The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-08

Opposition sanloTI.
Naturalization
by the popular decision Of the recent
elections, i've Of the six opposition sena,
tors from the North whose terms expire
in 1881 are sentenced 10 retirement. They
are: Thurman OF Ohio, Eaton OF Connec,
ticut, Herman Of New York, Randolph OIL
New Jersey, and Wallace Of Pennsylya.
MIA. Every one Of these Senators spoke
for and voted for the Bourbon programme
to wipe out the national legislation OF the
war. The Northern people have decided
that every one Of them shall retire and
give place to a Senator who will support
and defend tho political fruits OF the wal
against reaCtionRry Bourbonism.
AT tho South, the Administration party
will lose and the opposition gain ono SEN
ator, in place Of Bruce, Of Mississippi, The
Senate, on the 4th Of March, 1851, will
therefore be made up Of thiTty.eisht Bour,
bonR, thtIty-seven ADMINISTRATORS and
one Independent. Practically, the Bour.
bons will have lost their majority In the
Senate. Their party In the Senate will
contain only seven Senators from all the
North-namely, McPherson, OF New Jer,
sey; Penlleton, OF Ohio; McDonaId and
Voorhees,, Of Indiana; Farley, OF Callior,
MIA, and Grover and Slater, OF Oregon.
Nearly flveBeVeuths Of what will re.
main Of the Bourbon party in the Senate
will DO Southern, while all but one OF the
Republican party In the Senate will be
Northern. A solid North against solid
South-this Is the Northern answer 10 The
rstrogresSlve action Of the solid South.
1t Is also iorogole conclusion that the
Bourbons will wholly lOSG their majority
in the House BY the next Congressional
election. This, too, Ia what the recent
elections have determined. Their loss In
New York and Pennsylvania alone will
give good working majority" In the
House 10 their Rdversaries; but they will
also lose members In Ohio, in Illinois, in
Wisconsin, and probably In other Western
States. This is as plainly forecast BY the
recent elections as any event Of the future
has ever been by the result Of q political
contest.
The lesson Of the result is that tho
country will not trust lie destiny 70 the di.
reCtion Of reactionary Southern BrigadierS
and their Northern allies. There Is no
reason to think 1t has any special affection
for that which goes by The name Of re.
publican party; that there Is good and
ample reason to believe that the North will
alhere with considerable solidity to thai
organization until something better an.
pears to take la place, and whether that
which offer to take Its place 10 better or
worse, the North will Judge. II Is the plain
Judgment OF the North that the Bourbon
organization. composed in It's controlling
part Of u rCtrogrGSslyS South, Is not some.
thing better, but something great deal
worse. The Bourbon party and its reac.
l0uary doctrines are offensive, The coun.
try has a deep-rooted antipathy to them,
which will not be removed by any pro.
gramme the managers can devise. Tho
country realizes no need OF the Bourbon
politicians or the Bourbon party. They
arc an obstruction that ought to be moved
out Of the way. They were dead twenty
years ago, They ought not to !inger IN.
buried any lOnger. The stencil Of their
decaying fragments pOisons the political
atmosphere and prevents healthill politi.
cal progress. They are an ofEense IN Inc
nostrils Of civilization. It ID time Ibis
nuisance from the old Bourbon boneyard
was Abaled.