, 1884-05-21
ALL FOR ARTHUR.
A Mass Meeting With a One
Sided Tendency.
Some New Workers Who Favor
the Administration
And Several Chicagoans Who
Hold the Same Views.
THE ARTHUR MASS MEETING.
A Big Blowout Among the New
York Business Men.

NEW YORK, May 2O.-A great mas.
meeting of citizens and business men was
called to express approval Of the admins
t~ration of President Arthur and urge his
denomination for a second term was held
tonight at Cooper Union. A more or.
DERBY and intelligent assemblage than that
which crowded the great hall was never
before seen in this city. At 7:30 every
seat in the building was occupied, and
half an hour later, when Cornelius n.
Bliss, OF Bliss, Fabian q Co., called the
meeting to order, not another person
could find standing room in the hall.
ThroDgs still continued to pour into the
doorway, until finally, at $40, the com
mandant of police gave orders to close the
doors.
Among the audience were large numbers
OF ladies. Seats were provided upon the
platform for about sixty people. Among
the prominent persons who occupied them
were Cornelius n. Bliss, Frederick S.
WinslOw, Henry Ward Beecher, Benia-
min II. Bristow, Edwards Pierrepont,
Assistant United States Treasurer. A
band at the right of the platform dis
coursed popular airs. When Mr.. Beecher
made his appearance the audience gave
three cheers. The applause continued for
some time after he took his seat. The
Siamese Minister came in just before the
meeting opened, and he, with the mem
beers of his suite were given seats upon the
platform. At s o'clock, Cornelius n.
Bliss called the meeting to or
der in Il brief speech. who is
Chester A. Arthur he asked,
He is a man who has proved himself.
under trying circumstances, one of the
NEST able presiding officers this nation
ever had. That he has been subject to
so little criticism is a marvel, The bitter
ness of men whose names should be
inveigh instead of McYeigh displayed to-
wards Arthur is nothing compared to the
invective heaped upon Washington, and
so as to jackson, Lincoln and Grant, up
to Hayes, and when Hayes
took the Presidency the country had
been scorched with fires of war,
and as the physician applies sweet oil and
poultices to the skin of scalded men, so
the nation needed a poultice, and it got it
loud laughter). When elected Vice
president Mr.. Arthur had been an ardent
New York politician. loyal to the party
and his friends, carrying himself, perhaps,
beyond the line of prudence, but | honor
a man whose imprudencc springs from
the integrity and loyalty of his heart Zap
plausel. When, by the terrible deed of
an insane man, he became Presi-
dent, he forgot things he
remembered merely as a politician of New
York, and turned with greater trust and
wider horizon to confront the duties be
fore him, and when it was necessary he
should sacrifice a bosom friend rather
than involve the country in old troubles
and bitterness again, he gave up the
friend. Now, as to civil service, l think
investigation will show that President
Arthur was the first to institute civil ser
I vice reform. He began it when he was
in the custom house and he still CON
tinues it. | do not believe in the non
sence of no third term. | hold hat if a
man proves competent he should be put
in for n third, a fourth, or ever a fifth
term. If, by his acts, any man ever
earned denomination, Mr.. Arthur de
serves his. | don't say the non-election
of Arthur is going to ruin the country.
The country will prosper whoever is Presi-
dent; but it is certainly the case that its
prosperity is assured as far as it can be
assured by the action of any one man.
Hon. Benjamin ii. Bristow, ex-Secre
tary of the Treasury, was then INTRODUCED
and was most cordially received. The or
ator closed with the following reference tC
the letter of Mr.. McYeagh, published thi.
morning: My distinguished friend who
has been put to the inconvenience of rush
ing into print to give me points for.
speech, does not seem to have quite un
derstood that this meeting was called b!
free and Independent voters who have
habit of thinking for themselves upon al
matters of public concern, and who havt
no other end in view than the public good
| must decline his invitation to go into thu
slums of personal defamation. Bristov
retired amid cheers, and after a few othe
speeches the meeting adjourned. A com
mittee of one hundred will be ]appointe,
to go to Chicago.
FOLLOWING NEW York.
CHICAGO, May pa telegram signe,
by the presidents of the First and Com
mercial National banks, John V. Farwell
Philip d. Armour, Henry Keep, o. W
Potter and other representatives of larg
commercial and financial interests WI
, sent tonight to the business mems meet
i ing, in New York, in behalf of Presiden
; Arthur's denomination. The dispatcI
expresses the appreciation of the import
anee of the call of hat meeting am
endorses the spirit and sentiments of tn
call and believes Arthur should be nomi
t mated, both in justice to the welfare q
the entire country as to one who ha
made so good a president"