New-York tribune., 1873-12-19
PINGH


PINCH
Pinchback stands at the door and discord-
ant Senate wrangles over the question of his
admission. 1t is spectacle to make angels
weep. The Hon. Oliver p. Norton who is a
"leading statesman says the State of Louis
lana is wronged every day that he is kept out
of his seat. More than that, this treatment is
contrary to the Constitution of the United
States and in such weather AZ this decidedly
prcjudicial to the constitution of Pinchback.
Mr. Morton says the President has deter
mined who is the Governor and which is the
Legislature Of Louisiana, and upon that deter
mination demands that Pinchback be admit
ted at once. 1t is a question of law, he says,
and not of politics. OF course it is IL will
hardly be denied that President Grant saved
Louisiana to the Union. VIII anybody i'll the
Senate or out have the effrOntery 10 deny his
right to select its Governor and Legislature
Mr.. Morton is quite right in his demand.
The people of Louisiana have - though
majority of them seem not to be aware OF
it-been struggling for fifteen months to be
represented somewhere and in some capacity
by Pnchback. As Governor, Member of Con-
gress, or Senator, they are determined he
shall stand up for them, and in their name
draw pay. The voice of Louisiana-where
in the familiarity of social intercourse the
Senator expectant is known by the endearIng
abbreyiaton "Pinch'-comes up in laundering
tones to this dallyng Senate. crying, Let in
"Pinct, Let in Pinch ~ And still stands the
Pinchback at the door, still howl the Louisi
ana lowlands, and still Oliver p. Morton
echoes like a patriot and statesman the
wall Of the bayOus and the swamps, " Let in
"Pinch.n
And why not7 In the name of common
sense and the fitness of things, why notf
What Is Piuchback more or less TO the Sen
ate! With Carpenter in the chair, what diff
ference will another Pinchback on the floor
makef The country calls for more Pinchbacks.
More currency and more Pinchbacks is the
cry. Mr. Kelley Of Pennsylvania puts it up
in the House, and Mr.. Butler of Massachusetts,
strikes the key for the chorus. Give Pinch
back currency in the Senate, and make the
currency Pinchback in the House that has
been the drift of the debate for a day or two
past. Could anything be more delightfully."-
cOnsistentY 1t appeals to the instincts of Sena-
a few years ago to pay the National debt In
grecnbacks, he gave out the flavor of Pinch
back when he said we had " the best civil
"service OH the planet he was still advOcat-
ing Pinchback when he extOlled the Admin
istration for its measures of retrenchment and
REFORM as he did month or two ago. the
scent of the rose hung round him still, and
patient people, recognizing the odOr, whispered
under its breath, "Pinchback."
Then there 3 the Treasury Department.
Pinclback at the head of it, Pinchback per
vading it, Pinchback all through. And there
too they abbreviate it and call it Pinch
in the Treasury. Why not then Pinchback in
the Senatef With Pinchback in tho depart
ments and in the currency, Pinchback profess
siOns in all the platforms of the Administra-
ton party for tho last two years, Pinchback
statesmanship and Pinchback finance, why
keep the only genuine Pinchback-if the
expression may be allowed-out in the cold at
the door of the Senatef The Senate Is full;
why not put up the signi BY all means let
him ill., Put his card up over the door of the
Senate. There is Mr.. Cameron at tho head of
the Committee on Foreign Relations, Mr..
Flanagan at the head Of the Education Com
mittee and Mr.. Carpenter in the chair there's
the list of combinations there's the record in
the case of POmeroy, and Patterson, and Har
Ian and then there are Mr.. COnkling and
others figuring as statesmen-whoever looks
these things all over carefully and then reads
Pinchbackr over the door. will go away i'm
pressed with the fitness of things and never
ask question.
And if we might imagine the shades of the
great Senators Of the past-Of Webster and
Clay, and Adams aud CalhOun-revisiting the
scene of their earthly labors and their earthly
triumphs, during this debate, we should doubt
less 500 them, each with shadowy finger on
shadowy nose, remarking, ~ he faded into
night. "Pinchback!" ~
Let him in, by all means let him in. Pinch
back to the Pinchbacks. Get together. The
only thing that is Mt Pinchback in the policy
Of the Administration is paid out in fractions
Of q dollar, and will shortly be stopped en-
tirely Still standeth Pinchback at the door,
and still howl the bayous and the swamps of
the wronged and outraged State, " Let in
"Pinch!"