The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-23
THE UNSEEMLY QUARREL OF THREE
BRETHREN
From the Wilmington (Del) Commercial.
"Brds in their little nests agree,
And it's shameful sight,
When children of one Family
Fall ont and chidp and nUntv


''Birds in their little nests agree
And It's shameful sight,
When children of one Family
Fall out, and chide, and hgnt'
Fancy, for moment, what the world
would say, were any of the larger States to
fall so completely into the hands of a single
family as Delaware has DONE Suppose that
III the choice of a United States Senator in
Massachusetts, the only competitors had
been three brothers named Wilson, and that
their party associates had intrigued labored,
and quarrelled over the question as to which
of the three should be chosen. Or apply it
TO New Jersey, and imagine that nobody
was named for this high position but three
brothers of the Frelinghuysen family. In
either case, or in any like it, except in Della
ware, would there not have been one univer-
sal chorus of ridicule at people who should
be so subservient as to yield to such narrow
ownership, and of indignant rebuke to the
men who thus so greedily monopolized power
Fancy New York absorbed by three Conk-
iipgs, Illinois by three Logans, and the
spectacle is at once absurd and unreason-
able.
In any other State than Delaware such q
condition of things has never existed, and
certainly could not exist. In Delaware, alone
does it seem possible and natural. But even
here, by analysis and comparison, we may
perceive how scandalous the circumstances
are. That three brothers, children of the
same parents, natives of the same home
dwelers in the same State but few miles
apart, devoted to the same party, and ac-
knowledgiDg a common platform of political
principles; laboring together, hitherto, in
one combination should become the sole
competitors for high Office, and with equal
desire strive to grasp it, is something new in
American politics, as we trust it always may
be. When the struggle for preferment is
between brethren, and their intrigues are
one against the other, when the one who
succeeds does it to the bitter disappointment
and modification of his brothers who failed,
it is an exhibition neither beautiful nor edi-
flying.
But even more than this, here was one
who had already been United States Senator
twelve years. Had his services been most
faithful and acceptable, he might we'll have
been satisfied with term so long, and have
yielded to his kinsman with ready grace and
cordial heart. Under the circumstances, his
exertion to; reseat himself was most unkind
and most unjustifable. Speaking from a
neutral standpoint We unhesitatingly say
that the place justly belonged to Cove
Salisbury. Willard has not only been Sena-
tor twelve years, but he has been Senator in
the face of all propriety, and in defiance of
public protest That he should be again
elected was unreasonable and wrong. He had
no right to think of another term. He should
name. With his brother-in-law made Gov
ernor, and his county thus fully honored, he
should have respected the well-understoed
basis upon which that honor was conferred,
and dealt honorably with the brother whose
hand bestowed it.
Governor Salisbury doubtless feels bitter
and disappointed. In our opinion he has
reason for it. That his brother Willard should
thus have thwarted and I'M jured him isl lust
orOupd for IniSapthrOp The honor ygb1oh
he has lost SO unexpectedly and so unfairly,
is q high one, rarely within reach. In six
| years more there may be no chance for him.
! The prize has probably been struck from his
hands forever. That one brother struck it
away, and another seized it, must add in
creased bitterness to his reflections.
And yet, Governor Salisbury should re-
member that none have had a closer grasp on
place than himself. None have monopolized
honors and profits more greedily. If his own
brothers have well acquired the arts of self
seeking, and personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT, there
is no teacher from swhom they have more
probably learned it than from himself.
THE IMPERIAL GROWN OF GERMANY.
From the ~ Y. Herald.
Now is Germany one; like the breath of the storm
The glad tdings echo around.
Now, Emperor, rise from thy tomb again;
Tbs ravens are underground.
We have published King Williams procla-
nation, dated Versailles, and embodying a
formal acceptance of the imperial crown of
Germany. The proclamation is in every
sense worthy of the great occasion. 1t is
brief, yet exhaustive. 1t is full of gratitude.
but it is also full of dignity. Yielding to the
appeal of the German princes and the free
towns, the King considers it his duty to accept
the responsibility of the imperial dignity and
to restore the German empire, defunct since
! 1906.
The new Emperor relgiously recognizes a