, 1880-08-29
AET1-DAVI8.
Tb tks Editor Of The CIttdoo Tribune.


To The Editor Of 7he Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO. Aug. 2s-I have read the views Of
the several candidates for Congress In the Sec
ond District, as reelected in your issue of yester-
day, and cannot help but admire the adroIt-
ness with which each Of them presented himself
to the public through the medium Of your re-
porter. It seems pity that all Of them could
not be sent there. 1t would be n master stroke
OF National economy, for they would do so
much as to obyiate the necessity Of ms other
congressman from the Whole Northwest.
Mr. Masou eomulcnds himself by bis caudur;
he wants to be elected " to help himself" That
s wre wf al Of th hnSs a~s
also adds, In postscript, that he is the orphans.
Gen. BEEN impressed me us taking too much
on his neutrality-suspicious. in courts, procuring
PENSIONS regulating convict labor. and Whit
not. II he would only guarantee success III his
proposed plan Of regulating tho opening md
feel lie dlseharsng him from ali the rest Of his
labors.
Col. Davis speaks eloQucntly in his own behalf,
strated twice that be could pol! the full party
vote" He has been honored with two nonina-
tons and one election BY the party. and on the
ernor, over 100O behind Mr. Mills and in
average OF roo behind a!l the county officers on
the same ticket except The Sheriff, who vas
second election was no test to his strength for
reasons known to all- The Colonel did not en-
large UPON the r03OlaQ0D nc introduced
for the appointment OF committee of Neprc-
sentatIyes aud Senators to confer with the Stute
authorities for the sale or transfer Of our pet
recortl shows that about two months afterwards
he obtained the privilege Of printing some re-
marks in support of that resolution. He called
1t hts speech, and flooded his constituents with
them. got three, and have them all yet in IL
good state OF preservation. II the Congress-
man had then known that the Constitution pro-
hibited the sale transfer OF the cannl till tho
spe cif1c proposition was first submitted to the
people at some general election held thorc-
after" aud had thought OF the fact that tho
Legislature conyeninx III January, 1881, was tho
sole power that could submit tho question to
the people, and that the ne1tn -, general ele9, @
Of 1882, nearly two yeara after the
death Of his committee and the time required to
report, he would not have mnde such pnlpatle
blunder But probably he knew better. and did
it solely " for buncombe, but he should remen-
Der he hus un intelligent constituency.
Col Bennett talks like pure old potiticinn.-
one who believes the office should seek the man,
but II he pursues thnt policy he will nnd himself
outwitted by 1.-THE boys" The chapter Of his
war record he pnrndes with pardonAblc pride,
and in his manly position. promising to step
!" down and out" # one like saui, standing
heed and shoulders above all the other people,.
equally patriotic. And such an one should be
by the people. The Second District
has the mnterial In either Mr. Woodland, Her
munn Raster, or l.. L. Bond. Either of these
would fill n seat III Congress Acceptlbty and hon
orably, and not 'srattle around lit II" like some
of the present incu1nbents and. aspiring candi-
dates In the City Of Chicago. L.