Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-27

tba victorious Half Breeds offered the second place on the ticket to the dis aruutied 'oes.iw,.- t,, 44-AE iL bone Ihfo"H 10 a growlng uos. Arthur whispered to (,onl,llng that he would like it, and his cniet carelessIy tossed it to him. The tax collector wanted the nomination as yindicstion for his removal by President Hayes
 After Arthur had been sitting in the vice president $ Lll;.r on4y llttle more than two weeks, he opened big White House envelope one day and flushed as he glanced at the unexpected contents. lltc nomination. of hated Half Breed'' to the collectorShip of the port of New lork With an excited gesture, he sum moned Senators ConkIinG and Platt, and the three "StaiwartS" famed up with rage at the challenge to them from the new administration When the New 1ork senators resigned their seats and ap- pealed to the legislature of their state to reeiect them as . protest against the administration. the spectacle of the vice president descending to that melee lent color to the already unfavorable impress sion of him.
 When in the midst of the fight and a losing fight, Garfield was shot, the American people revolted at the thought that Arthur and the "Stalwarts" should profit by the assassination. The public mind revolted also at the prospect of a i politiea. boss enthroned in the White House with his motley following about 1 him.
 The popular picture of Arthur, as a city politician out of the pages of Puck,
 was distorted and untrue. simply because ' the background was omitted from it The real, the native character of the
 man had been shaped in surroundings
 very different from those in which the country found him when he first came
 under it's attention. Born in Vermont tc
 a Baptist minister, man of education
 and high principles, who had come ovel
 from Ireland and who soon afterwarG settled in New York state, Arthur haG grown up in village paEsenages, where
 the living was plain and the thinking high.
 ; The father belonged to that moral ant |, intellectual aristocracy Of abolitionists who brayed the contempt of wealth anC
 the persecution of the theughtless for th'
 sake of ans ideal. The son had receives
 an education in a good rural collage ant had piodded his way to the bar by teach ing country schoos. That was the goo; , American mould in which the man ha, been cast in his formative period. Hi political experience had heen only an in : cident of his environment in New Yerl
 city.
 When the great test came and h stood silently for three months in tn
 shadow of tine high office, Arthur feun | himself, and he left petty politics an factions behind him as he entered tE White House. The public was inc=edu ous at first, but was convinced at las that he honestly meant to be president c
 all the people.
 Some of his old associates in Tnachin ] politics were as astepished at the chang [ that had come over their "Chet" as Fla 0 staff and his cronies were then Prime : Hal became King Henry V Not tha = the new president coidly repelied tn = claims of friendship. He simply put frs l, his obligations to the whole eouRtr, e though it cost him dear in the regar
 of men like Grant and Conkling, wh d set him down as an migrate. c Why General, if you were still pres i dent of the New York County Repupl : can Committed, you would be here rlgf T now asking for this very thing" protes
 cd the head of that organization.
 AS president of the New York Coui A ty Republican Committee" Arthu frankly admitted with a smile, T ce tainly would; but since I came here k have learned that Chester A. Arthur Q
 eRe man and the President of the Unite States is another"
 TonlorFew-An Era of Reform.