The Van Buren press., 1873-04-08
Political Corpses .
The Digereacs Betreen Br'oe'y ana
ToH. Felony and Compsnsdti0n.

The Didoreqcs Betreen Dft0e'y ana
Toll. Felony and Compensation.
rwa.h,,s,on Correspondence Chicago Tribune.l
II takes a man long time to kno'
that he is dead and this is what is tn'
matter with former senator OF the I'm
ted States, one of the pioneers OF WicA
I .luess in that once noble body,
JAMES HARLAN,
IN cmigrc from Iowa
To rrassure himself Of existence, he
has bought with the $4,000 he to"t
from Durand Il Co, u controlling inter
est in an uncompensating publicatle
,, called the Chronicle, one Of the organs
OF the lobby which maintains precarl
Gus existence here, going into torplditl
in the summer to reverse the conditions
of the alligator, and in winter scaiy'
brazen and rapacious.
But the moral corpse Of the senator
cannot be said to take a new existence
ipon itself by playing the spectre OF the
highwayman Half. shorn, melancholy,
mentally in hell, the ghost of Ha Ian st,
permeates the air of Washington, seek
.nL, with the frantic eagerness OF the dy'
| ing Falstalf when be fingered the cover
let's, to pu the ragged curtain OF the ke
publican party over his nakedness, He
does not know that the Republican party.
like the Democratic, is corpse above
| ground, exhaling nothing, but Davorlng
the wind and no hearts ease, nor dan
! delioJ, nor catnip, nor snpdowor, IN the
nosegay, makes more decided odor
tnan EXhortation jim
Col Henry 5 McCJmb told me dis
tinctly that Harlan not only received
$4,000. but about $4,000 from the Pa
fife railway interest He received this
not, as Durant says, because he was
popular-ior he is an awful pill to
worldly man made up ofcommon metre,
he collection box, and the pertormanc
called amongst merchants clerks " knock
town but because he was handy, ana
natural adept at official grand larceny.
He ia not only dead: he is buried, ex
,ept as to the winged memory ofhmself,
which continues to buzz like the associa
tinNs OF a wind mill
Let Carl Schurz and other honorable
gentlemen be no more offended at thIs
daily prison blast from the extinct Har
an, than if they were passing purgator'
and there gibbered at the bars something
which was artlculate, and malicious, and
unhappy, and no more.
CoNKLING on QUiDDIT..
Roscoe Conklug has made speech
4. 4 1 =.
burglary. His theory is, that, when a
Nesr tloypole, like Caldwell, has once
got into the senate, there he mus be ,n
tertained as one Of the family, because
the people who "piped " the house at the
5.Aio Legislature were the legitimate au-
tborip,s' ard showed him into the wind
ow as n neat g.. tIe has only to stay
there six years, and taha an inventory OF
the plate and spoons and us Is, after
all, the legitimate sphere ola senate, in
our day, The lobby elects the senator,
and the senator passes ont the spoons t.
the Central Pacific and other enterprising
confederates,
II is queer to see the straits these meh
are at to drag the world to their level
After a man like Carl Sehurz has served
the party on its own terms, and delivered
addresses as men deliver lectures, out
side OF his own baiiwick they tninN it no
dishonor to produce The contract AID
seek to confound labor with corruption
Conllings plan of debauching public
discrimination is 60 make it appear that
bribery and toll are the same, felony and
compensation. His answer to The charge
that be took $1,000 to accomplish his
election, is that used in every boozng
ken and crib in the country; "Gou are
a liar. Such is senator of the United
States in place of Silas Wright and Will
lam II Seward
All this accompanied with sensual
look at the tlimness of his leg, as if il
were a'other's property; with voice
nasal and sing song, such rs is acquired
by being hoarkcned to by its proprietor;
and with strut which is the country &C,
tors in the role of Joseph Surface