Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-01-17
LEGISLATIVE LITTLENESs.

mas taken the surest possible way TO-
prove that il doesn't intend to deserve
it. OF course it's always difficult TO
restrain the ardor OF such Senators as
Andrew Jackson Herr who represents
Camerons district, and who will stand
TO the right, as Republican leaders
teach it, oven TO the flame Of battle,
and then, like the patriotic Artcmus
Ward, give all bis marital relations for
sacrifice il need be; but whole party
in the Legislature isn't bound to writc
itself down as q conclavo Of asses be
cause a fow supcrscrviceablc obedienis
can't bo restrained when ordered TO be
understandable. If Governor llartranit
had considered the crisis one that de-
demanded expression from responsible
mon, ho would have said so and prot
iercd the moral and physical power Of
his great Commonwealth TO maintain
the laws; but Governor lIartranft has
q clever fund Of common sense, and ho
didn't meddle with subject that is TO
be decided by competent tribunals out
side of the resolves Of drilled legisla-
tive partisan caucus. An issue that
has made such men as Conkling and
Blaine and Edmunds and Frelna;Dhy.
sen pause TO employ the most patient
research for the ascertainmcnt Of the
truth and the law, and that has sober.
ed the most patriotic men Of both par.
ties to look above all political or sec
tional interest in their efforts to save
free government from the stain Of dis.
honor and the hopelcssness Of anarchy,
is decided by jabboring crowd Of leg.
isators under orders from the master,
more flippantly than they would par.
tition their pastors and folders. While
the ablest men Of the nation who have
to decide tho issuc in the end, are in
doubt as to the result and as to the
best means of attaining just judg-
ment, mob of average Pennsylvania
makers, with Andrew jackson
Herr in the chair, resolve that Hayes
and Wheeler are elected, and that II
there is any trouble about it, they will
hand over their entire constituents to
march into the valley of death to crush
revolution. And there wasn't one who
had the courage TO propose deliver
ance that the people would understand
as sincerely desiring dispassionate in
quiry and an honest decision in the
case. Where were men like Senators
Jones and Rcybusn, who are suspected
by their constituents Of possessing both
integrity and intelligence?
I The Democrats now have the floor,
and they could get down TO level
with their Republican brethren in the
easiest sort of way. All they have to
do is to call caucus, blather about
tho constitution in the usual spread
aaGlo wav. resolve that Tilden and
Ilvudrlcks are elected, ana tnat they
will give the last man and dollar out.
side of themselves to vindicate the in
tegrity Of the ballot. As they didn't
get exactly fair start in the last war,
and have suffered no little because they
Topped rather too much about the rag
ged edges OF the conflict, they may as
well sail in freely for the next war,
particularly as the people don't intend
to be driven to violence either BY con-
spirators at Washington or by legisla-
tive bombast. It's cminently proper
that the Legislature of the second State
in the Union in population and the
first in the most SUBSTANTIAL attributes
OF wealth and power, should speak, as
with one voice, for honesty and law as
the jewels of freedom, without regard
10 Mr.. Hayes or Mr.. Tildcn or their
respective parties Had the men Of
every faith in the Legislature so de-
clarcd to the country, there would pro.
badly have been otfcnsc in the War
Department and few Bourbons would
have ratified their dry bones uneasily,
but the people would have honored
their legislators and the nation would
have needed the judgment OF the Key.
stone State. Philadelphia Times, Jan.
nary 18th
Political FIITU--For real crook