Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-13

the country believe that he was tickle
and inconstapt. His administration
was short-lived but pure and clean,
and the country endorsed it. The
people do not give Blaine more than
his share of the credit for it, but
they think none the less of him for
having been connected with it.
If any one believed in the pro-
LESSONS of the Tammany Democrats
who are delaying the organization OF
the New York legislature, we should
accept it as conclusive evidence that
the political millennium was dawning
upon our heaven>favored land. The
objection they make to uniting with
the regular Democracy is that they
cannot secure pledges that
the organization shall be
made in the interest of the
anti-monopolists. Tammany is now
the pronounced enemy of all monop
olies, and has taken up the cudgel to
break them down. This is good,
and we wish John Kelley and his
associates great success. When we
see the lineal representatives of the
Tweed dynasty, SO far converted
from their practices Of public and
Wholesale robbery, we must con-
clude that the world is rapidly
growing better. We wish them success
in their crusade against monopolies.
Whether their intents be good or
evil, however, at this time, they are
doing good work. They are giving
trouble to faction no better than
they are themselves, and, although
they are the under dog in the fight,
they have our sympathies.
IT would be bad precedent for
Congress to assume to unseat
Cannon, the Mormon delegate to
Congress from Utah, who received a
large majority OF the votes cast, and
put in his place Campbell, who re
ceived a small majority Of the votes
cast. The best thing to be done, is
to declare the seat vacant. There
are two reasons for this. The first one,
and it should be conclusive, is
that Cannon is not a naturalized
citizen Of the United States. The
second is, he persists in violating the
laws of his God and the country, by
his polygamous practices. No such
a moral monster should be permitted
to hold a seat in the Congress OF the
United States. If there is no law to
exclude him, he should be expelled
at once, without wasting time.
about it. The people of the United
States have determined to put an end
to Mormonism, and Congress cannot
act too promptly, or too vigorously.
Already a good deal of time has been
taken up in the discussion of the
question by the present Congress,
/ but it shows that our Lawmakers are
/ thinking about it.
Decline Of Professional BeautydOm.
! Professional beauties were rapidly
( becoming disturbing influences in
/ the best conducted London circles.
/ To be the rose, or to boast the pres
/ ence of the rose, in brilliant COM
pany was one thing; the display of
a multitude of buds, vying in their
ambitions with the mature and per-
/ feet blossom, was another. The
/ spirit of q burning, and, in nearly
every instance, most unbecomlng
coquetry was instilled into number
OF breasts. Society was agitated by
the discussion of rival claims till it
grew sick OF hearing about them.
There was not a youthful, CT a
middle-aged, or elderly beau who did
not think it incumbent upon
himself to start some lady whe
had been sufficiently unfortu~
nate to attract his favorable opin-
ion in the professional beauty
line. This, it was felt, was going a
little too far. There was no reason
why individual cavaliers might not
have their preferences, but there was
every reason why they should not ask
society to endorse their choice. Ii
Paris had been only one of q multi
tude of connoisseurs in femme beau
ty, the apple which he gave to Venus
would not have been so bitterly
grudged by the brace of neglected
goddesses. TIE system of PROBES
sional beautydom was, in fact, found
to be incompatible with the harmon-
ious working of the social machine.
Drawing-rooms were split up into
different camps The gentlemen who