The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-24
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bad man indeed, and in addition to that very
stupid one, If any of his wrong -doings are
going to be discovered by the investigation of
the special House committee composed of
Messrs Morrill,, Sawyer, Smyser, Goodnight,
and Lewis. 1t is simply the case of producing
numerous witnesses to testify that they did not
see the defendant steal the pig. The investi-
| CATION is a farce. The Republican members OF
the committee don't want to find the Commits
! sioner guilty, and If the two Democratic men,
bers have any desire to find him guilty they
! don't know how. Representative Cooper of
Indiana, asked for the appointment of the in
vestigating committee, and by all the rules that
! have ever followed the makeup OF such com
mittees, he ought to have been, il not the chair
man, at least member of it. He would have
known how to search for Raum's guilt, IL
the set gentleman edG,l1 a., is guilty; But that
what Tom Reed didn't want. The committee
! was appointed not to investigate, but to cover
up. Representative Cooper was left out in the
cold and since the first sitting of the committee
! he has been shown in the coinmittee-room no
more consideration than might have been de-
manded and expected by any ordinary interloper.
IL the two Democratic members of the commit
tee, tee were men of any force they might make a
! kick, but they are too Weak to kick. 1t is safe
! to say they never served on any sort of nves-
! tigating committee before. Taking all the cir
! cumstances into account, we'may ask, "What's
| right" And Capt Geo. E. Lemons cases will
still receive the most distinguished consideration
! of the Pension Office, however other peoples
claims may be neglected.
Il X
Senator Ingalls, is not more distinguished for
forging fine phrases than he is for the closest
observance of the proprieties in all public
places, and especially on occasions of ceremony.
He would be dull observer who could have
! oil 70 Df; otr
| spect presented in the Senate Chamber yester-
| day between Senator ingalls, and Senator Black
burn The former was never very closely asso-
ciated with the late Senator Beck, whose mem
| oly the Senate had met to honor, while the lat
ter was his personal friend, colleague, and side
partner for years in both Houses of Congress.
The Senator from Kentucky was master Of yes
terday's ceremonies, while the Senator from
part in them. Yet Ingalls's whole manner and
exterior expressed at every point gravity, re-
spect, reverence, and all those qualities and
feelings which properly belong to a memorial
looked jaunty and gay, for all the world as if
| he were just about to start for the races. That
Blackburn delivered fine speech, full of elo-
| quence and feeling, there is no question, but he
was working at a great disadvantage. His
manner and appearance prepared the spectator
to hear him discuss, not the good qualities of
the dead Senator and the solemn problem Of
the SOULS immortality, but rather some light
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meeting"
X X X
AS they listened yesterday to the beautiful
discourse delivered by Senator Ingalls, on the
late Senator Beck the occupants of the gallery
could not help thinking of the strange relations
between such Senator and the Kansas con-
stituency which he serves. That such man
must bow to the whims and caprices, submit to
| the censures, the abuse, and the badgering of
4 pack of yokels bowling in wilderness, an
swer their foolish Questionings, pocket their in
suits, make sacrifices to their political power
obey them the servant obeys his master, or the
slave his owner, and do his best to shape his
words and conform his actions to their mpos-
sible standard is one of the most grotesque
phenomena of American politics. That the
position and the fame of a man like Ingalls, de-
pend upon the favor of a lot of unreasoning
and unreasonable Yahoos in Kansas shows how
far this Government is from being an arlstoc-
racy, and how thoroughly the rens of power
are in the hands of the rabble There is very
little chance in this country for man to usurp
powers that have not been delegated to him.
In the public life of the United States there is
no place for Caesar. When it is possible to
suppose, as it was generally supposed yester-
day, that Senator Ingalls, was impelled to the
delivery of that beautiful eulogy on Beck out of
political considerations, and that he had to use
certain words and certain ideas, and suppress
other words and IDEAS for the one purpose
OF framing a speech that might serve him
in his campaign in Kansas things have come to
pretty pass Deploring the subsection of a
great mind to paltry restraints Oliver Goldsmith
once said of Edmund Burke
- Born for the universe,
Narrowed his mind,
AND TO party gave up
What was made for mankind"
But it is not only to party that the greatest
mind in American politics has to yield 1t must
submit to the rabble, the noisy. clamorous,
thoughtless rabble. 1t is not independent of
the humblest citizen who ever lived by welding
a pickaXe or tried to get rich by betting on pol
Icy. Those who are despised and ignored by
the rest of mankind are feared and must be
humored by the greatest among politicians.
Who would be politician?
Our distinguished townsman, Judge w. G..
Riley, has been confirmed by the Senate in the
position OF United States Consul at Puerto Ca
bello, Venezuela, to which he was nominated
by President Harrison. Although the Jedge
halls from Accomac, Va, as everybody knows
VINO ever stood two minutes within shooting
distance OF him, we may call him our distin-
guished townsman, because In this town he has
spent large part of the most ornamental por-
uon OF his very ornamental life. 1t was here
In Washington that he rose to the distinction
which he has attained If he had remained at
home in his native Accomac, of which he is so
Justly and vocferously proud, he would never
nave come to be known from one end of the land
TO the other as the first of the jedges
ana nobody who knows anything will question
the statement that of all the iedges Jedge
Riley is number one, and jedge is SO far supe-
ror TO major that there is no comparison be-
tween the two. With the Jedge as our Consul
at Puerto Cabello, and the Hon. William L.
ScruprS a our Minister n Caracas there Ou0ht