Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-04
An Unexpected EjaculatOry Episode,

A hearty "Amenr' put in the right
place often encourages the exhorter
Put in the wrong place, its effect may
be confusing If not disastrous.
Senator Hill of Georgia, is a we'll
known revivalist. He is revivalist OF
old political questions. He believes
with the Democratic-Grant organ in
this city that, inasmuch as his party
was defeated in the controversy which
Immediately preceded the war, as it
was defeated in the controversy of the
war itself, as it was defeated in the re-
construction controversy, as 1t was de-
feated in the controversy growing out
of the extra session of Congress, as it
has been uniformly defeated whenever
and wherever historic subjects have
been forced into the contest, therefore
proper thing for it to do is to relight
the dying fires again in 1880 and ad-
vance amid the blaze once more to the
familiar catastrophe. The only theory
by which he can Justify this eXtraordi-
nary proceeding is that his party has
become so accustomed to a beating that
any other sensation would be strange
and disagreeable.
Republicans find no fault with this
logic, but some Democrats who are
tired Of the llaying process object to it,
Senator Hills latest revival movement
has taken the form of an effort to de-
prive Senator Kellogg of Louisiana of
| the seat which was awarded to him
| long ago upon the understanding that a
seat should be nc the same time award
| ed to Senator Butler of South Carolina.
Most men would have shrunk from the
task of making n martyr of the materi-
al furnished, but Mr. Hill addressed
himself to the work with boldness and
energy. Some Democrats discouraged
! the undertaking, if not because they re-
| garded the re-Oponing of an adjudicated
contest for seat as a bad precedent, II
not from a conviction that the time tC
reject the Kellogg-Butler bargain was
when it was proposed and not after
they lad secured their share of its ben
eiits, at least because they saw that il
could only result in the fatuous reviva
of old and to them fatal questions.
But Mr.. Hill persisted. After severa
of his colleagues had recalled the Of
fensive history of Louisiana politics
and the disclosures made by investi
eating committees Gu both sides, h'
went over the ground again himself il
two days speech, emitting nothing
that could re-animate the old sectiona
controversy aud array one part of thu
country sOlidly against the other part
md forgetting not even the dull kel
.ogg cipher dispatches relating TO Off
cial appointments, which, by their con
trast with the far liyelier cipher dis
! tNufphns ,pVng,.NarnI l,,rN a I1gffars ( 1nnn
mittee, freshened the popular recollec
ton of those scandalous revelations
Mr.. Hill finished with the fervent eN
preston of hope that the people i
this auspicious year would rise up an,
declare that party which was willini
to seize and hold the Government b
fraud against the popular win shoul
never afterward be trusted with powe
by that popular will" This effectiy
peroration was greeted with loud an
hearty " Amen :"
Now if this sympathetic and apprC
batory ejaculation had been uttered b
one of the speakers Democratic Co
leagues, say Senator Bayard or Senate
Thurman, or by faithful Democrat i
the gallery, IL would have given poin
TO the peroration, and the speab
er would have acknowledged tn
timely response with grateful JOY
But the fact that it was reall
uttered by a stout Republican, by non
other than Senator Edmunds, OF We
| mont, may well have startled Mr. Hi
/ with the suggestion of apopular appl
, cation very different from the one il
tended. The report says that Mr.. EC
munds delivered the "Amenp' " will
out taking his eyes of the manuscril
be had been studying for an hour"