Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-25
Ex-President Arthur.

luiiy protected against those VINO Try TO
| find out the truth as to his condition,
| that is impossible to tell just how near
to or far from death he is. ALI the rest
of the reports about his morbid desire
not to miss a word that is printed abcut
| HIM, about his prostration and the sor-
rowful state of mind into which he has
fallen, are said by his friends to be very
little IN excess of the truth. His illness
| began with an ailment of the kidneys;
that Ill turn, grew out of q disconnected
mental condition which has grown mure
and more melancholy; and now it is said
that he eats little else than baked ap-
Piles and milk, aud is very weak indeed.
Chester a. Arthu1's recent history
has been peculiar" says friendly poll
| tlcian, "Hia heart was broken when he
| found he had to leave the white house.
| This country never knew a case like his.
On March 4, 1885, when Grover Cleye-
land was installed, and Arthur came to
| take his leave, his friends say that he
| gave way to tears. He had become in
| tatunted with his position and with So
cial life at tie capital. Hayes and
Arthur had the easiest and quietest ad-
ministrations of the last half OF the cen
tury. if not of the entire existence of the
nation, In fact, as we glance over Presi-
dent Arthur's regime, we shall see that
what annoyances he did feel were main
ly of his own making. When he came
back to Now York 1t was announced
that he had re-entered his former part
nershIp with Lawyers Knevals and Raj
som, and much space was given upin
the newspapers to descriptionso of the ele-
gance with which the ex-president's
rooms, first in the suite of handsome
apartments rented for the firm in the
new Mutual Life building, was fitted up.
! But that elegance was not sufficient
to win back the ex-presiuent to the
humdrum course OF events in law
office, and he has seen very little indeed
4 OF his magnificent rooms there. This
keen disappointment is not the only
grief that has fallen upon THE kiIaly,
genial, even tempered gentleman, Cor
| whom nearly all who know him enter
r tain SO high a regard, and who must, If
O | the truth were known. find kindly lodg-
= mentin the hearts of the people gen
orally. His first great grief was caused
by the loss of his wife. She was an ex.
y ceptional woman, noble among the
D noblest, and his love for her was sc
= great that to this day his friends think il
inetfaceable. She was the daughter OF Q
Lieut.. Herndon, who met tragic death
S Being in ship off the coast with body
t of soldiers, storm was encountered anC
a the ship fonndered. Herndon saw thai
the ships boats were needed to save the
: women and children, and he ordered hil
b soldiers to remain while the weaker onel
e put off to shore. Thus he aud the,
went TO their graveN, heroes eye1y on,
:, of them.
% THE DEADLOCK AT ALBANY.
a nGep. Arthur had been elected vic,
r, president on ticket made up to inter
. est and carry the state OF New York, an(
). Senators Conkling and Platt had re
IS signed and were in Albany lighting Il
d be reinstated, with MIR. Arthur as thel
ally,w Garfield died. 1t was peculia
and most trying tune Tor Arthur. Hi
wife had been proud beyond expression
at her husbands elevation, and he ha
Q left her at home while he obeyed an un
feeling and altogether unworthy sum
mons by some of the leaders OF his part.
TO go to Albany and take part in th
al fierce political battle waglng there. ]
~ was out of place and humlliating fo
"a the vice president to bother, but th
y leaders ipsisted that in such an extraoi
10 binary situation ordinary rules must b
l
IN fuiness of his position was exaggerated
Il it will be remembered, by report pnt
n iished everywhere that the vice pres
a. dent had been shut up in q room in th
Delavan with Roscoe Conkllng, and ha
in there been severely upbraided fc
as rem issness in some way or another. Ii
re next day the report WAS siienced by th
n, appearance, in the thick OF th
tn struggling, elamoring crowd of pol
ne tlcians in the hotel, of Vice Preslder
e. Arthur and Senator Coukling arm
,w arm. Thus they went out into th
L. street and back through the crow
a. again. While Gen. Arthur We
nm thus engaged news reached hil
,ys that cold his wife had contrac
ed while be was last with her, and whlc
then seemed trivial, had developed int
a fatal illness, and that he must hurry
he would see her alive. The last e.
a., press had gone, and 1t was found th,
'er he could soonest reach New York by
a milk train. His wife was yet alive whe
tie he reached her bedside, but she only r
lp- NAMED 80 little while, and she died
l his arms. He was 30 overpowered wi
rec anguish by the loss th
an, his spirit seemed utterly crusht
for the time. Gen. Sharp wei
AZ back to Albany a little later, saying th
OF on The night after Mrs. Arthur's death
lie had walked the whole night long up al
,es. down Fifth avenue with the generi
who was almost distracted. The vi
president was on Hudson river steal
req boat on his wGy from Albany to Ne
gh- York, on July 2, 1851. AS the boat nea
eG her wharf in New York. policem
one shouted from the stripgpiece that Pre-
tryl dent Garfield had been shot. Genel
ARTHUR dropped into char as if he hi
'uS' been shot, and buried his face in
and hands. From that moment until he
came president in fact, no blame "
! attached to his conduct. Yet in the ne
Ma year he adopted political course tt
red gained defeat for bis party in the stat
g;o, aud that many OF his frien
~ think, led to his failure
iiAi be returned as president.
anu onzo B. Cornell was governor of the ST.
gan Rpn of New York, and was desire
Ills, of being returned. He a
- ~ President Arthur had not been frien
i'al and the president put Charles j. Folg
1f secretary of the treasury, in romi
ark' ton. The result was that Grover Ole
Hand was Overwhelmingly elected, Q
lin two years succeeded MIR. Arthur
;a,,, Washington. While in the white hou
endeayoring in ali ways to overcome
atea rural prejudice against him on acco,
sorry OF Garfields death and making no OF
and | mistake, that 10, if Cornells defeat
lity, | the convention was mistake, he
I all dured another sore trial. Roscoe Go
~, 4 l..i,a ,,,;kh b,p, Epnklinu wan