The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Eclipse Of Mr.. Arthur-Logan and
Conkline- Coming Cabinets-Re-
publican Stock Rising.
rom our regular correspondent.


WASHINGTON, September, 20, 1884.
"L' Roi est mort, vive u Roi"; the
King is dead, long live the king. So
said the effervescent Frenchmen,
when the death of royal master and
installment of new monarch was
announced. The people of this country
are not SO very different from the
French in spirit, as may be seen in the
fact that the doings of the future
president are blazoned forth each day
In the newspaper columns, while the
acts of the expiring adm!nistra ton are
hardly noticed. Everyone knows
where Blaine and Cleveland are, and
what they do every hour of the day,
but President Arthur may be fishing,
or making love to Miss Frelinghuysen,
or DINING with the Prince of Snobs on
his yacht at Newport and the fact
passes almost unoticed. The coming
has already eclipsed the
present one.
1t is asserted by the democratic press
that president Arthur is not very
fervent in his support of Mr.. Blaine.
1 do not think there is anything very
wonderful in this, even if true. Mr..
Arthur belie> es in maintaining the
dignity of his office and it would
scarcely be pleasant sight to see him
electioneering for anyone. So that
the indifference which he is accused of
is easily explained. 1t would require
remarkable magnanimity on his part
to show much interest in Mr.. Blaine's
cause. While preserving an outward
politeness, the real feeling between
the two men since Blaine summary
left the Cabinet, has not been cordial.
1t scarcely could be. Party hostilities
had set each at the head of opposing
factions, and while this opposition is
lost sight Of in the general campaign,
the personal feeling between the two
leaders is not entirely obliterated. Mr..
Arthur is passive and Indifferent.
But of course he favors the election of
the republican, ticket and believes
Blaine will be successful.
Mr.. Conkling, General Grant and
others will occupy about the same
ground. They are not ardently
engaged in campaigning. Mr.. Conk-
ling is busy in the trial of the great
telephone case in New York, for
which he is to receive fee of So, 900,
I hear. With such plums to pick
from the legal garden, he thinks it is
not worth his while to run about MAX
ing speeches for his old rival, even he
felt the utmost interest in his success,
which he don't. But he declares him.
self sure of the success of the "grand
old party" in the coming campaign,
and he would put in q good word for
General Logan if he could. So would
General Grant for that matter. Conk-
ling and Logan were always good
friends, and the nominee for vice
presidency once said to the writer of
this letter that he considered Mr..
Conkling, when in the Senate, head
and shoulders above his colleagues in
point of intellectual strength.
lam reminded by this that General
Logan also said that he was with
Conkling up to midnight the day be-
fore he handed his resignation into
the Senate. "If 1 had known he in
tended to do it," said General Logan
in his own forcible way 81 would have
locked the door and kept him there
until he gave up his purpose Gen.
Grant for well known reasons, will
take no part in the campaign.
The enterprisipg newspapers are
naming Blaine and Cleveland's
respectively. Cleveland
will without doubt offer Thurman the
chair of State, If he gets possession of
it. If Blaine draws the prize in the
political lottery, the portfolio of State
is set down to William Walter Phelps,
Of New Jersey, and it is believed that
Whitelaw Reid can have the next
choice Mr.. Blaine, if elected,
will come up to the White House with
a new crowd around him. He is not
with any of the old heads.
There are not many Senators in the
field for him, and it lis quite evident
that none of Mr.. Arthur's Cabinet,
with the possible exception of Secre-
tary Lincoln, will be retained.
The democrats are undoubtedly
alarmed. and the republicans are
equally as elated, over the wonderful
which Mr.. Blaine is
creating by his tour to the different