Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-15

SENATOR J. C. PRlTCHATsD. som, who Was born in 1926 and became . practicing lawyer in 1S47, served long in the North Carolina legislature before tho war, and in the war fought his way up from lieutenant colonel to next to the highest rank and surrendered at Appomat- tox, gives place to Marion Butler, who does not even remember the surrender And, with due respect to the veteran, it Is q good thing for the south and the country to havo these lads who, except as babies, never saw Q Confederate soldier or O slave come into congress.
 The Colored Mans Friend.
 Much has been said of Senator Butler, for he is hustler, but at first Senator Pritchard of the same state was spoken of rather slightingly. It appears that injus- tice was done him, because his talents are rather in the quiet line. He, too, is young, though few years older than his col league, and the colored people look on him as their senator A score of years have passed since tho movement to overthrow the reconstruction was In full tide in North Carolina, and at the close of this session 1t will be Is years since John J. Patterson of rather unpleasant memory ceased to represent South Carolina, and he was ironically known as the negro's friend To tho colored people tho election of Mir. Pritchard seems liko the dawn after a very long and very dark night. They crowd the galleries to gaze at him, point him out to newcomers with radiant smiles and gig gles, waylay him at the doors or send in their cards, and, according to their several notions, shower on him advice or conGrat- ulations. They are still young in politics, and 1t does not enter their heads to doubt that tho late overthrow of the Democrats means permanent change, and that all tho states with large negro votes arc soon to Do represented by Republicans. The change in South Carolina Is not political exactly, but 1t promises far more of the picturesque, for Senator Butler has de- clared his intentions to make the pathway of the coming Senator Tillman extremely rough, and by all accounts has planted n sort of Internal machine on the road which will cause interesting disclosures in the next congress,
 The Senator From Washington.
 We were tickled almost into 'Geeminy fits" when the wires tic6ed the announce ment that Johnnie Wilson was coming back as senator from Washington, for ho is not only a splendid fellow in general, but gives information in torrent to jour nalists and we are glad on general Prin- ciples that the state now has two senators. He was born in the Hoosier Athens in 1850, and so wo will count him as ono of the young men. He will be, as he has boon for three congresses, the smallest man in either house, pale, hatchet faced and seemingly quite fragile, but all nerve and energy. As the first Republican elect ed to tho house from Washington and as coming now to complete the senatorial representation, he has a rank In history in- depcndcntly of his talents. Incidentally it Is an interCeting bit of history that his ia ther was the cause of Dan Voorhees, loca- ton in TCrre Hnute, They lived In the district north of that and were the rival candidates for congress when the Kansas question was driving excitable people to political madness. Both were great or AtorS, but Wilson was rather the moro i'm passionod and effective. The closing day of their series of joint debates was at Charlottesville the home of Wilson, and ho had tho closing speech. Ho summed up tho misdcipgs of the Democrats, and clos Ing long and eloquent peroration he pointed his finger at Voorhees, and fairly roared Daniel, como to judgment" It was a hip and hurrah' campaign to the end, and Wilson came out 235 votes ahead. Concluding that that district was unfavor- able to him, Voorhees, moved to Terre Haute and four years later entered con 9ress in spite of the Republican tidal wave of 1860.
 A Political Anomaly.
 Michigan reversed tho rule of tho year as to age, for tho retiring Senator Patton Is but 44 years old, and Senator Burrows is 5S. It Is q rather singular fact that neither Senator Patton nor his colleague had served In any legislative body before entering the senate, but Senator Burrows has probably made tho most even and reg lar advance of any man In congress, hay ing started us a lawyer and taken success sively higher offices all the way up to his present place. The one overturn which nobody hero can explain is the defeat of Senator washburn of Minnesota by the somewhat erratio statesman whom the free traders call |" Cute Nelson. A Repub- lican free trader from a wool and lumber state bordering on British America Is such an ARomaly that we cannot make him out, and when, in addition, he defeats so strong O man as Mir. Washburn we are without Q clew.
 The protectionists hastencd to assert most emphatically that his free trade sen timents had nothing to do with 1t, and although he is n gold standard man that could not have helped as against an equal ly good monometallist. Various opinions are offered, one that Mir. Washburn was too high and mighty with constituents who wanted favnrs. and another that tbe great Minneapolis flour mills and the -four interest generally, in connection with the
 Hatch agricultural bills, did 1t. The Pop ulists have m easy solution, to the effect that Mir. washburn had not served the Northern Pacific Railway company with implicit obedience, and that Mir. Nelson has agreed to. Be that as 1t may, as a | gold standard man, free trader and the first Norwegian ever elected To the senate | Mir. Nelson Is n unique addition to the oonscript fathers
 The Populists, by the way, arc feeling their oats" at present. for they are conf dent that their man knocked out the | Reilly bill for funding tho Pacific railway indebtedness in 50 year bonds. It docs look like it. for every hody thought the bill
 would pass tho house until Representative | Harris of Kansas made his truly forcible | speech, and after that it lost ground every hour. Friends of tho bill complain bitterly | that they were trcacherously taken in the flank by tho motion to recommit tho hill l without instruction, for 1t Is known that | at least 20 members voted to recommit who would not on yea and nay vote have | zone squareiy against tho bill on final pas sage. They think that enough took that ehute to defeat the bill. It is certainly a | fact that in full house and on a much | disputed measure. as to which many are | in doubt, . motion to recommit will near Il ly always get 20 more votes than would | be cast against the bill, for . member can | explain and defend such . vote to his con. \ atituents much moro easily than an adverse