The daily gazette., 1874-12-05
PRICE l CENT.
From tho Ns,o York World .7r
Senators by lnvesti4
gGttOsas of the F0rty-F Fourth

OGtt0sss Of the Fortg-F Fourth
congress. o. 1iarOui v.a. =
The Democratic publication of ,the Air
has suddenly and sharply abated AZ least
one nuisance that has long been poison
ing the political atmosphere Of the Re.
public and making the representation of
the States the rotten borough of anybody
whose purse and impudence reached
deep enough. We shall not have any
more Senators by purchase for quite d
long time probably. The day of Nor
gans, Pattersons, Chambers. Claytons,
VESTS, Dorseys, Camerons, Conovers.
y1neses, or Spencers, is over. But the
ALlVth Congress will enable the coun
try to rid itself of some of its present
Senators by purchase.
| tnere Is no question but that dread
OF the undiscovered country of investi-
CATION into which Senators Clayton and
Dorsey must presently travel has led
those champion Southern Statesmen"
70 attempt to impale themselves upon
their bare bodkin Of a Smith. II the
naH OF what we hear be true-and mucl,
OF 1t Is upon record, though still sleep-
which they dishonor by their presenos--
nelther Clayton nor Dorsey Is likely to
hn2er out his term. Why should they
be permitted to do SOP They obtained
their seats by naked, barefaced, disgrace
tul fraud and corruption. The country
has no further use for them, and even
tue Republican party, which once sus-
tanned them and prevented their actions.
and character from being inquired into.
10 beginning to cry out querulously in
the words OF the ballad:
It's very hard them kind OF men won't let
q body be-" . - 'H'> S'
Jones, too. We shall be loath to part
with Jones. He redeemed, measurably,
ed, too, by the way, but all the better for
that, perhaps, and at any rate, most op-
Ilportune and seasonable. Tho President
will Miss Jones, o wise counsellor in ee-
trernis; but the best of friends must part,
land Jones has como to the dividing of
the ways. Hercules must make his
choice, and the Siren Jones must 20.
INevada needs his presence, not in the
Senate, but at home. az.
Patterson, JohnJ., Honest John,'' is
probably already packing his carpet bag
and getting ready to return to Pennsyl-
vania, which, having taken sudden ac-
| cession OF honesty, is sorelJ in need of
gentlemen OF his particular complexion.
The President will miss Honest John"
perhaps, quite as much as he misses
Jones; but there is no help for it, we
fear. The President has himself avowed
that Congress is responsible for the late
revolution; and the people are detern-
ined to show that he is right SO far forth
by going for the Presidents most inti-
mate friends in Congress, as the most
disreputable cads in the whole body.
| They have already disposed Of the
succession" which Cameron was about
to hand down to Don" by quietly put
ting it out of the reach OF both; and
\ they are just now teaching Chandler
that it is almost as easy for rich man
/ to 60 through the.eye Of needle as to
Iclimb back into the Senate in the face OF
q disgusted and resolute Democratic op-
4 position. Cameron and Chandler, how
ever, have their conpensations and con-
solations. Cameron has got all his mon
ey back again-perhaps moro than all
and Chandlers sideboard is bursting
still with nspenthe and other balms OF
hurt minds. .........t--
But what compensation, what consola-
tion for Conover, the Jersey pilgrim from
Florida? You pays your money and
takes your choice" was Mr.. Conover's
plan of operations; but what use is there
in buying seat when the placards an
nounce Standing Room Onlyf" Mr..
Conover has been buying q pig in poke.
He knew by the price asked him that he
Il was Ouly 6Cpbih6 q iuhtb AlO etiN ASb
know, however, that before he could get
it home the poor creature would be
dead, and he paying an unconscionable
price for bristles. -
In the same way, Mr.. Spencer, Of Ala
bama, who has brevetted himself from
the tail of suffers cart into the. Sen.
ate, must feel very much like an injured
, dealer in army wares, who had just laid
in q heavy stock of shoddy clothing.
Ijewsharps, pig.taii and cavendish, TO
hear that peace had been proclaimed
: and the army disbanded. Spencer had
J just "fxed things" to suit himself; had
I shelved Warner, made it all right with
D Grant, and was going to run the State"
T in partnership with Hayes and some
n United States marshals, when the cata-
clysm came down. Now he will have to
= show good cause why he, the corruptest
: Representative of tho most prohigate
State organization in the whole country.
D should not be sent back to toss cocktails
again and leave Off meddling any mere
l in national affairs. -