The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-06-18
he Editor Of the Morristown Gazette


The extra session of Congress is rapid
ly approaching the final scene of the last
aet.s The drGrnatis DersOnae have posed
before thea country and poste1ity for 4 /
few briet months. They have recited |
their words with serfo confcaf effect and |
defect, On the 18th of June they will
go home for a summer vacation. -, i
We have too many orators in Con
gress and for some reason, or want of
reason, they spend too mulch time IN vim
dfcation. There is hardly day that
some Senator or member is not in ver@
,tical position before the country making
what is called a personal explanation
or vindicating himself OF his party from
base aspersions, hes, etc. that some other
Honorable Senator or mem Der has foistcd
upon the public and history. Yesterday
Senator Hill defended himself from a.
covert and malign attack upon his record
of fifteen years ago; and Senator Morrill,
was also up to vindicate the Republican
party Our school books tell us that
our system of Government was original
~ composed of legislative. executive and
judicial branches. But the great pro-
greSs that we have made in the last hun
bred years seems to demand another
I great governmental necessity, "a Branch
for vindication and yituperation. For
certainly this work is becoming little
too heavy for the legislative branch. If
al F6o vi Of
Congress could be turned over to such a
coordinate branch of the government as
l have suggested, which might be com
posed of ill-tempered old women, there
would be great saving of time and
treasure, a great advertisement of legisla-
tive business, and an improvement Of
fraternaI feeling Who really cares for
Senator Hills record in the Confederate
Senate, whether assailed by Senator
Blaine or Vindicated by himself? What
has this to do with public supplies, and
systems of public policy? And why
must Senator Morrill, vindicate the Re-
publican partyG There fsits record, the
world knows it by heart. All parties are
good enough in the abstract, and bad
enough in their individual components.
Villainy and inconsistency is not so
much the fault Of a party as of the hu-
man nature that is mixed up in it. Why
Will we blind ourselves with cant and
grand prejudices and dance in process
sions headed by demagogues? 1t is not
my intention to be personal, but rather
universal for the evil is everywhere.
Parties as seen in their representatives
are not phalanxes of principles, butrab-
bles of plunder and strife.
Next week Congress will pull out
from the Capitol, and political astrone-
mers and microscopes will turn their
glasses upon Ohio, where the preliminary
skirmishes of a national contest have
begun. Pardon the metaphor al astrd
ad Thurman and Sherman, or is it Grant,
sailing up from the under world? Many
astute politicians (the many are always
astute) think that it will be Sherman
instead of Grant, but those who stake
their money on popular opinion, twisted
out of all recognition by wire workers
and POLITICAL machinists, are net ready
to put up" on either. Maine and New
York have fayorite sons who will be
heard from in the next nominating con-
ventiena '-a -''i' e-E
Perhaps no one rejoiees more at the
approach of the end efithe congressional
session than the newspaper correspond
ent. Never before has he found the
work of making bricks with straw alone
so laborious as during this extra session
of caucuses and vetoes. He has exhaus-
ted his repertoire of anecdotes, about
the naive and interesting personality Of
brilliant rural lawyers, doctors, farmers,
etc. etc, who compose our National leg
islative galaxy, during the regular ses-
sion and if this extra, extraordinary SEES
sion had continued longer he would not
have been able to send you any more
news than your correspondent you
herewith CAS-