, 1874-11-23

patriot Of the hour = Bpoakor, for his action
10 maklng Commi has boon fercely do
nonnced BY Job u = ION aud others, on anpa-
rontly no highorf = I. Amongst tho aI1cs-
uons ~ herc IL tho s lion Of the speakolahp
% Mooefhtor Ind tho appointment OF
committees by, s omission picked from tho
congress. 1t Remembered that Mr.. Col
1a4 'olalncdt a3sT ior. to have been tho first to
a.sntagon1zo Prs johnson; tint tho e1co-
non o. enGrn~>: made tho pretcxt for: ad-
FetustnR tho r book "a book which might
hnyo boon calico no joke, as tho authors Rib
that Bhorman'a dofoat Involved tho rise Of
bennington in hfs piaco, who notorlously reeu.
atod the Houae by the use Of Page famiia,
with the manual.
Tho Democratic candidates Tor Speaker arr
very numerons. At thu present moment it is b.
Aovoa TINT the iasuo lies betwoen Korr, OF Inu
ana. and Wood, OF New York. Wood has tht
long, pusBo: kerr tho clean conHciouce. With
NJ ny knowledge OF tho Democracy, 1 bot on
rENxsYLyANfA POLITICS.
1ho rhtiateiphia member Of the WayB and
Means Committee, Chsrlos O'Noil1, l,aa como In
after tho great Mcclure had somo time proceeded
0'Noll is tho representative Of tho faal,-
ionablo quartor Of tho Qualfur City, middin-
aged little bachelor, who goes around ali day,
WON dressed, inqtlring into thu honlth of oycry-
,,n ylated: Ho knows moro littlo things about it,
tle aaaira than anybody Of bis weight. II
10 was ever violent, no record 81 tho
arsur s vas ayo, l'f1 r.. n no,i ha benevoon Gn,
in With yoa d s%'ofa To-
auor. There never waa anything against him;
there nevar will he; he WAS foreordaipod to be
good, anu TO DO saved from tho general burning.
He cannot bo called . humbug, for ho noyor
made pretonsion nor achcmer for 30 hopca
nothing beyond oloct4un; no is not Christian
statesman, for ho sainplea his whisky; nor
parvenuo, for he is genteel. Good old Phi1adol-
phla ways absorbed in him. like an old country
graveyard swallowed up In the businesa quarter,
ho III piece Of political ground rent ,--ao many
squase foot on tho a7eraGo leyol at tho usual riao
Of price. -.
SseSo y ss to hsso IN se yGr defeat
20, no" said o'Neil}, slowly. deprecating!y
rolling Ills head "sonlo Of Lis friends did,
Not Simon. Iwouldn't accusa him Of 1t. Yes.
they ssy--sone people--that Mr. Cameron matlo
didn't campaign Pennsylvania enough. You 500
the people wouldn't como out to hear the spcech-
% on either ado. They didn't want 10 boar pub
lilo topica discussed. Nobody would draw
e n NGDod 81 wsad onndspn pss aas Ths11 wssn
rolled over the unexpected way. It got out Of
its fayo~r1to position.
"But wellrecovcr," said alr. O'Neill. ""Ponn-
By1vanie1l give her usual majority for Hartranft
for Governor noxt year. Lovk what We lost by
divisions. Thore Was my old colleague. Len
Myers, In onr groatest Republican ward, running
1ndepeudont He didn't think he WA troatod
right in l,s delogates. Ha thought Al Harner
port al. ., 1t was aVful to sec tint kind Of a
break botWoen old friends aud colleagues. il
made moro feeling than Philadelphy has had t..
yoara.
;. But our Centennial Exhibition is comIng Oh
Rplcndil. They've added throe moro acres. 7rha
machinery will bo tho grentoat OF tho world"
Pennsylvania has Burorud from tho o'cr-rigid
organization Of tho Republican pnrty. In that
State both partiea bold tue Bame gonerat
whole Internal policy IL to bo the manufacturer
and miner for the nation by restrictive policy,
Since David Wilmos, there has been no Fioo-
ITader Of consequence in tho State. Judge
Woodward, the beBt typoof Democrat there, pro-
nouncod for = Protective Tariff in Congress fon.
years. ago. The price Of inquiry into the Tariff
policy, in that State, is suspicious; OF exprea-
sion, ostraclen. It as not that there arc 10 off
forences Of opinion, but tho subject is tabooed.
A naan might as we'll bo al avowod nldel "a III
avowed Free. Trader in pennsylvanin.
Yet, On topics Of extrinsio prejudice, as tho
negro, which il about the only plank in tho Den-
ocratic platform. pcnnsylYana il partisan to tho
extremity of DourhoniHm.. Her consceneo AMI
her interests, her logic aud ho1 platform, have
no relation to each other. II IL not probable
that slle will bo Of any consequence ln tho next
eampaign. Soit1shuesH Inns no durability.
TIE DEFEAT UF MAYNARD.
N"AN ANASNs A~.+AA NSSAADGA ~ ~
lending Tenncsseo Republican today to tho fol-
iowitg:
-" man 10 more tpt to want to DO tho great
figure Of lis party than to mako g1oat party.
Maynard u an abio man. Ho eau give better
reason for being wrong than good many othors
Tor doing Tiae. nus Ae Is more concerned to
lead the Republican party in TennoBHoo than
expand 1t, mako it embrace all CLASSES, and, it
necessary. retire himself. NOW, ho makos no
allowances Tor sho society and 1dsosyncraslea of
tue people wlaerc hc lives. ono OF our ablest
men suggested to our leaaora That they nominate
Uu1on young man WHO had noan IN the LGGis- 1
ture and mado br'Eht. wise record. 1hey
pressed tho man Oh Maynard. lie surnea cold
aud BAld: M
"'Who 1dvi1sd THAR
tuen. Manly. a'iy.,,,,,,
49, la WIS hehcl, aa'a Maynard' Do you
want nny He9el haytce
Il 1t Ii NeFnnl;can HGool!
70. hphc OF It, saiti Maynard.
Ihlls, tho party IL kol1: from widening tteelf.
III aoclety Which might expand with polltiu
treatment, to appreciate Kopub}iennisnl. May
narl took tho load led uS and himself to lcskrc-