Chester A. Arthur

Who was the President of the United States during that time period and how did they react to such a situation?

The Pleasant Valley War unfolded while Chester A. Arthur , Grover Cleveland , and Benjamin Harrison were in office.

None of them issued a strong federal response.

The conflicts were seen as local lawlessness, and only later did the government address grazing rights with the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act.

It is a matter of much interest to know whether our present President was eligible to the Vice Presidency.

Chester A. Arthur wrote, when nominated as a candidate for the vice-presidency, was, at first, unable to name his birthplace.

The party managers insisted that he should name a spot before he wrote his letter of acceptance.

At that time, he gave out to the press of the country that he was going on a fishing excursion with his friend Robert G. Dunn of the mercantile agency in order that he might have time to prepare his acceptance.

Communication.

The following was received.

office of the commissioners of taxes and assessments number thirty two chambers street new york july fifth eighteen sixty nine to the honorable board of supervisors gentlemen I am instructed by the Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments to inform your board that, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 898 of the Laws of 1879, Chester A. Arthur, Esquire, was appointed counsel to this board on the fifth instant.

Respectfully, your obedient servant, E. F. Babcock, Secretary.

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Also, uh, Chester A. Arthur was orginated, inaugurated today in 1881 today.

He was sworn in.

Hm.

There you go.

They really are random facts, aren't they? [laughs]

Do you know, and what, what film was the Chester A. Arthur in? But it, it as a random fact.

Uh, Nosferatu.

Cincinnati birthplace of professional baseball was also the site of the first World Series game.

Chester Alan Arthur was president of the country, went on October 6, 1882, the Chicago Colts nationally ranked last in an unauthorized series with the Cincinnati Red Sox.

Way back to 1882.

And of course, this is baseball's centennial year.

For that matter, neither did the Democrats manage to avoid such difficulties in those states and cities where they had the majority.

In New York City, for instance, the local Democratic organization, known as Tammany Hall, passed under the sway of a group of politicians headed by Boss Tweed.

He plundered the city treasury until public-spirited citizens, supported by Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic leader of their state, rose in revolt, drove the ringleader from power, and sent him to jail.

In Philadelphia, the local Republican bosses were guilty of offenses as odious as those committed by New York politicians.

Indeed, the decade that followed the Civil War was marred by so many scandals in public life that one acute editor was moved to inquire, Are not all the great communities of the Western world growing more corrupt as they grow in wealth? In the sphere of national politics, where the opportunities were greater, betrayals of public trust were even more flagrant.

One revelation after another showed officers, high and low, possessed with the spirit of peculation.

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Within thirty years travelers were riding across that country in Pullman cars and enjoying at the hotels all the comforts of a standardized civilization.