St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-28
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM.
a Large Humber of Prominent Politicians
at the Funeral of Ex-PreSident
Arthur.
Hints of the Schemes and Counter Schemes
Developed Between the Tear
Drops.
The Home of the Late Samuel J. Til
den--Remarks Upon MIR. Ill
denis Will.
Frank Hatton, the Cowboy PoIiti-
clan, and His Candidate for the
White House.
s,ecisl Correspondence of the Globe.

srecia1 Correspondence of the Globe.
New YORK. Nov. 25.-The funeral OF
ex-President Arthur brought large num-
Der of public men to the city this week,
and. notwithstanding the SolemnitieS of the
occasion. stimulated presidential gossip,
and opened up line of reflection on the
disposition that should be made of our ex-
presidents after they have retired from
office. This is an old topic, and nearly all
the stock suggestions have been repro
duced. TIE many the dignity of the presl-
dental Office seems so elevated that they
argue that there should be some means of
keeping up the honor post-offieially; but
nobody has been able to suggest better
plan than to make eX-preSldentS senators
for life: and that is surely an exceed
ingly poor plan under a form OF govern
ment like ours. One man, publicly dis
cussing the matter, and feeling called upon
to be intensely cynical and strlklngly brutal,
declared that at the expiration OF his term
of office the president should simply die
and save the American people the embar'
rassment attendant upon galvanzing de-
funct dignity. All this is wrong. A lot
of people are constantly distressing them
selves unnecessarily to improve system
which is already perfect. The president
of the United States has power lodged with
him for brief term by the people, and
limited power at that. All we need do IS
to allow him to retire and mind his own
business after we are done with him, and
eniov in retirement the honOrs which be-
long to him. Wecan pay due respect to our
ex-preSidents without constantly running
after them with brass band. This is a
in nd q monarchy hUt If
hard for some people to keep that i'll their
minds.
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That Mr.. Arthur was amply honored ac-
cording to his station was attested by the
tone of the press throughout the country,
and by the demonstration at his funeral.
Looked upon as not much above a New
York ward politician six or eight years ago,
and almost disgracefully expelled from the
custom house by President Hayes and Sec
rotary Sherman, both of whom attended
his funeral, he stood higher in the regard
of his eountrymen at the time of his death
than Hayes now the only eX-president
alive. Hayes is an exemplary gentleman,
and man of much deeper wisdom than he
is generally credited with, but he went into
office under a cloud which has never lifted
He became the object of the implacable
haired of Democrats. who knew they had
been cheated, and his policy after he be-
came president was bitter disappointment
to his own party. He attempted to lay
away animoStieS of the war and cultivate
amiabiIity between the sections before the
Republicans were done swinging the bloody
shirt. He was ahead of the course of
events by about ten years, and was presi-
dent without party, and with an impotent
policy.
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While Mr.. Hayes was here he might have
walked half dozen blocks from his hotel
on Madison square and gazed with some
reminiscent interest at the melancholy man
sion facing Gramercy Park from TWEEN
tieth street, and still bearing on the door
plate the name.