The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-29

have been licked by serpents, suppose they
have the gift of foretelling future events,
and who are already filing the air with pre-
dictions of Republican di 'aster. May the
New Jersey Legislature be so governed by
wisdom in their election as TO avoid those
dissensions and exasperations that are always
pregnant with ruin TO party organization.
To do this their choice should fall upon
man who stands high in the public regard,
who towers above his fellows and is of such
commanding intellectual presence that the
mere announcement of his selection will 81
lence the mutterings of discomfort and still
the heartburnings of jealousy The Repub-
lican party has such men, aud in the selection
of either Mr.. Frelinghuysen or Mr.. Cort-
landt Parker will fulfill to its fullest measure
this duty. The Senate is no place for illi-
terate retired manufacturers, whose only
claim upon their party appears to be in the
weight of their money bags, and who seem to
be selected as the Great Mogul selected his
prime ministers, by the metallic weight
of their purses. Sancho Panza thought
he could govern an island un-
ill he tried it, and then he was fain
to retire with the wise proverb on his lips,
that ''no man should stretch his feet beyond
bis sheet" Lord Chesterfield somewhere re-
marks ''that men are not made ridiculous
from their real, but from their affected cha
racters." A humpback is only ridiculous under
q fine coat, and limited, uncultivated intel
lect, when it essays to put itself in mortifying
contrast with loftier intelligences. The De-
mocratic party in New Jersey years ago made
itself superatively ridiculous when it sent TO
the Senate man whose only wealth consisted
in the mere accumulations of years of honest
toll, and whose lack of education and culture
was only made more patent by being brought
into direct comparison with the brightest in-
tellects of the age.
Both the gentlemen we have named as
worthy of Senatorial honors have reached the
highest honors of a profession which tasks
the understanding and develops the mental
faculties to the highest degree. They have
both been long and prominently before the
public in the political affairs of the State, and
are both acknowledged by public acclaim to
! be able and eloquent exponeuts of the politi-
cal creed of the party that has now secured
the ascendancy in the Legislature. They are
both prompt and vigorous debaters, and
familiar with the duties of Senator. One
of them has already served with distinction
in the national councils and has been thought
worthy to fill the highest diplomatic position
abroad. Both are refined and cultivated
gentlemen, adorned with all the gentle cour
tesies of life.
1t really appears to us, looking at the whole
question with an honest regard for the repu
tation both of the nation and the State, that
out Of all the candidates named the legisla
tive choice should fall upon one of these tive
gentlemen. The Republicans of the New
Jersey Legislature may rest assured that it is
only such a selection as this that can avoiC
the exasperations of envy and jealousy sur,
to arise upon the selection of inferior men
The force of the general public accord in th
eminent fitness of the choice always over
whelms and crushes out of sight the evi
spirits that might be disposed to create dis
sension and disorder.