Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-01-26

Of steady habits ono sits beside conk-
ling another Is the colleague Of Cam
eron another flls tho place Of Wade
another ioroshadows the fhte Of Nor
ton another tells Of the revolution In
Michigan; another reflects the pro
tests of Minnesota another bears tes'
tmony that Wisconsin will not bow
TO tho party yoke; another tells the
story of Williams overthrow in the far
Northwest, and from tho Golden State
comes tho fearless admonition Of Booth.
OF all tho original Lncoln administra-
ton only Cameron, Wells and BLAIR
survive, and Cameron ftly stands alone
in the partylinc, Such arethc changes
OF fifteen years; such tho lessons OF
human ambition.
| turned TO the House TO note how
time and the mutations of political
conflicts had thoro done their slcepless
work. As it is approached every
avenue to every door is crowded by
anxious throngs. Now people gaze at
you as you pass, and the unrest of hope
deferred writes its story on the strange
faces which greet you They come
from every clime--the emptying of the
long. muxsled Democratic oxen, who
have trodden the party corn and come
for rewards tho Now England Yam
kec /; tho Western Hoosier and Sucker;
the sturdy disciple of jackson from
the Keystone State; the far North
wcsterner, who has heard the music
of the Oregon the rollicking advcn-
turer from the sunset side Of the Rocky
Mountains; the subdued Confederate,
broken in purse and struggling for
bread; the negro, jostled from post to
pillar, as he seeks some menial place
as reward for political detection from
his race, and, among them all, forget
ful woman crowding toward the new
altar of power to plead the cause Of
selfshness or necessity-these are the
pictures on the outer walls And in
side there is sea of unfamiliar faces.
Here and there is one to be seen like a
plume in a multitude, as the whitened
locks of Banks, or Blaine, or Garfield,
or Kelley, or Lawrence, or Wood, or
the former Federal, later Confederate,
and now again Federal Representa-
tives, Ashe and Faulkner are noted.
Randall, next to Kelley, the oldest
member in continuous service, has been
kindly dealt with by the fight of years.
The scat of the cx-Confederate Vice
President Stephens is vacant, and it
will remain so until its weeds of woe
shall tell that the long halt has come
to life OF strange vicissitude. The
"man and brother" is also among them,
as the bright yellow faces of Rainey
and Small testify. Robbins comes af-
Ter nearly quarter of a century of re-
tirement TO learn anew the duties Of
legislation in new hall, under new
order of things that bears every i'm
press of revolution, and without one Of
his old associates for eompanionship.
OF all tho members Of the House, not
half a score witnessed the first throcs
of the new departure of 1861, and few
have experience in the councils Of the
nation. A pale, apparently wasted
form rises from the Speakers chair and
calls the man Of God to the needed
prayers, and next the race of bombast
and buncombe begins. Kerr soon
wearies under the pressure and Hol-
man is called to take his place, and
the battle Of political pigmies goes on,
each dreaming that forty millions Of
people are standing in awe and rever-
ence for his achievement in passing
some clap-trap resolution, to wiring tho
withers of his opponents and point an
editorial for a village organ By-and-
by the keen zest of the hustings will
give way to sober duties, and then we
shall see what manner of statesmen
tho political revolution Of 1875 has
given TO the country. A. X. M.