The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-18
OUR WARRINGTON LErrEas
WASHINGTON, July 18th, 1878.

OUR WARRINGTON LETTER.
WAsHryaroN, July 18th, 1878.
Editor Dsoohkaren Ledger-
Below are extractsfrom the Washing
ton Post, which are given because they
enforce what your corresponds nt has
often said and knows from observation
to be true.
The tendency to displace Old and
tried, 10y new and ambitious men, is
'snre TO result in mistakes. and possibly
in disaster to the party. The Republi-
can party place more reliance upon the
thorough equipment of such men rs
GARFIELD. Hale. Kelly, Foster and Con
ger than upon the members that follow
them. and rightly. They have learned
the lesson tanght them by the Old
South, that a MAI who shows aptitude
for Legislation can be made powerful
even though Of ordinary talents by be-
ing kept at the grinding. The Post
mentions. among those it wonld be M
fortunate to lose, Messrs. Randall,
Hunton, Wilson, of West Virginia;
Rice, of Ohio; Blackburn, Mcmahon,
Knott. Sayler, Springer, Morrison,
Tucker, Goode, Stenger, Duncan and
Cox. The list might be widely extend
ed, and we may safely say that under
ordinary circumstances in each District
it will be wise for the Democrats to re-
nominate this fall all those Representa-
tives who stood by the party during the
last session. In some few Districts
doubtless the circumstances are exoep-
%tional, and changes should be made.
But We ought to remember in all cases
that q member who means we'll is al
ways much more efficient in a second
than in a first term and in o third than
in a second.
Since Mr.. Weboer concluded bis tes-
timony, little of interest has been de-
veloped before the Potter Committee.
The whole Committee will be in Louis-
lana in the course of two or three
weeks. Secretary Sherman has just
addressed his fourth letter to the Com
mittee. He betrays an anxiety that the
Committee should investigate Louisi-
ana affairs in his way instead of it's
own. His advice will not be taken.
The Committee was not raised for the
purpose of white washing John Sher>
man and has shown no disposition to
attempt the task.
While neither IF the two great politi-
cal parties c~ontendlns for national
domination hav, been undniy careful
to confne their crit .isns of opponents
strictly within the ban Ia of truth, the
storm Of abuse aul Misrepresentation
with which Speaker Randall has been
assailed since his speeches at Phila
delphia and New York, arriigning the
Radical leaders for their Pi,ariSaical
assumptions Of all the virtues Of patri-
Otism extant, is almost unpr ced"ntel
in the reckless disregard of facts dis
played by men standing as models of
'Christian Craftsmanship" Every
allusion to the efforts Of Mr.. Randall
and his party associates to cnt down
the prodigal appropriations of former
Congresses and thus relieve the tax
burdened masses of the country Of the
load imposed by Republican mal-ad-
ministration has excited the leaders to
almost to ~hydrophobic madness. 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 a wall of
granite and rolled back the tide of sec
ttional hate that was eve plOwing
Southwark threatening to finally sub
merge and depopulate that section; and
he needs no defense there for striking
off her shackles and bidding her GO
fire n.