The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17
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HOW HI SITS IN THE WHAT
FORA PEN PICTURE BY ONE OF THOSE
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS"

HOW HE SITS Il THE s~ENATE-AND WHAT
FORA PEN PICTURE BY ONE OF THOSE
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT"
The Chicago Times Washington cores
pondent sends this to his paper: When the
United States senator breaks out in unex-
pected places, and does things which start
the goose-flesh of surprise all over the bodies
of his closest friends, lay it to the presidency.
About this time Morton is more liable TO
erupt in u"naccountable ways than most of
his associates, although erratic outbreaks
are in order from Boutwell, and Carpenter.
When Conkling returns from Utica, with be-
coming Grape on his hat and a carefully adj
justed tear in each eye in honor of his poor
dead father, he, too, may be liable to burst
into unlocked for antics at a Sec
Ond's notice. Cesarism is played out.
It is not the third term which is
fretting senators; it is the first. Nobody
wonders if Grant is to serve twelve years;
everybody c~Oniures as to who will next
serve four. Morton and the rest are already
tallying off the months which intervene be-
tween the fdgety present and the time of
them cut some particularly grotesque caper,
it is pennies to pounds that they do it in the
belief they are helping themselves acquife
correct steps for the presidential dance.
Morton's amazing pigeon wing in the Lou
isiana cotilon is attributable to just this
same cause, ana mourning else. Alter
a protracted codding of Kellogg and Pinch
back, he dumhfounded the country one
morning by kicking straight back at the lat
ter's claims TO congressional greatness. He
still processes adhesion to the kellogg cause,
but is actually preparing to %repudiate him
also. His excuse for so suddenly refusing to
longer countenance PInchback's p%retentions
TO a seat in the senate were cooke for the
occasion; and he lied when he presented
them. He said that he had come into the
possession of additional facts damaging to
Pinchback's personal character. This was
an out an out lie. He knows no more re-
garding the private history of Pinchback
than he did before.
THE ALLEGATIONS -
against the tawny humbug's personal life
are insignificant, and have no bearing what
ever on the great issue at stake. 1t is charged
that Pinchback has been in Jail. This is
true, but what has that fact to do with the
question of his late election as a United
States senator? He became engaged in a
broil, some years ago, in Louisiana with an
other embyrotic congressman done in char
coal, stabbed him, and was Justly jailed
therefor. If MOrton's ewes were not blinded
by the beam of a possible white house, they
would see that this mote in the Pinchback
character amounts to exactly nothing.
Pinchback has nc business to demand sena-
tOrial honors and salary. But the reason is
tnaJ MS election was DrOughC about by one
OF the most continuous and heinOus aggreg-
atoms of cbousing known to history; not
because he once ate mush and molasses be-
hind bars. Morton, however, needed an ex-
cuse for turning crab. He took the first at
hand. Had this not been ready he would
have objected to Pinchback because the
latter blows his nose with a
chief, whereas Morton picks his with
his fingers. The real reason for his pitching
Pinchback to the fishes dates from the ar
rival in Washington of Warmoth and Nc
Emery. 1t took but two seanees of these
gentlemen with Morton to convince him that
Louisiana particularly desires him for the
next president. 1.-THE gentle reader believes
it impossible for a presumably clever poll
tician to he so easily gulled by
A PAIR OF ADVENTURES,
let him, the gentle reader 1 mean, imagine
for a few minutes that he is to be boss ma
gistrate of the United States the coming
term. AS the fantasy of toady adulation,
bull pups, $4,000 a year, Seneca sandstone
steals, and unlimited free rum swims. before
him, he will find himself in a frame of mind
ready to believe that the sun rises in the
west, and the earth is a triangle. 1t was
shown TO Morton's satisfaction that Louisi-
ana is certain, az another and a legal election,
to stamp the Kellogg-Pinchback monstros-
ity into everlasting pulp. The cunning
Il DlcducTS Qdu dIIn6u themselves WlJD
. documentary proof by the carload, and pre-
: vailed upon their greedy listener to hear
cock and bull stories at which girl babies
I ordinarily grow incredulous. He was made
to see that the senators who should lead of
: in bouncing Pinchback would inevitably
become the special jewel in the girdle OF
:, Louisiana's good opinion. Nay, more, he
would be a diamond slar in the diadem Of
= the entire. Southern love. Who so hitting as
Morton? He was secured in the graces o.
republicans evervwhere; this act would
y clench him as the idol of a great share of the
4 opposition. Tickled with the straw, Nor
ton consented TO &c dead back on his record
e STIMULATING only that he should eat his hum
o BILE pie by degrees. He would first repudiatt
Pinchback, and, eventually, give a colo
t shoulder to the whole Kellogg gang: He KEEP
his word, and was scared back to his senses
e at finding the very men in the senat,
z whom he most fears as possible competitor
in the presidential race, eager to indorse hi.
sommersault. Carpenter, Edmunds, Conk
ling and Boutwell, were ready to chew a.
s persuade him that Warmoth and McEner,
s did not hold out the same promises to ever
g other available republican in the senate.
a8 WANING GREATNESS.
u A house with two mothers-in-law is in ho'
water no deeper than that in which
Morton has padded this session. He ha,
e had comfort from nobody. Schurz has cuffet
Z his nancia paintings, and Sherman ha.
h spanked them. McCreary took Morton'
. many lcolored Louisiana jacket, anc
z in half an hour made il the
laughing stock of every senatorial
tailor in the chamber. Conklin iibes
: him, and Carpenter leases him with the rec
: rag of parliamentary rule. There is not
: prominent man in the country who show.
Z gangrene so frequently as Morton. He Is
SuSpaDtihl0 to fnrmQut from tho na-oaf n
E members, and turns eight different tints
0 when hectored by even the gawky delegate.
|, from Texas or Oregon. A glimmer of sus
! picion Is beginning to brighten the many
! hooks OF the public mind. That Oliver p
G Morton is neither a Machiavelh in political
knowledge and intrigue, nor an Edmund
I Burke in natural oratorical gifts is com
I mencing to be understood. A wear or two