assis.
lance, and their ardor in the canvas
cooled at once. They had not forgot.
ten,' he said, chow Garfield's friends
have been treated by this Administra.
tion; how they have been turned Out
one by one wherever they could be
found, until to-day no Garfield man
holds any place of importance in the
whole country. They believed there
was something of trutL in the story,
and determined to make the consumma.
ton of such scheme impossible, ever
if they had to let the Democrats carry
the State. This is what did it, said
the speaker, although there were
other reasons for dissatisfaction, W,
could get no help from any quarter
The President, who might have aided
us had he cared to, was off galivanting
Not member of the Cabinet was in,the
city for weeks
j find generally injured feeling pre-
valent among Ohio Republicans here az
to this apparent indifference of the
President to the success of the party il
the Ohio election. But there is good
deal of human nature in Mr.. Arthur
and the argument advanced for his in
difference is that, for him to feel any
deep interest IN State election il
which Republican success meant tn,
advancement of Mr.. Sherman, would
argue that he was either more or less
than human. The result was the Presi
dent went fishing, and let the factions
in Ohio take their own course.
The next fishing excursion of Mr.
Arthur will probably be to the streams
of the Louisville fishermen, and he will
use one of the finest fishing rods evel
manufactured in the United States, il
connection with the jeweled silver rec
presented to him upon the occasion o.
his visit TO Louisville last summer. Tht
reason for this is that last week Cover
nor Proctor Knott and q delegation o.
Kentuckians called at the White Hous,
and. with formalities very informal
conveyed to the President witty ant
complimentary message and fishing
rod eight feet in length from its rose
wood butt to lancewood tip. In tn,
butt, is emblazoned on silver, .Chestel
A. Arthur. An invitation was alst
extended to make the first cast with tn,
new rod in the Louisville streams. TIL,
President was pleased. So was tb,
delegation. And then Governor Knot
and Mr.. Arthur spun some of thei
best fish stories.
The President continues to while ava,
his time very pleasantly in his cottag'
on the hill at Soldiers Home, ant
reveries on the recommendations of hi
coming message in the smoke of hi
after-dinner cigar. He drives into th,
city about noon every day, and period
cal cabinet meetings are held, at which
no work of Importance transpires. Mr.
Arthur is a man who improves great,
on acquaintance. In personal CONVEX
sation, he gives every evidence of CLASH
cal culture without any of that whicl
leads you to suppose that the talker i
trying to impress You with his learning
He is very susceptible and gallant, ant
there is charm about his manne
which quite captivates tile society maid
of Washington. This is doubtless wha
gives rise to the many matrimonial
prospects in which the President figures
The war now being waged by tn
Secretary of the Interior upon tn
swindling pension and claim agent
grows in energy. The regret is tina
the good work has been delayed s.
long. Among the latest batch Of sus
pended attorneys is Belva Lockwood
Washington's famous female lawyer.
l..
Railroad Notes.
A new iron bridge, of two eighty-foo
spans, is to be built across Turtle Creek
near Bploit. on the Racine and South