The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-11-22

bis age-whlch never lhterieT'cu
with the performance of his duty
In fact he is as active and vigorous
as the average man Of forty. Fab
rcnbacht was put forward as a man
to control the labor vote of Ohio for
the Republican party, and as he
made a failure of that, and as the
steamboat men on the river are al
most unanimously of opinion that he
is not fit for the office, the Senators
fail to see that the public service
would be benefited by his confirms
ton, to remove a competent man.
More Partisan Outragcs Coming.
1t is becoming more and moro evil
dent every day that the Republican
majority in the Senate are dctermin-
ed to perpetuate their waning pow
er by admitting Kellogg of louisa.
ma and Corbin of South Carolina to
seats in that body. It was hardly
supposed when Congress assembled
that the more Conservative Senators
could be induced to sustain such a
purely partisan and unjustifablc
scheme, but it now looks as though
they will all finally come to the con-
clusion that NECESSITY knows no
law" and vote them in regardless
alike of their past professions, com
mon honesty andthe rights of Others.
We shall not be surprised to see
Stanley Matthews voting to admit
Kellogg, thereby asserting the legali-
ty and rightful authority ofthe Pack
ard Legislature which he and his as
sociate commissioners helped to dis
solve and wipe out as an illegitimate.
organization. Consistency is a jewel
of but little value to a Republican
politician when it stands in the way
of party interest. When the party
was first organized one Of its fayorite
notices was, "The end justifies the
means" and it has been acted upon
ever since. Pitt Fcssenden did re-
fuse TO subordinate principle to par
ty when pressed to vote for the i'm
parchment of Andrew Johnson, but
such men as he have not been plen-
ty in the party and such instances
Of patriotic independence have been
very rare in its history. AS rule
they have sustained and put through
MI measures which they believed
would subscrvc the interests of the
party regardless of the rights of 9TH
ers, principles or the Constitution
even. When Thaddeus Stevens in
troduced a bill of a political charac-
ter pertaining to the government of
the South, and some member suggest
ed to him that it was violative of the
constitution, he replied, with an air
of perfect indifference, "then so much
the worse for the constitution
When it became necessary for the
Radicals in the Senate to obtain a
two.thirds majority in order to over.
ride the votocs of President Johnson
and defeat his measures, they did
not hesitate to deprive Senator Stock.
ton Of New Jersey of his seat on pre-
texts that would be discreditable to
horso.jockeys for ruling n party out
of n race, Even Senator Merrill was
induced to violate his pledge to pair
with a sick Scnator,-to our mind
the most discrcditable act Of his life,
. II was the Senate that asserted die
tatorial powers in its presiding Of
ficcr to determine what returns Of
electoral votes should be counted, and
1t was foremost in taking action
which resulted IN depriving the
President elect Of his Office and in.
Sailing the defeated candidate in
that position. After such displays
of gross partisanship on tho part Of
the majority of this legislative body,
which was intended to be as digni-
fed, impartial and conservative as
any similar assomblagc in tho world,
IL may bo quito reasonable to expect
the seating of Kellogg and corbin or
the contamination of any other dis
honest scheme that gives promise of
porpotuating party rulc.-Er, r
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