Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-15
VIM. d. McMASTER, Editor & Pro'r.
From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, d. c., Aug. IL, 'S3.


he was confronted by fifteen mortal
columns of commendatory notices in
the Chicago Ne,Os responsive to inqui-
ries by that journal touching the sue
cess of the Arthurian administration
From press and pulpit, and politician
and people, came laudation unmixed
with either "ifs," "buts," or show
evers," the writer's seeming to vie with
each other in the strength of their ex-
pressions about the marvellous manner
in which Mr.. Arthur has thus far
steered the ship of state. That truly
good man, Deacon Richard Smith, of
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
voluntarily tenders his need of praise,
seconded by the not less truly good
Murat Halstead, while the great civil
service reformer, George William Cur
tbs, and that other reformer, Henri
Watterson, unite in their expressions
of profound confidence, by saying that
they and the country ought to be proud
of the man who fills the Presidential
chair SO well. And then there was
Mr.. What-are-wc- herc- for. but-the off
ces Flanagan, of Texas, who thinks
that victory will surely crown the re-
nomination of the man who dispensos
the fat offices, and Charley Farewell,
of Chicago, thinks so too, despite the
fact that Charley sought to take rank
as sort of king of the half: breeds a
couple of years ago. Senators, Repre-
scntatives in Congress, and some of
them Presidential candidates, too, ex-
otfice-holders, members of the liberati,
including Charles Dudley Warner and
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark
Twain, all have good word both for
Mr.. Arthur and his statesmanlike
methods, and all find reasons for be-
leving that as no man could have done
better, the perfection of human great
ness as demonstrated by Mr.. Arthur
should be perpetuated in the admins
tration of our national affairs.
Of course these people, who are
prominent in our politics and our liter
AZURE, have had ocular demonstration
of the wonderful things Mr.. Arthur
has done since his advent upon his ex-
ecutive duties, and if called upon to
account for the faith that is in them
concerning his Presidential achieve
ments, they cannot but refer to his ac-
tive 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 getting them back into the Senate.
They will also refer to the successful
issue of Mr.. Arthur's work of handing
Pennsylvania over to Don Cameron,
which led to the successful laying out
of the republican party in the keystone
State. They cannot but refer to the
successful issue in favor of Ben Butler
in Massachusetts, caused directly by
the gall of bitterness in the Presiden-
tial appointments at the Boston custom
house. Nor can they fail to refer to
the successful disruption of the republi-
can party in New Hampshire, which
proceeded from the successful blunder
OF putting Mr.. Chandler in the cabinet
when the Granite State was over-run-
ming with infinitely better and more re-
putable material. They also will refer
to the fact that Connecticut turned her
back upon him and his administration
the moment that he laid his cunning
hand upon her politics, and Mr.. Ar
thur has never succeeded in being sue
cessful enough to bring her back.
They will refer with infinite satisfac-
ton to the work of Mr.. Arthur in
bringing New York all around right
last fall, to the successful ousting of
Cornell and the still more successful
forcing OF a member of his cabinet up-
on republican convention by a resort
to forgery and bribery and downright
fraud, with the rebuke of two hundred
thousand democratic majority in favor
OF MIR. Arthur keeping his hands off.
They will refer to Mr.. Arthur's at
tempt to return his favorite Congress-
man, MIR. Robson, from New Jersey
and the successful laying out of that
gentleman by the democrats, and the
capture of the whole delegation from
the republicans as a reminder to Mr..
Arthur that his duties are at Washing
ton and not in New Jersey politics.
They will also tell of Mr.. Arthur's
in Ohio, which by thirty
thousand democratic majority de-
nounced the methods of the admins
ration, and they will not forget to
mention the little matter of republican
Michigan electing democratic COVER
nor, and IL weakling at that, to show
IN the face Of the administration the
general disapproval of ward manage.
nent in government affairs.
These must of necessity constitute
Nj that Mr.. Arthur's friends base their
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