New-York tribune., 1874-12-17
COJlIfITTEE-N1N W1LL1CE.

which has taken pains to make a collection or
articles from tho Democratic newspaper press
of Pennsylvania on the question of United
States Senator, William A. Wallace has the
best chance of election. Mr.. Wallace is some
what known to the people of his State and
country as State Committee. Upon one or
two occasions he has enlarged the vote of the
State of Pennsylvania in manner that eX-
hibitcd great ingenuity, and, as things go
craftsmanship. Next to extending the area OF
freedom, enlarging the legitimate vote is con-
sdered as emitting a statesman to the conf
dence of his fellow-mcn and to some lucrative
and lofty position under Government It'is
upon Mr.. Wallace's great services as a Commit
tee that he is now running for the Senate. 1t
is generally believed in Pennsylvania that the
late victory of the Democratic Party in that
State-of which Mr. Miller, another State
Committee eloquently said, "The setting
.'sun lit up the banners of the Democracy in
eight and made them glorious was achieved
by Mr.. Wallace. Much surprise and some in
dignation are manifested by the admirers of
Mr.. Wallace at the fact that the fruits of the
victory are not to be handed over to that per-
son without discussion. The Patriot says he
would have been the spontaneous choice OF
"the Democracy of the State" any time
within number of years, had an op-
pOrtunity been presented to elect MIN
to the Senate of the United States.
And this is so obviously true that we hope
no evil-dispOsed person will remark upon 1t
that the same thing is true of several states
men who few years ago would have been
the spontaneous choice &c." but for variety
r nnt in hn
line. Zone of them, we think, is in the insur-
ance business at Memphs.)
The Harrisburg newspaper reOces in the
manifestations of approval OF the selection OF
Mr.. Wallace by "thc organs OF the Dem0c-
"racy," because they represent the bone ana
"grste of the party" and show that the
peOple have rallied with unerring sagacty
around the standard of their leader" We
may remark in passing that nobody ever runs
for town constable in Pennsylvania without
being a standard bearer and leader. and there
is no record extant of the nomination OF any
ne nersou Cor any Office who did not have the
people rallying round his standard with a.
erring sagacity. It's the most common thing
in the world for the people to rally with un-
crring sagacity round the standard of some
body who is willing to serve his country as
constable and "stand treat for the crowd"
We are panied to learn. however, that. in
strong contrast with these tributes to Com
miitceman and statesman from the bone and
griste of the party, petty calumnies,
"dictated by personal rancor and spitc,"
have been "hurled at the head of
civilian A. Wallace ever since it was
definitely ascertained that there was DEM
"ocratic majority in the Legislature of Penn
sylvania, which was in great measure due
" to his eiiorts.' What these "pctty calum-
MES" are we do not learn, but we strongly
suspect that they relate to the manner i'll
which Mr.. Wallace has once or twice inflated
the vote and saved the party" 1t is too bad
that a Legislator and statesman" whose
"high qualities" according to the Harrisburg
paper, are recognized by the "bone and
"gristle," should have "petty calumnies "
hurled" at him. But the times are uncOm-
aonly fruitful of petty calumnies-several
leading statesmen have retired from public
life within the past two years on account of
them-and Mr.. Wallace will have to take his
share. They are always dictated by personal
"rancor and Spite" as has been remarked
repeatedly on the floor of Congress and under
TIE very uOIuc VI Juc tdpitOl'
But we are especially delighted with the
revelation which the extracts referred to
make of the undying gratitude of "the toiling
81 and often ill-rcquited editors of the country
"press." The Patriot says "Most Of these
" expressions in favor of the election of
"William A. Wallace come from the toiling
"and often ill-requited editors of the country
press of the State, who have felt the impress
"of his abilities in every political contest in
Pennsylvania for more than q decade of
"years" The measurement of Mr.. Wallaces
influence upon politics, by the decade"
is singuarly felicitOus, no matter how
YOU spell it, But consider the graft
tude of the tOiling and ill-requited. How
often has the tOiling and ill-requited found
Wallace his contributor and benefactOr. Sit
ting in his lonely sanctum, with the response
bility of running an "Organ of Democracy"
weighing him down, and an ever present con-
sciousness that he must save the country as
often as once week, there enters to him
Wallace. And Wallace brings manuscript
political article-a leader. 1t has stirring
title and begins with an Appeal to the Thought
full Citizen; it takes the politics of the cOun-
try-if we may be permitted the expression
by the hair it discharges whole broadsdes
into the enemy, is double-leaded, and occupies
a column. Then consider the headlines he
suggests, the "points" for articles, and not
least, the disbursements from the Committees
funds for advertisements of meetings and
posters from the job Office. This is the kind
of man Wallace is. lie brings sunshine and
copy and ducats to the Office of the tOilng
and ill-requitcd. Shall the toiling and i'll
requited, in the language of the worldly.
ego back on" Wallace after Wallace has
saved the Statef Not if the tOilng and ill
rcanited knnMa him sclf. Perish tho thnunht