The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-30
ELECTION OF u. S. SENATORS.

elected Orville H. Platt, Republican, to
succeed William 81. Barnum, Democrat.
His election is due to the Greenback
craze, which carried off enough votes
from the Democrats in Connecticut to
give the Republicans control of the Leg
islature of that State.
The Legislature of Missouri has elected
Hon. George G. Vest United States Sen
ator from that State to fill the term be-
ginning on the 4th of March, 1879. Mr..
Vest is Kentuckian by birth, but has
been tor many years citizen of Mis-
souri,, in which State he took an active
part in favor OF secession. BE was a
member of the Confederate Congress
from its formation up to 1864, when he
was elected to the Confederate Senate
from the State of Missouri. He is repre-
sented as bold thinker, an able man
and polished orator, as which he ranks
first in the State of Missouri. He is a
fine parliamentarian, and will not only
represent his State with honor, but will
add materially to the strength of the,
Democratic party upon the floor of the
Senate.
Again the Republicans of Illinois have
succeeded in electing General John A.
Logan to the United States Senate from
that State. he has filled one term in
that body heretofore, and was distin-
guished as a blatant and unscrupulous
agitator of the bloody shirt issues, which
were at that time popular in the North
and West. Two years ago conservative
Legislature was selected by the people
of Illinois, and Judge David Davis beat
Logan by a small majority. he is, how
ever, shrewed politician, and does not
like private life. Therefore, he comes
| to the front at this, his first opportunity,
and is once more successful, beating Hon.
Richard j. 0glesby, the present iucum-
bent. His election does not change the
political status of the Senate, but it
gives the Republicans an ADLER and more
vindictive member.
The Republicans are evincing a dispo-
sition to return their old "war horses" to
position. The Legislature of Wisconsin
has elected ex-senator Matt. b. Carpen-
ter to succeed Hon. Timothy o. Howe in
the United States Senate, on the 4th of
! next March. Mr.. Carpenter was an able
Senator, but was inclined to be aggressive
towards the South when he was in the
Senate before. he was defeated in 1875
by Hon. Angus Cameron, upon whom
the Democrats and a portion of the Re-
publicans united. Since that time Mr..
Carpenter has been practicing law, and
was the attorney for the Democrats in
1877 on one of the questions before the
electoral commission. He has probably
tempered down on the Southern question
by this time, and, if so, will be as good a
Senator as any one the Republicans
could give us. At least, we do not re-
gard him as o worse man than Senator
Howe, whom he succeeds.
The clan Cameron still rules in Penn
sylvania, and at the recent election for
United States Senator, James Donald
Cameron, who was elected in 1877 to fill
the seat made vacant for him by the
resignation OF Simon Cameron, his
father, was reelected for the term begin
ming ON the 4th of March next. Mr..
Cameron is about ferty-six years of age,
and is Princeton College man. After
his college days were over he became
cashier of q bank in Pennsylvania, then
a President of the Northern Central
Railroad Company of Pennsylvania, and,
in 1876, Secretary of War under Presi-
dent Grant. In this latter capacity the
people of the South remember him as
the subservient tool of Grant in the use
of the army for the control of elections.
1t was under his supervision that the
State Houses of Louisiana and South
Carolina were placed in the control OF
United States troops. Mr.. Cameron is
not regarded as man of fine abilities.
He is vindictive, selfish and bitter.
Many much better men could be found
for the Senate, even in the Republican
party of Pennsylvania.
The Nevada Legislature has reelected
John P. Jones to the United States SEN
ate for the term beginning on the 4th Of
next March. Mr.. Jones is an English.
man by birth, about fifty years of age,
and, outside of his luck, which has made
him a millionaire, has no qualifications
whatever for the Senate or any other po-
isition which requires ability or the better
qualities of men. He was educated al
Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Califor.
mia, where he wcs successively elected to
both branches of the Legislature of that
State. In 1867 he moved to Nevada,
where he is largely interested in mining
interests. In 1873 he was first elected to
the United States Senate, and as he has
plenty of money and the State is hope
lessly Republican, he may be able to re-
main there for many years to come. The
recent vote stood sixty in his favor to
fourteen for Hillhouse, the Democratic
candidate. The Knoxville Chronicle, in
commenting on the name of Mr.. Jones
competitor, facetiously says: "The Ne
vada Legislature, bad as it is, has done
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