St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-09
Chester Il. -Arth1tr.

Conkling and the bullet of Guiteau, the as
sassin of Garfield.
Dorsey, Ingersoll, Grant and Beecher work
ed like wheel horses to carry Indiana and
New York and secure the nation for the Re
publican party.
Arthur was wcll-known ward Politician
| in New York, and during the var fought like
hero among the baggage wagons and war
material of the Quartermaster's department.
As collector Of the port Of New York he
lost some of the funds entrusted to his care,
and was finally dismissed by the President of
the United States on the recommendation of
the Secretary Of the Treasury because fraud
and vice characterized his administration of
the custom house.
Among the political fummers of Gotham
in midnight hours, while chairman of the
state central committee, he could devour
more of Delmonico's food, drink more of
Delmonicos wine, smile at more pretty
ladies, make more promises, (only to break
them as fast as made) use more ready cam
paign funds for purchase of votes than any
of the corrupt clique ne managed
When the heart, hand and ''soap'' of the
''other man. could he used, Chester was the
u,
he never failed to prosper at the expense of
better and Drawer men.
John Tyler, Willard Fillmore and Andrew
Johnson were tyros in the art of betraying
their party in comparison with the assassin
the White House.
Why is it that every Vice-President has be-
trayed the men who made him when once
installed in the Presidential chair?
Vanity and ambition seiZes the weak NOR
tai. Toadies at once fatter him into great
ness, and while stealing the offices from the
men who are entitled to them, they proceed
to run their foolish tool for a second term,
and the official BOBBY, Notwithstanding the
bitter experience and disappointment of his
traitor predecessors, allows a lot of ''liberar'
funkies to twist him into betrayal Of the
convention delegates who made him.
He fondly follows the spectre light in the
Dismal Swamp of political debauchery, and
at last, when no longer wanted by the tribe
who only love for the sake of Office, sinks
into merited infamy and oblivion.
Chester this will be your fate a year from
next March-only at little more than twelve
months from to-day.
You are too large and comely in person,
polite and dignifed in manner, but really
your political sagacity and brain can be
measured in a pint cup.
You are one of the numerous accidents
that curse the world, and by sneaking ST.
lence, crawl into power.
Very small men always try to shine in
big office.
Mediocrity sits near the end of your stub
nose. Plastic perfidy pleads in your putty
countenance, and there is nothing large
about you but your stomach. Wine and mid
night reveiry will reduce that when you have
retired forever from the gaze of the radical
characters you have so meanly betrayed.
You may then contemplate the vanity of
official recreancy, and if a particle of cour-
age fingers in your trembling heart, you
may crafty the world by initiating the Illus
trious example of your prototype, Judas,
who had remorse enough left to hang him
self.
The Republican party will not need you in
the next national convention, for the IMAM
milliners' of the nation viii take back seats,
with the civil service reformers who now
fiatter your personal and political ambition.
They will commend you in sunshine and
curse you in storms. They will take all the
crumbs of official favor that fall from your
table until the curtain is rung down on your
devoted head at twelve O'Clock on the fourth
day of March 1885.
Then, Chester, get thee to the soliloquy of
Cardinal Woolsey, ponder upon it between
the lines, and retire forever from the gaze of
brave and true men.
The Republican party will have a number
of brave and brilliant men left when you are
but a faded memory.
Grant, with his great heroic, record, is still
living.
Logan, with his faithful friendships, polit-
zeal daring, and illustrious war record, is on
the roster of Presidential probabilities.
Sherman, the most brilliant warrior of our
nation, with hand and heart as true as the
stars, will be on hand to bless the sight of
the ''boys in blue'' and carry their flag to
victory, if needed.
Sheridan, the impulsive hero for the right,
the Murat of cavalry, and the smasher of en-
emies, will be about to stand by the party
that saved the Union.
Edmunds will fill the eye of the Republican
convention, and be a full-length portrait of
political sagacity.
Blaine, with his keen, warm-hearted con-
ception of men and things, will be around
when needed.
Conkling will always be a figure of force
ton that calculates with the ''Lord of the en-
pire state' left out of the problem, is on the
road to defeat before the battle begins.
And then we have Gresham, Teller, Dud
ley, Fairchild and host of other brilliant
probabilities in the various states including,
besides Grant and Conkling, quite a number
of men from the state of New York alone,
any one of whom will make far better Pres
ident than YOU have, Chester.
No, Chester, serve out the remnant of
your term with Folger, the political ass, and
Brewster, the drunken sot, and one or two
more of your remarkably brillient selections,
that you so wisely (O chose to advise with
you in the Cabinet, but do not presume or
flatter yourself into the belief that any sane
gentleman in the Republican party desires
the continuance of an accidental President.
Fred Douglass Tr,bhtldtions.
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