The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-02-09
NEW SENATOR'S.
lErom tho New Orleans Times. !

| CErom tho New Orleans Tiues.l
OF the new crop of senators to fill
terms expiring March, 1877, the Demo-
Gratis have already booked a net gain
Of one, to wit, in Illinois. The Repub-
| licans carried the State for their State
| and national tickets, but some half
| dozen independents held the balance Of
! power in the Legislature. OF these a
| majority We're OF Republican antece-
dents and the chances were that n
moderate Republican--not Logan
! would be elected. But felicitous bung-
ling on their part gave the Democrats
an opportunity and by joining solidly
with the Independents they succeeded
in electing Judge Davis, who is a.good
enough Democrat. The vote for Wash
burne and Lawrence, the Republican
candidates, ,atter Logan was withdrawn,
was enough to have elected either one
of them, but the happy little jealousies
and female intrigues, which SO often
play the mischief with the weak bre-
| thren of that denomination, tripped
| them at u critical moment and their
! adversaries lost no time in sitting down
! upon them. In consequence, Mr..
Logan retires and the strongly Repub-
fican State Of Illinois will be represent
| ed for six years by u Democrat in the
Senate.
The election of George Il. Hoar, from
| Massachusetts,, in place of Boutwell,, is
| regarded rs the defeat of Butlcrism in
| that State and, 10 that extent, Il conscr-
vativc gain.
Gov. Garland has been elected from
Arkansas, to succeed Powell Ciayton,a IA
Democratic gain, but ono which had
been assured for several years. II. &.
Davis, re collected for the long term from
West Virginia, is the present senator.
The eSenatOrial representation from that
State remains in stltu quo. Davis is an
ingram Democrat, u man Of good bus
iness qualifications and fair but not
powerful mind. His nose is ,cf,.o,tSse,
an insuperable obstacle to greatness but
not to usefulness. Frank Hereford,
who has been elected to fill the uncX-
pired term of Senator Caperton, de-
ceased, Is Il short, brown, bustling
man, with one eye. He is II native of
Virginia, went to California, with the
"forty-niners," where he was at one
time district attorney for tho Sacr.,-
mcnto district. He afterwards return
ed to West Nirginin, where he was
elected to the Forty-secoNl, Forty
third and Forty-iourth Congresses. lie
is II mum of some sulitlity and good as
far as he goes--which is about five feet
tive inches sclnt. In Nebraska, there
has been n change, but not in the poii-
tics of the senatorial delegation. Alvin
saunders, unknown to fame, succeeds
Phineas w. Hitchcock, also unknown
| to fame, though II senator for the past
six years. What Mr.. Saunders will do,
| aside from voting with the Rcpubli-
| cans, we have no means ofjudging.
Gen. Baiiy, who has been elected
succeeded cX-Prrsit!cnt johnson, was
IN old limo Wing but is now an ortho-
dOX Democrat so far as general Issues
arc concerned. The triumph of Ben
Hill in Georgia is personal rather than
significant politically. Tho present
senator, and his chief competitor, Mr..
Norwood, was always conservative
and an acceptable senator both on nc
count of ability and moderation. But
Mr.. HIPS prominence, independence
and audacity had brought him out in
higher relief than any other man in
Georgia and rendered it necessary for
his friends to sustain him triunlphant-
y or else permit him to suffer what
would be construed as II rebukc from
his own people. Hill is one of the lar
gest rs well as one OF the best figures
among Southern men in Congress, and
ing him. Mr.. John II. Mcpherson, the
new Democratic senator from Now .Jcr-
sey, who succeeds E'reiinghuysen, is Il
prominent business man, who, as near
as we can make out, is "intercsted in
the live stock trade" and principal
owner of Il large slauyhterhouse ut
Communipaw. Blaine, Of Maine, sue
ceeds Lot n. Morrill, for six years from
March 4th, 1877. lie isssa new senator
but too old an acquaintance to require
an introduction. Gov. Sam'i j. Kirk
wood succeeds Senator Wright of Iowa.
He is I, more radical and less able man
than his predecessor. Kansas il yet in
the throcs of election, and it is quite
impossible to foretcll what Kansas will
bring forth. In Mississippi, Lamar
will succeed Alcorn after the 4th OF
March. In Texas, Gov. Coke, Demo
crat, was some time ago elected to sue
ceed Hamilton, Republican. In Ore
gon, Grover, whose fame, in connec-
ton with Cronin's, has spread far and
wide, succeeds Kelly, Democrat. Ex-
Gov. Grover is Democrat Of course.
This completes the list Of new men
elected as senators. Several former
senators have been reelected, and
others, no doubt, will be. HI Dcla
ware Saulabi1ry s1rrrpIS SauISblry ;is