Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-20
GUITEAU'S GHOST.
1t Stalks Forth Into the Political
Arena.
Wayne MacVeagh RattIes Its Loathsome
Bones in Chester A. Arthur's
Guilty Face.

PmILtDELPHlA, Pa, MAY l9-The Times
ton orrow will contain an open letter from
ex-Attorney General MacVeagh to Secre-
tary Bristow on Arthur as a Presidential can
didate. 1t opensthus: 81 notice that you
are announced to address a meeting to-mor-
row ight in New York in support ofthe
proposition that the political career Of Ches-
ter A. Arthur makes his elevation to the
Presidency by the votes of his fellow citi-
zens more desireable than that, for instance
of Senator EdmundS or Senator Sherman or
any of our eminent public men whose names
are frequently used in connection with that
great office As YOU extortcd my admira-
sion and support and
Mr.Arthur's Hostility
eight wears ago nv vour efforts to bring the
guilty in high places Ia punishment, am
sorry to find myself differing 80 radically
from YOU as to The present duty of men who
care tor higher and purrr public life. But
nv warm personal regard for YOU makes
M dc>irou> that your speech should be
guod speech. even in bad cause. vcu-
furr. therefore, to offer vnu fcS Sugges-
'irm>. At the threshold ! ought to warn
vou that while nobody cnvieS Mr. Arthur
the grcnr prize, a. far beyond his eXpec Ia
tiou, ~ his deserts, which he drew in
"The Lottery of Assassination"
yet nobody has forgotten the pregnant fact
Guiteau was the original Arthur man. That
he killed President Garfield expressly 10
make Mr.. Arthur President aud that he did
make him President by that act for nearly
four wears. Now, in view Of this aw ul
tragedy and its results it has alwas seemed
to good many people, outside of Wall
street, Of course, that proper sense of de-
cencv and of the fitness Of things would
have led President Arthur and his friends to
see that his true course. was to be-
satisfied with the one term thus
secured to him and not to challenge his
countrymen to review his political career
and ex IrcsS their opinion of it. As how
ever, YOU propoec to hold mp that career as
wcrthv Of especial honor and even of the
highest office in the gift Of the people in
preference. for example. to the political
career of Senator EdmundS or Senator
Sherman. will gladly help you to few
points in the line Of vour argument" Nc
Feagh then cites the building up and man
aging of the
Republican Machine
of the citv Of New York to the noble attitude
Mr. Arthur maintained towards the civil ser
vice orders of President HAYES, defying both
the President and the Secretary Of the Treas
urv and refusing either TO obey their orders
or resign his office. TO. the third term
speech at the Dorsey bouquet The first
and last occasion in our history
when ore man was publicly praised
bv another for hrjbiug voters. To Mr.. Ar.
thur part in the resignation of Mr. Conk-
ling and Mr. Platt and TO his conduct at
ALBANY until summoned to Washington b.
the sound of Guieau's pistol To the mad
riot of columny and defamation of the dead
Garfield, in which for many months the most
intimate friends and associates Of Mr..
Arthur INDUCED" The remainder Of the
points are in the same line