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DAILY iKQUIRER • BUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MbRNmfl, NOTBIIBBR 1$, \m. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The BXQUIRER-SUN is issued every day, ox Oept Monday. The Weekly is issued on Monday. The Daily (including Sunday) is delivered by oarriere in the city or mailed, postage free, to sub •oribers fbr 76c, per month, $2.00 for three months, $4.00 fbr six mouths, or $7.00 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the city or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at 81 .00 ft year. The Weekly ie iiwuert on Monday, and is mailed subscribers, postage (Vee, at $1.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Daily »t $1 per square of 10 lines or less for the Arst insertion, and 60 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each in sertion. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of corporations, societies or individuals will bo charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary rfttea. None but solid metal cuts used. Ail communications should bo addressed to the ■trqoiBBB-SuN. Co a i. oil monopolists live on the fat of the land. Tiif. hoodlum who stands by a friend is ns good as a lump post; but less useful to a city. With no pie and no turkey—all crow —the disappointed oflice-seeker cannot be expected so enjoy his Thanksgiving dinner. ________ Tub IxiH Angeles Pork Packing Com pany announces the "Lilly Ham.” If his brand is named for Langtry it will be a great go. It costs Edwin Booth $2500 per night to be sick in Now York—counting the loss of his share—and the doctor ought to be considerate. When George Washington went to war he staid there until there was no war. Numerous latter day heroes left the front on sick leaves, but came out strong and healthy on patriotism when the spoils were being divided up. The fiend who is continually starting false alarms about neglected graves is worse than a fire bug, and should lie put where lie must be pardoned by a gov ernor before lie can vote. The Augusta Chronicle says: “It is not a fact that Gen eral A. P. Hill’s grave is violated by cows, etc. Ho sleeps at Hollywood, safe from such profanation. But no stone marks his grave. We hope his old sol diers are doing something to place a marble tribute there.” NO EXPLANATIONS NEEDED. After their bushwhacking fight upon Col. Morrison, the Pennsylvania monop oly protectionists and corruptionists are tiying, it seems, to escape the odium of their cowardly warfare by putting forth all sorts of fantastic explanations to ac count for Col. Morrison’s defeat. It is even gravely asserted by correspondents of republican papers that Citizen John Jrrrett and his tinplate bar’l did not in fluence 100 voters in the district, and that the tariff reformer was beaten because the democrats over there nearly all hated him and wont to the polls eager for revenge. This is too a! sard! Perhaps these same correspondents will be good enough to explain, with similar reasons, the remarkable coincidence by which Free-Trader Frank Hurd, in the Toledo district of Ohio, was also am bushed, surprised and routed, while Free-Trader Carlisle in Kentucky was ambushed and very nearly routed, all on the same day. The attempt of monopoly organs to explain the discomfiture of these three democratic candidates by falsely asserting disaffection on the part of their constituents, is just a little more cowardly than the tactics used against them in the elections. They were simply the victims of a protectionist conspiracy with headquarters in Pittsburg. A BAD CUSTOM. Tlie custom of mortgaging ungrown crops is so common and productive of so much evil in some, parts of the south that, there is more or less clamor for legisla tion to regulate or prohibit the practice. In Arkansas many members of the new legislature were elected under pledges to work for a repeal of the law permitting sucli mortgages. Farmers who have rented land, or whose land is encum bered, give these crop-mortgages as secu rity for supplies which they must have. It is a common tiling for them to use this credit to the extreme limit that the storekeeper will allow. When t he crop is harvested its entire proceeds often full a little short of paying the mortgage, and the farmer is not only again without money or credit, but is actually in debt and un der obligations to the store keeper who has “accommodated” him. Such a sys tem of course means higli interest and high prices for everything the farmer buys, yet it would seem very doubtful if a law prohibiting these mortgages would afford much relief. The Little River Pilot remarks: “Our farmers are free people, and the objectionable statute only permits and does not require them to execute mortgages upon their un planted crops.” This gives the case in a nutshell. The evil is not in the law so much as in a failure to live within available means. No legislation will prevent men from running in debt, or teach them how to get out of debt, or live within their income. MEATH Ur EX-riENIDENT ABTH1E. Ex-President Chester A. Arthur died yesterday. He died suddenly, so far as the article of death itself is concerned; and yet death did not surprise and seize him like a robber in the dork. It bad been dogging his tracks without disguise, and he had been facing it and fighting it through the cumbersome vigils of many a lainplit night. A deadly fatality ap pears to brood about the chief and ex- chief magistrates of this republic. It would seem that our quadrennial elec tions would insure us a half dozen living ex-piesidents nil the time. But now we have not a single ex-president living since Arthur lias quickly followed Tilden in his journey out of life. Mr. Hayes is alive, it is true, but never having been president, lie can not lie seriously reck oned among the ex-presidents. In speaking of a mail who has just passed away, many peoplo are prone to concede too much of good to his reputa tion; while others, who bore him a hid den enmity in life, take advantage of the opportunity to slander the mute and un replying dead. These two human and natural predilections are the Scilla and Cliarybdis between which the journalist must ticklishly steer, if he would main tain the golden medium and tell the whole truth for its own sake. In treat ing upon the character of Mr. Arthur, we shall attempt noither to paint him black nor to gild him into a saint, but to tell as best we can, with the light before us, what manner of man he was. Mr. Arthur cannot be justly termed a creature of accident, although the un melting frost that fell in his hair after the star of his life had careered past its meridian, found him in a position which, in middle age, he had never dared to dream of, much less to seek. Prior to the republican convention of 1880 which nominated Garfield and Arthur, Mr. Ar thur had been a local politician of the better class in New York city. He was regarded as being Bhrewd, polished, and in the political sense of the word, trust worthy. He was a