The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-22
The Republican Scramble for
the SpOiIs Of the senate.
rom lhe Wheeling Register.

From the Wheeling Register.
The Unsuitable greed which the Re
publicans of the U. S. Senate have
manifested towards the office of Pres.
ident pro tenn ever since the session
opened, eliminated last Thursday in
the discourteous act of retiring Sen
ator Bayard, after presiding but a
single day, and substituting David
Davis, who, until his own name was
proposed, had refused to cooperate
with the Republicans in organizing
the Senate.
After maligning the Democratic
Senators for voting their preferences
for presiding officer when obliged to
make a choice, and having accused
them of displaying an unseemly greed
for the spoils of office which they al
legged came by the ''lottery of assina-
tion," the Republicans no sooner find
themselves in position to grasp the
Presidency than they swallow their
own arguments and stultify them
selves by adding the grosscst dis
courtesy to their greed in turning
out fellow Senator who represents
one-half the Senate and putting in a
man who represents no one but him
self.
The Republicans attempt to ex-
cuse their conduct in this regard a.
by the plea that they have majority
of the Senate and are entitled to the
presiding officer.
This is not true. They have but
36 avowed Republicans in the body.
Malone has openly declared himself
a Democrat, and was elected a
Democrat, but is acting with the Re
publicans as the result of q corrupt
political bargain. David Davis was
elected by Democratic votes, and has
heretofore, as we have said above,
declared it to be his duty to act with
the Democrats in the organization of
the Senate, until, forsooth, it became
question of personal promotion
with himself, when he consented to
be used as the tool of the Republi-
cans.
(2) The second plea upon which
the Republicans seek to justify their
conduct, is in claiming that Bayard
who succeeded Arthur, did not rep
resent majority of the popular vote
of the country and was not, there
fore, entitled to preside over social
ed Republican Senate.
The majority against Garfield and
Arthur on the popular vote was over
100000. The Democratic and Re
publican vote for President, not dis
counting anything because of Brady
and Dorsey's Star Route bribery in
Indiana or Boss Arth ur's trade with
Boss Kelly in New York, was so near
ly even that it never has been salts
factorily determined which ticket
polled the most votes. There were
not 5000 votes difference in 9,O00,1Q
votes cast.
We would like very much TO see
the people of the United States called
on to vote their choice to-mof'-
row, as between Arthur and Hancock
or Bayard. We believe that Arthur
would be driven from the place to
which he was elected by Guiteau' s
pistol, by million majority.
The fact is that Senator Bayard
came more nearly representing both
the majority in the Senate and the
majority On the popular vote than
did either Arthur or the nondescript
David Davis. While the Democrats
had it within their power to hold the
office of President pro Tempore by
keeping out the New York Senators
whose election has not been fully es-
tablished, they have preferred to
maintain the dignity of the body by
refusing to profit by any semblance
of injustice to their opponents, but
they have learned that neither con-
cessions nor exact justice on their
part will mollify the Unsuitable greed
with which their political opponents
pursue every advantage.
1t is impossible for us to give any
adequate description of Baltimore's
great Oriole festival-her reception
and entertainment Of distinguished
French visitors, her military and civ
ic procession, her open air Concerts
Mystic Pageant and grand pyrotecnit
display. Suffice to say that Baltimore
acquitted herself in Baltimore way
ond bar CONS ond 1auUhfaro uiI hay1