The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-03-01
Editorial Correspondence.

Ter the average lntclllntHCe VI youi
many readers may be found to have
withstood the shock of commonplace
Observations and the rehashing of
State news. So far behind are the
mails left by the electral news-carrier
that one is forced to go outside of the
absorbing events of the day in descrip-
tons of mere by-plays, or confine him.
self TO the mere personnel of the actors
to escape charges of dizziness or cen
sure for want Of originality. And but
for the remembrance of the very many
commentators received for stray let
tiers at the hands Of the EDITORS friends
in days agone. my faber would be toss
ed out of the window in despair.
OF course Congress is in session and
the city is being honored by the pres
ence of nearly all the great men who,
in the last few decades have made
themselves famous by either states
manship, military achievements, or
political Vaccinations, whom this mo-
mentous period in our country's histo-
ny has drawn hither, together with the
thousands of mere hacks of both of
the two great national parties, await
ing all the solution Of single prob
/ lem, the failure to solve which would
launch our country into anarchy or q
terrible war. Away out in Kansas
where peace and plenty blesses the in
dustrieas tiller of the soil, and where
the business men of our bright little
city of Wichita are intent upon the af-
fairs of everyday lie and the things
pertaining TO their material in
terests, present and future, there is
little appreciation of the intense feel
ing that has for weeks existed in the
National Capital, and which stirs to
The profoundest depths the hopes, fears
patriotism and partisanship of every
man directly connected with the adj
ministration of national affairs.
In my daily strolls from the Senate
! Chamber through the marble halls and
corridors, the rotunda, spanned by the
great white dome that towers up to
the majesty of a continents sentinel.
no iostling of the eager and restless
throng ever surging to and fro, how
ever rude, can for moment take MY
eyes or thoughts from the Supreme
Courtroom situated at the left hand,
the doors of which are guarded By
sentinels, and within the walls OF
which sit the tribunal of fifteen listen
ing to and weighing the arguments of
the most eminent lawyers of the land,
upon case which involves the desti-
mics of the Republic. The central fig
ures IN that room are the leading
couuselors of the Republican and
Democratic parties-Charles O'Cenor
and VIM. NJ. Evarts, both Of New
York City. O'Conor has seen full
four score years, but still he is large
and powerful. His STOPPING, broad
shoulders carries head massive in its
proportions which is thickly covered
with a perfect mat of hair that is
white as the driven snow and which
radiates from the crown in intermina-
bic tangles, falling not only on the
back of his neck and over his ears, but
down upon the forehead, which fore
head looms like projecting crag, over
lower face that is Irish in every fea-
ture and lineament. OF this picture
Evarts is the very reverse. In stature
he hardly exceeds the ordinary boy of
fourteen years, weighing scarcely 10
pounds. Thin-faced, straight as an
arrow, narrow shoulders, thin, brown
hair strcaked with gray, there is not
single marked feature about him, un-
less it is his eagle-gray eyes and his
immense Roman nose. His voice can
hardly be heard twenty feet away.
But, after his speech last Friday OF
three hours duration, upon the Loui
siana case, we heard men OF eminent
ability ank well known to the country
declare, unreservedly, that they be-
lieved that VIM. NJ. Evarts possessed
the most wonderfully comprehensive
legal mind Of any living man in the
world.
While sitting in the Senate gallery
the other day, Senator Kelley, of Ore
gon, rose to question of privilege.
1t viii be remembered that his name
as an endorser, was attached TO one of
the notorious cipher dispatches asking
for ten thousand dollars to buy up one
of the Republican electors of that
State to act with Cronin. 1t having
reached that gentleman's ears that |
such serious matter would probably |
cause him trouble with his honorable |
associates, he asked the privilege of an
explanation. Kelley is man full six |
feet in stature and of very large pro-
portions, but very slow and bungling |
of speech. His position was pitiable
in the extreme. In trying to shield |
himself he let out fact generally be-
lieved but not certainly known, 1. e.,
that Patrick was the accredited agent
of Samuel j. Tildcn. The sensation
can better be imagined than described.
He was followed in his damaging eff
fort by old Bogy, of Missouri, who
with crocodile tears and the face of
the Knight OF the Sorrowful Figure,
bewailed the fact that fraud had been
found TO exist in the great Democratic
party. One to have heard him talk
would little thought him capable of
the shameless and vile means used by
him to get his present seat. But re-
sorting to the ''you're another dodge,
he said the Republicans had been
guilty of as great frauds in Florida.
Senator Sergeant, of California, the
chairman of the committee sent to
Florida, soon got the floor, and by fig
ures and returns, substantiated by af-
fidavits, showed beyond doubt that
the Republicans had carried Florida
both upon the face of the returns and
from Democratic officials, and then he
went for that old hcathcn in a way
that would have made two-inch au-
CUR hole desirable retreat.
Upon the return of the decision of
Tho Comn,issionars IN fba two bcpsoe |