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WARRINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. e., !
July IL, 1878. J

Below are extracts from t"o
ington Post, which are given because
they enforce what your correspondent
has often said aui knows IRON obser'
Walton to be true:
The tendency to displacc old and
well.tried, by new and ambitious men,
is sure to result in mistakes, aud pos
sibly in disaster to the party.
The Republican party place more re
lance upon the thorough equipment
of such men as Garfield, Hale, Kelley,
Foster, and Conger than upon the
members that follow them, and right
ly. They have learned the lesson
taught them by the Old South, that u
man who shows aptitude tor legislation
can be made powerful even though OF
ordinary talents by being kept at the
grinding" The Post mentions among
those it would be unfortunate to lose'
Alessrs. Randall, Hutton, Wilson, OF
W. Va, Rice, of Ohio, Blackburn,
McMahon, Knott, Sayler, Springer,
Morrison, Tucker, Goode, Stenger,
Durham and Cox. The list might be
widely extended and we may safely shy
that under ordinary circumstances in
each District it will be wise for the
Democrats to renominate this Fall oil
of those Representatives who stood by
the party during the last session. In
some few Districts doubtless the cir.
cumstauces are exceptional, and
changes should be made. But we
ought to remember in all cases that q
member who means we'll is always
much more efficient in q second than
in first term and 10 third than in
a second.
Since Mr.. Weber concluded his
testimony, little of interest has been
developed before the Potter Commit
tee. The whole Committee will be in
Louisiana in the course Of two or
three weeks. Secretary Sherman has
Just addressed his fourth letter to the
Committee. He betrays an anxiety
that the Committee should investigate
Louisiana affairs in his way instead of
its own, His advice will not be taken.
The Committee was not raised tor the
purpose of withdrawing John Sher-
man and has shown no disposition to
attempt the task.
While neither of the two great po-
litical parties contending for national
domination have been unduly careful
to confne their criticisms of opponents
strictly within the bounds of truth,
the storm of abuse and misrepresenta-
ton with which Speaker Randall has
been assailed since his speeches at
Philadelphia and New York arraign.
ing the Radical leaders for their Phar-
isaical assumptions of all the virtues
patriotism extant, is almost unprece-
denied in the reckless disregard of
facts displayed by men standing as
models Of christian Craftsmanship"
Every allusion to the efforts of Mr..
Randall and his party associates to cut
down the prodigal appropriations Of
former Congresses and thus relieve
the tax.burdened masses of the coun-
try of the load imposed by Republi-
can mal-administration has excited
the leaders to almost hydrophobic mad.
ness. But there is need of no special
pleading in Mr.. Randall's behalf. His
record is open for the inspection of the
country. 1t was he who, in the Forty
third Congress. stood like wall of
granite and rolled back tho tide of
sectional hate that was ever flowing
southwark threatening to finally sub
merge and depopulate that section
and he needs no defence there for
striking off her shackles and bidding
her go free. REX.