Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-20
For THE HERALD.

and when the rain WAS not falling in
torrents it WAS threatening to fall
There were times when continuous
travel for eighteen or twenty hours
WAS nerpssary, with long spett hes at
both ends of the trip, hut il didn't do
me a hit of harm. Throughout the
whole campaign / never caught c,ll
or was disabled in any wsy."- Wash
ingt0n Star.
This il ambition in the superlative
degree. 1t is said that Cesar was am-
bilious, that hethrice refused a crown.
But some U. s. Senators refuse moth
ing. Cesar was Roman general rs
well as statesman; he fought for the
perpetuation Of his glorious empire.
When the black cloud ofrebellion rose
in South Carolina and growing darker
and increasing until il darkened near
ly every Southern State with treason
in its vilest form when the lightning
flashed, striking our Union, setting il
afire, consuming our institutions.
where was the Senator? According
to the Congressional Directory, he
was aid to John G.. Breckinridge and
Henry A. Wise at the ageof 10 years.
We presume the Senator feels proud
of his "war" record or it would not
be inserted in the Directory.
But just think, Mr.. Editor, 800
miles over a rough mountain road.
with speech at each end, through
rain and mud, and not even cold,
travelling IS to 20 miles at a time.
Whe-e! Ambition personified. Ac-
cidents oftener happen to the disad
vantage than to the advantage Of
humankind. The Senator, MIR. Edi-
tor. has his weather eye on the per
simmon tree OF 1893. A tooth. pick To
a gold mine in California that the Sen
ator's pole will not be long enough
then. Already opposition begins to
show itself in the person ofex Senator
Camden, whose pole will prove at
least an inch longer when the per-in.
mon grows ripe. But another legisla-
ture will have to be elected before 1913.
Who knows but what different hue
may be added to the legislative color 4?
The Senator says ga grand success for
the Democratic party" Wait till
1892 when the s,On0 1890 stay at. home
Republicans turn out. The Senator
has forgotten 1888, we suppose, when
he, together with his kind, was ava.
launched in the universal snow storm
of that years election. Fathon, the
depths of the Senator's thinking ap
paratus and you would know that he.
did not put his shoulder to the wheel
in 1888 as he did in 1890. when, among
other things, in company with certain
characters whom he would not notice
socially, he, with" Berkeley County's
vote in his vest pocket, contested the
right of citizens to vote. But then the
Senator had influence at the polls-a
kind Of Observation-Disclosures
YOU affair. May the shade of Web.
ster. Clay, and Sumner uphold the.
dignity of the U. S. Senate.
What strikes tho average person as
being strange is that everything the
Republican party does, according to
the unterrified, is "agin the Consti
tution," Even when the Republican
party began to squelch the rebellion
they swore il was ''sgin the Constltu.
ton" to print money, There was NO
money in the Treasury on the con-
trary, millions Of dollars in debt. But
how soon President Lincoln re0rga
nized the Supreme Court, which, how
ever, made 1t constitutional to print
money as military necessity. The
homestead law-poor mans law in
fact, Ail laws, including the tariff and
election, the unterrified say, are "agin
the Constitution" The Constitution
says all men are born free and equal,
politically If not otherwise. Under
that instrument every free man Is
given the right OF franchise. How is
it In nearly all the Southern States i?
Three-fifths ofthe votersin Mississippi
are colored. Unless they vote the
Democratic ticket, do they vote :?
Well hardly. Every Southern State
is in favor ofelecting the President by
popular vote. Why? Because it IL
M easy for some of them to give 3d..
900 majority, az 10000.
Mr.. Editor, since 1860 the Republl.
can party has been guilty of doing
many things not reli-hed by Great
Britain In contradistinctiont the Dem
ocratic party has been that country's
ally. For instance, when, three years
ago, they passed the Mills bill in the
House. The public speakers and the
press in England universally spoke Of
the measure as enc surely to rebound
wonderfully to the interests Of the
English. Now, how was it three or
four months ago when the Mckinley
bill passed and become law? The
English claimed it would have the
opposite effect. In the language of
the late Senator Morton. when, az one
of a Congressional committee appoint
ed to investigate the Chinese trouble
In California some years ago, when
appealed to b. some sympathetic
citizens in San Francisco in behalf of
the pig tail interloper, said, "Gentle.
men, we are legislsting for the United
States, not China" Even the little
theoretical Congressman from the Sec.
ond District couple years ago could
mt theorize in the United States, but,
getting an English fever, you know.
went over there and theorized to his
hearts content, and the Statesman
then published his idle vaporinEs.
with the same voracity a half
starved dog would lap milk.
Wait till 1892. "He laughs best
who laughs last"
FAUST.
ashingtop. ID, c., Dec 8. go.