The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-08-01

committee rooms, o more inhuenti
man about the departments, or be
ter representative of the States inte
" est in any particular
o. When Sid. Clarke was first nomin
q ted, some of the most ardent and i
n fluential Republicans in the State a
$ tually bolted the nomination, becau
n they regarded it as q farce and di
q grace, not only to the party, but to IL
/ State. They regarded him as Lsne
: boot-black, political demagogue an
charlatan. Whether their estimate (
!, him was correct, or not, he agreeabl
4 disappointed them-not the first tern
! but after we had "sent him to school
o for two aud three terms for it wa
I finally conceded that he made an eff
, cient Congressman.
Former residents of the preser
, Third district in Illinois viii recollec
! Hon. E. j. Wasnburne, at the time G
f his first nomination by the Wings, a
eoiCiopiS Duslhcoo uldu III u1ltHa
but with no official experience, an,
apparently no legislative ability. Nei
Their were their estimate of his abili
ties very much advanced at the expir
alton of his first term; but they ha,
the good sense to return him. Hi
usefulness became SO apparent afte
they given him fair trial, that the,
sent him back again and again, eacl
succeeding term proving his increased
efficiency, until at last his name ha:
become household word, not only in
this country but in France, as one Of
our greatest statesman and diplomats
These are but a few of the numer.
Gus instances of the good sense
evinced in the return of members un-
til they have become thoroughly &C.
quainted with the routine of business,
with the members, and the depart
ments, and by regular steps arrive at
the head Of important committees.
Eastern constituents have shown this
good sense, by repeatedly returning
their members, and keeping them in
Congress until they have become gray
in the service. OF course, unworthy
and unfaithful servants are immedi-
ately discharged; but nothing of this
kind can be charged against Mr.. Ryan
who, in the face of predominant adj
verse political sentiment, has carried
through more measures of practical
benefit to his constituents than has any
other member of the lower house Of
Congress, from this State during his
first term.
No more suicidal policy can be adopt
ed by the district than that of estab-
fishing a precedent that will seat
new member at every session.
1t is, too, the worst kind of a policy
to make the judiciary stepping-stone
to political offices. The place is fast
coming to be regarded as Grading
post" fer professional politicians, and
if the practice is continued, the time
is not far distant when the dignity
and purity which should adorn the
bench will be buried In the slime that
is handled by The pot-honse politi-
clans. No sooner will man reach
the bench, his eye originally directed
towards the Supreme Bench, will be
dimmed by visions of glory on the
floor of the House of Representative
and the Senate Chamber. The judge,
instead of devoting his leisure hours
to studying reports aud other author
tiles, will be travelling around the dis
trict hob-nobbing with ward and
township politicians, while ambitious
lawyers of all grades, morally and in
tellectually, looking to the succession,
will pat him on the back with the as
surance that they regard him "the
coming man"
The friends of Judge Peters, in this |
section, urge local consid-
erations. They say the interest Of the |
people of this judicial district will be
better subserved if he is elected, than
If we select man ''away off in To-
peka." 1t is very strange that they
did not see this when they threw Mr..
Brown overheard. The argument is
transparent to those who
know how earnestly the people of the
Judges own home have worked to
prevent immigrants from leaving the
main line of the railroad to visit this
md other counties around it-how
eadily they have supported the rail
'oad company in its determinations
gainst all south of its main line, and
towards the success of its
forts to lure immigration to its sand
ills in the western part of the State
Another very foolish effort is that |
f prominent citizens and property
olders in ridiculing the appropria-
ion secured, mainly through Mr., Ry-
MS efforts, for survey of the Arkan- {
as river, in order to demonstrate {
neither it can be made nsvigable c
lad this appropriation been made for b
,me kind of contract whereby they
)uld have secured slice from the c
isburscmeuts, does anybody suppose o
leir patriotic hearts (O would have &
them to denounce an appro- s.
ration that would have distributed "
Ic money, coming mainly from east. CT
n people, among our laborers Is r.
not strange that no complaint of p
is pretended misrepresentation of CT
stern capital to western enterprise, II
mes from any portion of the dis
let or State, except right here at OF
'me-the location the appropriation ii
tended TO benefit Wiser men and Il
tier civil (though. perhaps, not po- FIR
icaD engineers than these gentle A
en-, all over the country, claim that X
. river can be made navigable. The 10
ojcct is o more visionary than that IN
barges on the Missouri river; than az
at of navigation around Red river he
The present head of navigation eli
ere, nor than many other measures ar
f,fawnol sr,nroro,nanf that ln-