The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-20
WAsHINGroN, D. G., March 5.


sion that the long looked for Democratic
backbone was to he displayed so FIR as
the supervisors and deputy marshals
clauses were concerned. Hardly had the
Speakers gayel struck the desk, and the
announcement been made of the death of
the Forty-fiith Congress, when the news
boys were running through the street
crying Extra Presidents proclamation
for an extra session!
While giving the Forty Fifth Congress
all due credit for its labors, and while
admiring the nerve shown by the Democ-
racy in the lower house during the last
few days of the session, it is impossible
TO deny the fact that rarely have so
weak u body of men intellectually been
gathered together. But there is {. bright
ray of light fro,u the South in the Sen
ate. We were beginning to, ask if the
South was never again to produce
statesman. The Dien sent hero from the
South were men who could prepare es-
says and deliver them with all the ora
torical effects Of first class tragedian,
their flow of language seemed ineXhaus-
tible, and the flowers they scattered left
pleasant perfume behind which graft
fed the senses, but in these days of stub
!5c-:: facts failed to convince the senses,
and after one of these airy flights to
hear prosaic old fellow like Edmunds,
of Vermont, get up and take the whole
fabric to pieces in speech the sum total
of which is two and two mako four, and
two make six, piling fact upon fact in an
unintercsting monotone until you are con-
vinced against your will, is not pleasant.
Mr.. Edmunds is, rs l said before, very
uninteresting, but few lawyers in the
Senate like to discuss legal question
with him or have him on the other side
in debate Only one man from the South
has 80 far been able to hold his own with
Edmunds, Conkling and Blaine, and that
man is the ray of light before mention
ed as coming from the South, Senator
Morgan, of Alabama.
1t will be we'll worth while to
watch Senator Norgan's career in the
Senate. Small in stature with hand
some, clear cut face, he came here un-
heralded in the world Of fame, and for
long time last winter sat quietly in his
seat, no one taking any notice Of MIN
until one day he arose to n question
wherein some legal points were involved.
In an instant Conkling was upon his feet
and in his sneering sarcastic manner a.
luded to Senator Morgan being very new
| and not being expected to know any
| ling has never tackled Senator Morgan
since, for before he got through with him
that day his own political allies were
laughing at the manner in which Nor
gan had upset his every argument. aud
routed him on every legul point il, dis
pute. And now when Senator Morgan
arises in his seat to speak every voice is
hushed and Senators draw their seats up
around him with the same regularity
with which they rush for the cloak rooms
when Burnside; Hoar or Dawes begin.
There is no better way to form an esti-
mate of Senator's ability than to watch
the manner in which his associates treat
him when he speaks. The speeches that
| tell in the Senate, and in tho House too
| for that matter, are not such as used in
the olden time to make the regulations
of men for eloquence, and have been per-
petuated in every school boys STANDARD
Speaker" The men to-day who carry
weight with them are the men VINO have
their facts aud figures ready at hand, and
who can state them shortly and pointed
ly.
The Government could be carried on
very we'll until the first Of July without
an extra session, as the appropriations
are made up to that time, bnt it is the
unanimous opinion of the Republicans
| that the Democracy having n0a entire
control of the legislative branch of the
| Government it will be good thing for
| them to have Congress meet ut once, as
| the Democracy are certain to make many
and great mistakes, and the sooner they
do it, and the more time they have TO do
it in, the better for themselves. 1t will
undoubtedly be very exciting session,
and the opinion here is general that it
/ will be a very long one, extending posi-
bly, to July.
There is very little that is new con-
cerning the aspirations of politicians.
Conkling and Blaine seem to keep pretty
we'll abreast, and are dropping behind.
John Sherman is going to the front as a
possible candidate, if Grant don't want
it. And all are agreed, both Democrats
can be elected if he gets the nomination,
but he can't get the nomination. why? Is
it because he is too pure? Politicians are
afraid to say this openly, but this is the
reason. No barrels of money would ever
be heard of if this man was the candi-
date, and no cipher dispatches wo..,, iiiis.
grace the age. Tho rcason given by "the
professional politician" it that Bayard
comes from TOO small State. What
nonsense thif is, when it is we'll known
that he would sweep New York State
like whir.wind, and it is perfectly as
founding to hear how many Republicans
say thai they would vote for Bayard as
against Gil nr any other man. But,
then, the ..ckle and say: "We will
never see ..lin nominated" What pity
that the man could not be what he is and
not be gentleman. Why was not his
father something disrcputabie! Or why
has he not himself accepted bride, 50
as to be popular with tho gentry who run
primaries?
There are great many new men ar
riying with the new Congress, and it is to
be hoped that the Democracy will devel-
op leader. This they need very badly
1t is wonderful sight TO see the man
agement of the Republican minority by
Garfield in any discussion that comes up
A nod from him to any of his political
adherents is sufficient. One after an
other they will get up and say exactly
tho right thing Mt the right moment
while the Democratic majority founders
around, small clique following Black
burn, of Kentucky, another Cox, of New
York, and all the old folks and the idiots
take refuge behind Wood, of New York
while dozen or more lead themselves into
parliamentary mistakes. Mr.. Stephens
of Georgia, is too feeble to lead anc
Sam Randall is the only other man ir
the House capable of filling the position
He would rather be Speaker, but he viii
have a hard fight in this Congress, fol
Blackburn and a half dozen others are