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culable, and yet we seem to be drifting still
further out to sea.
THE MASSACHUSETTS, MEDDLERso

TIE MASSACHUSETTS, "MEDDbERS.'
Really is not this talk which comes from
various Administration sources about Its being
necessary for Mr.. Charles Francis Adams to
renew his allegiance to the Republican party
before he can be elected United States Sem
ator what might be called carrying the joke
a triHe too fart Nothing could be more
amusing than tho indignation exhibited by
the organs because certain persons who ala
not vote for Grant have hal the assurance to
name candidates for Mr.. Summers seat One
organ at the national capital, which has an
ex-senator and Cabinet officer as principal
owner, and borrows paper from the Govern
ment Printing-Ollice for its daily issue, Is
fairly struck aghast at the interference OF
Democrats and Liberals, and expresses
the conviction that the Republicans
of Massachusetts will administer whitening
"rebuken to these meddlers. Precisely how the
Massachusetts, Republicans feel with regard to
the "withering rebuke" business we have no
means of knowing, but it occurs to us that
their last experience in that line was rather
more receptive than administrative, and not
wholly unconnected with Simmons. However,
if they should think it desirable to administer
a whitening rebuko to other Massachusetts CIT
liens for expressing an opinion as TO VINO
should be Senator from Massachusetts,, they
can send to Washington and secure the ser
vices of gentleman who is at home III the
whitening yebuke business; gentleman who
rebukes investigations in very whitening
way, and on one occasion rebuked corrupt
person who gave him fve-thOuSand-dolla
check with such whitening effect that the cor
rupt person at once gave him another for the
same amount As Whitening Rebuker nc Is
such a complete success that Massachusetts
had better send for him.
But. seriously, what do these persons mean
by ruling out as impertinences any sugges-
tons as to the Senatorshp from citizens OF
Massachusetts who did not happen to vote Tor
Grant, but who certainly have voice and an
interest in the selection of Mr.. Summers sue
cessor7 Is opposition to Grant disfranchlse-
ment7 And must whoever in Massachusetts,
voted AGAINST Grant hold his peace politically
forever afterward, on pain of whitening re-
buke or series of whitening rebukes IRON
some buzzard politician or roost OF them'
fat, foul-mouthed, and filthy, who seem to
have taken the whole Government to rum
whitening rebuker indeed Look at it a
moment. Turn it over. Who are they who
are advised to administer it'll Why
Simmons, and Sanborn, and Butler,
and others just such; gang that,
with no qualifications for any office,
manage to hold and handle the whole.
Aad thcy-the unwholesome crew, with chaps
greasy and cheeks bulging with the gorge OF
offce-are to rebuke gcntlemen-and when we
say gentlemen, we have set these two as wide
apart as the poles-who propose Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams for United States Senator
Could there be anything moro humlliating to
the pride, the dignity, the self-respect of the
average American citizen-of whatever party
than this
And az to this matter of party allegiance;
pray what is itl Which of these party organs
that pirate so loudly about fealty to the party
can define its distinctive principlesY Which
of Them or what one OF the self-constituted
leaders, can name n single political doctrine
upon which the party itself is at one and any
other party opposesf Why is not Charles
Francis Adams, who has never renowned either
the Republican name or principles, as loyal 10
the party as the leaders in Congress, who have
stolen the name and stabbed to death the
doctrines7 Have these persons set up some
new test of political orthodoxy If so, what
is it7 We fail to discover anything in
the professions of the party which Mr.. Adams
and the intiuders who name him for Senator
do not believe in and approve. There no
doubt are certain acts of the party and some
features of the policy of the Adminiss c,tion
that we and they condemn. OF these it Is
enough to say that the Republican party 'Tself
purchases precarious power by condemArg
them. In Connecticut they are just now IN
the midst of such an experiment. We are at
a loss to know what they mean by party ALE
glance unless it is devotion to the personal
fortunes of the President and his Administra-
ton If that is the new test it should be
officially proclaimed. 1t will be matter of
some interest in Massachusetts after that to
know whether Butler, Richardson, Sanborn,
4 ha