Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-25
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New York has elected q new United
States Senator's to fillth place once occu
pied by SILAs WRIGHT, in the person OF
REUBEN e. FxNToN, late Governor of the
State. The New York Commercial Ad-
vertises, q staunch Republican paper,
speaks OF Mr.. FKNToN 'as the most sue
cessful fraud that ever held high position
In the government of the country" Its
editor says that sof all the distinguished
citizens who have occupied the Executive
chair Of this State, no one has ever
brought the amount of scandal to-
ti.e doors of the Executive cham
Der that RKUBEN E. FENToN has;"
that .shis administration had been made
notorious by q system of blaekmailing;'
thst, "unlike most men who have held
high official positions, Chez retires from
office with larger bank account, and
more goods, chattels, bonds and mort,
cages than when he entered the Executive
chamber" It adds--"We say nothing Of
the interruptions manner In which he
used his Office for his own advancement"
and winds up its slashing TRADE with the
spithets .'scandalous and disgraceful," as
applied to his administration.
ZAcHARIAH CHANDLER has been re-eiect-
ed for third tenn In the United States
Senate, to fill the place once occupied by
LEWIS CAss. A bitter disunionist before the
war commenced, he aided the war, by his
letter to the Governor of his State, aeking
him to appoint Radicals to the Peace Con-
yention, on the ground that without a lit
tie blood letting the Union was not worth
saving, and he made fortune out of the
war. An exchange says of CHANDLER that
he is rich, and when that is said, all is said
that can be in his behalf. His money made
him Senator and it keeps him in the Sen
ate. He is mainly disting guished for drunk
enness and coarseness in manners and in
!. speech-not the rough exterior that oft
hides a diamond, but rudeness that
trenches upon brutality. Such Is the man
who occupies the seat once filed by CAss.
Minnesota returns ALEX. RAMSEY
another term. Ex-Governor RAMsEY inn
presses the spectator with his being very
solemnl and very wise man, SO profoundly
y.
In fact, as to keep him awake nights. The
indianapolis Seminal says no one would
suspect that the Ex-Governor was good
drinkist, but probably he can hide as much
Bourbon as any bibulous individual in the
public service, and without the slightest
concern, all owing, we presume. to the un-
fortunate condition of our public affairs.
NJ D ...orv alfho,,oh copoo civ veare In
the Senate, has not, as yet, made any i'm
preston upon the country as . statesman,
ye. he may sSsq
q CHARLES SUMNER has been reelected to
the Senate from Massachusetts. He owes
his famesto flogging heonce received,
without resistance, for abusing an aged
Senator, and Is the recognized common
scold OF the Senate, SUMMER fills the place
once occupied by DANIEL WEBSTER.
One JOHN Scorr succeeds BUcKALEw in
the Senate from Pennsylvania, and DAN.
IEL D. PRATT succeeds HENDRICKS, of In
diana. OF these ''great men" nothing is
known, except that, perhaps, they are the
best timber the Radicals had to make Sem
ators OF, and either might, with proper
training, make respectable county court
lawyer.
If the Republican party has intellect, it
Is not of an available nature, for OF the
men thus chosen, If elected to'such SEN
ate as the country possessed twenty years
since, they would have been as much out
Of place as SO many buzzards in an eagles
nest. fi''i ,'l7'
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