Litchfield enquirer., 1878-11-21
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supremacy Of the Cameron faction or It's d0Wn> fall and now that the election is over our con- temporary 6nds nDthing iiits resuits, bun the furthefanoes of the inteFestsaof the family ring which SO long has made the state administra- tion matter of personal private patronage. We believe that there was great deal more . than this in the Pennsylvania canvass Land that it's results have broader significance. At the same time it is not worth while to overlook this partisan aspect of the case. The Cam- eron faction was at the head of the victorious party. It is still there. We may by sure of the victory and it is reported as certain that the representative of the. second general tiDa of the family win bel reelected te the
 Turning to New York. we find that the course of the canvass and the 9resuits soJ the election have put the partisan Republican leader in a better position than he held year ago. Mir. Conkling had the sagacity or the good fortune to make hard-money speech at just the right dme. Rerhsps it is not worth while now to, o,ihqire how much wise foresight had to do withit AndahowFmdch purs ldck, as it is called. The long silence of the Senator encouraged the belief that he had not made up his mind on the financial question, or that he did not think it prudent to make his mind ku0wn The situation Of affairs at theB Barato- ga Convention and the circumstances which led up to it combined to force Mir. Conkllng to speak, and to speak on the right side We do not say that Mir. Conkling spoke with great relucsaHce but certainly we do him noinjustice when we say that his course for year, in the Senate and out of it, makes it seem probable that he would have held his peace still longer had he deemed it practicable to do, so. How. ever all this may be. be found his voice and at the very happiest time for him. He was seeking renewal of his lease of office from the Republican, party that party, after trifiing in many ways with the financial question. had been brought to decided committal of itself to the right side of the question hard-mon- CT revival was setting in, and the party was enabled to lead the movement Just then MT. Conkling took the chair at Saratoga, he took the stump. he made speeches, and when the sun rose after Tuesdays triumphant fight, his figure could be distinctly seen posed in an lm- pressive attitude on the battlefield MT. Conk ling was wonderfully fortunate. His friends say that the Legislature which is largely Re- publican, will re,elect him Senator. T / / ].
 We do not disguise the truth that an incl dental result of the late elections may be to strengthen two highly, objectionable Republi- can factions-the Cameron faction in Pennsyl- vania and the Conkling faction in New York. There are, however, several things which it is. well for the leaders of these, factions and for all the Influential leaderes of the Republican party to remember. The majority of voters last Tuesday had no intention to strengthen Mir. Cameron and Mir. 'Conkling and their followers. If they have derived any benefit from the election, they owe it to fortunate combination of political circumstances and not to the good wiu of these voters The people meant by their ballots to demand a return to sound principles of finance. They meant to protest against the foolish and knavish notions which had been. running riot in some parts of the country, and which threatened to infect all parts of 1t. Instead of approving the ma chine in any shape or of any party, the.yv voters in this city, where their most remarkable work was done, united to overthrow machine. Here is hint which should not be lost upon party managers. What the people did here last Tuesday they are able to do anywhere at any time. Their late success will encourage them to repeat the experiment. The people will rise against men as they rose against Tam many if they initiate Tammany practices. and when the people do rise they will make as short work with these Republican factions as with Tammany.
 This is a matter which concerns the sRepub- lican party more than the Senators who are seeking reelection. The party begins the new political year with greatly improved pros- poets. If it is wise it will turn the late cleo tions to account in gaining future elections. NJ party management dnu lUuG0tl- flying itself with public interests rather than the interests of persons or factions it may ap- preach the next Presidential election in favor able circumstances If it maintains the old system, If 1t puts the machine again {. in the front, if it restores the Senatorial cafal itmay easily lose next year what it has gained this year.-N. F. EUening Post.
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 A DIVISION IN THE HOUSE OF CoMNoNs.- The division proper is curiously managed ceremony-very roundabout in the estimate of many persons. Aftersthe speaker has cried "Order, order v the Sergeant at Arms, with his dOor-keepers and messengers, close and lock all the doors leading into the lobbies, cor riders, passages, &c No members outside can enter, nor can any within make their exit: the number within the chamber is thus strictly definite, and all must vote Until 1886 it was the custom for one party or section to go into lobby, while the other remained in the House; but since that yearthe Ayes have been directed to pass into the lobby at the Speakers right hand, while the Noes walk into the lobby at his left. The Speaker names members to act as tellers selected impartially from among tho supporters and opponents of the motion, two each; and the members named are not al lowed to shirk this duty They place them selves at the lobby doors, two and two, each to check the counting of the other. Two clerks, as we'll as two tellers, are placed at each door, holding alphabetical lists of all the members of the House printed on large sheets of stiff pasteboard or cardboard Asthe mem- bers return into the House from the Hobbies the clerks mark off the names, while at the same time the tellers count the total number without noting names. (H anyone is disa- bled by infirmity from entering and emitting the lobbies, he is counted af his seat in the House.) When all have re.entered from the Hobbies the four tellers approach the table one of them, belonging to the maiorityon this par. ticular question, announces the numbers and when the Speaker has indorsed or sanctioned this ann0uncement the important but slowly managed ceremony ends--often amid l6utl cheers from those members whosconstitute the majority on that particular question. A mem Der sometimes goes into the, wueaglobby through inadvertence ;tlien there is no escape for hims n0less g0Ieas his vote is recorded ac- cording to, the lobby in which he finds him self During the past session., instances of such misadventures were not infrequent. h. stances have been known in which even a Cabinet Ministers vote is recorded on the side which he really intended to oppsse-much tc his own modification. member thus awk. wardly placed usually takes some mode of making the facts known to his constituents and the public; but the official record remains unalterable. 1t has occasionally happened that only one member approves of a particular question or motion; he is the only Ave: and he IS not allowed to count himsdlf, the House at once decides that the Noes have it." Many sessions ago stranger was deserted in one of the Hobbies after the door had been closed, and was counted by two of the tellers; but the clerks found him out and reported the case to the Speaker who duly admonshed the intrud er.-CAanbers Joursaal ...-....eS
 rat of boy who had in vain searched the postofiice corridors for the nickel which a care less hand occasionally dropsat the stamp clerks stand and eyed the fresh nuts long time before drawing deep sigh and grooming: ssOh. I wish l was rich?" The chestnut roaster made ua ronlv and fbo o<3o. oe .t ~,r tlsNAk ..oese