the entire country was horrified by the fact that chester arthur might be president. but unlike conkling, arthur was vacant and grief stricken. the last thing he wanted was for garfield to die. he hid himself from public view and refused even to go to washington for fear would look like he was waiting in the wings and a cut himself off from conkling. finally, after turning his back on the man who had made him come arthur found moral strength in the most unlikely of places. the letter of a young invalid one man named julius and. fans believed in art fair when one else did, when he didn't even believe in himself. after the shooting, sand wrote to arthur, if the spark of true mobility in you now is the occasion to let it shine. faith in your better nature forces me to write to you, but not to ask you to resign. it is more difficult and brave, reform. enter resumes that, not least of all, arthur's come a day. he changed likely and try to be the president garfield would've been had he lived. he became an honest and respected leader and never forgot julius fans. not only did

that is chester arthur. conkling was a vain, preening bird of fully powerful machine politician who appointed himself as garfield's enemy. he wore canary yellow waistcoats. he used lavender inc.. he had a straight spectral in the middle of his forehead and he prokhorov at the slightest touch. in fact, his vanity was so outside he was famously ridiculed buy it by another congressman on the floor of the congress. but conkling was no joke. he was dangerously powerful. as a senior senator from new york he controlled the new york customs house, which was the largest federal office in the united states and controlled 70% of the country's customs revenue. conkling tightly controlled the state and the expected complete and unquestioning loyalty. in fact his apartment in new york was known as the morgue. conkling was enraged when his candidate former president grant, didn't get the nomination but he was apoplectic when he realized that he couldn't control garfield. to conkling, the attempt on garfield's life was his

the entire country was horrified by the fact that chester arthur might be president. but unlike conkling, arthur was vacant and grief stricken. the last thing he wanted was for garfield to die. he hid himself from public view and refused even to go to washington for fear would look like he was waiting in the wings and a cut himself off from conkling. finally, after turning his back on the man who had made him come arthur found moral strength in the most unlikely of places. the letter of a young invalid one man named julius and. fans believed in art fair when one else did, when he didn't even believe in himself. after the shooting, sand wrote to arthur, if the spark of true mobility in you now is the occasion to let it shine. faith in your better nature forces me to write to you, but not to ask you to resign. it is more difficult and brave, reform. enter resumes that, not least of all, arthur's come a day. he changed likely and try to be the president garfield would've been had he lived. he became an honest and respected leader and never forgot julius fans. not only did