The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-06
New EngIand,s Shame.

There is nothing in this life more pi-
table than a jaundiced old age. The
Republican party of New England was
once vigorous and powerful. In the
days OF its strength and glory it rode
triumphant from Cape Cod to the White
| Mountains, from MoosetemauntiO to
Chesuncook, and took no thought of the
| morrow. But the seeds of tariff reform
were scattered abroad, and they found
lodgment on New England soil. The
| ripening revolution was promised by
the autumn elections of 1889, and APP
preached fulfillment at those of 1890.
| When they look upon the conduct of
their representatives in the Senate sure
| ~ the New Englanders are ready to ex-
claim: "Lord, thy will be done," and
cast out the Republican party forever.
How have the mighty fallen! The
spectacle of New Engfand's Senators is
enough to make the angels weep and
the imps of Satan laugh. Verify the
shades of Webster and Sumner must
acy of the times. New Hampshire's
favorite son is Senator who prides
himself on his skill in trickery, who is
valuable to his party because he knows
all the wiles of the politician of low re-
pute, whose latest achievement of max
ing a Democratic Legislature RepubIi-
can is his greatest. In short, New
Hampshire's best boast is a Chandler.
We all know the meaning of the new
word, "Chandlerism." It is worthy of
ment.
Matched with Chandler is Blair, the
opposite of his partner in many respects,
but scarcely less harmful. Imaging
that he is a refOrmer, as full of isms and
crankIness as an aged bookworm, ready
to wreck the scheme of government If
he can thereby carry out any OF his &C.
centric ideas, and, with it all, enough of
not spade, if his Republican collea-
CUES say so. New Hampshire may be
proud of her Senatorial pair, but if so,
pride sometimes takes strange form.
pregnable outwork of Republicanism,
much to be happy over. Edmunds has
perverted his high gifts to base uses.
He has ceased to be anything but par
find pretexts that will force the passage
of bill that he knows to be wicked
and ruinous. HOar, of Massachusetts,
has made himsel the champion of the
same measure, and hopes to find party
profit where he is sure to receive moth
ing but ignominy. Behind him is A.
drich, of Rhode Island, who is willing
and anxious to be the tool of his lead
ers, and so the tale runs through the
list.
No wonder New England thinks that
it is time to purify. 1t is said of the old |
Puritans that they crossed the seas in
order that they might practice their |
religion and make others worship God |
the same spirit of liberty, though they |
are perhaps disposed to be less exact |
ing with the remainder of US, and it is |
scarcely true that they can endure the |
political chains in which they have |
been bound
1t is nonsense to tell us that Chandler |
and Blair and Hoar and Edmunds rep |
resent the best spirit of New England. |
They belong to darker age. They are |
the barnacles clinging to the new ship |
of liberality and tariff reform that New
Engl md has launched, and the wave of
enlightened indignation will sweep
them OFT, bye and bye, unlamented and
We hope much of New England. The
whole country should be proud of that
stony bit of seacoast that has done so
many great things, and of those people
who have planted themselves so deep
and strong in the soil. We are proud
of her poets, and historians, and nov
elists, and orators, and philosophers, for
they are ours as we'll, and we shall
make her a greater boast when the po-
litical regeneration, now so manifestly
in progress there, is completed. New
England can not afford to make adver-
Using signs of Chandler and Hoar and
the others, and the sooner she casts
them aside, and gets good men in their
places, the better it will be for all
COurieT-JOU1RGL.