, 1875-02-25

only edited with greate1 aol'J .A
other journal in America, if not In TIE
world and is freer from party bias than
anv other. comments as follows upon
the defeat of Senator Carpenter:
"The country has always good reason
for regret when statesman of capacity
is remauded to private life and replaced
bv a commonplace successor. Mr.
Angus Cameron. who has carried OF
the prize of the Wisconsin Senatorship.
ia n mere stick, . small third-rate local
LAWYER. There is not county in the
limited States whose Bar could not
furnish at least one man of equal fitness
for the high post of United States SEN
ator. If Mr. Carpenter had been sup
planted by an extremely mediocre.
wooden headed Democrat. there would
be little to be said beyond an expression
of regret that the democratic party
could not supply better man for SO
important a position. But when the
choice lay between candidates OF the
same political party it is a folly and
almost a shame, that small-sized local
lawyer has been preferred to GENTLE
man so able and brilliant as Mr.. Car"
penter. 1t is for the public advantage
that both political parties should be rep
resented in the national councils by
their strongest men. Precisely as in q
court of Justice as case is always better
tried when both of the itigant parties
arc represented by lawyers of the first
eminence, SO in Legislative body it is
a great advantage to have the discussion
on both sides conducted by we'll
equipped, frst-class debaters. To say
nothing of the dignity and responsibility
of the Senate, which always degeneratas
in proportion as small, inexperienced
men take part IN its proceedings, the
public is deprived Of the means Of FORM
ing correct judgment on great ques-
tiors if both sides are not presented
with ingenuity. vigor and eloquence
We are, therefore, heartily sorry that
Mr.. Schurz and Mr.. Carpenter are to
surrender their seats to men of small
calibre and no exprience. who hold
substantially tie same views as the
statemen they respectively supplant.
Schurz and Carpenter have fought on
opposite sides in most recent questions,
and 1t is, therefore. no partisan prefer
ence which causes US to regret their
retirement from public life. Had Mr..
Schurz been supplanted by q Grant
republican or Mr.. Carpenter by DEM
ocrat the loss of talent would not seem
quite SO deplorable."
From our personal acquaintance with
the parties named, we draw the same
conclusions. In replacing the mos'
brilliant statesman who has ever repie
sented that State in the United States
Senate by commonplace local lawyer
of the same party association, it is man
ifest that the Democrats of Wisconsin
were actuated by partisan more thar
patriotic motives. and that their act was
inconsistent with all their professions
of principle. Mr.. Carpenters connec-
ton with, aud adherence to, the Repub
ican party was solely upon the issuei
evolved by the war. Upon every prin'
ciple and question which gave the Dem
ocratic party vitality and restige before
the war, Mr.. Carpenter is as sound to-
day as he ever was. The Democratic
party of Wisconsin disbanded its own
party organization aud naze to organize
Reform" party, pledged against the
exsctions and expressions of corporate
monopolies. That proposed reform has
had no more vigorous and brilliant ad
vocate than Mr.. Carpenter. The sup
port of the Kellogg government in
Louisiana by the Administration has
been made o main issue by the same
Democracy. The Kellogg government
hau no more uncompromising opponent
in the United States Senate than Mr..
Carpenter. -.-
On the other hand, Mr.. Cameron has
no distinctive sentiment in common
with the Democratic party, and had
none with the Reform party up to the
time be accepted certain indefinite and
general propositions as a condition to
his election to the United States Senate.
He was an old whig and had been uni
formly Republican since the organiza.
ton OF that patty. He is Bank Pres
ident and Railroad Attorney. by inter-
est and association hostile to the pro-
fessed principles of both Democrats
and Reformers. His election was the
result of a bargain between Democrats
and boilers to defeat the popular will.
We adhere to the principles and ven
crate the memory of the old Democratic
party; but we have no desire to see that
party restored to power emasculated of
its principles. by corrupt combinations
with thefag ends and disturbing factions
of all other parties. We acknowledge
the necessity of reform in the manage.
ment of public affairs; but have no
hope for any such reforms by means of
any bargain and sale between politicians
of the two adverse parties.
Mr.. Goodhue's Statement.
STEnACooM, w. r.
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