The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-21

and asking for other information, ana during cnearnpment week hrHFly 2t,Um people will De provided for, Several hundred are already booked from Con nectieut. and they are sure to be we'll taken care of. The subcommittee are hard at work and things are getting into good shape. and good time is in store for those who may attend.
 Connecticut matters here are at n standstili. and with the exception of the appointment of David A. Wolsl jr.. nothing new politically has gone abroad.
 The recent outburst Of patriotic feel ing and sentiment throughout the coun- try was nobiy voiced. as you are aware. in congress in the utterances of Senators Davis and Gordon. and showed grandly that the star spangled feeling is far from dead in this coun- try; that liberty. law and order are dear to the American people and that lawlessness and anarchy must assured ly take back seat. Congress was really walked up and nobly backed up the president in declaring that law and order must be preserved. Harper's for this week fltly speaks of this sub ject and with quoting what 1t says close this letter:
 A word fitly spoken. says the Good Book, is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. It fell to the lot of Senator Davis of Minnesota, last week. to say this seasonable word in the senate of the United States. The word could not have been more seasonable. Senator Peffer of Kansas had been making a tirade in the interest Of the persons rioting at Chicago and elsewhere: and any ybody who heard the tirade. or who read the report of 1t. must have felt that 1t was a most un-American. most uncivilized. and most inhuman speech. It was the fortune of Senator Davis to make a reply to 1t. and to give ex- pression to the sentiments that must have been excited in the heart of every civilized American who had heard or read 1t. He not only did 1t ex- tremely well, and disposed entirely of the Kansas anarchist, but he performed a very substantial service to the body of which he Is a member. The notion that the senate of the United States Is class apart, and that 1t does not really belong" to the United States, has long been suspicion, and has of late become more than a suspicion. In order to refute 1t, or to mitigate 1t. 1t was necessary that some senator should speak with such vigor and time Illness as to summon the attention of the country. and this Is what Senator Davis did. There may have been other senators who could have done it az well or even better. but he was the senator who happened to do it, and thereby not only centred the attention Of the people upon himself. but did a great service to the senate. The ser vice was repeated by General Gordon, who made an excellent speech from the southern and ex-confederate point of view, and strengthened the impression made by Mr. Davis wholesome and breezy remarks. The speech of the Minnesota senator was like "the breath of nature, blowing free," in a very much sophisticated If not positively tainted atmosphere.
 | Of the two dangerous forces that are now at work in American society to wit, plutocracy and anarchy, the senate is commonly supposed to be the citadel of the former and there is some basis of evidence for the supposition But anarchy has also its mouthpieoes in the senate of which Senator Peffer Is perhaps the most persistent and tedious In the case of the railroad strike it was evident that anarchy was the most formidable enemy of our institutions, and when senator ap- peared to speak for 1t. the case seemed serious until another senator appeared to speak against it. Senator Davis sim ply appeared as the Spokesman O. the American people, and the American people accepted his exposition of their sentiments. When he said that Sena- tor Peffer had presented himself to the country as "the spokesman Of a mob, J he said what was instantaneously and universally recognized to be true. and what Senator Peffer vainly tried to evade. There are certain feelings and instincts, far deeper than logical speech. that make the maintenance of republican institutions possible It is these feelings and instincts that Sena- tor Peffer outraged, and that Senator Davis vindicated.
 CAPITOL.