Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-30
PRESIDENT ARTHUR.

Mary Clemmer in her last washington
letter" to the N. Y. Independent, has the
following complimentary words for Pres
ident Arthur. It is strong endorsement
of Mr.. Arthur's course, and comes from q
sensible and intellectual woman who
lives in Washington, and knows whereof
she affirms
The President is one who attracts
strong personal regard from men. They
care for him and care for his fellowship
and confidence. These qualities have
drawn a very strong personal adherence
to him from some of the best men in the
Republican. party. The country might
be astOnished could 1t know how many
enlightened citizens desire at heart con-
tinuance of the Arthur administration,
an administration that has been character
lied by fairness, dignity, wide vision and
good will toward all classes. As chief
executive, President Arthur has proved
himself to be one greater than mere
politician or man Of party, a real lover
and enlightened servant of his country.
No man could have filled most difficult
place with greater personal credit than
he has done and never will man enter
and continue in the Office of President
under more depressing conditions than
he did and is doing. 1t illustrates the
mutations of human opinion and feeling,
the fact that President Arthur leaves his
term of Office under a set of conditions
and associations the opposite of those
that gave color to the beginning of his
administration. Nominated for Vice
President as Stalwart of Stalwarts, the
contidant of Grant and Conkling, he has
already outlived the friendship and good
will of both these men, and that through
no disloyalty of his own. It was not his
fault that, in his more exalted place,
meeting the demands of great nation,
he found it impossible to fulfill all the
selfish claims and satisfy all the demands
of his personal friends. He was too wise
statesman to dismiss President Garfield
oficeholders just to fill their places with
but no less he failed to satisfy his old
time friend and ally, who never fergave
him. Grant, likewise, fails to overlook
like offenses, and, within a week, in
Washington, the hero of the Wilderness
has openly declared himself to be for Lo.
gan as his chosen candidate. Both Grant
and Conkling have given proof that even
the masculine being finds it not always
easy to rise from the prejudice of per
sonal feeling to universal principle
They are angry with "Chet Arthur" fol
forgetting and failing their persona,
selves-not with the President of the
United States, who has proved himself
large enough and brave enough to break
the demands of personal claim, to NEE
and supply the exigencies of nationa
issues. The price of his valor is the with
drawal of their favor. Politically, Ches
ter Arthur is received coolly as a candi
date by his old supporters, because un
expectedly they found HIM strong enough
and astute enough to use power for tn
good of his country, rather than for thu
service of his friends. Thus we have
only to examine the conditions which
have hampered and oppressed the Presi
dent from the beginning of his admins
tration to the present moment, to SCI
why doing the best was not sufficien
to call forth the enthusiastic support O.
either of the conflicting extreme wings o
the Republican party. This is the solt
cause why, while hundreds praise Presi
dent Arthur for doing we'll, he has not
as candidate, the overwhelming supper
of his party, as a party. A decoroas ad
ministration commanding the respect o
all unprejudiced persons, does not viii
the ardent support of the self centered
self-seeking candidate or his supporter.