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besides before which the independent can
didate, finding that he is likely to be beat
anyway, will accept, usually because, after
thinking it over, the best interests of the
State can be served by keeping intact the
party organization, and he would rather see
a Republican get it than Democrat, or g5ce
yersa. So the Legislature is chosen from the
element which is favorable to the senator,
and the senator is duly elected. Should the
Legislature be evenly balanced it becomes q
personal fight between the Republican and
Democratic senatorial aspirants, and both are
striving for exactly the same thing by exact.
~ the same means, and the fight depends up
on which can buy the most votes.
By such means the senatorial hold OIL
State is perpetuated, and if the senator is
tired of serving himself he gets a favorite
creature nominated in his place. In order to
keep this power he must have the dispensa-
ton of all the patronage he can possibly get,
and interference by the government must be
fought, even if the government is paralyzed.
We all know how hopeless the government
was to restrain the Southern senators, and
how their arrogance finally resulted in the
civil war Then for a time, we had q gov
ernment but in the place Of Southern DEM
ocratic cabal, we have now Northern Re-
publican cabal, which is distinction with
| out q difference. This cabal has created all
the disturbance in our government since the
way; it has famed the dying embers of civil
strife in the South, and kept alive the sec
tionalism and weakness which is a necessi-
ty of their power. 1t defied Grant and finally
won him over; it defed Hayes, and, not
winning him, ignored him; it is defying
Garfield and the whole country, and may
succeed in winning him or in ignoring him,
for in the matter Of senatorial privilege, sup
port may be looked for from both parties.
But there are many signs that the people
are awakening to this danger In fact for
ten years they have been making earnest pro-
test in the way for reform and new order
of things, but the cry has been stihed by
hopeless division-division which is vitalized
by all the senatorial and Office holding int1u-
ence, and it will be divided and and stifed
until we get President who will dare to
defy the party whip and the party organiza-
| ton.
Every nation in Europe has passed through
this very phase OF government, and all but
Spain have outgrown it, and Spain is rapidly
releasing herself of it. In Rome during the
social wars, it was the people against the
Senate. When it took form, Marius led the
people and sylla the Senate, and for many
years it seemed that there was no help from
oligarchial rapacity, but an obscure protege
Of Pompeys, Julius Cesar, took up the
cause where Marius had fit, and finally
| destroyed the oligarchy, but not without be-
| coming sacrifice to its venom. When
Germany was prey to it's feudal barons, and
in the state Of anarchy which created feud-
al despotism, an obscure Count of Hapsburg
arose and planted himself on the popular
wrongs, and with the popular support destroy
ed the feudal system of Southern Germany
and founded the first great empire Of the
modern world. France was torn by inter-
nal wars and popular servitude, until the petty
King of Navarro espoused the popular
cause and paved the way for the destruction
of an arrogant nobility which Richelieu and
Louis XIV finally subordinated and the rev.
olution totally overthrow. Northern Ger
many was the prey of adventurers Of church
and state until the petty Elector of Branden-
burg by an accident was raised to q petty
kingship, and, having sagacity, espoused the
popular cause and begun that system Of pop
ular education and development which has
resulted in the great German empire, and be-
gun that systematic suppression Of the feudal
barons, whom Bismarck has totally over
throMn. A petty Count of Holstein is now
Gar Of Russia because he has destroyed q
tyrannic nobility and worked for popular ell
ovation. In the wars between the crown and
the feudal MOBILES in England, the crown was
triumphant only by making alliance with the
people, and creating House of Commons,
and has always granted extended powers to
the people when its existence was threatened
by cabalistic intrigue, Ca phase not yet COM
plete, and which may take an altogether diff
ferent and democratic form before it is COM
pleted). In italy it has been the same story
of cabal and weakness, Of aristocratic arro-
gance and popular servitude, until the petty
King Of Sardinia, by alliance with the dem
ocrats, has crushed the aristocratic power
and united Italy. It is the same in Spain--on-
of the old aristocracy was trying to suppress
development and regain power with the aid
of church which had impoverished the peo-
pie. But the people have the victory thus
TAR and every prospect o. greater in the fu-
fl1rn