disciple and a favor ite of Roscoe Conkling, and had held the position of collector of the port of New York. He was turned out of the collectorship of the port of New York by the then de facto president, Rutherford B. Hayes, on a charge of dis honesty in the management of his office. Tiie charge was untrue, and for this rea son was never investigated. He was re moved to make room for another. Dis honesty never disqualified a man for of fice under that administration, whose head was its living embodiment, and who surrounded himself with a congre gation of crawling, squirming, slimy, icy republican worms, which feasted and fat tened upon the body of that political death, of which the de facto president was the chief reprepresentative. Up to the meeting of the convention of 1880 there had never been a rupture between Arthur and Conkling. Both entered the convention as advocates of the renomination of Grant for a third term, and they were both numbered among the famous 1100 who stood by the old soldier until his flag went down. After Garfield was nominated the con vention took a recess before nominating a vice-president. During the recess Conk ling and Arthur, like many others who wore following the fortunes of Grant, sulked in their tents, and took little or no interest in the further proceedings of the convention. Immediately after the ad journment for recess the leaders came together and decided to offer Arthur the nomination for vice-president as a con cession to the Grunt or stalwart wing of the party. When Arthur was notified of the movement he was in Conkling’s room at the Palmer House. Conkling, who had been in the habit of dictating Arthur’s political movements for many years, said to him imperiously: “Have nothing to do with this proposal.” The New York senator never doubted for a moment that his holiest would be obeyed. It was then that Mr. Arthur’s real ninnhood asserted itself and proved that during all these years he had been a follower, hut not a tool. He turned upon Senator Conkling and said with a haughtiness that fairly withered the “Utica Peacock:” “An opportunity like this never comes to a man who lias reached mv age but once, and I shall im prove it.” From that moment there was a coolness and breach between Arthur and Conkling. And yesterday when death knocked at the ex-president’s door it found the breach still open. Roscoe Conkling never forgives. President Arthur entered the white house under the most trying surround ings that ever environed the going in of any president except Andrew Johnson. His own party was disrupted by an in- ternescine struggle, and each faction stood glowering upon him, not with ac cusations for what lie had done hut with threats for what lie might do. And to add to his embarrassment, it was openly charged by many that Mr. Arthur was indirectly a particeps crimfnis with Giiiteau * in the murder of President Garfield. Perhaps there was a good angel that walked beside the new and trembling ruler of fifty millions of people, for he came througli the fiery furnace of his trials without even the smell of the flame on his garments. If Mr. Arthur had one characteristic that towered above the rest, it was that undefinable hut e\ er perceptible endow ment that people call tact. His tact was almost infinite. With it he discomfited his enemies and delighted his Mends. Othet men have conquered by height of intellect or nigged depth of will; but Arthur’s tact was the charm with which ho voodooed the world. And whether he used it to pacify the swarthy boss of a caucus, or to please the bedizzened belle of a drawing room, each felt its potency nnd then surrendered. Mr. Arthur's administration, while comparatively uneventful, was a really successful one; and if nothing else could he said in its favor, its eminent placidity is attested by the fact that its termina tion found the republican party once more a practical unit. If his administra tion is allowed as a criterion, no republi can president overbad Etindliuv feelings toward the south than Presi dent Arthur had. He was u republican “after the strnitest sect,” and as such his policies were framed. But, Chesterfield as he was, there was depth and breadth enough about him to com prehend the whole union as his country. He is tiie only president of the United States who ever sent a message' to Don g’ess in which the south was not men tioned. He regarded the south as being indissolubly re welded to the union. And in his other messages—besides the one alluded to—when tiie south was men tioned, it was not as a province or a sepa rate section. President Arthur was not a great man in any sense, nor was he little under any construction. While he belonged to the great mass of medioeres in intellect, it must be conceded that no man since tiie days of the younger Adams has taken with him into the white house more of what the world calls polish, than Mr. Arthur undoubtedly possessed. If he was not over sapient in council, nor su perbly eloquent on the rostrum, in tiie parlor he was a very prince. Gray-hair ed and past middle life as he was, women raved over his form and manner and speech. Of Mr. Arthur’s private life perhaps less is known than of any jrisidei.t who ever occupied the white house. Grave charges of immorality and dissipa tion were spread abrtad concerning him by Washington correspondents during his term of office. But the typical Wash ington correspondent will suppress the trutli for the sake of a figure, and tell a lie to round a period. And it is no more than just to give the benefit of the doubt to a man who, as all admit, loved his wife so fondly while living and cherished her memory so reverently after death had divided them. Mr. Arthur was a politician, and as such his detractors never scrupled or slept. In writing his biography it would be hard even for the honest historian to winnow the chaff of slander from the wheat of truth. But Mr. Arthur did possess many noble quali ties, and was a good man in more Senses than one. The death of a great ruler of the people is an accented reminder that— “Time like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away;” and that the very zephyrs that pilot in tiie seasons are whispering— “Those that wept and those that weep Soon shall with these sleepers sleep.” Let us hope that the politician and tiie ex-president has registered his citizen ship in a better country than this; that in the dusty and dominionless grave ho has found a sweeter sleep than he ever knew in the white house ; and that on his fever-fretted brow tie has felt the cool breath of tiie eternal morning. What an Amazing Business We Did UNPRECEDENTED LAST MOHTHI WHAT CROWDS ,WE ZEE .A. ID. How the Goods Moved: The wickedness of Chicago is notori ous. Everybody seems to-be had there, and it is proposed to hang Parsons along with Spies. Prof. Swing will have his hands full. We are equal to the demand. Ask both Telegmph com panies and they will tell you we use the wires daily to re plenish our stock. 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