Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-07
POMERoY,s DOWNFALL.
From the Lawrence, Kansas, Correspondence of
the st. Louis Republican.
THE EFFECT AT LARGE.

/ THE EFFECT AT LARGE.
remember being in St. Louis when
the election returns came in last November.
1t looked then as though Money had won
its firal triumph, and subjugation TO its
sway was mere question of months and
years. 1t was enough to discourage and
dishearten the most ssnguine of those
whose faith had clung to the certainty of
ultimate triumph for the right. That was
three months ago. Then it seemed IS if
that Senatorial ring, which was the heart
that pulsated the Efe-blood of Radicalism,
had been fortified and perpetuated for indie
finite time. There is at least one link want
ing in that Senatorial ring this morning.
Whether or not they can close up the fright
| full gap this tears in their lines, or save
themselves by throwing overheard this
| Jonah, remains to be seen.
THE CHURCH.
One thing it has done, certainly, and that
is the establishment of the general fact of
Radical senatorial venality. IL has done
another thing, and that is to rebuke sternly
and savsgely the peculiarly Radical fashion
of praising God between two steals, and
stealing everything hands can be laid on
between prayers. At this sort of business
Pomeroy was peerless. He has imposed for
nearly twenty years on the christian credul-
ity of the nation, and has gained the bulk
of his support from that great moral force
in the land.
blush for the name of whit is called
christianity to say it, but Pomeroy yester-
day morning had at his back seVen-tenths
of the protesting christians OF the State of
all denominations, except Catholics. he is
their Prophet and Priest as well as King.
He has poured down the backs OF people so
much of his Shiny JUNCTION that they at last
came to thiDk It was the real spikenard and
themselves duly anointed. The women of
a dozen Congregational churches in various
parts of the State had united in ferveut and
feminine testimonials, gushing as only the
dear ones can gush when they happen to
stumble into politics, to the christian vir-
tues Of Senator Pomeroy. kilograms kept
coming yesterday, even after the blow had
struck, from various caurch societies, SUE
tanning POmeroY snd calling on their rep
resentatives to "vote for him, and thus ex-
press to the world the christian sentimen n
OF Kansas"
But none of these came after there had
been time to carry the news to Christian
Kansas that its idol was felon. Il is sad
thst, among The other melancholy features
of this stupendous drama, the scandal it
puts upon the church should be so promi-
nent. The less that is said about It the
better; but what hideous and Internal
mockery this mixture OF piety and politics
always turns out to be! Buff these Phar-
isaical Christians were uRctuoUs in their
subserviency before Pomeroy in his great
ness, they were precipitste IN their deser-
ton of him when the crash came. Such
holy horror! And such meek eyed aston
ishment! And such hypocritical groans
and orisoDs, If \ HoTk had been q Cors2ir
and the Pomeroy crowd aship-l0ad of Adm
bound pilgrims, he could not have wrought
a more utter terrorism than he did.
These canting hypocrites who had been
tuning their Tyres to the praises Of Pome-
roy sll the week suddenly caught the trem-
or of the coming earthquake, broke their
Jews-harps and fed bowling from the
scene.
SUMMARY.
1t looks to me who rarely enthuse IN
der any circumstaDce-as though this was |
the beginning of the end Of the r 2dical en- |
pire. As a matter of course it is the sub |
stitution of one Radical for another. But |
have deal Of faith in ingalls,. He is
puritan with the instincts and impulses of a |
cavalier. Born and educated in Massachu- |
sets, he has become ingrained with that |
peculiar quality Of westernism that one can
see and feel but cannot analyze, He pos
sasses two essential qualifications for politi-
cal honesty. He is ambitious for fame and
the applause Of bis coultrymen only; five
dollars is the same as a million to ingalls,,
so long as he is comfortable. / will voUch |
for it that he never will steal cent, AID
that no man, having looked him in the eye
once, will ever dare approach him with
bribe.
He is a generous, impulsiVe, whole souled
man, Of Intense and strongly defined con-
victions, and be has a stubborn independ-
enee of character that will make him any
thing but tractsble pack-muls in the A d.
miDistration baggage train. ingalls, is
neither a meek man nor loud man. He
simply minds his own business. Ee never
goes out Of bis own way to ge5 in anybody
else's way; but if anyone happens to get in
his way, the fact becomes obvious directly
that there is somebody in that immediate
vicinity.
Ingalls, is positive without being dogmat-
ic, selfreliant and selfasserting without
being coDc9ited or impudent, and full Of
sand" as the saying is, without being
muIsh or obstinate.
He will reflect great deal of credit on
bis State, snd give ethe managers ofbis psrty
a good deal Of trouble before he gives up
the ghost. B.