Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-03
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Amid the changes and yicissitudes OF
latter day politics nothing will strike
the keen observer more forcibly or bring
moee pain to the true American than
the palpable deQenersey into which the
Senate Of the United States has fallen.
This body. which, from its place In car
government, frem the method Vt select
ing It's member, and from the evident
intention Of the framers IT the Constr
tuition, ahould be the embodiment of
the highest wisdom aid the ciesrest
craftsmanship Of the country, no longer
numbers among it's members the leaders
Of Thought and politics. The giants
have departed from it, halls, and the
pigmiss there sport in solemn mimicry
Of ths grandeur that u gone. The bray
Of the ass II heard whore the lions voios
once echoed IT. tones Of thunder. The
very spirits Of Webster. Clay and Ben
ton have passed from the portals Of the
Capitol, and their memory alone 70
mains TO hallow the halls In which thsif
tziamphs we're won.
Il 10 true that the wsbstss and Gays
are gone, and although the fast that
nature does not bring forth man can
mot be charged a. enc Of the many 10
ppoaehss against the politics Of the day,
Il y no less true that the living leaders
Of thought and action are passed over
In the sslsction Of Senators, and only
unsnvied msdioority can find . place
beneath the marble dome. Tho num-
bsr Of men in the senate today whose
pse-sminsnt abilities or brilliant scr
viees render them worthy Of their posi-
ton may b counted on ones fingers.
Let them pass in review: Hale, Frye,
Rdmupds, Harrison, Sherman, Hawley.
Psndlston, Logan-psrhaps few, very
lev others. The men who before their
entrance into the Senatorial body were
known even ~ figures prominent In the
politics Of their own respective States,
are scarcely more IN number. The
smaller mon have invariably been
chosen, and thr giants are slaughtered
to give place 10 those Who, unable 70 be
their rivals, ere content to be FIRST their
tradueers end afterwards their imita-
torn. Minnssvta rejects her Window 10
give place 10 . Sabin New York, the
Empire State, whose voice should b Of
all most potent, entrusts her vast inter
ssts 10 Miller and . LApham; Penn
sylvania passes over all her splendid
talent, her Mcvsighs. her Custins and
her Blacks. TO choose Mitchell and q
Cameron whose only recommendation
10 that his father once dwelt among the
giants; Massachusetts, with her hallow'
Cd memories Of . Webster, . Wilson, q
sumner, turns from her Adan.ses and
her Lowslls to Hoar and Dawes; Viz.
einia, tho former queen Of the States, Il
miueprsssnted and dishonored by q
Riddlebesgsr and . Malone Ohio Il
pesparing TO recall her Pendlston u
rive plaee to Payne. the acknowledged
representative Of the mose grasping and
unrslsuttnG monopoly Of the century,
TIE list ID an unsndina one Of msdiocri
~ grown great ovsr fallen strength.
II thsrs no danger when the wisssI
and best are osnpsllsd 70 leave tho 20
litIeal arena, either through the force o.
banded opposition or through their owl
unwillinanen 70 WELD corrupt power
The people today honor the Senate onl,
Tor IT, past the Senate remains, bat III,
6eaators ars Roos. The mon Who shoult
- their suooeasors ere shrinking from
The oontaminating touch Of pclittca
corruption. Truly "ths blind lead The
blind"