Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-19

in the United States would be expelled,
and American citizens would do the work oi
the ashee-washees in all the cities of the
land, and for the wealthy winemakers and
fruit-growers of California who join in the
outcry against the Chinese but take precious
good care to employ them rather than
Americans to gather their grapes and pick
their fruit.
Mr.. Harrison is very nervous on account
| of Senator Shermau's stand on the Geary
bill. Possibly by his treatment of the mat
ter the Senate may gain sweet revenge upon
the Republican party for not making him
President. When Samson died he pulled
the temple down about his ears.
Clerk Young's Case Not Settled.
In long letter to Vice President Morton,
ex-oficio President of the Senate, james
Rankin Young, late executive clerk of the
Senate, recounts his infamous treatment by
the Senate, his refusal to resign under fire and
his absolute innocence of the charge of per-
juring himself bya betrayal of the secrets Of
the executive session. While the letter is
manly and dignifed, it is decidedly aggres-
sive, as it invites the Senator or Senators
who trumped up the charges to step out
from concealment of the secret session
where Mr.. Young can meet him or them on
equal ground and prove that he has never
to the extent of single hint betrayed the
proceedings of an executive session.
of course Senator Hale, who started the
movement against Young, will do no such
thing. He will continue to skulk behind
the closed doors of the Senate, claiming i'm
munity on account of his Office, and will
probably stab others who cannot defend
themselves, a coward and a sneak, whose
own career would wear vastly prettier
complexion had it been lived within the Sc
clusion of one long, unending social and
political executive session.
Man in Need of No Defense. q.
Of course Mr. Young needs no defense.
Everyone who knows him knows him to be
innocent of the charge made against him in
so cowardly manner But the tact of his
dismissal after 15 years. of admittedly hon
orable service without a hearing and with
out even being informed of the identity of
his accusers, with little more consideration
than one would kick out NANCY cur, must
make the blood of every decent man grow
hot in his veins. Such outrages can hardly
wait long for their retribution.
If personal vengeance be not visited upon
the perpetrators of this foul calumny on an
innocent man, vengeance will certainly
come in the form of the abolition of the
executive session. In this, if not imHe-
diately in Mr.. Young, every newspaper in
this country, every citizen who, equally
with Senators, is a SOVEREIGN, every voter
who helps to make Senators, and who must
feel, when he thinks of it, something more
than indignation against that monstrosity
in a. republican government, the star
chamber session, is interested in compelling
his representatives to sit with open doors
The executive session has been condemned
before, but the crusade against it will now
be increased a thousand times in volume.
The inquisition was more natural and par
donable in its day than the star chamber
session of the United States. Senate is in
this. Senators know this Many of them
favor open executive sessions. Enough
togies are still unfortunately this side the
grave, and in the Senate, to insist on this
wretched limitation of customs which are
now obsolete even in monarchfes. The
secret session must GO LIGHTNER.