The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-06
POLITICAL BREVITIES.

TOEI ISHL DnEtt lESs
General Samuel f. Carey is to take
the stump for the Democratic ticket in
Connecticut.
The Louisiana Legislature has rati-
fed the negro suffrage amendment. But
who ratified the Legislature'
The New York Herald asks the follow
ing after wheat, what I" Whisky.
After whisky, who" Our noble Sem
ators.
The departure for Washington of the
Iowa battalion of the office-seeking
brigade is chronicled.
QUEER.-Nobody whe calls to see
Grant wants anything. They only drop
in to pay their respects. Never was
such self-abnegation seen.
When the lately emancipated negro
slaves of the South voted for Grant and,
by being the balance of power, elected
him, they either had the right to vote
or they had not. If they did have it,
why this proposed amendment to give
it to themf--and if they did not, then
Grant was elected by illegal votes.
The members of the Pennsylvania
Legislature want their pay increased
from one thousand to fifteen hundred
dollars. If they cannot make up the
difference cut of the lobby they are
poor set of legislators and ought to
emigrate to this State and be sent to
Albany; or, if they have influence
enough, go to Washington, where green
backs are so plenty that members of
Congress paper their walls with them
and Pacific railroad bonds.-NeW York
paper.
GREELEY EXCoRIATED. - Hugh J.
Hastings, Esq, leading Republican of
New York, says: SIN conclusion, Mr..
Greeley may continue to exclaim, 1 am
holer than thsu.' He may sputter and
swagger, rave and swear, and spit
through his teeth liar and villain
He may 90 on humbugging the unso-
phisticated that he is an honest man
and political saint, but he will never
be able to make the writer of this arti-
Gle believe he is anything else than
irst-cass fraud and hypocrite."
The great State of Louisiana may be
excluded from representation in the
Forty-frst Congress; but that little rot
ten borough Nevada, which polls total
of only 5000 votet, or about one-half
the number of votes polled in some sim
gle wards in this city, is equal to the
whole State of New York in the United
States Senate. That noisy nuisance
Nye and his fellow-Senator to be'chosen
to represent the miners and adventures
of Nevada, out-vote the Senators OF
States which could swallow hundred
Nevadas and then be hungry.
The strongest Democratic card IN the
coming election in Connecticut Is the
fact that the elected Legislature will
be called upon to accept or reject the
proposed fifteenth constitutional amend
ment. No State in the Union is 80 bit
terly hostile to negro suffrage When
the State has been strongest in Repub-
lican votes it has been most pronounced
in rejecting this "boon." Many Re-
publican candidate for the coming Leg
islature in that State will be badly beat
en- on his own ground on this very is'
sue. The Republicans of Connecticut
favor negro suffrage in Arkansas, but
they want none of it in Connecticut.
WHY SHOULDN'T He HAVE ITf-The
Toledo Blade states that sort of chum
or crony of General Grant when lie used
to haul wood from Carondelet ten years
ago is now getting up petition asking
for the office of Collector of Internal
Revenue in st. Louis. He is discon-
nected with the politicians, and expects
to get the office on the strength of old
friendship. Why shouldn't he have it ?
Ten chances to one he is more honest
and better qualified for the place than
nine-tenths of the collectors of internal
revenue now in office.
EX-CoNGRESsNiEN AS LoBBYISTs.-By
far the most pernicious of all lobbyists
are ex-Congressmen, These gentlemen,
failing to secure further recognition
from their districts, return to haunt
their scenes of former triumph, as
claim and lobby agents. Having ac-
cess to the floor they can approach men,
bers in a way denied to the common
agent, who has to send in his card and
take his chance of catching the victim
on the wing.
There is something so inexpressibly
degrading in this that it fills me with
wrath. This seems to be the general
feeling, for the unhappy Congressman
who thus degrades himself does not last
long. He soon wears patience ont and
disappears forever. If he has talent
enough to push successfully claim, he
has talent enough to rise in a more hon
orable way.-Don Piatt, to the Cincinnati
Commercial.