New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-12-29

CuOOSrvC United STATES SENATOR'S.
The new Legislatures of Pennsylvania and
Indiana will assemble next week, and will pro
coed. two weeks later, to choose each United
States Senator for six years ensuing IN place OF
the Hons. Charles X. Buckalew and Thomas A.
Uepdricks respectively. 4 more important duty
can hardly devolve on either body, and we
tJust il may be discharged with full conscious
ness of its grave responsibility.
Mcssrs Buckalcw and Hendricks arc among
the ablost men of their party-probaby the two
strongest Democrats in the Senate. They came
in on the tide of National disaster that NATL
rally resulted from tho abortiye. purposcless
campaigns of Mcclellan and Buell.; they go
ont because the Union cause IS completely
triumphant, on platform whereof Mans In
alenable Rights form the base and Emaucpa-
ton the superincumbcnt structure. They were
beaten when, in defiance of the impressive
lesson of 1864, Seymour and Blair were pre-
ferrod to Chase and Hancock as opponents and
standard bearers OF partisan Democracy IN 1868
The defeat was that of their party for which
they were not personally responsible They
were generals of division, sacrificed on the
field of battle because some one had blum
"dcrcd.'
The new Legislatures Of these States will,
we trust, choose in their stead men at LEAST az
Gamble and influential rs they are, while be-
longing politically to better school. II men
should bc taken who compare untavOrably with
them in every respect but their politics, great
harm aud wrong Will have been done to the
Republican cause.
oI TO bpClugp we
hear that pretcndcrs are trying to mako them
selves candidates whose principal qualifications
are impudenco and money, mainly the former.
We have no favorites, and have not even
formed an opinion rs TO the man whom either
State ought TO send To tho Senate; but We
know right well that any man who can think
OF gaining n seat in the Senate by the help OF
money, cannot possibly be- tit for u trust so ex-
allied and influential. There can be no dispute
on this point.
PENNSYLVANIA has vast interests staked on the
legislation Of the next few years She cannot
be ignorant that powerful interests and iniiu-
cnces are silently combining to establish, on
tho ruins of our present Tariff, Financial
policy which must inevitably extinguish hall
her furnace-fires and silence tho clink of the
pick in half her already opened mines. She is
in peril of balcful legislation even from the
XLIst Congress, already mainly chosen; either
in that or its successor-pcrhaps IN both-her
Mineral industry must battle for existence.
She will need therein the very abest and most
influential representatives: she could well afford
this hour to give Ten Millions o. Dollars for a
Henry Clay or Walter Forward 20 put into
Mr.. Buckalew's place. We do not say she has
him not we only insist that she shal! now put
her best foot forward.
When we first looked down, in 1876, upon
the Senate from its gallery. Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster, John C. Ca'roun. Silas Wright, John
NJ. Clayton, Thomas II. Benton, Benz. Wat
l,ins Leigh, William c. Preston, John j. Crit
tendon, Willie i. MaDgum. John Davis,
Thomas Ewing. James Buchanan. Hugh l..
White, Felix Gundy, and Samuel l.. Southland,
wero membeTs-and the body was considerably
less numerous than il IA to-day. The present
Senate has many able and justly eminent
members, and yet we cannot realize that HUI
man Progress is forcibly exemplifed in COM
parison Of its roll of membership with that OF
1886. Let us trust that, wherever improve
ment is found practicable. the opportunity will
be fully profited by