Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-21
SECTIONAL supEnIon1rY.

Tins passing OF the domination Of the
senate by mental superiority from the
South TO the North is the theme Of an
article In a Western contemporary that
exhibits curious measurement of the
senator's. The opinion is expressed III
this quotation:
eNlthin the past twenty years q change
has come over The body, The North now
leads the senHfc 10 intellect and In nuul-
hers. Before ihc war Virginia, south Carroll.
IA, Georgia, Alabama Mississippi anl
louisiana sent 70 The acuAtc men whose
wisdom AMI clogueuce-iheir party doc
frlnta apart-commanded respecg aud all
Mlation: now those states rarely furnish
peer 10 ihc senator. from Massachusetts
Morgan and pngh 81 Alabama, Cuigmtt
und Gordon Of GEORGIA Gibson and White
Of Louisiana. Nhfhnll OF MiEslaiippi Butt
Ter aud trby o. South Carolina, Dinicl and
llunton OF Virginia Il viii not take tho
hiographer long TO complete their ol1lils
70 faine, OF all ihe southern states thr
only ones wldch adhere 10 tho nucirnt
practice ~ sending their best lnpn 10 ihn
senate are Te1aa Kentucky and Mcrt VIZ
gluia, and the two last are aluust North
ern stairs. The consequence hae h,-,n q
transfer " Leadership from south 10 Ndriti
"a substitution OF German " Maryland,
VOORHEES, OF Indiana and Vest 81 Missouri
for Hunter ot Virginia, Davls Of Misslssip-
pi and Honjamln Of Louisiana as leaders
Of the Democratic party"
That the North should lead the sem
ute in numbers Is hardly q merit 10 truni-
pet, since every stntc "a entitled To Two
senators, and as there are more Northern
than Southern suites-whcrc everything
north Of the degree OF $500 ami east
Of New Mexico = classed as Northern
;he Northern states cannot help leading
IN numbers. As 10 the mastery Of intel
lcct. It will have 10 be admitted that the
South Is not alone In suffering Ia COM
parison Of her present senatorial rep.
reseniadves with those who were lead
erS before the war. The decline has
hecn rs great In ehe intellectual represent
ration Of Northern states. Not TO 10
back 80 far, one may compare The per
so1nel Of the senate today with that Of
only ten years ago. and the fall win be
seen 10 be a painful one. Among the
Democrats who Is there 70 take ,he
places filed by Bayard, Beck. Thurman
anil Ben Hill? And the Republicans
have sigunly failesl 20 keep up the sian.
dard Of senatorial intellect and dignity
that was established by Blaine. Conkllng.
Edmunds aud Evarts. The Republican
contrast - Illuminating. Frye takes the
place that Blaine made luminous. For
INGALLS, there Is PETER The vacancy
caused By Edmunds' withdrawal Il madu
more vacant by Proctor.
A. 80 the comparative strength Of tho
pr'~cnt senate It cannot be shown that
there y greater ability pn the Northern
side than on The Southcrn side. John
Sherman IL the only Republican conspi.
ciipus by reputation uud Long service
from The Northern states for whom the
Democrats cannot find an easy match.
The three oates especially singled out by
che Newspaper writer from whom We
qnote-' Massachuaetss, Iowa and Ohio
are represented hy Hour and Lodge
Wllson and Allison. and john sher'
nan, the Other Ohio senator being
a Democrat Except sherman. n
wal rot natter uhe Southern renro.
sentatiou to say th.tt man might 10
baindtoldci amoas them and plek out
fye men who would be the equals in
s'aieSmanshlp u the Eve mentioned.