Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-03
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lFrcm our regular Correspondent
During this and the next week
the election of a speaker of the
House will attract some of the at
tention that is now lavished mon
the lothesome Guitean. The can
didates are already in the field, but
not more than one fourth of the to-
tai number of members have arriy-
ed. Owing to a rather low grade
of qualification of most of The can
didates for the speakership, Mr..
Kasson, who is really brilliant
man, shines with contrasted splen-
dor. At no previous time, since the
formation of the party, has there
been such dearth of able Republi-
cans in Congress. Sumner, Conk-
ling, Blaine, Garfield, Congor, But
Ter, Thad. Stevens, Henry Wilson,
Boutwell,, Dawes, and many others
are either out of public life, or have
been buried in the ground or in the
Senate. The old party is in its de
bauched, equity dotage, sans nose,
sans mind, sans everything but the
Government, which it still holds
through the fraud of 1876, and the
public treasury, which it has trans
ferred to its pocket.
The candidates for the speaker
ship are so lacking in national rep
utation, that it would seem neces-
sary to placard them with biogra-
ply, buta very small card viii hold
the announcement that they were
born and elected to Congress. Their
names and states are, DunnelI, of
Minnesota, Burrows, of Michigan,
Reed, of Maine, Hiseock, of New
York and Keifer, of Ohio. All of
these gentlemen are good common
place men, who like a good dinner,
and never grow thinner on bottled
beer and chops. But they have no
special fitness for an Office that re-
quires the parliamentary learning
and READINGS of a Colfax or Blaine.
the impartiality of a Judge, and the
tact OF woman. 1t seems to be
agreed that Mr.. Kasson has the |
qualification of all the remarkable
people in history:
The Pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the
Victory; 'i'o
~, Genius of Bismark devising a plan;
Inc n td OF Fielding (which sounds con-
Goodness of Paget about to trepan:
The science of Julien, the eminent musico
WI 0i macauley' who wrote of Queen
The pathos of Paddy, as rendered by Bouci-
Style of the Bishop of Sodor and Man
The dash of D'OrSay, Invested of quacIxery.
Narrative Powers of Dickens and Thack,
Upper and Tennyson, Daniel Dafoa
Anthony Trollope, and Mr.. Guizot
TAKE OF these elements all that is fusibIe
Melt EN- all down in a pippin or crucibIe.
5 SEA en- M, 70 simmer, and take off the scum,
ana MI. haSSon Is the feSiduum.r
The great objection that every
honest man must have to Mr.. Kas-
son is, that he is tainted and Steep
I'd with the fraud of 1876; he was
hayes attorney before the electoral
commission, and was paid for his
services with the Austrian mission
or which Guiteau was so recently {
IN applicant. There is not a william {
n all the United States that APPROX /
ID, condoned, or failed to rebuke {
hat unspeakable wrong ''but he is 9
N arrant knave." This sentence.
know, will include a large minor a
ty of the census-twenty millions c
f men, and children, more or less /
but it is none too sweeping, and
only regret that / have not time
nd strength to express my opinion Il
nd feelings personally to every s
nit of the 100000. Still, l will t
o all i can. C
WASHINGTON, d. G. Nov. 90, ,S1. {