Show I I Just J lISt Hist By Albert P. P Phili Philip Chester A A. Arthur tw h pr president of the United Sta State Stati the tile to become preside l expectedly c He lie was the I president to succeed to the I dency b by the assassination o president the others being A AJohnson A AJohnson r Johnson who succeeded I Land and Theodore Roosevelt Roosevell wh McKInley while three thre succeeded owing to natural Ji They were wro John Tyler wh who J zachary Taylor Coolidge who succeeded War Wai Harding Harding- Arthur J Arthur was the least kno knothe the vice presidential nominee nomine S was a Vermonter by birt was a gi graduate actuate of ot Union co New York and was graduated graduate high honors Then he lIe enter law school at Balston Dalston Spa In InI 1 he taught school In North V Po Vt being principal of the r rAfter t After fter his three years as pr prof p pm of ot tho school he resigned am and to New York where he eng enga g the practise of the tho law ij Strong In his antislavery and sympathies he early carly In 1 h reer as a lawyer won the celt celeb Lemmon case which decided cr er a a. slave was liberated by p i from one state to another T of ot the court was In his and an appeal was t taken ken to a a er court Then as the tho atton the state he became associate d William Villiam M M. Evarts Evarta and agal the decision In the supreme J which decision was sustained court of appeals He lIe was qi qu qUI master general of the ri n guard of New York when th war broke out lIe He demon demo S1 his ability by sending nearl fifth fIrth of those who went to th thIn thIn thin In remarkable time Later i came inspector general but 3 he was removed owing to a alc ac i of administration When in 1871 he was app apI ap by fly President Grant to be c cof col colot of ot the port of ot New York he most efficient official but Hayes succeeded Grant th f requested his resignation bu removed W Vb fused and was was elected vice president n ns tie behind hind Garfield and support When Garfield died at Elben thur took the oath of ot office Offic home In I New evv York City th the being administered by dy of the New York and three days later In th Ui the presidents president's room in m the Cap Capit Washington the oath was t to r Chief JI by bv Waite Valte of the United States socourt su so SUI court and he then delivered h augural address His was one of the cleanest In th iii the tory of the country lIe He w w wai s us to a fault He lie b be l lc to the stalwart faction party but regardless he sh ah attention to duty worthy of tion J JIt It was during his aI that tho the famous Star tar Route were prosecuted In tl U ministration after Garfield w Va there were vague vague in circulation that there had h d extensive frauds in the that a ring had been fraud the gov government eminent the stories current were a a an ir n of the tho large contractors thes assistant postmaster general T Tas as J 3 J. J Brady Brad who was was a Well 1 newspaper man of Indiana SE SEat s 5 of at the subordinates In his d dment de dement ment mont Senator Stephen Wl VT I of Arkansas and others Bra signed April 20 1381 1881 and pro ings were begun in m the vaseT aso ase of the principal was dismissed on account o oZ oW r larity s in 1882 aJ ber of ot persons persona were ind arrests followed J The method by bv which the g ment was defrauded consist first obtaining con contracts tracts f fo i routes loutes and subsequently ha hay payments vastly increased ii In for foi increased expediting the route loute ThelI crowd controlled 14 star rout rou rout which they ha had hai 1 contracted t to the malls mails for per perk aT By expediting the th numbe of i this amount wa was i is and on one 10 route 1011 ne the comp comi turn was increased from 3 Z and the revenue revenue revenue-a l from Crom the on the thel TrIals Trial was ivas but per year vear had iad ono one of the states state's evidence but hut a a. ved verd 3 B J not riot guilty was 1 u turned the thel was gas charged but hut finally being eing long drawn out and J M 2 ot of justice after In inV Iny lion tion declared that no gover officials were involved and punished for connection g go gol t with comparatively slight Pj pt pe I IOther ment nent 11 Other than these star rou route there hero was not It a thing tha than j placed laced a blemish on ArthU ministration He lie tend tendered red tg 19 9 coo oo Conkling a seat slat on the th sv U bench lench but the lat latter ter decline JJ 1 He lIe h had id the gog g g and md wishes of the tho people a 01 country CO and hi his only because the country de den Blaine a as th the Republican camor can cam for or tho the presidency most Keenly disappointed bj J failure allure to him a amid ani said mid that he lie died o of a brok broken brokl n. n due lue to Ingratitude by his pal Pj Pi |